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Linux continues to be an underappreciated OS. Despite its large presence in the tech industry and among tech enthusiasts, many ignore Linux in favor of more popular OS's, such as Windows and MacOS. Due to the public's apprehensiveness to adopt Linux, it continues to be a useful, yet niche OS in the tech industry. If you're new to Linux and are wondering what you need to get started, take a look at this list and try the apps out. Worst case scenario, you end up uninstalling a few of them.

Community? 'The software isn’t changing at all. This is a label on the name, nothing else'. The Document Foundation (TDF) has released LibreOffice 7.1 Community, while continuing to complain about free-loading enterprises who do not pay for support. The "community" label is an effort to steer them away, though it is not a cut-down version.…

The KDE Project announced today the general availability of the KDE Applications 20.12.2 open-source software suite as KDE’s Apps update for February 2021.

ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors is a free open-source office suite pack that comprises offline editors for text documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to install the latest version (v.6.1) of ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors on your Manjaro machine.

This brief guide explains how to increase Memory and CPU on Vagrant machine in Linux from commandline to improve the VM's performance.

Clight is a tool that uses your computer's webcam or ambient light sensors to get the ambient brightness, and then calculates and sets the screen backlight accordingly.

Red Hat and CentOS recently announced that CentOS 8 will be converted to CentOS Stream. In this tutorial, we will show you how to migrate from CentOS 8 to CentOS Stream.

Rudra Saraswat announced today the release and general availability of Ubuntu Unity Remix 20.04.2, the second point release in the Ubuntu Unity Remix 20.04 series of this unofficial Ubuntu flavor featuring the good old Unity desktop environment developed by Canonical.

Interested in keeping up with the Vulkan driver development on the Raspberry Pi 4? We have a new update for you and an upcoming event you might want to watch.

Here are some basic Nmap flags that you can use to generate a quick and useful network map for effective troubleshooting and managing network traffic.

Aaeon has launched a $91 “RICO-3288MINI” Pico-ITX SBC that runs Android or Debian on a Rockchip RK3288 with 2GB DDR3L, 16GB eMMC, 3x USB, GbE, and a 4K-ready HDMI port. Commercial embedded vendors like Aaeon have long sold SBCs at a premium over similar maker-oriented hacker boards aimed at individual buyers with arguments such as […]

Canonical released today the Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS point release to its long-term supported Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) operating system series with new kernel and graphics stacks.

Automated tests are part of many programming projects, ensuring the software is flawless. The bigger the project, the larger the test suite can be.This can result in automated tests taking a lot of time to run. In this article you will learn how to run automated tests faster with parallel Continuous Integration machines (CI) and what problems can be encountered. The article covers common parallel testing problems, based on Ruby & JavaScript tests.

Not a fan of the decade old Ubuntu installer? With Ubuntu 21.10, you should see a modern new installer built with Flutter.

Ever forgotten your MySQL root password or fixing a MySQL installation on a new server, we have all been there. In this guide you are going to learn how to reset or change or update MySQL root password in MySQL 8, MySQL 5.7 and MySQL 5.6.

AlmaLinux, the open-source enterprise-level Linux distribution created as an alternative to CentOS, has been released in beta with most Red Hat Enterprise Linux packages

Linux provides an amazing desktop experience by default. Although advanced users have the flexibility to choose their own window manager, the day-to-day flow of Gnome is better than ever since the GNOME 3.36 improvements. As a long-time Mac enthusiast turned Linux user, that's huge.

Total War: WARHAMMER III has just been formally announced by SEGA / Creative Assembly and the good news is that porter Feral Interactive have right away confirmed it's being supported on Linux.

Solus lead developer and maintainer Joshua Strobl announced today the release and general availability of Solus 4.2, a refreshed ISO image of one of the best rolling GNU/Linux distributions out there.

Two big bits of news from Canonical and Ubuntu to cover today and both about the future of the Linux distribution.