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Your collection of CDs may be just gathering dust like mine if you’ve converted to music streaming services. While I listen to my CDs, I decided to remove them from my shelves. But many of the CDs still hold special memories. The practical solution is to rip the CDs, tag them, store them on my network drive, and pack them all away in the attic.

This the third article in a series about features that first appeared in a version of Python 3.x. Some of those Python versions have been out for a while. For example, Python 3.2 was first released in 2011, yet some of the cool and useful features introduced in it are still underused. Here are three of them.

In my introduction to Autotools, I demonstrated how to manage building and packaging code with GNU Autotools. It's a robust and common platform that integrates easily into many packaging systems, including RPM, APT, pkgsrc, and more. Its syntax and structure can be confusing, but luckily there are alternatives, including the open source CMake framework.

Learn more about PipeWire—Fedora Linux's new default audio and video daemon—in this interview with it's creator Wim Taymans.

The KDE Project released today the first point release of their latest KDE Gear 21.04 open-source software suite for the KDE Plasma desktop environment and other projects.

Nautilus Terminal, a plugin that embeds a terminal into Nautilus file manager, was updated recently with support for the latest Nautilus (Files) 40.

Forecr’s compact, $905 “DSBox-NX2” edge AI system integrates the Jetson Xavier NX version of its $242 “DSBoard-NX2” carrier board, which also supports the Nano and TX2 NX. Features include 8GB LPDDR4, 16GB eMMC, GbE, HDMI, 2x USB, CAN, and 3x M.2. Ankara, Turkey based Forecr has begun shipping a DSBox-NX2 embedded computer that runs Ubuntu […]

Are you hooked on backticks in your shell scripts? You should consider $ parens.

The KDE Project released today the beta version of the upcoming KDE Plasma 5.22 desktop environment, a major release that promises numerous stability and usability improvements, as well as new features.

The KDE team announced the release of KDE Plasma 5.22 Beta and it is available for download and test. We take a look at what's incoming in this new Plasma release.

WebAssembly, or Wasm for brevity, is a standardized binary format that allows software written in any language to run without customizations on any platform, inside sandboxes or runtimes – that is virtual machines – at near native speed. Since those runtimes are isolated from their host environment, a WebAssembly System Interface (WASI) […]

Learn how to use Ansible to manage and configure Podman containers.

SUSE (Software and System Entwicklung (Germany) meaning Software and System Development, in English) Linux lies on top of Linux Kernel brought by Novell. SUSE comes in two pack. One of them is called OpenSUSE, which is freely available (free as in speech as well as free as in wine). It is a community driven project packed with latest application support, the latest stable release of OpenSUSE Linux is 13.2.

Pyzo is a free, open-source, and cross-platform Python IDE that is focused on introspection and interactivity, that is why it is well suited for scientific computing. Its feasible design is aimed at simplicity and efficiency, consisting of two components: shell and editor.

In this tutorial, we will discuss what is Yarn, how to install Yarn package manager in Linux and finally we will take a look at the basic usage of Yarn.

Canonical published today the very first Linux kernel security update for its latest Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo) operating system release to address three security vulnerabilities and a bug.

Sensu is a free, open-source, and cross-platform monitoring tool used for monitoring system health and performance stats. The latest version of Sensu also known as a Sensu Go. It is designed for traditional servers, containers, applications, the cloud, and more. In this post, we will show you how to install Sensu Go on an Ubuntu 20.04 VPS.

This brief guide explains what is Linux Kernel module, how to list the currently loaded Kernel modules using lsmod, and how to display Linux Kernel module information with modinfo command in Linux.

This is the second in a series of articles about features that first appeared in a version of Python 3.x. Python 3.1 was first released in 2009, and even though it has been out for a long time, many of the features it introduced are underused and pretty cool. Here are three of them.

Linux containers have greatly simplified software distribution. The ability to package an application with everything it needs to run has helped increase stability and reproducibility of environments.