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As Linus Torvalds relieves the USA of his favorite Finnish Easter dessert Linus Torvalds’ has announced version 5.7rc1 of the Linux kernel, and a shout-out from the Linux kernel technical advisory board in case any maintainers have hit coronavirus-related complications.…

If you threw away your old computer, it’s time to power it back on. AntiX is a Linux distribution that can run on old computers without any problems. AntiX, based on Debian is a lightweight Linux distribution without systemd.

What is Folding@home? Folding@home is a distributed computing network for performing biomedical research. Its intent is to help further understand and develop cures for a range of diseases. Their current priority is understanding the behavior of COVID-19 and the virus that causes COVID-19. This article will show you how you can get involved by donating […]

Latency issues often plague NFS implementations, but now you have the tools to troubleshoot them.

FreeBSD-derived GhostBSD welcomes users directly into a full desktop experience.

When most people think about web development, HTML or JavaScript usually come to mind. They usually forget about the technology that has far more impact on the ability to enjoy a website: cascading style sheets (CSS). CSS is both one of the most important and the most often forgotten parts of any webpage, even though it's one of the three cornerstone technologies of the World Wide Web, according to Wikipedia.

So much sickness, so much data, so little time. To help make sense of coronavirus research Verizon Media has created Vespa, an open-source big data search engine.

The unlink command doesn't get as much attention as some of the other GNU Core Utilities. It has one simple function, to remove a file or symbolic link from a Linux file system. In this article we will discuss how to use the unlink command, and the differences between unlink and the rm command.

There are many ways to buy a Raspberry Pi, and depending on who you buy it from, it may or may not come with an operating system already installed on it. Getting an OS onto a Raspberry Pi is a matter of "flashing" an SD card with an OS image. To make this as easy as possible, the Raspberry Pi Foundation has introduced a Raspberry Pi Imager application, and you can download it for all major platforms. Here's a quick intro to this helpful new utility.

In this tutorial, we learn Linux cut command with some practical examples you can use to cut parts and sections from each line of a file and write the result to standard output.

Kodi has its own remote app for Android that makes controlling your media center incredibly simple. In order to use it, all you'll need to do is configure Kodi to allow the remote, and install the app on your Android device.

Python is now the most popular, most used programming language. Python's simple syntax and low learning curve make it the ultimate choice for beginners as well as professional developers. Python is also a very versatile programming language. It's used nearly everywhere—from web development to artificial intelligence—really anywhere other than mobile development.

Two weeks after the release of Linux kernel 5.6, Linus Torvalds has now kicked off the development cycle of the upcoming Linux 5.7 kernel series by releasing the first RC (Release Candidate) build.

The beta versions of Ubuntu 20.04 and its flavors came out last week. The stable version is scheduled to release on the 24th of this month. Another interesting news is that a new flavor of Ubuntu 20.04 is coming ahead with the beautiful desktop environment, Deepin.

This short tutorial explains how to easily convert videos WhatsApp video format with FFmpeg multimedia framework in Linux operating systems.

Wondering which desktop environment are you using on your Linux system? Here’s how to find our desktop environment and its version information.

We often talk about Linux being used on servers and by developers, but it is used in many other fields too, including astronomy. There are a lot of astronomy tools available for Linux, such as sky maps, star charts, and interfaces to telescope drive systems for controlling your telescope. But one challenge for astronomers is using a computer while keeping their eyes working in the dark.

In this edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at GNOME Foundation's new contributor program, a new Linux integrity checker from Microsoft, a free software alternative to smart TVs, and more!

UFW (Uncomplicated Firewall) is a user-friendly front-end for managing iptables firewall rules. Its main goal is to make managing iptables easier or as the name says uncomplicated. This article describes how to set up a firewall with UFW on Debian 10.

This guide explains how to read and write remote files with Vim in Linux. Starting from Vim 7.x version, the netrw plugin allows you to edit remote files.