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Reformed JavaScript killer now useful on the command line. Google software engineers have delivered Dart 2.6, an update to the open source programming language that provides the ability to create self-contained, native executables for the major desktop operating systems.…

This post discusses about a Linux open source utility which can be used to easily jump to previously visited directories by typing just few characters instead of typing the complete path.

Nvidia’s 70 x 45mm “Jetson Xavier NX” module runs Ubuntu on a hexa-core Arm SoC with a 384-core Volta GPU and delivers 14 TOPS (10W) or 21 TOPS (15W) AI performance. By comparison, the larger, octa-core Xavier AGX has 512 Volta cores and up to 30-TOPS AI. To bolster its edge AI portfolio, Nvidia unveiled […]

The KDE Project announced today the general availability of the third and last maintenance update to the KDE Applications 19.08 open-source software suite series.

All six major browser vendors have plans to support DNS-over-HTTPS (or DoH), a protocol that encrypts DNS traffic and helps improve a user's privacy on the web. The DoH protocol has been one of the year's hot topics. It's a protocol that, when deployed inside a browser, it allows the browser to hide DNS requests and responses inside regular-looking HTTPS traffic.

KDE Connect and GSConnect support running commands from an Android device to your Linux desktop. This article explains how to lock and unlock your Linux desktop using a single tap on your Android device, via the KDE Connect Android app. You'll also find a workaround for GNOME 3.34 which has its session managed by systemd, and complicates this a bit.

The help desk has long been a necessary component of IT shops, but if you're ready to transition roles, here's how.

Most people probably don't remember where they, the computing industry, or the everyday world were in 1996. But I remember that year very clearly. I was a sophomore in high school in the middle of Kansas, and it was the start of my journey into free and open source software (FOSS).

open source database platform is making some big gains

Agedu is a simple command line utility that tracks down the wasted disk space in your Linux system.

AMD announced today the third-generation line up of its latest AMD Ryzen 9 "Threadripper" processor family, the Ryzen 3950X, Ryzen 3960X, and Ryzen 3970X.

Starting, stopping, and restarting/reloading are the most common tasks when working with an Apache webserver.

The Cockpit series continues to focus on some of the tools users and administrators can use to perform everyday tasks within the web user-interface. So far we’ve covered introducing the user-interface, storage and network management, and user accounts. Hence, this article will highlight how Cockpit handles software and services. The menu options for Applications and […]

SSH, for Secure Shell, is a network protocol that is used in order to operate remote logins to distant machines within a local network or over Internet. In SSH architectures, you will typically find a SSH server that is used by SSH clients in order to perform remote commands or to manage distant machines. In this tutorial, we are going to see how you can install and enable SSH on CentOS 8 distributions.

Canonical announced today a partnership with Nvidia to certify its Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) operating system on the NVIDIA DGX-2 AI systems in an atempt to accelerate the adoption of AI and ML in multi-cloud environments and at the edge.

I've been ripping CDs to my computer for a long time now. Over that time, I've used several different tools for ripping, and I have observed that each tool seems to have a different take on tagging, specifically, what metadata to save with the music data. By "observed," I mean that music players seem to sort albums in a funny order, they split tracks in one physical directory into two albums, or they create other sorts of frustrating irritations.

If you need to find out how to install FreeOffice in Linux, we have you covered. Here's how to download it as well as FreeOffice's features and drawbacks.

Version 1.39.0 of the Rust language is available.

Two popular tools for testing network services on a basic level are telnet and Netcat. Here's how to use them.

Nano is a text editor for the Linux terminal. It is simple to use and comes with powerful keyboard shortcuts. Here's how to use it.