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This guide explains what is Ncdu, how to install Ncdu in various Linux distributions and how to use Ncdu to check disk space usage in Linux and Unix operating systems with examples.

A simple guide on how you can install GNOME Nightly apps using Flatpak in various Linux distribution to try out the development version.

Google Finance is a website focusing on business news and financial information. It provides real-time market quotes, international exchanges, financial news, and analytics. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives to Google Finance.

I am pleased to share that Steve Teixeira has joined Mozilla as our Chief Product Officer. During our search for a Chief Product Officer, Steve stood out to us because of his extensive experience at tech and internet companies where he played instrumental roles in shaping products from research, design, security, development, and getting them […]

The GNOME Project turns 25th years old today and to celebrate the anniversary of its birth the development team released the beta version of the upcoming GNOME 43 desktop environment series for public testing.

In this guide, we'll go through the best Linux laptops, review them, compare them, and write more information about Linux laptops in general.

Sparky is a fast, lightweight, and fully customizable OS built on Debian that offers a few versions for different users and tasks. Three months after the previous 6.3 release, the SparkyLinux team announced the general availability of the latest stable release – SparkyLinux 6.4. This Is what’s new!

Don't read the diffstat too closely, says Linus Torvalds – it's mostly another massive AMD update. Emperor Penguin Linus Torvalds has released the first release candidate for Linux 6.0, but doesn't mind what you call it.…

Linus Torvalds kicked off the development cycle of the upcoming Linux 6.0 kernel series and announced today the availability of the first Release Candidate (RC) milestone for public testing.

I'm a happy user of the XML-based Docbook markup language. To me, it's a precise, explicit, and detailed system that allows me to have contextual and domain-specific metadata in what I write. Best of all, though, it can be transformed (that's what XML users call it when XML is converted into another format) into nearly any format, including HTML, EPUB, FO for PDF, plain text, and more. With great power comes a lot of typing, though, and sometimes Docbook feels like it's surplus to requirements. Luckily, there's Asciidoc, a system of writing plain text with the same markup-less feel of Markdown, but that transforms to Docbook to take advantage of its precision and flexibility.

The ninety-eight installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on August 14th, 2022, keeping you guys up to date with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

Word processing files used to be closed, proprietary formats. In some older word processors, the document file was essentially a memory dump from the word processor. While this made for faster loading of the document into the word processor, it also made the document file format an opaque mess.

Rescuezilla is a free, easy-to-use hard disk cloning and imaging software based on Ubuntu that boots a live USB. Rescuezilla 2.4 upgrades its basis from Ubuntu 21.10 to Ubuntu 22.04 to improve compatibility with modern hardware.

Docker has matured over the years to offer a range of solutions for developers working with containers. This can lead to some confusion, though, as developers need to choose which version of Docker to install.

Following the May release of version 2022.2, the new version of Kali Linux 2022.3 will surprise fans because almost everything important is outside the release itself. So let’s go over it.

DaVinci Resolve is a powerful video, audio editor and a composer. Here's how to install and configure DaVinci Resolve in Linux.

PostgreSQL is a very powerful object-relational database management system written in C and C++ and used for storing and retrieving information. In this blog post, we are going to show you how to install PostgreSQL on Ubuntu 22.04 OS.

Here at Opensource.com, we thought it would be interesting to survey some of our authors to get a feel for what tools they feel are antiquated (but perhaps still useful!) and what they think of the replacement utilities. What follows is a series of responses and a bit of fun, too. We sent out the following prompt: Have you discovered some of your favorite tools have become outdated or deprecated? Or maybe you just switched it up for something new? What do you use now? Tell us a little about how you feel it is helpful to have made the switch.

The LaTeX document preparation system has an interesting history. When programmer Don Knuth wrote his first book, The Art of Computer Programming, in 1968, it was produced using an old-style printing press method. When he published the second edition in 1976, the publisher had moved to modern phototypesetting.

HBud is billed as a simple music/video/karaoke app. It’s written in Python, uses GTK4 for its GUI framework, and GStreamer for its multimedia backend. HBud is published under an open source license.