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Statistically, over 10% of users forget or lose their passwords or private keys for encrypted data. This is not a big problem if there is a password or private key recovery option, but it becomes a disaster when there is no way to recover the lost or forgotten password or private key. According to cryptocurrency data firm Chainalysis, over three million bitcoins are considered lost due to forgotten passwords.

Quick question: How much space do you have left on your drives? A little or a lot? Follow up question: Do you know how to find out? If you happen to use a GUI desktop (e.g., GNOME, KDE, Mate, Pantheon, etc.), the task is probably pretty simple. But what if you’re looking at a headless server, with no GUI? Do you need to install tools for the task? The answer is a resounding no. All the necessary bits are already in place to help you find out exactly how much space remains on your drives. In fact, you have two very easy-to-use options at the ready.

In this article, we explain what is KDE Connect, its main features, basic usage guide and installation steps.

Most preinstalled Linux image viewers don't natively support WebP images. But that doesn't mean you can't open one on Linux.

For governments and large organizations, open source continued to be a critical component for policy decisions and sustainability goals in 2021. The United Nations is one such organization that is relying on open source to reach its goals across a wide spectrum of issues including climate change. While it is crucial for world leaders to make big decisions to save the planet, many average citizens are also eager to contribute to the cause.

The KDE Project release today KDE Frameworks 5.90 as a monthly update for January 2022 of this open-source collection of over 80 add-on libraries to Qt providing a wide range of commonly needed functionality for various KDE apps and the Plasma desktop environment.

Learn how to check Linux memory usage using commands such as top, free and the /proc/meminfo file.

In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install or enable Cockpit on CentOS 8 Stream.

In this article, I will walk you through the steps needed to upgrade to Linux Mint 20.3 from 20.2. The upgrade process for all three Linux Mint editions i.e. Cinnamon, MATE, and Xfce is same.

Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is a managed Kubernetes service that is hosted on AWS. In this guide, we will leam how to create a Kubernetes cluster on AWS with EKS. You will learn how to create an administrative user for your Kubernetes cluster. You will also learn how to deploy an app to the cluster. Finally, you will test your cluster to ensure that everything is working properly.

In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install Git on CentOS 8 Stream in various methods.

When a Linux app becomes unresponsive and crashes, how can you kill it? Try one of these tricks to force quit a program in Linux.

The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 20.3 “Una”.

Even though the Software Freedom Conservancy as crossed one major fundraising hurdle, additional funding is still needed — so give what you can.

Learn what's happening in the world of containers and how to better manage this technology.

In this guide you are going to learn how to setup environment variables in Linux, list them and remove them.

openSUSE is somewhat underrated when it comes to the best Linux distros. But it has got some nifty little features that will fascinate you in no time.

If you stream with OBS with multiple cameras on Linux, you might notice that cameras are loaded as they are detected during boot. You probably don't give it much thought, normally, but if you have a permanent streaming setup with complex OBS templates, you need to know which camera in the physical world is going to show up in which screen in the virtual one. In other words, you don't want to assign one device as Camera A today only to have it end up as Camera B tomorrow.

The newest and quite possibly shiniest Ubuntu remix has kicked a new version out the door. Yes, yet another new desktop, but it's a sign of bigger things to come.

Enable Sysadmin wrapped up 2021 with a strong December. During the month, we published 24 new articles and received more than 691,000 reads from more than 470,000 readers across the site. For the full year, we achieved nearly 95% more page views compared to 2020, which we hope means that we're providing more sysadmins the information they need to do their jobs well.