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Long list of open standards contributions part of journey to REST-based GIS stack, companies say. Database vendor MariaDB has forked out an undisclosed sum for CubeWerx, a geospatial data specialist, in the hope of making make these features easier to build into data-hungry applications.…

As the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words, and while that's not always the case with terminal commands and code, it still holds true for the graphical desktop. Screenshots capture precisely what's on your screen. I love taking them to have a record of who attends meetings, so I don't have to write it down at the moment. Or to capture a bug when doing UI testing. We all take them for different reasons, though, and there are more ways to take a screenshot than you might at first think.

Running out of space in Proxmox local disk? No problem! This guide explains how to move your Proxmox Containers and VMs to a different disk.

Deepin is a Chinese-made Linux distribution based on the Debian stable branch aimed at the average desktop computer user. Recently, Deepin 23 Preview was released, introducing its new format for distributing software packages in Linux, Linglong.

Don’t Panic if you run terabytes of RAM and need to understand a dumped snapshot. Oracle's Solaris operating system remains widely used, even though Big Red more or less froze development of the product in 2018 save for regular Support Repository Updates (SRUs) that add minor updates and bug fixes.…

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 Open Source News Quiz.

We look at the official flavors, but there are more out there. Alongside the official flavors, some of Ubuntu's other remixes have new 22.04.1 versions out: Unity, Cinnamon, and Kylin.…

The development team behind the Neptune Linux distribution released today Neptune 7.5 as the second major update to the Neptune 7.x series of this Debian-based GNU/Linux distribution built around the KDE Plasma desktop environment.

DebugPoint Weekly Roundup #22.01: Deepin 23 preview, GNOME 43, Debian turns 29, Linux Kernel 6.0 release and more.

Try out this fun Snake game in your Linux terminal, it comes with modes, difficulties and many features

KaOS is an independent rolling-release distribution inspired by Arch Linux and entirely focused on the KDE Plasma Desktop and related Qt Toolkit-based software. The new KaOS 2022.08 moves to Pipewire as the default sound multimedia server and ships with the just released KDE Gear 22.08 apps.

spotify-qt is billed as a lightweight Spotify client. As its name indicates it's built using Qt. a cross-platform software for creating graphical user interfaces. It's free and open source software.

If you absolutely must keep using those proprietary formats, walk this way Just over six months on from version 7.3, LibreOffice 7.4 Community has arrived, boasting improvements in Microsoft Office compatibility.…

In this post, I look at some of the options available to DevOps engineers for running a development Kubernetes cluster.

My journey with Kubernetes began in 2016, as a software engineer for Red Hat OpenShift. There, I had the opportunity to work with (and learn from) some of the smartest folks in the open source community. I learned first-hand some of the best practices for Kubernetes development as they were applied...

Tech preview is Azure-only for now, adding to previous AWS Arm adventures Red Hat has delivered a tech preview of its OpenShift containerization platform that can drive clusters spanning both x86 and Arm silicon.…

Notes are part of any writer's life. Most of my articles begin in a note-taking application and that’s usually Joplin for me. There are a large number of note-taking apps for Linux and you may use something other than my favorite. A recent blog article reminded me of a half dozen of them, so I assembled a list of my favorites.

In this brief guide, we will learn what is Composerize and how to use Composerize to convert docker run commands into docker-compose files format in Linux.

Django is a free and open-source web framework written in Python that follows the MVT(Model-View-Template) architectural pattern. In this blog post, we are going to show you how to install Django Web Framework on Ubuntu 22.04 OS.

LibreOffice 7.4 Community arrives with a massive set of new features, Microsoft Office compatibility and more.