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This brief guide explains how to find and list startup services at boot in Linux and Unix-like systems.

Computer maker HP announced its latest offering Z series of laptops with certified Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.

This article explains how to install and uninstall GNOME System Monitor in a Debian system. We will describe the installation process both via GUI and the command line. We will also explain some of the basic operations that you can perform with the system monitor.

As of today, Canonical’s upcoming Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla) operating system is now powered by the Linux 5.8 kernel series, which will also be the kernel used in the final release.

There's a new security-oriented Linux for containers in town from Amazon and its name is Bottlerocket. Instead of being built almost entirely in C, it includes many components written in Rust.

The KDE Project announced today KDE Applications 20.08.1, which is dubbed as the September 2020 Apps Update for the Plasma desktop environment.

libguestfs is a set of tools for accessing and modifying virtual machine (VM) disk images. You can use this to view and edit files inside guests, scripting changes to VMs, monitoring disk used/free statistics, creating guests, P2V, V2V, performing backups, cloning VMs, and building VMs, formatting disks, resizing disks, and much more.

User groups play an important role in any Linux operating system and its distributions. Groups make it easier to manage larger amounts of users, giving you the ability to give all of them the same security and access privileges. Let’s show you how to add users to groups on a Linux VPS.

Congatec has launched two compute modules based on Intel’s 11th Gen Tiger Lake CPUs, supporting new features like USB 4.0 and PCIe 4.0: a “Conga-TC570” COM Express Compact and a “Conga-HPC/cTLU” that uses the new 800-pin COM-HPC form factor. Congatec followed up on Intel’s launch of its 11th Gen Tiger Lake CPUs with two Tiger […]

Canonical and HP announced that HP’s Z family of laptops and workstations are now certified with the latest Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) operating system series.

Chromium is a fast, stable, and secure browser built for the modern web. It is the base of many browsers, including the most popular web browser in the world Google Chrome . This article explains two ways of installing Chromium on Ubuntu 20.04. Chromium can be installed as a snap package via the Snapcraft store or as a deb package from the Google repositories.

Dividing by 8 to speak the same language doesn't seem that difficult, but it is.

Some times you might want to run an application (especially a web application) 24/7 in full-screen mode. In this guide, we will see how to launch web browsers in kiosk mode (full screen) from command line in Linux.

The privacy-centric yet minimal browser Min brings another release with its version 1.16 with UI improvements and major new features.

Q4OS, the Debian-based GNU/Linux distribution that keeps the spirit of the old-school KDE3.5 desktop environment alive has been updated to version 3.12.

(Circuit Cellar article) With today’s level of integrated chip technology, board-level embedded computers can now literally fit in the palm of your hand. This “tiny” category of board-level computing products meets the needs of applications where extremely low SWaP (size, weight and power) is a priority over other requirements. This Datasheet section updates readers on […]

Zephyr is gaining momentum where more and more companies are embracing this open source project for their embedded devices. However, security is becoming a huge concern for these connected devices. The NCC Group recently conducted an evaluation and security assessment of the project to help harden it against attacks. In the interview, Kate Stewart, Senior […]

TUXEDO Computers unveiled today two new laptops for Linux gamers, the TUXEDO Polaris 15 and TUXEDO Polaris 17, which come with powerful components from both Intel and AMD.

ICP’s “gKINO-V1000” series of Mini-ITX boards offers a choice of Ryzen Embedded V1000 and R1000 processors and up to quad 4K displays. Meanwhile, details have leaked about an upcoming V2000 SoC with Zen 2 cores. ICP Germany has announced a gKINO-V1000 series of SBCs that run on AMD’s Ryzen Embedded V1000 and R1000 SoCs, joining […]

Recent versions of the Spotify client for Linux don't have the minimize ability. Follow this to minimize Spotify to the system tray in Linux.