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It's simple to get Linux Mint up and running on a Windows PC. Here's how you do it.

The EndeavourOS team released today a new ISO snapshot of their Arch Linux-based distribution for the masses, EndeavourOS Atlantis Neo, shipping some much-needed fixes and a little Christmas surprise.

Security researchers have warned users that attackers are attempting to exploit a critical vulnerability in the Java logging library Apache Log4j. Log4j is a widely used java library that logs error messages in applications used by enterprise software applications as well as custom built applications intended for in-house usage.

The Mono Framework is an open-source software framework that can be used to create all kinds of applications inc. games. This guide will take you through the steps necessary to get Mono Framework installed on your Debian 11 machine.

The Fountain markdown technique requires just a plain text editor, like Atom, Kate, Gedit, or similar, and it exports to a properly formatted HTML or PDF screenplay.

GCompris 2.0 open-source educational software suite providing entertainment tools for children aged 2 to 10 is now available for download with new and improved activities.

Postfix is a free and widely used open-source mail transfer agent. It supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite as the database server to store and manage the virtual domains. PostfixAdmin is a free web-based interface to manage a postfix mail server. With this tool, we can easily add/remove/edit domain names, email accounts, email quotas, email forwarding, etc.

In this tutorial, we will show you how to set up a mail server with PostfixAdmin on Debian 11 (Bullseye) OS.

Back in the early days of personal computers, I wrote the IBM training course for the original IBM PC. To complete the course in time for the IBM, ComputerLand, and Sears training, IBM gave me a PC to take home so I could work over evenings and weekends—arguably the first instance of anyone having an IBM PC in their home.

Valve released today a new Steam Client update for all supported platforms, including GNU/Linux, to address a few annoyances and improve VA-API hardware decoding on Linux.

PDF Mix Tool is a small utility that allows you to perform common editing operations on PDF files. It’s a Qt-based tool that’s written in C++.

Finding files and directories in Linux is a very difficult task compared to Windows operating system. Especially if you are working on the server operating system without a Desktop interface. There are several ways to search files and directories in Linux. The simple and easiest way is to use the Linux terminal to search or locate files.

Learn how to list local users on Ubuntu and how to list logged on users.

As someone who has spent their entire career in open source software (OSS), the Log4Shell scramble (an industry-wide four-alarm-fire to address a serious vulnerability in the Apache Log4j package) is a humbling reminder of just how far we still have to go. OSS is now central to the functioning of modern society, as critical as highway bridges, bank payment platforms, and cell phone networks, and it’s time OSS foundations started to act like it.

Calibre creator and maintainer Kovid Goyal released today a new version of his popular open-source, cross-platform, and free ebook management software, Calibre 5.34, which adds support for a new device and various improvements.

Blueberry is a new Python scripts that sets your currently playing Spotify song title and album cover as your GNOME desktop wallpaper. To use it, you need Spotify Premium.

It doesn't rain, but it pours. Previously, one assumption about the 10 out of 10 Log4j security vulnerability was that it was limited to exposed vulnerable servers. We were wrong. The security company Blumira claims to have found a new, exciting Log4j attack vector.

Odoo (formerly known as OpenERP) is a suite of open-source business applications. The most used modules for Odoo include Point of Sale (POS), Inventory, CRM, Website, Live Chat, e-Commerce, Billing, Accounting, Warehouse, and others. The range of the modules that can be installed in one application makes Odoo very popular nowadays.

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Odoo 14 on Debian 11 with Apache as a reverse proxy.

Debugging Python code, for many of us, comes down to adding print statements and trying to reason what’s going on based on the output. It’s not ideal, but for some reason, people just don’t want to touch the Python debugger.

Over the past couple of years, interest in Linux on the desktop has slowly increased. While running any Linux distribution on a personal computer is still uncommon, an increasing amount of people have heard of it. Thus, it would be good to talk about the steps that it takes, in case you’re interested in trying […]

For the upcoming Ubuntu 22.04 release, the Yaru developers are removing the aubergine (eggplant) color from the default Ubuntu theme, replacing it with orange, since libadwaita will only allow Ubuntu to use one accent color.