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The postmarketOS devs announced today the release and general availability of postmarketOS 22.06 as a new major update for this GNU/Linux distribution targeted at mobile devices.

Early this month, AAEON launched the PICO-V2K4 which accommodates the Ryzen V2000 embedded processor and it’s available in an ITX form factor. The PICO-V2K4 measures about 100mm x 72mm and it supports Windows 10 and Linux.

There might be a situation where you need to change MySQL default port 3306 to something else to hide the port number for security purposes, or MySQL port 3306 is already being used by another application.

No matter what your reason for changing ports is, in this article, you will find the steps to change the default MySQL port from 3306 to 3360 or something else.

In this tutorial you will learn how to mirror/share your desktop/screen on Linux to any device you want.

A list of new features in the LibreOffice 7.4 edition, including the highlights of enhancements across Calc, Impress, Writer and more.

MATE is a GNOME-based desktop environment that provides a modern, intuitive, and attractive desktop for users. MATE is a fork of GNOME 2 that uses the GTK+ 3 toolkit. In this tutorial we’ll be installing the MATE desktop environment on an Ubuntu 20.04 or 22.04 machine.

The Cinnamon 5.4 desktop environment has been tagged today for release and distribution with the upcoming Linux Mint 21 “Vanessa” operating system series, due out this summer based on Canonical’s Ubuntu 22.04 LTS “Jammy Jellyfish”.

Here learn about dd command in Linux with practical examples. It is one of the most powerful utilities for Unix and Unix-like operating systems.

VSCodium is an editor similar to Microsoft Visual Code, and it is widely available on all platforms like Linux, Windows, macOS, and other architecture.

If you don’t know what VSCoduim is, why use VSCodium over Microsoft Visual Code? Then I must give you a simple explanation. VSCodium is a community-driven application similar to VSCode except for any telemetry/tracking element available in VS Code.

The IoTFi is a development board designed for embedded applications that require 2G or 4G support. The device combines the RP2040 chip to handle user applications and the ESP32 for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity. The 2G model starts at ~$47 and the 4G variant ships for $114. The IoTFi was recently launched on Kickstarter and it has already achieved its funding goal.

In this tutorial we’ll cover how to install XFCE desktop environment or Xubuntu, which is an Ubuntu flavor, on Ubuntu 20.04 or 22.04.

In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install VirtualBox on Rocky Linux 8 using the RPM Fusion repository to install VirtualBox using the command line terminal.

When you start using VIM for the first time, there will be a lot of commands or keybindings you need to memorize, and one of them is how to make cut, copy, and paste. It’s very intimidating for newcomers to use the vim editor, but it’s not as complicated as you think.

There might be a situation when you are stuck with the vim editor. At that moment, you should know how to perform this basic task without any hassle.

This is one of the sadder news stories we cover because it is about the purposeful termination of the lifecycle of open source software, beloved by many developers worldwide, in favor of Microsoft Visual Studio Code. Microsoft-owned GitHub will decommission the popular Atom open-source code editor on December 15, 2022.

Automating repeatable tasks is a core part of a sysadmin's daily routine. Increasingly, this automation involves interacting with web-based APIs to orchestrate activities across devices, cloud providers, or software-as-a-service (SaaS) tools. You must thoroughly test your code, whether you're writing shell scripts or Ansible playbooks that interact with web services.

Laptops usually face thermal issues due to their compact space, providing less area for airflow than recommended. However, there are other factors involved, like running resource-heavy applications in low-end systems or still using the old hardware system. It can be disastrous to ignore the temperature details, which might put your system in danger and your body in close contact with your system (laptop) due to thermal fire. Linux provides some third-party CLI/GUI applications to monitor your CPU thermal temperature, which we are about to learn.

This guide explains what is WineZGUI, how to install it and how to easily run Windows apps and Windows games using Wine In Linux.

The Reg FOSS desk took the latest update to openSUSE's stable distro for a spin around the block and returned pleasantly impressed. As we reported earlier this week, SUSE said it was preparing version 15 SP4 of its SUSE Linux Enterprise distribution at the company's annual conference, and a day later, openSUSE Leap version 15.4 followed.

In a recent article, I reviewed some of the differences between creating and initializing maps in Groovy and doing the same thing in Java. In brief, Groovy has a concise syntax for setting up maps and accessing map entries compared to the effort necessary in Java. This article will delve into...

On January 12, 2022 AWS introduced a new user interface for the management console. In this post we will discover the new AWS Console Home and specifically we will use the new EC2 launch wizard to provision a new EC2 instance.