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Have you ever wondered why sudo or root permission is required to mount an external drive or partition as a normal user from Terminal, but not from the file manager in Linux? Here is the answer!

We'll just let muted videos autoplay on Chrome for Android because publishers can't be stopped. Google's rules for when its Chrome browser allows and blocks the automatic playback of web audio and video have come under fire following a company developer's decision not to address objections to the removal of autoplay blocking controls from Chrome for Android.…

The Zorin OS project announced today the release and general availability of Zorin OS 15.3, the third maintenance update in the Zorin OS 15 series, which has been downloaded more than 1.7 million times since its launch in June 2019.

In this week’s edition of our open source news roundup, Gitpod open sources its IDE platform, BraveDNS launches an all-in-one platform, and more open source news.

This brief tutorial describes how to auto logout inactive users after a particular period of time in Linux and Unix-like operating systems.

Go take the dog for a walk... or crack a book, maybe. Browser maker Vivaldi has made the bold claim that its latest release will allow users to "pause the internet."…

As the movement to migrate enterprise data to the cloud gathers steam, there is an active debate on the best approach to securing and protecting it. But before we talk about the details of the various access control frameworks, let us first understand the breadth of challenges a company faces when it begins migrating its data to the cloud. First and foremost is the wide array of storage and analysis or compute services offered by cloud and third-party providers.

Does running my computer 24/7 wear it out? There's an argument that it actually extends the life of the machine and saves energy in the long run.

Matthias Clasen on behalf of the GNOME Release Team announced today via an email announcement the general availability of the GNOME 3.36.6 point release in the latest GNOME 3.36 desktop environment series.

Enterprise edition offers admins more ways to blend work and play. Google has loosed Android 11 on a waiting world.…

As a handy sysadmin tool, sort makes it easy to rearrange text data in various ways without changing the original files.

The digiKam team released today the digiKam 7.1.0 update to its free and open-source professional photo management and workflow software.

Want ready-to-run programs using OpenShift Kubernetes? Red Hat and IBM have a selection of programs ready for you in the new Red Hat Marketplace.

Ardour 6.3 open-source digital audio workstation (DAW) has been released as the second maintenance update since the release of the major Ardour 6.0 series with various improvements and some new features.

OpenSSH is widely used, but there isn't a well-known connection manager, so I developed the ncurses SSH connection manager (nccm) to fill that significant gap in the process. nccm is a simple SSH connection manager with an ultra-portable terminal interface (written in ncurses, as the project name suggests). And best of all, it's straightforward to use. With nccm, you can connect to an SSH session of your choice with minimum distraction and minimal keystrokes. read more

Google Cloud SDK is used to manage the google cloud platform using the CLI, command-line interface of your system’s terminal. Google Cloud SDK is basically a collection of tools/commands like bq, gcloud, gsutil, etc for the management of our cloud resources. It supports Linux, Mac & Windows as well.

Presenting a sed command that highlights plain whitespaces and marks each one with a dot for easy counting, plus a re-examination of an AWK shorthand showing that "non-empty" is different from "non-empty and non-zero".

Raspberry Pi can work with different operating systems. Let's take a look at how you can install Arch Linux on Raspberry Pi.

There are many options when it comes to creating slides for a presentation. There are straightforward ways, and generating slides directly from Jupyter is not one of them. But I was never one to do things the easy way. I also have high expectations that no other slide-generation software quite meets. Why transition from slides to Jupyter? I want four features in my presentation software: read more

The AWOW AK41 Mini PC offers triple monitor support. It should have sufficient CPU and GPU resources to act as a functional remote desktop, particularly when connecting to servers that have better system resources. How does it fare with TeamViewer?