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It isn't common to hear about virtual assistants for Linux. Here, we'll take a look at two virtual assistants that are available for Linux.

Linux Mint 20 has released. We take it on a ride to show you what it looks like and the new feature it brings.

I have a confession to make: I have been a Mac user for more than 10 years now. At first, I felt a little shame, given my strong Linux background, but the Mac gives me a Unix-like shell and a great window manager. Because of that history, I have a mix of features that will run on macOS but feel familiar to Linux users. There's no reason it can't port over to Linux (and it has!). read more

It's easy to detect when a shell script starts, but it's not always easy to know when it stops. A script might end normally, just as its author intends it to end, but it could also fail due to an unexpected fatal error. Sometimes it's beneficial to preserve the remnants of whatever was in progress when a script failed, and other times it's inconvenient. Either way, detecting the end of a script and reacting to it in some pre-calculated manner is why the Bash trap directive exists. read more

Here you go, it’s both a bit of a tutorial on how to use Xfce’s panel applets, as well as something of an in-depth look at five of our writer’s favorites.

1995’s finest operating system in 2020—plus, our $140 EVOO laptop rides again.

In this article, we will explain how to specify a time limit for the sudo session. Please note that the commands and processes discussed in this article have been tested on the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa).

Are your voice chat friends getting bothered by your fancy new loud mechanical keyboard? Or perhaps you're doing an audio recording and need everything in the background to shutup - enter Cadmus.

A Kubernetes deployment is a resource object in Kubernetes that provides declarative updates to applications. In this article, we will learn to create a deployment in Kubernetes and perform operations on it.

GnuCash 4.0 has been released as a major new version for this powerful, free and multi-platform accounting software for managing your finances, investments and accounts.

A large part of this “loss of integrity” is simply a lack of desire to resist competition, or even recognize the nature of the threat.

Want to learn shell scripting or improve your existing bash knowledge? I have collected a few resources that will help you learn shell scripting for free.

In this week’s edition of our open source news roundup, GNU Health expands to Raspberry Pis, how Megadeth's guitarist uses open source principles, and more open source news.

A quick look into the process of deploying a new service in Linux, and what you need to know to do it right.

Linux Mint team announced that the latest version of its operating system Linux Mint 20 “Ulyana”, and it is available for download and upgrades.

Have you ever visited a website and wanted to see the images displayed larger? That happens to me all the time, and it isn't always easy to make that happen. On occasion, I sift through the source code, use Ctrl + F to search for the image, copy the image source address and paste it into a new window in order to see the image at its full-size glory. Or, the other option is to right-click, copy the image address, and paste into a new tab. read more

On DL179, we talk about why Linux Gaming should matter to everyone & why Red Hat should give more attention to the Linux Desktop. We also answer questions from an Ask Us Anything from the DLN Forum.

The first laptop with Canonical's latest long-support version of Ubuntu is Dell's Linux specific XPS 13 Developer Edition.

CHUWI has launched a 61 x 61 x 43mm “LarkBox” mini-PC on Indiegogo that runs Linux or Win 10 on Intel’s Gemini Lake with prices starting at $155 with 6GB LPDDR4, 128GB eMMC, an M.2 for an SSD, WiFi/BT, 2x USB 3.0, and a 4K-ready HDMI 2.0 port. Shenzhen, China based CHUWI has blown past […]

I enjoyed using my terminal's green-on-black color scheme for many years. It is reminiscent of the DEC VT100/220 terminals that I used in college. I began to get bored with it earlier this year when I bought a tenkeyless keyboard from Hyper-X. The keyboard is black, and the keys are backlit in red, so I changed my terminal's colors to match. I think it looks really cool at night.