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If you’re interested in giving back to the community, you should know that the Ubuntu flavors are planning an Ubuntu Testing Week starting April 1st, seeking community’s help as they try to make the upcoming Hirsute Hippo (21.04) release as stable as possible.

The first of the next generation of the Red Hat CentOS Linux clones, CloudLinux's AlmaLinux, is here.

This bash tutorial explains the bash's built-in brace expansion, and presents examples that illustrate how to use brace expansions to define a range or to generate a sequence of strings.

Fedora Linux and tiling WM fans rejoice, there’s an upcoming Fedora Linux spin featuring the i3 tiling window manager by default, and in this article I’m giving you a first look at this new heaven for tiling WM fans.

Ideally, SSL certificates are issued by publicly trusted certificate authorities (e.g. Let’s Encrypt, Comodo, Verisign) to provide authentication and encryption on the internet. However, you could obtain an SSL certificate without going through a third-party certificate authority — this is what is referred to as a self-signed certificate.

PyPI, the Python package index, provides a JSON API for information about its packages. This is essentially a machine-readable source of the same kind of data you can access while browsing the website. For example, as a human, I can head to the NumPy project page in my browser, click around, and see which versions there are, what files are available, and things like release dates and which Python versions are supported: read more

Uri Herrera announced today the release of Nitrux Linux 1.3.9, a fresh new ISO snapshot of this KDE Plasma-based modern distribution for the masses.

Ticker is a terminal stock ticker with live updates and position tracking, available for Linux, macOS and Microsoft Windows. Besides quotes, Ticker also supports any cryptocurrency that's available via Yahoo Finance / CoinMarketCap.

Update-golang is a shell script to easily fetch and install latest Golang versions with minimum user interaction.

It is not much fun when your Desktop hangs. The fear of lost work, the inability to continue work, and more. But it need not always be like this. Knowing just a little extra - a few shortcut keyboard combinations and a few commands at the command line - will hopefully get you back up and running quickly. It does not always work, but it works often.

Major corporate supporters abandon the FSF, while board members and leaders resign from the organization, as the outrage over Richard M. Stallman being allowed back on the board continues to grow.

In this tutorial, I will show you how to install, configure and customise the ZSH shell and make it how you want it

PINE64’s Pinebook Pro ARM Linux laptop is back in stock and you can buy one right now for only $219.99 USD with the Manjaro Linux ARM distribution pre-installed.

Here’s this week’s DebugPoint.com weekly roundup (Week Ending Mar 28, 2021) series, filtered for you from the Linux and the open-source world on application updates, new releases, distribution updates, major news, and upcoming highlights. Have a look.

The Jupyter project started out as IPython and the IPython Notebook. It was originally a Python-specific interactive shell and notebook environment, which later branched out to become language-agnostic, supporting Julia, Python, and R—and potentially anything else.

Parrot Security (ParrotSec) released today Parrot 4.11 as the latest version of their security-oriented Debian-based distribution for penetration testing and ethical hacking.

This tutorial will take you through installing your own ISPConfig 3 multiserver setup with dedicated servers for the panel, web, DNS, mail, and webmail using the new ISPConfig auto-installer. This tutorial is compatible with Debian 10 and Ubuntu 20.04.

Some data is ephemeral, stored in RAM, and only significant while an application is running. But some data is meant to be persistent, stored on a hard drive for later use. When you program, whether you're working on a simple script or a complex suite of tools, it's common to need to read and write files. Sometimes a file may contain configuration options, and other times the file is the data that your user is creating with your application. Every language handles this task a little differently, and this article demonstrates how to handle data files with Lua. read more

In this week’s blog, we look at some of the ways you can run programs from different operating systems on the Lenovo M93. We examine hardware virtualization, dual booting, as well as using a compatibility layer.

There are many reasons people want to create computer clusters using the Raspberry Pi, including that they have full control over their platform, they're able to use an inexpensive, highly usable platform, and get the opportunity to learn about cluster computing in general. read more