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In the same way that someone who talks far too much is exhibiting logorrhea, or excessive word-iness, someone who uses far too many digits in their numbers is exhibiting psiphiorrhea, or excessive digit-iness. No amount of explaining about significant figures or measurement error will convince the psiphiorrhea sufferer that their numbers are absurd.

UBports, which took on the task of maintaining the Ubuntu Touch mobile OS after Canonical abandoned it, has released OTA-18 with lots of improvements, but still based on the ancient Ubuntu 16.04. According to the team, one of the big changes in this release is a rewritten Media-hub service, responsible for media playback and control. "20,526 lines of code later, the new media-hub emerged – with better tests, a more contributor-friendly structure, and a few fixed bugs to boot," said the post introducing the release.

One of the common problems Linux users encounter on the command line is locating files with a particular name, it can be much easier when you actually know the filename.

In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install unattended upgrades on Ubuntu 20.04 and 21.04.

Ubuntu has a convenient feature for installing unattended updates to security and upgrades to software if you so choose it. The set-up is quite good, and you have multiple options to fine-tune the automatic process compared to coming from a Windows environment.

Oracle released today VirtualBox 6.1.24 as a new maintenance update to this very popular, free, and open-source virtualization software for Linux, macOS, and Windows platforms.

The KDE Project announced today the general availability of Plasma Mobile 21.07 as another hefty update to this powerful and ever growing mobile desktop environment for Linux smartphones.

In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install Chrome on Desktop and with Terminal option on Ubuntu 20.04 and the newest 21.04 Hirsute in a complete guide with screenshots.

Linux based systems come with Firefox naturally for most. However, what about Google Chrome? Is it available for Linux based systems? The answer is yes. It certainly is. Google Chrome is the most widely used web browser in the world at the moment. In April 2021, Chome has 64.47% of the current market, with the next major competitor being Safari at 18.69%, then Firefox at 3.59%. Chrome has been on Linux for a while but is facing some more competition with Microsoft Edge Beta being on the market recently; however, Chrome is the go-to choice for many Linux users not happy with Firefox native install.

In this guide you are going to learn how to install and configure Memcached in your server alongside with Apache and PHP on Ubuntu 20.04.

PHP 8.0 was officially released back on November 26, 2020, and is a major update to PHP 7.4. At the time of publishing this guide, the latest stable release is PHP 8.0.8, which was released on July 1, 2021.

This article covers the new release (in short summary) of Flameshot (screenshot and annotation tool), HandBrake (video transcoder), Szyszka (file renamer), Clight (tool to match your backlight level to ambient brightness using the webcam or ambient light sensors) and Zellij (terminal multiplexer with extras).

In the following tutorial, you will learn how to use this great disk usage utility on Ubuntu 20.04 and the newer version Ubuntu 21.04 Hirsute.

No, it is no Duff beer if that rings a bell. Today, we are talking about Duf disk utility, an open-source, free “Disk Usage Free Utility” written in Goland and released under MIT license. The disk utility supports multi-platforms such as BSD, Linux, macOS and Windows operating systems.

Duf is a command-line utility to find disk usage in Linux and Unix-like systems terminals. One of the excellent features of Duf is its ability to display the disk usage details in a beautiful, user-friendly layout in tab form. Some extra features with Duf include disk usage out in JSON output.

It’s that time of the year again when we have to say goodbye to another Linux kernel series, in this case Linux 5.12, which has now reached end of life and will no longer be supported upstream.

Minecraft is a game that has taken the world by storm. In this tutorial we will show you how to set up your own Minecraft server on Debian 10, using open-source tools available from their official website.

In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install Rust programming language on Ubuntu 20.04 along with how to update and remove the software. A bonus of how to create a test application is also included.

Rust is an open-source systems programming language that focuses on speed, memory safety and parallelism. Developers use Rust to create a wide range of new software applications, such as game engines, operating systems, file systems, browser components and simulation engines for virtual reality. Rust is syntactically similar to C++ but can guarantee memory safety by using a borrow checker for validating references.

This guide explains the steps to upgrade debian 11 from debian 10.

If you’re looking for a free video converter, HandBrake is a solid choice. It is a powerful tool you can use to convert one video format in to another, with broad support for modern and widely used video codecs.

Fedora CoreOS is an automatically updating, minimal rpm-ostree-based operating system for running containerized workloads securely and at scale. Podman "is a tool for managing containers and images, volumes mounted into those containers, and pods made from groups of containers. Podman is based on libpod, a library for container lifecycle management." read more

Looking for reliable backup solution for Linux? Try Rsync! This guide explains how to backup files and directories using Rsync in Linux.

How an IT automation initiative streamlined business practices, reduced contested billing, and even helped to satisfy a law enforcement request.

Conda is an open-source package management system and environment management system for installing multiple versions of software packages and their dependencies. In this post, we will show you how to create Rust virtual environments using Conda in Linux.