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The Zorin OS community has announced today the general availability of the Zorin OS 15.1, the first point release of their latest Zorin OS 15 operating system series based on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

Working with plain text data in a terminal means that you're not distracted by formatting. The characters are all the same colour and font weight, and there's no highlighting. Sometimes, however, a bit of emphasis in a particular string would be welcome.

Nagios is an open source enterprise-class software that is used to monitor network infrastructures, servers and applications. This tutorial explains how to install Nagios Core on an Ubuntu 16.04 server.

Red Hat asked its customers around the globe what they wanted, and while they want the hybrid cloud, Red Hat may not have the experienced staff needed for the transformation from traditional IT to the cloud.

Setting up Two-factor authentication is very important for any online service we use today. It secures account from having any unauthenticated person access to your account even with the login credentials.

XXLSEC’s open-spec “ProteusDevice” handheld runs a security-hardened, Linux 5.4-based PriveOS without binary blobs on an i.MX6 with 1GB RAM, 8GB eMMC, 5-inch touchscreen, 10/100 Ethernet, and optional WiFi. Helsinki, Finland-based XXLSEC has posted specs for a security focused, i.MX6 Quad based handheld called the ProteusDevice, which is based on its almost identical, but slightly smaller […]

Oracle released today the final version of the VirtualBox 6.1 open-source and cross-platform virtualization software for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows operating systems.

In this tutorial, you will learn the DateTime module supplies classes for manipulating dates and times in both simple and complex ways in Python.

Wekan is a free, flexible and open-source Kanban Board application. With Wekan, we can create boards and cards which can be moved between a number of columns. In this tutorial, we will cover the steps needed for installing Wekan on an Ubuntu 18.04 VPS.

A programmable 360 degree camera, the RICOH THETA, normally runs Android internally, now more available to Linux by installing and running open source Termux.

Joe's Window Manager (JWM for short) is a lightweight window manager for X11. It's written in C, minimally using Xlib. Because it's so small and simple, JWM makes a great window manager for slow or old computers. The Raspberry Pi barely registers that JWM is running, leaving precious system resources for more important tasks than the desktop.

Canonical, the company behind the popular Ubuntu Linux operating system, announced that they will be an official sponsor of Microsoft's first-ever Linux Conference for WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux).

For over thirty years companies have been launching new standards consortia, and then open source foundations, in the US. That's usually been just fine with the rest of the world, until now.

The OpenHW Group unveiled a Linux-driven “CORE-V Chassis” eval SoC due for tape-out in 2H 2020 based on an NXP i.MX SoC, but featuring its RISC-V-and PULP-based 64-bit, 1.5GHz CV64A CPU and 32-bit CV32E cores. Meanwhile, Think Silicon demonstrated a RISC-V-based NEOX|V GPU. A not-for-profit, open source RISC-V initiative called the OpenHW Group that launched […]

I recently switched from MacOS to Elementary OS, a Linux distribution focused on ease of use and privacy. As a user-experience designer and a free software supporter, I take screenshots and annotate them all the time. After trying out several different tools, the one I enjoy the most by far is Ksnip, an open source tool licensed under GPLv2. read more

This post is a good primer about data analysis using Python Pandas Library. I have tried to explain through examples how to use Pandas aggregate and groupby methods to summarize the data.

In this article, we will describe how to install Guake on your Debian through the command line. We will also describe how to perform some basic functions on Guake through the keyboard. We have run the commands and procedures mentioned in this article on a Debian 10 Buster system.

This is part 8 in an ongoing series about creating video games in Python 3 using the Pygame module. Previous articles are: read more

Do I need a college degree to be a sysadmin? The short answer is: "It's complicated."

Microsoft Teams client is now officially available for Linux users.