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The upgrade path from Linux Mint 20.2 “Uma” to the latest Linux Mint 20.3 “Una” release is now open and you can finally upgrade your installations following the steps below.

With starting a new year, it's an interesting time to take a fresh look at how the latest Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome web browsers are competing on the Linux desktop. The recently released Chrome 97 was put up against Firefox 95 for seeing how these two major Linux browsers currently compete.

Linux hardware vendor System76 is teasing us today with a new upcoming Linux-powered notebook targeted towards expert multitaskers, called Kudu laptop.

You can't remember every command or shortcut you need to use. We are all human. Usually, I keep notes on separate bits of paper and in notebooks. This has led to some serious dysfunction on my desk. There is some five years' worth of clutter in scribbled bits everywhere. 2021's cheat sheets will bring that clutter down a notch. From JavaScript to Linux, there's something in this list for you.

Much of the technology is already in place to make Ubuntu an excellent gaming distribution, but it’s not optimized for gamers out-of-the-box.

Canonical’s Ubuntu Kernel team published today new Linux kernel security updates for all supported Ubuntu operating system releases to address up to nine security vulnerabilities.

Sails.js is a full-stack Node.js framework built on top of Express socket.io. It's a powerful MVC framework inspired by Ruby on Rails, but with supports of data-driven APIs and scalable, also service-oriented architecture.

Sometimes it's useful to get visual feedback from a script. For example, when a script or cron job completes, a long-running build fails, or there is an urgent problem during script execution. Desktop applications can do this with popup notifications, but it can be done from a script too! You can use script commands to send yourself desktop notifications and reminders.

The KDE Project released today KDE Gear 21.12.1 as the first point release to the latest and greatest KDE Gear 21.12 (formerly KDE Applications) open-source software suite for the KDE Plasma desktop environment and other platforms.

An Azure Scale Set helps to create and manage a group of identical, load-balanced Virtual Machines. The number of Virtual Machines belonging to the scale set can grow and shrink automatically based on the load. This helps to have high availability for our applications deployed in Virtual Machines.

Cloud computing is the on-demand availability of computer systems of resources like data storage, CPU power, databases, networking, software and etc. Cloud computing offers very scalable and flexible solutions for customer needs, which may reduce the costs, or increase them for some unaware users.

The UBports Foundation announced today the release of the OTA-21 software update for their Ubuntu Touch mobile operating system for supported devices.

Linux Mint has for years been one of the most popular Ubuntu-based distros out there with plenty of tweaks and refinements for both beginners and pros alike. Yesterday, the Mint team released Linux Mint 20.3 “Una”, the last Focal-based release and we’re going to take a look at it today.

This tutorial explains different ways to correct errors and typos in previous console commands in Linux and Unix operating systems.

The Document Foundation announced today the release and general availability of LibreOffice 7.2.5 as the fifth maintenance update to the latest and greatest LibreOffice 7.2 office suite series.

In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install Vivaldi Browser on openSUSE Leap 15 as an alternative Internet Browser to the default Firefox.

There are certain tasks that are done so often, users take for granted just how simple they are. But then, you migrate to a new platform and those same simple tasks begin to require a small portion of your brain’s power to complete. One such task is moving files from one location to another. Sure, it’s most often considered one of the more rudimentary actions to be done on a computer. When you move to the Linux platform, however, you may find yourself asking “Now, how do I move files?”

Deb Goodkin, Executive Director of the FreeBSD Foundation joins Doc Searls and Shawn Powers on this episode of FLOSS Weekly.

In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install Opera Browser on openSUSE Leap 15 as an alternative Internet Browser to the default featured Firefox browser.

I see you're ctrl-V'ing some code, need help refactoring it instead? Boffins affiliated with dev tools biz JetBrains and HSE University in Moscow have devised an open-source plugin for the company's Java development editor that guards against copy-and-paste coding.