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Beefy Firefox release despite new 4-weekly release cycle, but users stick stubbornly to Google Chrome Updated Mozilla has aired a bunch of new features aimed at making web 2020 a little less unpleasant in its release of Firefox 72.…

2DayGeek: This tutorial will help you to discover high CPU consumption processes in Linux.

Sway is a tiling Wayland compositor which has mostly the same features, look and workflow as the i3 X11 window manager. Because Sway uses Wayland instead of X11, the tools to setup X11 don’t always work in sway. This includes tools like xrandr, which are used in X11 window managers or desktops to setup monitors. […]

Managing a messy music library can be a serious pain. Even if you ripped all of your music yourself, there's still a pretty good chance that your ripping application got at least a few things wrong.

Kid3 is a simple graphical meta tag editor for music files that can help you get everything straightened out.

When you're standing on a stage or doing a live demo in an online session, getting your project into a perfect-looking state may appear easy. But a lot of work goes on behind the scenes to create working, easy to use, and repeatable demo projects. When you're doing a demo, the technology in a project must support your bigger story about the project without failing. My fellow JBoss technology evangelists and I often have to set up different technologies, so it became necessary for us to tune some sort of generic framework or template to put these demo projects into. read more

There are plenty of tools for handling text in Linux. Here are 13 powerful text manipulation tools every command-line user should know.

When you work with computers all day, it's fantastic to find repeatable commands and tag them for easy use later on. They all sit there, tucked away in ~/.bashrc (or ~/.zshrc for Zsh users), waiting to help improve your day! In this article, I share some of my favorite of these helper commands for things I forget a lot, in hopes that they will save you, too, some heartache over time. read more

The basic concept involved with the use of the osquery application is the "tabular abstraction" of many aspects of the operating system, such as processes, users, etc. The data is stored in tables which can be queried using SQL syntax, directly via the osqueryi shell, or via the osquerydemon. In this tutorial we will see how to install the application, how to run basic queries, and how to use FIM (File Integrity Monitoring).

When you get hooked on a game like Mindustry, it's hard to put it down and play anything else. It's also open source and it's awesome.

MYIR’s 45 x 43mm “MYC-YA157C” module runs Ubuntu 18.04 or a Yocto 2.6 based “MEasy” IoT stack on ST’s STM32MP1. A MYD-YA157C carrier adds WiFi/BT, GbE, HDMI, DSI, RGB, CAN, and multiple USB and serial ports. MYIR has launched a $29 MYC-YA157C CPU Module powered by ST’s STM32MP1 SoC that can be paired with a […]

You've heard of the OSI model, but you've never had it presented as a tasty party dip. Get to know the OSI model in a whole new way.

Opera Software kicked off 2020 with a new stable release of its cross-platform, Chromium-based Opera web browser for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows platforms.

Why Rust? 'It works and usually does what you wanted it to do,' says dev. Interview Rust developer Denys Séguret, from Lyon, France, wanted a better way to view and search directories, so he coded his own, sparking interest from others with similar frustrations.…

The final steps are being made in the Google v. Oracle copyright case, which will put the fate of programming in the hands of the Supreme Court.

The KDE Project has announced today the general availability of the first point for the latest KDE Applications 19.12 open-source software suite.

In this tutorial, we show you how to install Nextcloud 17 with the Nginx web server, PHP 7.3 and MariaDB database on a CentOS 8 server. We will install Nextcloud and secure it with a free Let's Encrypt SSL certificate.

As Kubernetes adoption grows, what can IT leaders expect in the year ahead? Look for more "Kubernetes-native" apps, security focus, and smarter resource consumption.

Apache Cassandra is an open-source high-performance NoSQL database management system with no single point of failure. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Apache Cassandra on CentOS 8.

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Community Feedback Elitism in Linux aka “Linux Snobbery” Linux Mint vs Ubuntu Cinnamon Discussion from Episode 153 KDE Plasma Settings Backup & Deployment

Over the past few years, it's become difficult to find a website that is just "http://…" This is because the industry has finally realised that security on the web is "a thing," and also because it has become easy for both servers and clients to set up and use HTTPS connections. A similar shift may be on its way in computing across cloud, edge, Internet of Things, blockchain, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and beyond. read more