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A point-by-point rebuttal to the latest revision of Bryan Lunduke's anti-GNU/Linux talks, which he repeats every time he runs out of material and craves traffic

Linux filesystems are complicated things to understand, especially when you get down into the weeds of data and metadata. Inodes are behind the scenes working hard...... Let's take a look at what precisely an inode is and what it does for us. What's so important about inodes that I need to keep an eye on them? Find out in this introductory article.

Open-source browser Brave, which has become famous for its focus on user privacy, has been caught adding referral codes to typed-in URLs in the address bar.

The latest KDE Plasma 5.19 desktop environment is available now for download and there's a bunch of updates to experience. Have a look.

Htop is an enhanced version of top command. It displays all processes running on the system by PID plus uptime, load average, memory utilization, and other important statistics. It shows the information in a well-organized manner, which allows the users to find the system matrics easily.

I do shell work on files in various directories scattered around my file system. After googling around for solutions, I decided it would be easier to build my own bookmarker, one that was portable between computers and terminal programs. The result is described below, and I'm again very grateful to BASH wizard Chris Dunlop of onthe.net.au for his advice on how to improve the code.

Adlink unveiled a “ROScube-I” robot controller that runs Ubuntu and Adlink’s ROS 2 based Neuron SDK on 8th or 9th Gen Coffee Lake CPUs. There is also an 8th Gen based ROScube-I Starter Kit SBC. Adlink and Intel have collaborated to launch a ROScube-I robotics computer and other Intel-based robotics products that that run Ubuntu […]

PHP is one of the most used server-side programming languages. Many popular CMS and frameworks such as WordPress, Magento, and Laravel are written in PHP. This guide covers the steps necessary to install PHP on Ubuntu 20.04 and integrate it with Nginx and Apache.

In this tutorial, we will show you step-by-step how to install and configure Matrix Synapse on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Matrix is a new ecosystem for decentralized communication in real time for open federated instant messaging and VoIP services.

The uptime command shows you information pertaining to the time your system has been running. This simple, yet useful, command is often taken for granted. Let's take a look at the uptime command, it's options, and explain it's output.

'PHP is not very exciting and there is not much to it' = the secret of success? Feature On 8th June 1995 programmer Rasmus Lerdorf announced the birth of "Personal Home Page Tools (PHP Tools)".…

The Nvidia CUDA toolkit is an extension of the GPU parallel computing platform and programming model. The Nvidia CUDA installation consists of inclusion of the official Nvidia CUDA repository followed by the installation of relevant meta package and configuring path the the executable CUDA binaries.

EndeavourOS is a very user-friendly Arch-based Linux distro. This review will cover the installation, customization, and features of the distro.

Pop!_OS is an Ubuntu spinoff that is optimized for an efficient and fluid workflow. Check out our Pop!_OS review to learn about its best features.

Here we will highlight and clarifying the differences between RHEL, CentOS, and Fedora, and why one may or may not be the best choice for your use case.

Kooboo is a flexible, extensible and cross-platform content management system (CMS) based on ASP.NET MVC. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install Kooboo CMS on Ubuntu 20.04 server.

Exor and Arrow announced a “GigaSOM GS01” module and 10GbE equipped dev kit that runs RT Linux on an Apollo Lake along with a Cyclone 10 GX FPGA. The products offer TSN, fieldbus protocol, and Corvina Cloud support. Italian embedded hardware firm Exor Embedded is collaborating with Arrow to launch a GigaSOM GS01 module and […]

Rosegarden 20.06 has been released as new update to this powerful, free and open-source MIDI and audio sequencer, musical notation editor, and musical composition and editing tool for Linux systems.

Often when writing Bash scripts, you will need to terminate the script when a certain condition is met or to take action based on the exit code of a command. In this article, we will cover the Bash exit built-in command and the exit statuses of the executed commands.

In this week’s edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at the latest Firefox release, a new CMS, huge leaps in open source audio engineering, and more.