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Unity is back! An unofficial Ubuntu flavor featuring the good old Unity 7 desktop environment saw its first stable release as Ubuntu Unity Remix 20.04.

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Softpedia’s GNU/Linux writers were ousted, only to be replaced by Microsoft boosters who now use the site’s most popular GNU/Linux section to spread Microsoft lies and FUD (as happened in other sites before Softpedia)

Swap is a space on a disk that is used when the amount of physical RAM memory is full. When a Linux system runs out of RAM, inactive pages are moved from the RAM to the swap space. This tutorial explains how to add a swap file on Ubuntu 20.04 systems.

Offensive Security announced today the general availability of Kali Linux 2020.2 as the second point release to the Kali Linux 2020 series featuring more improvements and updates.

Synopsys has found that 99% of commercial software programs include at least one open-source component. But 91% of those included out of date or abandoned open-source code.

If you're working with a GUI text editor and want to move a particular line from one place to another, you might use cut and paste. If you're working with a text file on the command line (not in an editor like emacs or vim) and don't want to use a clipboard, line-moving can be done with a single command.

Free-as-in-speech software is wildly popular – keeping libraries, components up to date is not. Ninety-one per cent of commercial applications include outdated or abandoned open source components, underscoring the potential vulnerability of organizations using untended code, according to a software review.…

Regular readers will know that the addition of Huawei and scores of its subsidiaries to the U.S. Bureau of Industry and Security Entity List last May has had a serious impact on standards setting organizations (SSOs). For a year now, the U.S. has refused to make it possible for US companies to collaborate with Huawei on 5G standards. That may finally change.

When you deal with a lot of documents every day, whatever you write—whitepapers, manuals, presentations, different marketing materials, contracts, etc.—at a certain point (most commonly, at the final stage) you have to interact with different people, specifying and discussing details, proofreading and approving them.

If you are following the tech news, you might have seen the announcement that ICANN withheld consent for the change of control of the Public Interest Registry and that this …

Keen to play old DOS games in your Linux computer? This guide covers how to install DOSBox for Linux and how to automatically mount your C: drive.

If you spend a lot of time on the command line, chances are that you’ll want to customize your shell environment. This can mean creating aliases, adding a new directory to the $PATH, or changing the look of the shell prompt. In this article, we will talk about the Bash startup files and the difference between the .bashrc and .bash_profile files.

Odoo, also known as OpenERP, is a free and open-source ERP platform. It’s one of the most popular ERP platforms available thanks to its customizability and flexibility. Written in the Python programming language, Odoo is used for many business applications, including sales pipeline, project management, CRM, invoicing, accounting, inventory, and much more. In this guide, we will show you how to install Odoo 12 with Nginx as a reverse proxy on a Debian 10 VPS.

Have you ever thought about how secure your Linux machine really is? There are numerous Linux distros, each with its own default settings, on which you run dozens of software packages with different version numbers, and numerous services running in the background, which we hardly know or care about. To find the security posture—the overall security status of the software, network, and services running on your Linux machine—you could run a few commands and get bits and pieces of relevant information, but the amount of data you need to parse is huge.

Stuck indoors like most of the rest of the world, a group of Opensource.com editors and correspondents—Seth Kenlon, Matt Broberg, Alan Formy-Duval, Jessica Cherry, and Chris Hermansen—decided to use their far-flung locations and variable-quality internet connections to try out several open source video-conferencing solutions.

We like finding non-Remond alternatives, but the free options make it tough for commercial operations. SoftMaker's Office 2021 – a cross-platform office suite that runs on Windows, Mac and Linux – has hit public beta.…

Bye-bye US, bonjour Brussels. The Eclipse Foundation today unveiled plans to make itself a little more European with a jump into Brussels.…

The upcoming Linux Mint 20 "Ulyana" operating system is still under heavy development, and it looks like the final release will be available as soon as next month.

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Ruby on Rails on the Debian Buster 10. This guide will cover the RVM (Ruby Version Manager) installation, PostgreSQL database installation, and creating the simple CRUD application with Ruby on Rails and using PostgreSQL as the backend database.