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Punctuation is sometimes used as a kind of data compression tool. This post details the expansion of a particularly condensed data structure into a simple table using command line tools.

It feels like an array is useless in the beginning when you start learning about it but once you have understood the concept of the array in C#, you realize it is very useful. Imagine you need to save the names of a hundred employees. One name required one variable to be saved. You will need a hundred variables to save a hundred names.

Check out Podman's new RESTful API using Python and Bash.

Darling is a translation layer that allows us to run macOS applications on Linux. It emulates a complete Darwin environment in Linux.

It started as a great, open-source Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud, but today Nextcloud is becoming an all-in-one office productivity suite.

Linux distributions have come a long way since its inception. There was a time when it used to be difficult for new users to perform simple tasks such as installing an application on Linux. The desktop environments are much easier to understand than before.

Last week, a Red Hat-sponsored community project, Fedora, announced the availability of Fedora 33 Beta. It is a prerelease version of the upcoming Fedora 33 Linux distribution, whose final stable version will arrive in the last week of October. Fedora 33 is one of the exciting releases as it contains the fundamental shift of the default filesystem from ext4 to btrfs for all Fedora desktop editions and spins, along with other new features and visual changes.

Nvidia unveiled a $59 “Nano 2GB Developer Kit” for makers and students with a Jetson Nano limited to 2GB RAM. The kit lacks the M.2, PoE, and DP of the $99 kit and has fewer USB ports. In March of last year, Nvidia reached out to the maker community by launching a hacker-friendly, $99 dev […]

fd is a utility that searches for files in a directory hierarchy. It offers a number of notable improvements to the venerable find. fd is written in Rust.

Rescue mode in the Linux operating system is used in situations where your system is e.g. damaged due to malware or you have forgotten your password, which prevents you from accessing your system. This mode allows you to troubleshoot and fix these problems so that you can usually boot in standard mode afterwards.

Apache ZooKeeper is a high-performance service used to build distributed applications. It is used by a cluster to maintain shared data with robust synchronization techniques.

If you've ever shared a neat computer trick, a complex application, or something in between with a friend, then you've probably uttered the phrase, "Well, it works on my computer." No matter how advanced computers become, there seem to be recurrent problems related to the differences in what any two machines have configured or installed. There are ongoing attempts to solve this, and for Python developers, one of the best ways to prevent it is to use virtual environments.

Interrupts are an essential part of how modern CPUs work. For example, every time you press a key on the keyboard, the CPU is interrupted so that the PC can read user input from the keyboard. This happens so quickly that you don't notice any change or impairment in user experience.

As you have seen in a previous article, Btrfs snapshots are a convenient and fast way to make backups. Please note that these articles do not suggest that you avoid backup software or well-tested backup plans. Their goals are to show a great feature of this file system, snapshots, and to inspire curiosity and invite […]

An interesting text editor that supports R markdown. With codes in R, you can add string interpolation, graphs and other mathematical expressions to your text document.

The HP Linux Imaging and Printing (HPLIP) drivers have been updated to version 3.20.9, a release that adds support for some of the latest GNU/Linux distributions and several new HP printers.

We’ll show you how you can divide a large PDF file (say 500 pages) into much smaller PDF files (E.g 100 PDF files where each one of them is 5 pages long).

Manjaro is one of the cleanest Linux distributions available. If you are using Manjaro for web development, you can easily install LAMP on Manjaro Linux. All the required packages are already available in the default repositories.

Back in early 2014, we carried a feature looking at 5 Integrated Development Environments that were a tempting prospect. The five IDEs are Brackets, Light Table, Julia Studio, Dart Editor, and Aptana Studio.

At the request of many readers, I’m launching the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup to keep you up to date with all that’s happening in the Linux world, including latest Linux apps, drivers, kernels, and news I didn’t cover.