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I have a dozen or so physical computers in my home lab and even more VMs. I use most of these systems for testing and experimentation. I frequently write about using automation to make sysadmin tasks easier. I have also written in multiple places that I learn more from my own mistakes than I do in almost any other way.

Over the years, several friends have asked me for tips on managing their home networks. In most cases, they are setting up home automation and want to access their services from the outside.

The KDE Project released today KDE Frameworks 5.98 as the latest update to this open-source software suite consisting of a collection of more than 80 add-on libraries to Qt that provides commonly needed functionality for most KDE apps.

The Fedora Project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Fedora Linux 37 Beta, the next step towards our planned Fedora Linux 37 release at the end of October. Download the prerelease from our Get Fedora site: Get Fedora 37 Workstation Beta  Get Fedora 37 Server Beta Get Fedora 37 IoT Beta Or, check […]

If you make it here, you can make it anywhere. Opinion In IT, there is sexy tech, there is fashionable tech, and there are databases. Your average database has very little charisma, however. Nobody's ever made a movie about one. …

This guide explains how to change user password in Linux and how to allow an user to change the password of certain other users via sudo.

I am pleased to announce that starting today, September 12, Carlos Torres has joined Mozilla as our Chief Legal Officer. In this role Carlos will be responsible for leading our global legal and public policy teams, developing legal, regulatory and policy strategies that support Mozilla’s mission. He will also manage all regulatory issues and serve […]

Amberol is the ultimate simplified Linux music player built using GTK4 and Rust, tightly integrated with GNOME, and does nothing but play your locally stored music files.

In which our heroine learns to park the heads on a Kaypro “portable,” experiences word processing on a dumb terminal, and figures out how to keep her IBM XT from being rude to her.

In recent years, patent trolls have started attacking open-source developers and companies. But, the open-source community is fighting back.

A list of new features of KDE Plasma 5.26 release that includes animated wallpaper, improvements in Kwin and many such features.

Independent management aims to ensure openness and transparency Meta is shifting the management of PyTorch, a deep learning framework developed by Meta subsidiary Facebook, to the newly formed PyTorch Foundation, which in turn will be under the oversight of The Linux Foundation.…

Today we are more than thrilled to welcome PyTorch to the Linux Foundation. Honestly, it’s hard to capture how big a deal this is for us in a single post but I’ll try.  TL;DR — PyTorch is one of the most important and successful machine learning software projects in the world today. We are excited

The KDE Project released today KDE Gear 22.08.1 as the first point release to the latest and greatest KDE Gear 22.08 software suite series for the KDE Plasma desktop environment and other projects.

Retrieving Emails From Remote Servers With fetchmail on Debian Linux. Fetchmail is a program for retrieving emails from remote servers. Imagine you have five email accounts on five different servers. Of course, you don't want to connect to each of them to get your emails. This is where fetchmail comes into play. If you have a user account on a Linux server, you can make fetchmail download emails from remote servers and put them into just one mailbox (the one of your Linux user), from where you can retrieve them with your email client (e.g. Thunderbird or Outlook).

Foundation growth driven by organizations seeing new use cases that require modular solutions to build the future of 3D technology SAN FRANCISCO – September 7, 2022 – As gaming increasingly becomes a mobile-first experience, OPPO and Heroic Labs are joining as Premier and General members, respectively, of the Open 3D Foundation (O3DF). The two companies […]

It’s been more than three months since GNOME developer Jonas Dreßler teased us with what was done and what’s coming to the GNOME Shell for mobile devices, and now we have a new report to share with you.

How closely did you follow the news about Linux and free and open source software this week? You can get an idea about how well informed you are (and have some fun in the process) by taking our weekly FOSS News Quiz.

The Debian Project announced today the general availability of Debian GNU/Linux 11.5 as the fifth point release to the Debian GNU/Linux 11 “Bullseye” operating system series.

There was a time when 5 MB was the reasonable maximum size for an email attachment. Today, it's easily possible for a single photo to be 5 MB. Accordingly, the maximum attachment size has increased to, say, 25 MB. But of course file sizes are getting bigger and bigger too, and so eventually the attachment limit will go up too. It's an endless cycle, common in the digital world: the tools are built for today's data, and today's data increases in complexity and size until the tools are revised and improved. You have to contain data, preferably in the smallest packaging possible, so that sharing it online goes faster for everyone. Here are five ways to optimize images for the Internet.