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In our previous articles we examined the various components that make up a mini PC. We finish the series by looking at some other factors that may be important to your purchase decision.

The thirty-fourth installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on May 23rd, keeping you guys up to date with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

Whether I'm using a laptop my employer assigned to me or a workstation I built from vendor parts, I seem to have an endless capacity to forget my computer's specifications. One of the great things about Linux is its /proc filesystem, a dynamically populated virtual expression of the system's hardware. It's convenient when you want to see the specifics of your CPU (cat /proc/cpuinfo), uptime (cat /proc/uptime), a list of mounted filesystems (ls -R /proc/fs/), and so on.

As we all know, the root user is king and wields unlimited privileges over the Linux system. However non-root users are limited to basic tasks. In addition, sudo users are only granted a certain degree of root privileges as deemed fit by the root user to perform specific elevated tasks.

The KDE Team shared the KDE Plasma 5.22 default wallpaper with us. Have a look.

Setting up the wireless interface on Ubuntu Linux is likely one of the first things you'll need to do after installing the operating system and booting into it for the first time. As long as you have the proper hardware, Ubuntu can easily connect to Wi-Fi networks configured with various types of security like WEP, WPA, and WPA2.

Systemd-free antiX 19.4 is now available for fans of this ultra-lightweight GNU/Linux distribution using the dIceWM window manager and based on Debian GNU/Linux.

SpiderFoot is a free and open-source information gathering tool used to automate the process to gather information from a given target, including domain name, hostname, IP address, subnetwork, threat intelligence lists, spam blacklists, and much more. It automatically crawls 100+ open-source data sources to get information from the target machine. In this post, we will show you how to install SpiderFoot on Debian 10 VPS.

Multimedia production distro AV Linux has a new release after about six months of silence to bring you an up-to-date installation medium with latest audio/video tools and other changes.

The open-source and cross-platform DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) software Ardour 6.7 has been released and it’s now available to download for all supported platforms, including Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Java was released in 1995, making it 26 years old as I'm writing this. It was proprietary at first, but in 2007, Java was released as open source under the GPL. To understand what makes Java important, you have to understand the problem it claims to solve. Then you can understand why and how it benefits developers and users.

The time has come to say goodbye to the Linux 5.11 kernel series as it now reached end of life and it will no longer receive maintenance updates.

Radxa has launched Rock Pi 4 Plus versions of its Model A and B SBCs that move to the 2GHz OP1 version of the RK3399. The Plus models also add eMMC without raising the price and pre-load the Armbian-based Twister OS. Radxa has upgraded its open-spec, community-backed Rock Pi 4A and 4B SBCs with eMMC […]

Want KRunner type search inside KDE Apps? KCommandBar Arrives!

Red Hat released today the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 update to its latest Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8 operating system series to bring stability improvements and other changes.

It's been 30 years since Linus Torvalds created Linux, way back in 1991, as a free alternative to Unix. In that time, it's grown from a niche project to a powerful, widely used operating system that sustains much of what's essential in modern computing—the cloud, the Internet of Things, supercomputers, the devices that kept students learning during a global pandemic, and much, much more.

My five favorite options for getting the most from the man command.

Qualcomm unveiled a “315 5G IoT Modem-RF” chipset designed for industrial IoT. The tiny chipset runs Linux on a 7nm Cortex-A7 core and offers global 5G NR sub-6GHz stand-alone support along with 4G LTE. Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. announced its first cellular modem chipset designed specifically for Internet of Things applications. The industrial-focused Qualcomm 315 5G […]

EQT, the Swedish-based private equity firm, spun SUSE Europe's leading Linux distributor out on the Frankfurt Exchange, but its price didn't budge much from its initial offering price.

WooCommerce is a free, open-source, and most popular eCommerce plugin to sell your product online. It is customizable and designed for small to large-sized online businesses. It makes it easier for creating and managing your online store with several features including, shipping integration, tax and inventory management, secure payment, etc. In this guide, we will show you how to install and deploy WooCommerce on the RoseHosting Cloud.