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Installing Microsoft SQL Server 2019 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux using a single playbook

That's Chromium fixed. But the snap-only problem may reappear for other packages The Linux Mint team has arranged to provide its own Chromium package to users who were previously pointed towards Canonical's Snap Store if they wanted to get the popular browser.…

RPi Trading has launched a $70 to $100 “Raspberry Pi 400” all-in-one keyboard PC with a RPi 4-like mainboard (minus a USB 2.0 and MIPI DSI/CSI) and improved thermals that enable a faster 1.8GHz SoC. Last year the Raspberry Pi 4 SBC shipped in an optional, $120 Raspberry Pi 4 Desktop Kit configuration that supplies […]

As part of my role as a principal communication strategist at an enterprise software company with an open source development model, I publish a regular update about open source community, market, and industry trends. Here are some of my and their favorite articles from that update. read more

There are many applications available for extracting various types of archive files. Here is a simple Bash function to extract file archives of various types in Linux.

Some of the best technology is a moving target. When technology stagnates, society tends to outpace and outgrow it. Linux, the widely used open source operating system (OS), is a foundational technology and the basis for some of the most progressive modern computing ideas. So, while it's startlingly unchanged after three decades of development, it also allows adaptation. read more

Ventoy is a versatile utility that creates a bootable USB drive for ISO (and other) files. A USB drive is formatted, and you install Ventoy once. Then you can copy ISO files to the USB drive and boot from it.

Gamescope from Valve developer Pierre-Loup A. Griffais is described as a micro-compositor that can spoof a virtual screen with a desired resolution and refresh rate and control/resize the output as needed. Here's a few early scaling tests taken.

It's challenging to understand your Python project as it gets larger and more complex. Even when you write the entire project, it's impossible to know how it works fully. Debugging and profiling your code is essential to better understanding it. read more

The fifth installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here, for the week ending November 1st to keep you guys up to date with the most important things that have happened lately in the Linux world.

This chapter of Linux Jargon Buster explains common terms like GUI (Graphical User Interface), CLI (Command Line Interface) and TUI (Terminal User Interface).

Believe it or not, the Linux 5.8 kernel series has reached end of life today with the 5.8.18 point release announced earlier by renowned kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman.

The Linux Mint team announces that they are now including Chromium in the Mint repo. And also a new IPTV Player in user demands.

Here are 4 packages from COPR. Check out some of what is available outside of the official Fedora packages.

A quite lot happened actually this week with some big released and a handful of application updates. Some major news as well. Here's the recap of this week from the Linux Universe.

The Arch Linux installation image has been refreshed today and it’s the first to be powered by the latest Linux kernel 5.9 series and also offer new accessibility features.

Let the yearly wrap-ups begin!

Linux Mint’s Clement Lefebvre announced today that Linux Mint and LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) users can now finally install the latest Chromium web browser from the official software repositories.

In this screencast I show how to build and run a multi-service podman container from the base Fedora 33 image... all as a regular user aka a rootless container.

Yes, it’s that time of the year again when we can check out the many new features and enhancements of the next major Plasma desktop environment, in this case KDE Plasma 5.21, due for release in early 2021.