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Being the default text editor is a thankless job. People usually regard a default text editor almost as a demo app—a slightly elevated "hello world" example of how an application on that platform is meant to run. Users resort to the default text editor in the rare occasions they need to dump some text into a file they’ll probably never look at again. For "serious" work, they turn to a word processor or an IDE, or an editor in the terminal, or at least a different text editor that has to be downloaded and installed like a "real" application. read more

auto-cpufreq has been updated with a mechanism to enable turbo boost based on the CPU temperature in combination with CPU utilization/load, in order to prevent overheating.

Work on the next major version of the Debian GNU/Linux operating system continues at a fast pace, and a new development version of the Debian Installer arrived with support for new ARM devices, including the Pinebook Pro laptop.

Services, services, services. A service is a huge part of computing. You're reading this article on a service. Your computer is running services. The internet is filled with them. About systemctl On Linux, the standard way of running and managing services is through the systemd utility and the command systemctl. Its usage is fairly simple: you just need to know the name of the service you want to manage, then you can use this command to start or stop the service, check its status, or do other functions: read more

Docklike Plugin is a dock-like taskbar for the Xfce panel. Using it on your Xfce desktop, you'll get an icon-only taskbar with support for pinning applications and window grouping.

Independent Linux system vendor ZaReason couldn’t survive the Coronavirus economic downturn and decided to call it a day.

ampd is a web-based client for MPD. It is built with Angular and Spring Boot. ampd is cross-platform software. Here's our review.

WordPress dashboard is an important page for the website administrators. In this article of the WordPress 101 series, we will learn to read and customize the WordPress dashboard. If you do not know to set up WordPress, we have written a detailed guide on how to install WordPress – Step By Step. Do check it out. WordPress dashboard is the homepage for website administrators. This is where all the important site information is available such as the number of posts, pages, comments, pending comments, errors, and site health, and so on.

In the first article in this series, I introduced Home Assistant and why you might be interested in it. In short, Home Assistant is an automation hub for some of the most common smart devices on the market today. It enables centralized coordination of disparate hardware. By using it, you no longer have to choose suboptimal tech from a single vendor to manage your smart home from a single app.

2DayGeek: This quick article shows you how to identify file types in Linux.

I can't code to save my life, but that doesn't stop me from trying. My latest creation is a case in point.

Sometimes there is a need to add another disk to your system. This is where Logical Volume Management (LVM) comes in handy. The cool thing about LVM is that it’s fairly flexible. There are several ways to add a disk. This article describes one way to do it. Heads up! This article does not cover […]

The developers of elementary OS have announced their experimental builds for the ARM-based Raspberry Pi 4 series.

The tenth installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is out, for the week ending on December 6th, keeping you guys up to date with the most important things that have happened in the Linux world.

Service Mesh can be thought of as a next generation of Software Defined Networking (SDN) for the cloud.

Google Cloud Policy to be changed from June 1, 2021. Earlier, the Google platform users will be able to save unlimited photos in Google Photos. Android users might be very much aware of Google Photos and they enjoy the unlimited storage. Whenever they change their photos, they find the new photos in the Google photos application automatically. This was possible due to Google’s cloud policy. Recently Google has decided to make a move and change the policy slightly but this policy will make a significant impact on Android users. Let’s discuss the new Google Cloud policy below.

The HP Linux Imaging and Printing (HPLIP) drivers have been updated to version 3.20.11, a version that adds support for the latest Ubuntu and Debian GNU/Linux distribution releases.

As a system administrator, you are probably dealing with a lot of services every day. They may be used in order to start a SSH server on your machine or they can perform some operations on a specific hour or day. In this tutorial, you will learn how you can, given your system manager, list all services on your Linux machine.

History demonstrates the kinds of organizational structures that foster innovation: open, communal, and humble. Here are just two examples. In the first part of this article series—an extended review of the book How Innovation Works by Matt Ridley—I examined Ridley's characterization of innovation: it's gradual, incremental, and collective, and involves extensive collaboration between parties. This, I argued, is why open organization principles are so important and play a major role in fostering innovation.

With the “Always on Top” feature, you can keep an application on top of all other applications all the time. Comes in handy when you have to keep an app under watch.