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Uri Herrera announced today the release and general availability of Nitrux 1.5.1, a new update to this powerful GNU/Linux distributions based on Debian GNU/Linux and utilizing the latest KDE and Qt technologies.

Postfix is both a popular and preferred Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) for more than 25% of active and public internet mail servers. This attribute has something to do with its open-source status. Many Linux systems benefit from its extensive mail routing and delivery services.

MySQL and MariaDB are the most widely used relational database management systems (RDMS) when it comes to website hosting and CMS systems such as Joomla, WordPress, Drupal, and Typo 3. In this article, I will explain how to speed up and optimize your MySQL and MariaDB database server.

This guide is designed specifically for home users who want to try virtualization on their PC. We’ll take a detailed look at the different types of virtualization as well as the benefits of it.

I’ve reviewed a smorgasbord of open source music players. But Linux is endowed with a huge selection, there remains a fair few I’ve yet to explore. For this review, I’m looking at Goggles Music Manager. Goggles Music Manager is free and open source software that lets you play and organize your music collection.

'This project is a big deal to me' says protocol's creator. WireGuard, a high performance and easily configured VPN protocol, is getting a native port from Linux to the Windows kernel, and the code has been published as experimental work in progress.…

Vecow’s “EPCB-1000” Pico-ITX SBC runs Linux or Win 10 on Intel’s dual-core Atom x6211E with up to 32GB DDR4, SATA, DP, 2x GbE, 2x USB 3.1, and 2x M.2 with SIM. The SBC also powers a “PCB-1000” box PC. Vecow announced the Pico-ITX form-factor EPCB-1000 board and compact PCB-1000 embedded system along with a larger, […]

OCP expanded the meaning of "open source" beyond software to address the same problems open source software is meant to address.

Valve and AMD are working together to develop a better CPU performance scaling driver for Linux, targeting the Steam Deck gaming console. The new driver will allow the processor in the Steam Deck to quickly ramp up to a higher performance state when needed and achieve better performance per watt.

Most-used language? JavaScript, of course – though for a big salary, try Clojure. Stack Overflow has published its latest developer survey, revealing widespread deployment of Microsoft's development tools as well as Google Cloud Platform and Azure jockeying behind AWS.…

Adlink’s rugged, Linux-ready “Express-TL” COM Express Basic Type 6 module features up to octa-core Tiger Lake-H CPUs with up to 128GB DDR4, optional NVMe, quad 4K displays, 2.5GbE and GbE, 4x USB 3.2 Gen2, and PCIe Gen4 x16. Adlink announced the second embedded board we have seen based on Intel’s new hexa- and octa-core H-series […]

An ASCII PGM file ("Portable Gray Map") is a simple text file that encodes a grayscale image. It's so simple that I was tempted to build a PGM from a 3-parameter dataset, with "x" for image width, "y" for image height and various gray colors for "z" categories. The resulting image wasn't impressive, but the method might be useful for other datasets.

Plus: Software-detected gunshot withdrawn as evidence from trial In brief If you’ve always wanted to program your Nvidia GPU to accelerate machine learning, image processing, and other workloads, but find Nv's CUDA too daunting or too much of a faff to learn, you’re in luck.…

Java is a cross-platform, object-oriented, and multipurpose programming language that is primarily used for creating mobile, web, and cloud applications. Additionally, you can use Java to create games, chatbots, enterprise applications, and a whole lot more.

Ubuntu has a very different file system compared to Windows. It’s organized in a completely different way designed to offer more security, but it’ll feel very unfamiliar if you’ve come exclusively from a Windows background.

To open a directory on a computer with a graphical interface, you double-click on a folder. It opens, and you are now "in" that folder. To open a directory in a terminal, you use the cd command to change your current directory. This essentially opens that folder and places you in it. read more

Gerbera is a free UPnP media server which allows you to stream your digital media through your home network and consume it on a variety of UPnP compatible devices. It’s based on MediaTomb and work with any UPnP compliant client.

ThinkorSwim is a web-based trading platform developed by TD Ameritrade. It allows users to trade in various stock, options, futures, and equities from the web-based interface. In this post, we will show you how to install Thinkorswim on Ubuntu 20.04 desktop.

Also: 5.14 rc4 is out, with Linus saying 'nothing to see here'. Paragon Software, in response to a nudge from Linux Torvalds, said it will submit a pull request for its NTFS driver for Linux.…

Networking is one of a sysadmin’s most important duties, so make sure you have the essentials covered.