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I've had a soft spot for Elementary OS since I first encountered it in 2013. A lot of that has to do with the distribution being very clean and simple. Since 2013, I've recommended Elementary to people who I've helped transition to Linux from other operating systems. Some have stuck with it. Some who moved on to other Linux distributions told me that Elementary helped smooth the transition and gave them more confidence using Linux.

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and use the UFW firewall system on a Linux VPS running Debian 9. Security is a very important thing to consider when you run your own server.

The KDE Project released today the March 2020 Apps update of its open-source software suite, adding various improvements and lots of bug fixes across many of the included apps.

The tar command allows you to create and extract tar archives. It supports a vast range of compression programs such as gzip, bzip2, lzip, lzma, lzop, xz and compress. Learn how to use the tar command to extract .tar.xz or .txz archives.

OpenSnitch, an application firewall for Linux, is no longer under active development. This didn't mean it was the end for this project though, because Gustavo forked it about 8 months ago, and has been constantly improving it since.

The application monitors outbound connections that your applications are trying to make, preventing or permitting their connection based on a set of rules (the user is prompted to allow or deny access when no existing rules are found).

This article shows you 5 ways to clear up disk space on a Debian 10 Buster system, mostly through the graphical interface so that even a beginner can master this skill.

The ls command is a feature-rich command-line utility. Find out eleven different ways to use it.

There’s been a lot of activity in diverse parts of the standards and open source software development world of late. Here’s a selection of items you may have missed that I think might be of greatest interest.

The next step towards FSF success would be mending its relationship with Richard Stallman through the GNU Project

The Zorin OS project released today Zorin OS 15.2, the second maintenance update to the latest Zorin OS 15 series of this popular Ubuntu-based distribution.

If you are working on a small to medium entreprise network, you probably have dozens of drives and printers that need to be shared. Besides the NFS protocol, there are plenty of other network protocols that can be used in order to share resources over a network. The CIFS, short for Common Internet File System, is a network filesystem protocol used to share resources among multiple hosts, sharing the same operating system or not. The CIFS, also known as the SMB protocol, is implemented by one popular tool : the Samba server.

Collabora Productivity, the force behind putting LibreOffice in the Cloud, announced today the availability of Collabora Online 4.2, a new major release of their LibreOffice Online office suite.

There are a multitude of applications to manage your todo list. One of these apps is Taskwarrior, it allows you to manage your task in the terminal without a GUI. This article will show you how to get started using it. What is Taskwarrior? Taskwarrior is CLI task manager and organizer. It is flexible, fast, and […]

If you come across the IMG file format in Linux, don't panic. Here is how you can easily convert an IMG file to ISO format in Linux.

If you work on the Linux command line long enough, you will eventually delete a file by accident. Enter Trash-CLI, the command line interface to the Linux trash can. In this Linux quick tip we will show you how to install and use this nifty little utility.

Reading about technology often can build up your career. I recently shared, on Valentine's Day, how I read (what some would say is) too many books. I used to have a hard copy library that actually consumed two rooms in my house until my husband moved in. He respectfully requested space for, you know, people, and I considered a shift toward digital. read more

Nmap and its associated files provide a lot of valuable information, but you have to know how to get it.

In a previous article we saw some basic examples of how to use rsync on Linux to transfer data efficiently. As we saw, to synchronize data with a remote machine we can use both a remote shell as ssh or the rsync daemon. In this article we will focus on the latter option, and we will see how to install and configure rsyncd on some of the most used Linux distributions.

In this article, we provide tutorials on how to install some of the most popular multi-media applications on Chromebooks.

This guide explains how to backup and restore Linux desktop system settings with Dconf tool. It is useful when you want to transfer same system settings after reinstalling Linux desktop.