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Linux Access Control Lists, or ACLs, can take some getting used to, but they're invaluable for getting a finer-grained control of your Linux filesystem permissions.

Arne Exton released today a new stable build of his Debian-based RaspEX Kodi operating system for Raspberry Pi devices with improved support for Raspberry Pi 3 and 3+ boards.

Advantech’s rugged, fanless “UNO-247” computer runs Linux or Win 10 on a quad-core Celeron J3455 with 6x serial, 2x GbE, and 4x USB ports plus HDMI, SATA, mSATA, M.2, and mini-PCIe. The entry-level UNO-247 IoT edge computer based on Intel’s Apollo Lake starts at $625 with 2GB RAM. The system is a tidy 200 x […]

In this article we will explain how to enable the client-side decoration feature of Mozilla Firefox on a Debian operating system. We will use Debian 10 to explain the procedure described in this article, but you can follow the same procedure for other distributions.

Meet this set of utilities that help you quickly move through your filesystem.

Open source NoSQL database vendor Couchbase enters the cloud database market with a database as a service that lets users choose which public cloud vendor they want to use.

PSSH, or Parallel SSH, is a command line suite that helps you to ssh in parallel on a number of hosts.

The elementary OS team released a new ISO spin for the latest elementary OS 5.1 “Hera” operating system that includes all the recent software updates and security patches, as well as HWE (Hardware Enablement) stack updates from Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS.

Thomas Edison famously said, "The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense." This quote made me wonder if "sticking-to-it" is contradictory to innovation; does it make you resistant to change? But, the more I pondered on it, I realized that innovation is fueled by perseverance. read more

Yet another classic game is being kept alive on modern systems thanks to open source. UAlbion was pointed out to us recently, as a game engine for Albion the 1995 classic from Blue Byte Studio.

Cod is a new command line completion daemon written in Go for Bash and Zsh. The tool detects the usage of --help commands to generate autocompletion for commands that don't support it.

Jannis Leidel is part of the Jazzband community. Jazzband is a collaborative community that shares the responsibility of maintaining Python-based projects. Jazzband was born out of the stress of maintaining an open source project alone for a longer time. Jannis is a roadie, which means he does administrative tasks and makes sure the people in the band can play when they want. read more

Today, the first official release of MangoHud went out, a new open source Vulkan overlay layer for gaming on Linux.

Tcpdump is a free and open-source command-line utility that can be used to capture the incoming and outgoing network traffic from your system. In this tutorial, we will show you how to capture packets using Tcpdump on Linux with some examples.

Kodi's support for DRM in version 18 and beyond opened the doors to streaming services like Sling TV. It's simple enough to get it running within Kodi and start watching live TV legally.

In Getting started with PostgreSQL, I explained how to install, set up, and begin using the open source database software. But there's a lot more you can do with commands in PostgreSQL. read more

Pi-oT Hardware has launched a $35 “MKR Module” enclosure for the Raspberry Pi that routes unused GPIO pins to screw terminals. There’s also a fan, a breadboard, and circuit protection. Last August, Cleveland-based Pi-oT Hardware successfully launched a Pi-oT add-on board and enclosure for the Raspberry Pi featuring 5x relays, 8x ADCs, and power inputs. […]

Usually, it's Linux and open-source companies which join the Linux patent consortium Open Invention Network. Now, Japanese hardware firm Taiyo Yuden, realizing technology's future lies with open source, has joined too.

The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the February 2020 issue.

Simplicity Linux 20.1 has been released as the latest version of this Devuan/Debian/Puppy inspired GNU/Linux distribution that doesn’t uses systemd as init system.