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One of the original hopes for Unix was that it would empower everyday computer users to fine-tune their computers to match their unique working style. The expectations around computer customization have diminished over the decades, and many users consider their collection of apps and websites to be their "custom environment." One reason for that is that the components of many operating systems are not open, so their source code isn't available to normal users. read more

Linux computer manufacturer System76 has launched today the Lemur Pro Linux-powered laptop, a powerful, high-end machine that boasts amazing specs.

Fedora Workstation uses GNOME Shell by default and this one was mainly written in JavaScript. JavaScript is famous as a language of front-end development but this time we‘ll show it‘s usage for back-end. We‘ll implement a new API using the following technologies: JavaScript, Express and Fedora Workstation. A web browser is being used to call […]

Want a truly secure operating system kernel? The Linux Foundation is partnering with Australia's national science agency, CSIRO, to roll out the seL4 microkernel.

Aaeon’s 3.5-inch “GENE-WHU6” SBC runs on an 8th Gen Whiskey Lake CPU with up to 32GB RAM, 4x USB 3.2 Gen 2 ports, 2x GbE, and 2x M.2 slots, starting at under $1K. Over the last few days, Aaeon’s 8th Gen Whiskey Lake based PICO-WHU4 Pico-ITX board, which we covered in February, has received a […]

The Debian-based Tails amnesic incognito live system has a new version, Tails 4.5, that ships with Secure Boot support, as well as all the latest software and security updates.

COVID-19 has afflicted more than one million people worldwide, and the number continues to climb every day. However long the pandemic lasts, we know that scientists and others’ ability to …

Dropbox is a widely used software to share files in a cloud-based environment. In this article, you will learn how you can install Dropbox through flatpak on your CentOS 8.

BlackBerry says Winnti-derived group is playing it quiet with rootkit attacks. A group of hackers operating as an offshoot of China's Winnti group managed to stay undetected for more than a decade by going open source.…

SolidRun has launched an open-spec, $170 and up “HummingBoard Ripple” Pico-ITX SBC, a stripped-down version of the HummingBoard Pulse that runs Linux on an i.MX8M Mini module with optional Lightspeeur SPR2803 neural accelerator. As we reported in our January catalog of 136 community-backed SBCs, SolidRun has been working on a more affordable, feature-reduced-feature HummingBoard Ripple […]

In this tutorial we will learn the basics of the dialog utility, in order to use ncurses widget in our shell scripts. We will see how to install dialog in the most used Linux distributions, some of the common options we can use to alter the behavior of dialog, how to use some widgets; among the others: inputbox, checklist, radiolist and yesno. Finally, we will see how to use the data obtained by the widget processing.

We have a laser printer at home. This Hewlett Packard LaserJet Pro CP1525nw Color Printer is an older model, but it has been a great workhorse that prints reliably and in color. I put it on our home network a few years ago using our Raspberry Pi as a print server. read more

Python is one of the most popular programming languages today. It has a simple syntax that is easy for beginners to understand. In this article, you will learn how to install Python 2 and Python 3 on CentOS 8.

Node.js is a free and open-source JavaScript platform that can be used to serve dynamic and responsive server-side content. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install and configure Node.js to handle backend requests and configure Nginx to handle front-end requests on Debian 10.

Global replacement of A with B might be a mistake unless you're 100% sure that you really, truly want to replace every instance of A with B in the data file. It's much safer to do replacements targeted at particular instances of A, and this post reviews a few strategies for using sed and AWK for targeted string replacements.

KDE's screenshot tool insists on including a shadow when capturing the screen. This shows how to take screenshots without the shadow in KDE.

LaTeX is a powerful system, especially for writing scientific and technical documents. But writing documents in LaTeX can be confusing because you need to know a lot of commands, and your text is littered with backslashes, curly braces, and other syntax distractions. But being productive as a writer requires that you focus on the text's content instead of how it looks. Fortunately, the GNU Emacs Org mode extension makes it easy to write plain-text documents and seamlessly export them to LaTeX and PDF. read more

Flatseal is a simple graphical GTK application that allows the users to review and modify flatpak apps basic permissions in Linux.

Loved by sysadmins and hated by intruders. Get the inside scoop on Tripwire to enhance your system's security.

This month's Linux distro review isn't of a Linux distribution at all—instead, we're taking a look at FreeBSD, the original gangster of free Unix-like operating systems.