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Allow me a bit of introspection. I've been working in the software engineering field for 31 years. During those 31 years, I've modified a lot of legacy software.

If Muse Group's stewardship takes a wrong turn, there's always the fork button. Feature The quality of software the FOSS community has created is nothing short of amazing.…

Torvalds reckons 'it might be mergeable for 5.14'. The Rust for Linux project, sponsored by Google, has advanced with use of a beta Rust compiler (as opposed to a nightly build), testing ARM and RISC-V architecture support, new Rust abstractions, and more.…

The team announced the feature release of darktable 3.6. We round up the key new features and give you the download/upgrade directions.

It is very important that your installed operating system has the correct date and time. Many processes on your CentOS system, e.g. cronjobs, depend on the correct date and time settings. In this tutorial, we will show you two different ways to set the date and time in CentOS 8.

Apache Tomcat is open-source and the most popular web application server used to host Java-based applications. In this tutorial, we will explain how to install Apache Tomcat 10 on Debian 10 server.

Passwords are particularly problematic for programmers. You're not supposed to store them without encrypting them, and you're not supposed to reveal what's been typed when your user enters one. This became particularly important to me when I decided I wanted to boost security on my laptop. I encrypt my home directory—but once I log in, any password stored as plain text in a configuration file is potentially exposed to prying eyes. read more

RPM is the recursive acronym for RPM Package Manager: it is the default low level package manager in some of the most famous and most used Linux distributions, such as Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, OpenSUSE and their derivatives.

Darktable is a free, open-source RAW photo file editor software for photo editing and file management. It has a bit of a learning curve, but in its latest update to 3.6, it’s easier to use that it ever was.

YouTube has encountered a number of privacy issues. For example, Google is facing a legal battle for allegedly breaching the privacy and data rights of under-13s in the UK. It has also faced numerous challenges and criticisms in its attempts to deal with copyright issues. What open source alternatives are available for YouTube?

I'm sure that you want to feel more at home with your Fedora Linux system. These are things to do after installing Fedora 34 Workstation.

A fellow developer took the effort of creating an initial fork of Audacity which is stripped of all tracking code and telemetry functionality. However, he and the other friends need help in.

CentOS Stream is a rolling-release Linux distro that exists as a midstream between the upstream development in Fedora and the downstream development for RHEL. In this article we shall discuss everything that you need to know about CentOS Stream.

This guide explains how to list all installed fonts and how to list installed fonts for a particular language in Linux and Unix systems.

MariaDB Galera Cluster is a database clustering solution that lets you set up a virtually synchronous multi-primary cluster for the MariaDB database. Clustering is a technology that provides high availability to your database by distributing the changes among multiple database nodes.

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CentOS 8 is reaching EOL (End Of Life) by the end of this year, 2021, and a few Linux distributions have been floated as formidable CentOS alternatives. Among them is Rocky Linux, which is a fork of CentOS and 100% binary compatible with RHEL. In a previous guide, we introduced Rocky Linux 8.4 and how to download it. We have also touched on how you can migrate from CentOS 8 to Rocky Linux 8.4.

Tutorial on how to install Tensorflow and related CUDA libraries on Centos 8

A 'major rebranding effort' is underway at Canonical and it could result in substantial changes to the logos, icons, and colours we currently associate with Ubuntu.

Darktable 3.6 has been released today as a major update to this open-source, free, and cross-platform RAW image editor for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows platforms.