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Gateworks’ 100 x 35mm “Venice GW7100” SBC combines a Linux-driven i.MX8M Mini with up to 4GB LPDDR4 and 64GB MMC plus GbE with PoE, USB Type-C, mini-PCIe with nano-SIM, -40 to 85°C support, and optional GPS. Gateworks has announced the smallest member of its family of i.MX8M based Venice SBCs, following the 105 x 100mm […]

Red Hat has used RPM for software package distribution for decades, but we now know RPM contained a nasty hidden security bug since Day One. It's now been unveiled and a repair patch has been submitted.

New take on GNOME designed for productivity. System76 has released Pop!_OS 21.04, based on Ubuntu 21.04 but with a distinctive desktop called COSMIC.…

GitHub Copilot is a new feature underway from GitHub to suggest possible code snippets for programmers while coding. But is it ethical?

ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors is a free open-source office suite that comprises viewers and editors for text documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. In this tutorial, we'll learn how to link the ONLYOFFICE desktop app and your Seafile server.

System76 announced the immediate release of Pop OS 21.04 with COSMIC Desktop. We wrap up the release highlights and provide you the download instructions.

VirtualBox makes it easy for anyone to try Linux. You don't even need experience with the command line to set up a simple virtual machine to tinker with Linux. I'm kind of a power user when it comes to virtual machines, but this article will show even novices how to virtualize a Linux system. In addition, it provides an overview of how to run and install a Linux system for testing purposes with the open source hypervisor VirtualBox. read more

Thanks to its container customer training, the $1 billion container software market is Red Hat’s to lose. Where do the other players stand?

Most of the time as a Linux system administrator you are managing your servers over the network. It is very rare that you will need to have a physical access to any of your managed servers. In most cases all you need is to SSH remotely to do your administration tasks. In this article we will configure a GUI alternative to a remote access to your RHEL server, which is VNC. VNC allows you to open a remote GUI session to your server and thus providing you with a full graphical interface accessible from any remote location.

Applications typically include some type of default or "out-of-the-box" state or configuration, as well as some way for users to customize that configuration for their needs. read more

Pop!_OS 21.04 brings a new, simple, and speedy desktop experience. It is based on Ubuntu 21.04 but headlined by their new and improved COSMIC Desktop environment.

Uri Herrera announced today the general availability of Nitrux 1.5 as the latest and greatest release of this Debian-based and KDE Plasma-oriented GNU/Linux distribution for the masses.

Qt Creator is the Qt framework's default integrated development environment (IDE) and hence the glue between Qt's rich set of libraries and the user. In addition to its basic features such as intelligent code completion, debugging, and project administration, Qt Creator offers a lot of nice features that make software development easier. In this article, I will highlight some of my favorite Qt Creator features. read more

Maybe call it backseat programming for now? GitHub on Tuesday unveiled a code-completion tool called Copilot that shows promise though still has some way to go to meet its AI pair programming goal.…

In this article we introduce various ways to install software using a graphical interface.

Go also called Golang is an open-source programming language developed by Google. It is used to build reliable and efficient applications. In this post, I will show you how to install the Go programming language on Ubuntu 20.04 server.

Jim Hall is best known as the computer programmer who founded the FreeDOS project. Jim began the project in 1994 as a replacement for MS-DOS while he was still a student at the University of Wisconsin–River Falls. Jim created FreeDOS in response to Microsoft ending support for MS-DOS in 1994. Recently Jim agreed to an email interview. Correspondent Joshua Allen Holm joined me in posing the following questions to Jim. Don Watkins: What kind of skill set invites you to write your own operating system? read more

When it comes to email providers, some popular companies that come to our mind are Gmail, Microsoft Outlook, Yahoo Mail, iCloud, etc. In this article, I am going to list the top private & secure email providers in 2021.

Rsync is a powerful utility to backup and synchronizes your files and directories. You can see Rsync mainly used as a backup solution to snapshot your files and directories.

Remmina is a Remote Desktop Client that supports numerous protocols allowing you to connect to many remote systems. This full featured client program allows you to set up a shared folder, select the screen size and type of connection being used. There are many more options that give you the ability to customize your connection […]