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In our work as dance and sound artists, we occasionally need to get out into the streets and perform with our interactive setup there. This is a record of the journey I took to set up Raspberry Pi 4 as a mobile machine for SuperCollider and MiniBee movement sensors.

Cockpit is an extensible web application to help you monitor and manage your Linux system. Learn how to manage your Linux system with Cockpit.

2DayGeek: This tutorial helps you to configure disk quota in Linux.

It's been a long time since I properly learned a new language—computer or human. Maybe 25 years. That language was Java, and although I've had to write little bits of C (very, very little) and JavaScript in the meantime, the only two languages I've written much actual code in have been Perl and Java. read more

What happened to the promise of live patching Linux kernels? This article looks at its history, its problems, and the cheapest and easiest ways to do it on Ubuntu Focal Fossa (20.04 LTS).

This brief tutorial describes how to directly SSH into a particular directory of a remote Linux system

Python 2 has reached its end of life, with the open source project no longer providing updates, but that doesn't mean the 2.x version of the programming language has disappeared — yet.

A few months ago, we got a requirement to provide a stable and reliable Domain Name System (DNS) server for a new project. The project dealt with auto-deployment using containers and where each new environment would generate a unique, random URL. After a lot of research on possible solutions, we decided to give PowerDNS (PDNS) a try.

The cURL linux command can use various network protocols to download and upload data on Linux. Normally, using the cURL command is pretty basic, but it has a ton of options and can grow more complicated very quickly. In this guide, we'll go over some of the more common uses for the cURL command and show you syntax examples so you can use it on your own system.

Like with all the first releases of Ubuntu, the first point release to iron out the issues and bugs which may be got missed during the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS release – and that makes the first point release is very important.

The workspaces, or Virtual Desktops, is a main feature of the Linux desktop. It has been around for a long time and is available for almost every Linux window manager. Gnome3 doesn't make it easy for you to manage your workspaces. Let's see how you can work with multiple workspaces in Gnome.

Cloud-init is a standard—it would not be a stretch to say it is the standard—that cloud providers use to provide initialization and configuration data to cloud instances. It is used most often on the first boot of a new instance to automate network setup, account creation, and SSH (secure shell) key installation—anything required to bring a new system online so that it is accessible by the user.

"But the benefits of Free software, free candy and new features are all meaningless, if the user isn't in control."

Hulu is only gaining in popularity, but it doesn't officially support Linux. Thankfully, it's actually very simple to watch Hulu on Linux with either Firefox or Google Chrome.

This guide explains how to save or write log files in RAM using Log2ram in Linux operating systems.

In this tutorial we will show you three different ways to install Ruby on Ubuntu 20.04.

After more than two years in the works, the Transmission 3.0 open-source and cross-platform BitTorrent client has been released as a major version with many new features and improvements. As you can expect, this is a massive update that brings new capabilities to Transmission, along with new features, bug fixes, and other enhancements to make your torrenting more pleasant.

We’ll take you today in a tour in Ubuntu MATE 20.04 to see together how more polished and stable it became, what newly-introduced features are there and whether you should consider it for using it as your daily driver.

The Free Software Foundation's (FSF) annual conference LibrePlanet went fully virtual in 2020 due to ongoing issues caused by the coronavirus pandemic. In our last week of preparations before the live event, increasingly disturbing news related to the virus made us realize we could not responsibly hold our usual conference on software freedom in person while protecting the safety of our participants and their communities.

The Xubuntu project announced that they have moved the development activities to GitHub from Launchpad.