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One of the GNOME developers has suggested that the next major release of Gtk could drop support for the X window system. Emmanuele Bassi opened a discussion last week on the GNOME project's Gitlab instance that asked whether the developers could drop X.11 support in the next release of Gtk.

Tig is an excellent tool for reviewing your Git repository by encouraging you to explore the logs without having to construct long and sometimes complex queries.

A new settings panel in Ubuntu 22.10, "Kinetic Kudu", consolidates the desktop options. Here's how it looks.

In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install Pinta on Fedora 36 Linux using the command line terminal and alternative methods using the default DNF package manager or with the Flatpak alternative method.

Pacman is a package manager for arch-based distributions such as Manjaro, EndeavourOS, ArcoLinux, etc. If you have tried Ubuntu or Debian, you may already know that the apt package manager is the default for all Debian-based distributions.

GlassFish is an open-source Jakarta EE platform application server. It was initially developed by Sun Microsystems, then sponsored by Oracle Corporation, and now it is being maintained by the developers at Eclipse Foundation.

The Indian government has decided to share with the world the many e-governance tools it has created to run the country, under the name Indiastack.global.

Linux has several utilities for breaking down large files into small files. Explain how to use split and csplit to split a file into multiple pieces.

Darktable is a free and open-source photography application program and raw developer. In the following tutorial, you will learn two different methods to install Darktable on Fedora 36 Linux.

While the internet provides many benefits, it also brings new risks and challenges. One of the most common and notable of these is the threat to our privacy. Some users might think that they are protected by their browser, search engine and antivirus programs. However, the truth is that most of us aren't doing nearly enough to keep websites from tracking us.

If you are an advanced PC user and have been using Firefox browser for a long time, you might already be aware of about:config Settings. For those who don’t know, Firefox gives you a lot of customization by visiting about:config section.

We started observing many companies which are calling their software “open source”, although in fact, it is not.

Today, we are looking back at our top 10 articles of June to give you a chance to catch up on any of the great content you might have missed. In this list, you will see various topics covered, and we are confident that some, if not all, will be of interest to you.

Don't like the default GNOME text editor Gedit? One of these seven Linux text editors should make an adequate replacement.

Aerofly FS 4 Flight Simulator from developer IPACS is out now on Steam with Native Linux support, offering up an expansive flight sim experience. This follows on from Aerofly FS 2 Flight Simulator that released originally in 2017, with a Native Linux version of that one that arrived back in 2020 so it's nice to see continued support.

Today, one of the most popular ways for free websites and browsers to make a profit is tracking and selling user data to advertisers. While most tracking is behind the scenes and discreet, allowing oneself to be tracked can have negative consequences''attackers often attempt to track users the same way legitimate companies do in order to steal data; not to mention the growing concern of companies using data purchased from legitimate sources to manipulate users. While it may seem futile to even try to stay private on an internet dominated by companies who have a motivation to make sure their users aren't private, there are many popular and simple ways to maintain privacy online.

To automate with Ansible, you must be familiar with YAML, the human-readable language used to define the logic in Ansible playbooks. YAML stands for "Yet Another Markup Language" or "YAML Ain't Markup Language" (a recursive acronym). YAML is often used for writing configuration files. Although YAML is considered simple and easy to understand, the YAML syntax can be quite confusing. This article digs a little deeper into some YAML basics.

The Porteus Linux team announced today the release and general availability of Porteus Linux 5.0 as the latest stable release of this portable, complete, and fast GNU/Linux distribution based on Slackware Linux.

The most basic way to look at your files and folders is to use the commands ls and ll. But sometimes, I want to see not just the file metadata but also the contents of a file at a glance. For that, I use ranger.

tcpdump is a networking utility used to capture incoming and outgoing traffic. Here's everything you need to know about using tcpdump on Linux.