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Ubuntu MATE is famous for being lightweight, fast, and stable, and a great alternative to the stock Gnome of Ubuntu. At the end of the tutorial, you will have learned how to install Ubuntu MATE on your Ubuntu 20.04 system.

Microsoft Office, or simply Office, is a family of client software, server software, and services. Microsoft has promoted Office 365 as the primary means of obtaining Office. What are the best open source alternatives to Office 365?

If you are reading this article on the chgrp command, there is a high chance you have explored all the depths of Linux’s chown command and chmod command.

Love it or hate it, Linux users in a Windows world must deal with Microsoft's New Technology File System (NTFS). This has always been a pain in the rump. Even after Microsoft finally gave up on its anti-Linux rhetoric and released its patents to the open-source community and expressively opened up its exFAT patents, we still couldn't get into NTFS.

Want a DevOps job? Check out the Linux Foundation and Continuous Delivery Foundation's new DevOps Bootcamp.

As you know, Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is a great solution for Microsoft’s users and developers to natively work within Linux right on their Windows desktops. If you’re a Windows 11 user running WSL, there is some good news for you. A preview of the WSL is now on Microsoft Store.

Adobe announced via a blog post that Acrobat extension for Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge now have basic PDF editing features, right inside the browser. That means, another option to edit PDF or Linux users.

The CloudLinux CEO and founder of AlmaLinux steps down as the open source project’s chairperson to assure the distro’s independence.

2DayGeek: This quick guide show you how to check hardware RAID configuration and hard drive rebuilding status on HP ProLiant servers from Linux.

The beleaguered .NET Foundation has apologised, again, and reversed one of the policies that saw its members revolt. The Foundation's had a tricky few weeks, after a board member resigned and complained the reasons for doing so were misrepresented. Members have also complained the organisation had made unauthorised changes to projects, and about the decision to move projects to a GitHub account the Foundation controlled without advance notice. Foundation executive director Claire Novotny stepped down as the controversies swirled.

Proton is an application released by Valve that is used to run Windows Operating System Games on Linux. We can install this application via Steam.

When you type a command into a Linux terminal, what’s really happening is that a program is being executed. Normally, to execute a custom program or script, we need to use its full path, such as /path/to/script.sh or just ./script.sh if we’re already in its residing directory. Alternatively, we can execute a lot of commands without specifying paths, like uptime or date, etc.

Spotify does not enable you to host the software on your own server. Furthermore, the Spotify client for Linux is not developed by a dedicated team, so expect bugs and glitches with the official Spotify Linux client. In this case, you can look through the following list to see which music application you prefer for your Linux distribution.

In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install the Telegram client on Linux Mint using three different methods.

Twice each year, in April and October, the community behind Fedora releases a new major version of the extremely popular Linux distribution. Currently scheduled for October 19, 2021, the release of Fedora 35 is quickly approaching. Let’s take a look at what you can expect when you install or upgrade to the 35th incarnation of the world’s most popular bleeding edge Linux distribution.

NVM is a version manager for Node.js used to install and manage multiple Node.js versions in Linux. In this post, we will show you how to install and use NVM to manage Node.js on Debian 11.

MongoDB is an open-source, general-purpose, document-based, and distributed database designed for modern application developers. In this post, we will show you how to install and secure MongoDB on Debian 11.

Writers not only work with words, they often have to work with images. Technical writing involves presenting a lot of screenshots to convey the technology and processes. Different publishing platforms may have various requirements for images, such as image format or file size.

Linux is as much a phenomenon as it is an operating system. In fact Linux is what supports much of the internet, but the general public is not all that familiar with the word Linux. This guide for nontechnical users can help you get started.

Regular visitors to this blog will know that I don't like the CSV format. It's awful. In my humble opinion, data workers should aim to use invisible tabs (TSV) or visible pipes (PSV) as field separators in delimited text tables. Sometimes, though, data workers are required to convert a perfectly good TSV or PSV to a CSV. What to do?