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Here's this week's roundup series, curated for you from the Linux and open-source world on application updates, new releases, distribution updates, major news, and upcoming highlights. Have a look.

The KDE team announced the first 2021 update today (Jan 9) with many new additions to the Plasma Desktop. And some of them are going to fundamentally change your Plasma desktop experience.

It happens many time to me. When I have to use windows for MS Office or Photoshop. Then suddenly, I get the need for a Linux system. In between work, I have to switch back to Linux. So, I set up my Linux machine on VMware, and during installation, I set it up with disk size 20GB. However, it would be required much more now. Today, I will guide you on how to increase defined disk size in VMware machine.

BIND also know as the “Berkeley Internet Name Domain” is one of the most popular Domain Name System (DNS) now a day. It an open-source and provides DNS services on Linux operating systems. Generally, it helps you to resolve a fully qualified domain name into an IP address or IP address to a domain name. It can be used as an authoritative name server and provides several features like load balancing, dynamic update, split DNS, etc.

The KDE Project announced today the release of the KDE Frameworks 5.78 open source software suite for the KDE Plasma desktop environment, a monthly update brining numerous improvements, new features, and bug fixes.

As you are performing your sysadmin tasks, some users may try to connect to your server in order to perform their daily tasks.

However, in some cases, you may find that something has changed on your server. As a consequence, you are wondering who performed the change.

Luckily for you, there are many ways to find who last logged in on your server.

The Linux Mint project just opened today the upgrade path from Linux Mint 20 "Ulyana" to their newest release Linux Mint 20.1 "Ulyssa."

Here are the 6 best office suites for Linux in 2020 that you can use now (for free).

The upcoming KDE Plasma 5.21 desktop environment series will ship with numerous new features and improvements, including a brand new Kickoff applications menu. Here’s a first look at it!

Jack Wallen shows you how to quickly convert your CentOS 8 deployments to CentOS 8 Stream.

Like nearly everyone, 2020 was a bit rough on me, with many unexpected changes. That meant I missed every single event this year, even though all of them were virtual. As things settled down a bit over the holidays, I started looking around to find out what I missed. In case you're in the same position, I'll walk you through the virtual events that you should have seen in 2020. The good news is, since they were all virtual, you can still watch them. read more

AWS SNS is a Simple Notification Service. It can be used by Cloudwatch to send alert emails. In this article, we will create an SNS topic using Cloudformation and subscribe to an email endpoint.

This article provides an overview of Java development on Fedora Linux. It includes a demonstration using the game Shattered Pixel Dungeon.

KeePass is a free and open-source password manager. Check out how to install and use KeePass on Ubuntu.

When I’m not at work on my Linux desktop, you can usually find me writing code for a legacy 16-bit system. FreeDOS is an open source DOS-compatible operating system that you can use to play classic DOS games, run legacy business software, or develop embedded systems. Any program that works on MS-DOS should also run on FreeDOS.

SAR also know as a "System Activity Report" is a system resource monitoring tool for Linux operating systems. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and use SAR to monitor system performance.

Suppose you are sending a message to your friend and want the message to be encrypted. You tell him that you will send him some numbers and these numbers will be the index numbers of English alphabets. He will have to match the numbers against the index numbers and decrypt the hidden message. Suppose you want to write come home.

Podman exists to offer a daemonless container engine for managing OCI-compliant containers on your Linux system. Users love it for its ease of adoption as an alternative to Docker. However, many users and the broader container community have been telling us that one missing feature is a "deal-breaker" for them. Up to now, support for Docker Compose, the command-line utility that orchestrates multiple Docker containers for local development, was missing. With Podman 3.0 now in development upstream, we have begun to support Compose. Here's how it works as a rootful/privileged user.

When people learn that I work as an open source evangelist (focusing on syslog-ng and sudo), they often ask me what it's like to represent such well-known names in the Linux world. My short answer: It's good! I am part of research and development, so it is never boring. I feel that I make an impact when people implement what they learn from me and when the feedback I collect from users influences the development of the product.

The tKINO-UL6 is the second thin Mini-ITX board we have seen based on Intel’s 10nm fabricated 11th Gen Tiger Lake processors, following ASRock’s IMB-1224. It is also the second Tiger Lake SBC with a USB 4 port after Aaeon’s community-backed UP Xtreme i11. IEI’s more industrial focused board offers -20 to 60°C support and a 9-36V DC input.