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As a response to the recent changes in CentOS strategy, CloudLinux announced a 1:1 binary compatible, community-driven fork of RHEL called Project Lenix. Can you tell us more about the motivation behind this project?

Quite a few applications were updated recently, and this article covers the changes in these new releases.

Symbolic links (or Symlinks) are files that act as shortcuts or references to another file or directory. Although different, roughly speaking, we can think of symbolic links as being similar to software shortcuts on the desktop: by clicking on them, we run a program that is stored elsewhere on the computer and, sometimes, even on another machine. But everything works so transparently that it looks like we’re clicking on the original executable.

Love KDE? Here are the top 10 KDE Plasma tips for you to make you more productive in this awesome desktop environment.

With a background in open source, open standards, and security, Recordon may be ideal for President Joe Biden's White House.

Unlike HTTP that has no security measures to protect the data flowing from the client to the server, HTTPS has it covered. So HTTPS uses this thing called public-key cryptography and doesn’t worry as it is not from another planet. Public key cryptography is a fairly simple concept. We have 2 mathematically related yet distinct and unique keys that are generated, one of them is the private key(to decrypt data) and the other one is a public key(to encrypt data). The private key, as it sounds, is private and only available to the owner of the website, and the public key, on the other hand, is available to anyone who wishes to access the website.

Huawei and Intel seem to be leading the code contribution ranking for Linux Kernel 5.10 development. Here's more about that.

This brief guide explains how to create home directory for existing user in Linux and Unix-like operating systems using mkhomedir_helper command.

In 2020, I decided that I wanted to add some light gaming to my repertoire. I bought the most popular Logitech game controller on Amazon (the Logitech Gamepad F310), and I assumed that since it was so popular, it would work in CentOS 8 with no problems. When the gamepad arrived, I fired up Extreme Tux Racer, but the gamepad wasn’t recognized. In this article, I will describe why this lack of Logitech F310 gamepad support in CentOS 8 motivated me to switch from CentOS 8 to Pop!_OS 20.10.

Taking the labor out of labor-intensive tasks is what Ansible is all about. Learn the basics here.

2DayGeek: This quick article shows you how to convert media formats in Linux.

The KDE Project announced today the general availability of KDE Plasma 5.20.5 as the last maintenance update to the KDE Plasma 5.20 desktop environment series.

Sharing files between computers set-up across floors, cities, or states is difficult, with an increase in distance and traffic disrupting the flow. To address these concerns we can use FLEXIHUB. It's a software application, which enables us to use USB over the network without any limitations.

Sysadmins don't always follow a traditional career path, which is what makes these five stories inspiring in their own ways.

Torvalds, Linux's creator, finds AMD's processors deliver a much bigger bang for the buck than Intel's CPUs.

We’re going to be discussing the best Linux distros for Mac users.

Linux authentication is primarily handled with passwords and public keys. Find out how the passwd command fits into the user management process.

Learn how to update Kali Linux to the latest version, and correctly configure Kali Linux repos

Puppy Linux 7.0 “Slacko64” distribution is now available for download built using binary TXZ packages from the Slackware 14.2 operating system and compatible with Slackware and Salix repositories.

The ExTiX team announced the release of the latest version of the desktop – ExTiX 21.1 based on the latest Deepin desktop 20.1 which released a while ago.