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Compulab has launched a highly customizable “Fitlet3” industrial mini-PC that starts at about $260 and runs Linux or Windows on Elkhart Lake. Standard features include 2x GbE, 6x USB, HDMI, mini-DP, FACET expansion, and M.2 M-, B- and E-key slots. Compulab has updated its five-year old, Apollo Lake based Fitlet2 mini-PC. The Fitlet3 advances to […]

The new release of KDE's Plasma desktop brings a GNOME Shell-like instant overview and other improvements. KDE is fairly mature now. The FOSS community was founded in 1996, allowing it to call last year's Plasma release, 5.23, the 25th Anniversary Edition. KDE 1.0 came out in 1998, making it the first FOSS desktop for Linux. It does also support FreeBSD, although not always the latest version.

Early in my Linux journey, I learned how to use the command line. It's what sets Linux apart. I could lose the graphical user interface (GUI), but it was unnecessary to rebuild the machine completely. Many Linux computers run headless, and you can accomplish all the administrative tasks on the command line. It uses many basic commands that all are familiar with—like ls, ls-l, ls-l, cd, pwd, top, and many more.

Twister UI is the easiest way to give your Linux Mint and Xubuntu a visual uplift using pre-loaded themes. Here's how.

Have you ever installed a program in Linux from an outside source and wished that it had a convenient entry in your desktop environment’s menu? This article explains briefly how to create useful and standard-compliant desktop entries on Linux by using the DeskCut app.

The KDE Project released today the Plasma Mobile Gear 22.02 software suite for the Plasma Mobile desktop environment targeting mobile devices like Linux phones and tablets.

Like open source, innersource is all about being transparent and collaborative. This usually leads to a sense of belonging that favors employee happiness if done right. Regardless of org charts, geographies, or expertise levels, innersource creates an inclusive environment where employees contribute and collaborate in the open and learn from one another.

Jellyfin is a free and open-source media streaming solution that allows you to host your own media server. In this tutorial, we will explain how to install and set up a media server with Jellyfin on Ubuntu 20.04.

Django is an open-source web framework written in Python. It is a popular all-in-one web framework and one of the top choices for many developers.

Trello is a web-based, Kanban-style, list-making application. Trello is proprietary software.

In the previous article in this series, we looked at how to get started with Fedora Flatpaks and how to use it. This article compares and contrasts between the Fedora Flatpaks remote and the Flathub remote. Flathub is the de-facto standard Flatpak remote, whereas Fedora Flatpaks is the Fedora Project’s Flatpak remote. The things that differ between the remotes include but are not limited to their policies, their ways of distribution, and their implementation.

Devs and maintainers getting paid – but not to concentrate on security. Open-source software has always been more secure than proprietary software, but that doesn't mean it's "secure." To lock it down, we need to invest serious cash in developers and maintainers.

Sometimes the process to delete Kubernetes namespaces gets hung up, and the command never completes. Here's how to troubleshoot terminating namespaces.

If, like me, you were a computer-science graduate student who cut your teeth on Berkeley Unix – complete with the first open-source implementation of TCP/IP – you know Section 8 as the cryptic System Maintenance Commands section of the Unix User's Manual.

Swift is to iOS what Java is to Android. Swift development started in July 2010 by Chris Lattner(same creator of LLVM and clang), with the eventual collaboration of many other Apple programmers. Swift was based on ideas from languages ??such as: Objective-C , Rust , Haskell , Ruby , Python , C# , CLU and many others .

Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is a desktop sharing protocol that allows you to control a computer remotely using the VNC client software. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install a VNC server on the Debian 11 Bullseye. This tutorial uses TigerVNC packages to enable the VNC server and we will secure the VNC connection using an SSH tunnel.

You’ve switched on your computer, preparing to do some work, edit a document, mix a composition, or just play a game... but something goes wrong. Ubuntu won't boot. Sadly, as reliable as Linux is in general, and as popular as Ubuntu is, sometimes it runs into problems, just like Windows 10 or macOS. In most cases, you'll be able to work around this. Whether you're using Ubuntu desktop or Ubuntu Server, here’s what to do if Ubuntu doesn’t boot.

Doom Emacs is an easy and approachable way to get started with Emacs. Learn how it works and how to install and configure it today.

Over the past 18 months, Collabora has been on a roller-coaster ride developing futex2, a new set of system calls. As part of this prolonged effort, the futex_waitv() syscall has now successfully landed in Linux 5.16. A followup of the initial futex syscall, this new interface aims to overcome long term issues that have been limiting the way applications use the Linux kernel. But what exactly is futex? This series of posts will help answer that and other questions around this tricky function.

January 2022 was another excellent month for Enable Sysadmin. During the month, we published 23 new articles and received nearly 798,000 reads from more than 505,000 readers across the site.