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I usually read eBooks on my phone or with my Kobo eReader. I've never been comfortable reading books on larger screens. However, many people regularly read books on their laptops or desktops. If you are one of them (or think you might be), I'd like to introduce you to three eBook readers for the Linux desktop. read more

Mesa 20, PipeWire 0.3, MyPaint 2.0, GTK, Maui Project, Untangle Firewall, Red Hat, Container Linux, Nvidia, Microsoft Defender, Humble Bundle and much more on Your Weekly Source for Linux GNews!

Raspbian's repositories now ship version 68.5.0 ESR of Firefox. This version was released in February 2020. As it's the latest Extended Support Release, I've revisited Firefox to see if it's a viable alternative to Chromium or Vivaldi on the RPI4.

The logzero library makes logging as easy as a print statement, which is quite a feat of simplicity. I'm not sure whether logzero took its name to fit in with the series of "zero boilerplate" libraries like pygame-zero, GPIO Zero, and guizero, but it's certainly in that category. It's a Python library that makes logging straightforward. You can just use its basic logging to stdout the same way you might use print for information and debugging purposes, and it has a smooth learning curve towards more advanced logging, like logging to a file. read more

One of the most popular software enabling computers to be controlled remotely is TeamViewer, but there are many other options that are available as well, which have just as many features (desktop sharing, online conferences, and data transfers). Since TeamViewer dominates the major online users, it has long ranked number one by many users.

ddgr is a command line client for DuckDuckGo search engine. This guide explains how to search DuckDuckGo from commandline using ddgr in Linux.

Here are 11 Linux commands that one sysadmin cannot live without.

Unlike some programming languages, AWK is flexible and tolerant. You can write AWK commands in several different ways and not worry too much about spaces, indentation and line breaks.

Sometimes the facts speak for themselves (or pictures speak louder than words)

As a new Linux user, one of the first skills that you need to master is navigating the Linux filesystem. These basic navigation commands will get you up to speed.

The Manjaro team released today Manjaro Linux 19.0, a major series of their Arch Linux-based distribution that comes with up-to-date components and all the latest GNU/Linux technologies.

Want to turn large video into smaller ones? Just enter the start and end times in a text file, and let this Python script do the rest!

The powerful GIMP open-source and free image editor and viewer software received a new major release, GIMP 2.10.18, which brings numerous new features and improvements.

Add-ons and external repositories are essential for getting the most out of Kodi. The media player has everything you need built in to the add-on management interface, making it very simple to enable external repositories.

This tutorial explains how to install and configure the latest version of Redmine on CentOS 8. We'll use MariaDB as a database back-end and Passenger + Apache as a Ruby application server.

A while ago, I used Quicken to manage my finances. It's proprietary software, and year after year, it cost me more and more money for upgrades. Eventually, I realized it isn't prudent to take away from my budget to help me control my budget. read more

Do you know that Linux has ia command-line spellcheck utility to check your writing in the Terminal? Here's how to use aspell to spellcheck in Linux.

This guide explains how to do Google search from commandline on Linux using Googler command line tool.

FTP is a widely used protocol used for transferring files between server and client. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install VSFTPD on CentOS 8 server and secure it with SSL/TLS.

Merging code in open source software is easy. Just grab and add, right? Well, no. If you don't pay attention to what license each inclusion is offered under, the users of your software may end up with a disaster on their hands. Happily, there are free tools available to help you avoid just that.