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Systemd? It's the proper technical solution, says kernel maintainer. The Linux kernel has around 27.8 million lines of code in its Git repository, up from 26.1 million a year ago, while systemd now has nearly 1.3 million lines of code, according to GitHub stats analysed by Michael Larabel at Phoronix.…

Piwheels automates building Python wheels (pre-compiled Python packages) for all of the projects on PyPI, the Python Package Index, using Raspberry Pi hardware to ensure compatibility. This means that when a Raspberry Pi user wants to install a Python library using pip, they get a ready-made compiled version that's guaranteed to work on the Raspberry Pi. This makes it much easier for Raspberry Pi users to dive in and get started with their projects.

Happy Birthday, Unix! On Jan. 1, Unix turned 50 – or 1577836800 in epoch time. Sandra Henry-Stocker explores what this means for the operating system and its users.

Packages such as systemd (“packages” would be an understatement — that’s like calling Linux a “package”) present a new kind of threat, which some in the community have dubbed “Open Source Proprietary Software” (or “OSPS” for short); we need prominent groups and projects to highlight the nature of this threat, which serves to promote monopolies (open gateway into complexity, aided by silence and complicity)

Dell kicked off 2020 by announcing the 10th generation XPS 13 Developer Edition laptop with Ubuntu Linux preloaded, fingerprint-reader support, up to 32GB of RAM, and 10th Gen Intel Core CPUs.

Are you bored with the default ubuntu image viewer?. In the Linux distribution there are many applications for viewing images. Each linux distro has an image viewer application that is different from other distributions. One example is Xubuntu which uses the default, Ristretto Image Viewer application.

Vim is one of the popular text editors among the software developers & system administrators. The macOS as well as on different Linux Distros Vim comes preinstalled. We can edit code in Vim easily. But the syntax is not highlighted by default in Vim. In this tutorial, you are going to learn How to Turn On Syntax Highlighting in Vim/Vi Editor.

Learn how to securely mount a remote file system from another server locally on your machine with SSHFS.

Initially scheduled for launch on January 7th, Mozilla's latest Firefox 72 open-source and cross-platform web browser is now available to download for all supported platforms, including GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows.

We run through updates to popular lightweight open-source distro. Hands on Linux Mint 19.3 was completed late last year and is a long-term support release with support until 2023, so we decided to put it through its paces.…

Aaeon’s “COM-WHUC6” Compact Type 6 module features Intel’s 8th Gen Whiskey Lake UE with up to 8GB DDR4, up to 64GB eMMC, 3x SATA III, up to 5x PCIe, and 12x USB, including 4x USB 3.2 Gen2. Aaeon announced a 95 x 95mm COM Express Compact Type 6 module based on an Intel 8th Gen […]

Mono is a platform for developing and running cross-platform applications based on the ECMA/ISO Standards. It is a free and open-source implementation of Microsoft's .NET framework. This tutorial explains how to install Mono on Ubuntu 18.04.

conrad is a free and open source command-line tool designed to help you track conferences and meetups. The tool is written in Python.

Python is a high-level, object-oriented programming language known for its simple syntax. It is consistently among the top-rated programming languages for building RESTful APIs. read more

There are several ways to update openSUSE Leap. However, there is one way that has served me the best over the last 10 years using openSUSE. And this is via the YaST Software Management graphical (GUI) interface.

Arch Linux is one of the very first GNU/Linux distributions to kick off 2020 with a brand new ISO image, the first to be based on the latest Linux kernel series.

This tutorial describes the simple steps of turning your Debian into a Wireless Access Point. With a wifi hotspot, you can let other wireless devices such as smartphones and televisions etc. make use of your computer’s internet connection.

How about we start Monday off with an interesting little titbit? According to a former Valve staffer, Steam for Linux was started up by ex-Microsoft employees.

This tutorial will take you through various ways in which you can delete a directory in Linux.

Some topics are very popular, no matter when they’re first mentioned. And Fedora Magazine has a few articles that have proven to be popular for a long time. You’re reading the last article from the “best of 2019” series. But this time, it’s about articles written before 2019, but being very popular in 2019.