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Most people should be able to install FreeDOS 1.3 RC4 very easily using the installer. The FreeDOS installer asks a few questions, then takes care of the rest—including making space for FreeDOS and making the system bootable. read more

PDF Mix Tool, a Qt application used to manipulate PDF files, has reached version 1.0 stable (followed quickly by version 1.0.1). The new version includes an overhauled user interface, support for editing PDF metadata, Qt6 support, and more.

Steam Locomotive is a fun utility for Linux-based systems to alert users to a very common mistake they make when typing the “ls” command. Let’s now see how we can install this utility on an Ubuntu 20.04 system.

Glances is a real-time system monitoring tool written in Python language. It monitors system resources, including CPU, Memory, Load, Disk I/O, Processes, File System space, Network interface, and more.

The helloSystem team brings another promising release with its latest version 0.5.0. And gives hope to users as a free alternative to macOS.

It's been a busy 18 months in the world of Zink (OpenGL-On-Vulkan) since the last update. Here's a review of where things stand, including upstream development, OpenGL 4.6 & GLES 3.1 support & more.

Lengthy support for enterprises that prefer things just so Ubuntu Pro is coming to Google Cloud, replete with an all-important 10-year maintenance commitment for corporate punters who like things stable.…

Squid is a robust proxy server that supports caching for protocols like HTTP, HTTPS, and http://FTP. It has the ability to speed up web requests by caching frequently accessed websites, and serving that cache to requesting clients. This is a great way for networks to reduce bandwidth consumption and provide snappier response times for web browsing.

The KDE Project released KDE Frameworks 5.83 as the latest and greatest version of their open-source collection of more than 80 add-on libraries for Qt to provide commonly needed functionality for KDE apps and core components.

In May, we asked some of our contributors what they eat for breakfast. After all, busy developers, sysadmins, and other IT pros need to fuel up quickly before they are ready to take on the rigors of their jobs. After reading about our contributors' morning meals, many Opensource.com readers were quick to share what they eat to start the day. So if the first 16 quick breakfasts didn't feed your hunger, here are 10 more options.

The thirty-seventh installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on June 13th, keeping you guys up to date with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

Tuning remote connection of PyQT5 to Mariadb-Server as well as to MySQL seemed to me the most time consuming part of this small project. Obviously, the options for Mariadb and MySQL are mutually exclusive. Tuning network configs on bare metal described in details utilizing `netstat -ant | grep 3306` output required to get connection ready

Linux is an operating system that supports multiple users working on the same system. Thus, it is essential to manage the permissions such as who can see or modify the files and folders for every one of them. In this tutorial, you will learn different ways to change the file and folder permissions for any users or groups on Linux.

This guide explains how to change KVM libvirt default storage pool location using Virsh program, Virt-manager and Cockpit in Linux.

Many people consider tuning database queries to be some mysterious "dark art" out of a Harry Potter novel; with the wrong incantation, your data turns from a valuable resource into a pile of mush.

The Apache web server has the ability to serve multiple websites from the same IP address, using virtual hosts. Each Virtual Host can be configured in the main server configuration file, or, thanks to the Include or the IncludeOptional directives, in its own dedicated one. When the number of virtual hosts increases, their management starts to become troublesome. If their configuration is quite similar, we can manage them dynamically, thanks to the mod_vhost_alias module. In this tutorial we will see how to do it.

Kube-monkey offers an easy way to stress-test your systems by scheduling random termination pods in your cluster.

This guide will help you understand some of rsync’s most popular and powerful features. In the following examples, you’ll see 10 of the most useful rsync commands that every Linux user ought to know.

In a previous post, I wrote about a new set of technologies “Privacy Preserving Advertising”, which are intended to allow for advertising without compromising privacy. This post discusses one of those proposals–Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC)–which Chrome is currently testing. The idea behind FLoC is to make it possible to target ads based on the […]

Users of the Kubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo) operating system can now update their installations to the latest and greatest KDE Plasma 5.22 desktop environment.