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"Most designers don't have a clue about open source," says Eriol Fox of Ushahidi, a non-profit social enterprise that creates humanitarian, open source tech tools. Unfortunately, this means there are few design-related contributions to open source software, and this results in an abundance of poorly designed open source tools. read more

In this tutorial, we are going to discuss about some good alternatives to 'top', the command line task manager program.

Two Steam Play updates to share this morning! The official Proton was updated to Proton 4.11-9 and Proton 4.20 GE 1 is also up.

Troubleshooting VLANs is complicated. Here are some techniques to save your sanity.

PDFTK is a versatile command line utility that is used to manipulate PDF documents. It has the possibility to perform simple and complex actions on PDF documents such as merging, encrypting, splitting (including removing specific pages) , decrypting, compressing, decompressing and repairing PDF files

In this article, we will explain how to view your Laptop’s battery report through the Debian graphical user interface and trough the Debian command line. We have run the commands and procedures mentioned in this article on a Debian 10 Buster system.

TeamSpeak is a cross-platform voice server or VOIP application for real-time voice chat over the internet. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and setup TeamSpeak server on CentOS 8 server.

This post goes in detail about the usage of Python Pandas iloc,loc and ix functions to select Columns and Rows using an example.

I have been involved with assistive technology for about ten years now, beginning with a stint as an assistive technology tutor with the Kenya Society for the Blind. Assistive technology helps improve the lives of people with cognitive, physical or sensory challenges. It comprises a wide range of hardware, specialist software such as screen readers, as well as accessibility features in general software.

The locate command allows you to preform a super quick search for files. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how locate command works and how to use it.

Mozilla and the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) to jointly build new alliance to foster open voice data and technology in Africa and beyond Berlin – 25 …

Pine64’s open source PinePhone has launched at $150 for a developer’s edition. The smartphone is supported by UBports’ Ubuntu Touch, which also now works on a Raspberry Pi 3 with touchscreen as well as an AOSP-based “Volla Phone,” now on Kickstarter. Linux-based phones that don’t use Google’s Android have had a rough go of it […]

Gunzip It is a utility that decompresses files such as images, documents and audio tracks. Gunzip accepts many file extensions such as .gz, -gz, _z,.z, -z , .Z, .tgz or .taz. After applying gunzip, the original file’s extension will be restored.

When working with Git, it is quite common for developers to create tags in order to have reference points in your development. Tags are created in order to have references to release versions for example. Furthermore, tags are Git objects meaning that they can be checked out like you would check out a branch or a commit for example.

Hacktoberfest is an initiative that invites developers from around the world to participate and contribute to open source. This is the second year in a row that I participated to completion of the challenge, and I was so inspired by it that I want to share my slightly longer journey to open source software. read more

In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to easily install ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors on multiple Linux distributions including Ubuntu from Flatpak. In case you prefer to install/update the suite as a DEB, snap, or AppImage package, refer to this tutorial.

In this tutorial, we will need to explore some basic concepts about MBR and GPT to understand their advantages, limitations and differences.

diff is a command-line utility that allows you to compare two files line by line.

Google Stadia promises that we can now play our games on almost any device anywhere without having to download and install games. I run Linux on my notebook computer and I was particularly interested to see how it would work there.

Organizations as a whole contribute to open source software projects for a variety of reasons. One of the most important is that the open source development model is such an effective way to collaborate with other companies on projects of mutual interest. But they also want to better understand the technologies they use. They also want to influence direction. The specific rationale will vary by organization but it usually boils down to the simple fact that working in open source benefits their business. read more