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Elementary OS Hera 5.1 has been out for a while now. Here we'll explore what's new, what to expect, and how it stacks up against rival desktops.

A new update to the IPFire Linux firewall distribution has been released today with some important under-the-hood changes, especially regarding the future of 32-bit support.

GNOME is one of the most popular Linux desktops today. It started as a humble desktop called the GNU Network Object Model Environment (GNOME) and was built on top of the GIMP GTK libraries. Its 1.0 release was announced in 1999, just two years after the project got started.

LaTex typesetting series part 2, topic : tables.

Dirk Hohndel and Linus Torvalds talked about Linux developers, hardware, and coding in their latest, and first virtual Linux conversation.

Podman is a tool for running containers on your Linux system. Take a little look at what's coming in Podman version 2.0.

The Firefox 78 web browser is now available for download ahead of tomorrow’s official announcement, a release that introduces new minimal system requirements for Linux and the ESR badge.

SDKMAN is a CLI tool used to manage multiple software development kits in Linux. SDKMAN provides an easy way to install, switch, list and remove candidates.

curl is a command-line utility for transferring data from or to a remote server. With curl, you can download or upload data using one of the supported protocols, including HTTP, HTTPS, SCP, SFTP, and http://FTP.

In part 1 and part 2 of this series on the Mycroft open source voice assistant, I laid the groundwork for learning how to create a skill. In part 3, I walked through creating an outline for a skill and recommended creating the skill in pure Python first to ensure the methods work as intended. read more

The Apache Software Foundation updates a number of its open source cloud projects, including Apache Libcloud, Traffic Control and CloudStack, with new functionalities

It isn't common to hear about virtual assistants for Linux. Here, we'll take a look at two virtual assistants that are available for Linux.

Linux Mint 20 has released. We take it on a ride to show you what it looks like and the new feature it brings.

I have a confession to make: I have been a Mac user for more than 10 years now. At first, I felt a little shame, given my strong Linux background, but the Mac gives me a Unix-like shell and a great window manager. Because of that history, I have a mix of features that will run on macOS but feel familiar to Linux users. There's no reason it can't port over to Linux (and it has!). read more

It's easy to detect when a shell script starts, but it's not always easy to know when it stops. A script might end normally, just as its author intends it to end, but it could also fail due to an unexpected fatal error. Sometimes it's beneficial to preserve the remnants of whatever was in progress when a script failed, and other times it's inconvenient. Either way, detecting the end of a script and reacting to it in some pre-calculated manner is why the Bash trap directive exists. read more

Here you go, it’s both a bit of a tutorial on how to use Xfce’s panel applets, as well as something of an in-depth look at five of our writer’s favorites.

1995’s finest operating system in 2020—plus, our $140 EVOO laptop rides again.

In this article, we will explain how to specify a time limit for the sudo session. Please note that the commands and processes discussed in this article have been tested on the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa).

Are your voice chat friends getting bothered by your fancy new loud mechanical keyboard? Or perhaps you're doing an audio recording and need everything in the background to shutup - enter Cadmus.

A Kubernetes deployment is a resource object in Kubernetes that provides declarative updates to applications. In this article, we will learn to create a deployment in Kubernetes and perform operations on it.