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This article explains how to install Slack on CentOS 8.

Ever running out of disk space in your Ubuntu server or system, you can follow the below simple ways to free up space and clean your Ubuntu. In thins guide you are going to learn how to clean up cache, old kernels, remove unused packages, journal logs.

Defining cgroups and how they help with resource management and performance tuning in this first article kicking off a four-part series covering cgroups and resource management.

It’s been six years since Heartbleed was first discovered, and the OpenSSL vulnerability can still be found and exploited across the internet.

See how this great Linux time tracking software helps sysadmins manage tasks and resource allocation.

Canonical announced today the availability of the latest version of the Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition Linux laptop with Ubuntu preinstalled and the most recent Intel Core processors.

Managing access to CPU time using CPUShares with cgroups in part two in this four-part series covering cgroups and resource management.

RHEL 7.9 also here – last major version in the 7.x family? Red Hat has released Fedora 33 beta, with the finished article expected at the end of this month, as well as version 7.9 of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.…

Radxa’s has launched its open-spec “Rock Pi X Model B” SBC for $49 to $75. The Pi-like board runs Ubuntu 20.04 or Win 10 on a Cherry Trail Atom x5-Z8300 plus GbE with PoE, WiFi/BT, 4K-ready HDMI 2.0, 4x USB, and a 40-pin header. Radxa unveiled the Rock Pi X back in Sep. 2019 and […]

TermTrack is a terminal-based program that lets you track the orbits of artificial satellites. The program is written in Python.

Free and open source software (FOSS) and the distributed digital manufacturing of free and open source hardware (FOSH) have shown great promise for developing custom scientific tools. For some time now, FOSH has provided scientists a high return on investment. In fact, my previous research in the Open Source Lab reported substantial economic savings from using these technologies. read more

After nearly six months of frequent video conferencing, I was tired of looking at my colleagues as tiny thumbnails on 13" and 15" laptop displays. However, I didn't want the clutter of a desktop or tower case and all the associated cabling. read more

Canonical launched today the beta version of the upcoming Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla) operating system, which is expected to hit the streets later this month on October 22nd.

Enlightenment is an extremely lightweight window manager that has a huge amount of utility baked into it. Check out our Enlightenment review.

It’s that time of the year again, when I am happy to take the latest and greatest GNOME 3.38 desktop release for a test drive, and this time I am testing it on the upcoming Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla) operating system.

Eric S. Raymond, one of open-source's founding fathers, thinks Windows' future is a layer about the Linux kernel. He's got a point.

Loki is an Apache 2.0-licensed open source log-aggregation framework designed by Grafana Labs and built with tremendous support from a growing community. It is also the project I work on every day. In this article, rather than just talking about how Loki works, I will provide a hands-on introduction to solving real problems with it.

Wget is a non-interactive network download utility for the Linux command line interface. It’s is used for downloading or retrieving files from web servers or FTP servers. Wget can be installed on most modern operating systems, including Windows, Linux, and macOS.

Mozilla Thunderbird 78.3 open-source and free email client has arrived with more improvements and bug fixes, and you can now finally upgrade from older Thunderbird releases.

Most Linux users are well-acquainted with LibreOffice – many distributions have it pre-installed. Fewer know its powerful alternative: FreeOffice is a full-fledged office solution with full support for Microsoft Office file formats. It consists of a word processor, a spreadsheet and a presentation program. True to its name, FreeOffice is fully free and available for Linux in 32-bit and 64-bit versions.