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What do you do when you want to open a PDF file in Ubuntu? Simple, double click on the PDF file icon, or right-click and select the "Open with Document Viewer" option. But what if you're asked to do the same task through the command line? Do you know the command line utility that will do the job for you? However, you'll be glad to know that there's way through which you can launch Evince for a PDF file, even if you don't know the fact that a command line utility of that name exists, and that's what we'll be discussing in this article.

In a world of technology full of risks that threaten children's mental and physical health, no two sane people disagree on the need to protect children without depriving them of discovering the bright side of the world of technology. In addition, children are at risk of being lost or kidnapped. While we know this danger, we are also aware of the psychological effects of keeping kids indoors and ignoring their desire to move and explore. Therefore, there is an urgent need for innovative solutions that provides peace of mind to parents without depriving their kids of key technology advantages. COSMO's JrTrack is one such innovative solution.

WP-CLI is a tool to provide a command line interface to install and manage a WordPress site. This tutorial explains the installation of Wordpress on a LEMP (Linux + Nginx + MySQL + PHP) server with WP-CLI and shows how to install plugins and themes with WP-CLI on the command line.

Learn how to install Elementary OS 7 "Horus", a user-friendly Linux-based operating system, with this comprehensive guide.

Just over a year has passed since the futex_waitv() syscall, part of the new futex2 systems calls, landed in Linux 5.16. But why are both futex2 and futex_waitv needed? What role do they play in the context gaming on Linux? Let's find out by taking a closer look at the futex syscall.

This release is the successor to Clonezilla Stable 3.0.2-21, which adds many new features and improvements to the software, such as an improved mechanism for supporting multiple LUKS devices, Linux kernel 6.1.11, and so on.

XWiki is a free and open-source wiki software written in Java and runs on Tomcat. This tutorial will show you how to install XWiki on Ubuntu 22.04 server.

Running your own platform where you and your visitors can discuss topics you all enjoy is exactly phpBB’s purpose. In this guide, we’ll go over everything you need to install phpBB on Debian 11.

BookStack is a self-hosted, open-source, easy-to-use platform for organizing and storing information. This tutorial will teach you how to install BookStack on a Ubuntu 20.04-based server.

What the big players and an outlier are doing, and why Part 2 This is the second half of a feature about work undertaken to harden and improve Linux, beginning with part 1 here.…

Parrot OS 5.2, a Debian-based, security-oriented distribution, was recently released with the latest Linux Kernel 6.0.

The Kubuntu Focus NX Mini Linux PC is now in its second generation (Gen2) with a newer Intel processor, faster graphics, as well as faster wireless and Bluetooth implementations.

The biggest news story last week in the open source world was about core-js, and its maintainer Denis Pushkarev. Very little funding for an invaluable effort.

This article will explore transparent filesystem compression in Btrfs and how it can help with saving storage space. This is part of a series that takes a closer look at Btrfs, the default filesystem for Fedora Workstation, and Fedora Silverblue since Fedora Linux 33. In case you missed it, here’s the previous article from this […]

Google's finest via the what now? Plus: RISC-V-powered Chromebook isn't out of the question Column You probably knew Google's ChromeOS is a Linux distribution. But, now, it's running on more than Linux under the hood. I didn't, and I've been covering Chrome OS like paint since the day it arrived. Today, your newer Chromebook also depends on the open-source Zephyr Project Real-Time Operating System (RTOS). Here's Chrome OS's history and where Zephyr comes in. …

Clonezilla Live developer Steven Shiau announced today the release of Clonezilla Live 3.0.3 as the third maintenance update in the latest Clonezilla Live 3.0 series of this open-source, free, and powerful partition and disk cloning/imaging live ISO distribution based on the Debian Sid repositories.

With a week left before the release of Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS, Canonical updated its long-term supported Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) operating system series to the Linux 5.19 kernel from Ubuntu 22.10 (Kinetic Kudu).

This new series looks at highly promising machine learning and deep learning software for Linux. We'll cover a wide range of applications of this technology. We begin the series with GFPGAN, deep learning software for real-world face restoration. This software can radically improve the quality of images.

Sensu is an open-source infrastructure and application monitoring system designed for both container and non-container monitoring and multi-cloud infrastructure. In this guide, you will set up the Sensu Monitoring Solution on an Ubuntu 22.04 server.

PipeWire 0.3.66, which includes a number of bug fixes and improvements to the open-source multimedia framework.