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Alejandro Díaz informs 9to5Linux today about the general availability of Escuelas Linux 6.7, the first release of this educational-oriented GNU/Linux distribution in the new decade.

Different OSS licenses have been created for different - and sometimes incompatible - reasons. Before incorporating OSS into a product you need to know the differences and how to be sure you play by the rules.

The polls are closed and the results for the 2019 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards are in. Debian, Firefox, MariaDB, KDE, and System76 are among the winners. The Members Choice Awards allow members of the Linux community to choose their favorite products/projects in a variety of categories including Programming Language of the Year, Desktop Distribution of the Year, Browser of the Year, and Linux Desktop Vendor of the Year.

Learn to elevate your work and your permissions by becoming a super user with sudo.

It happens all the time, to the largest of companies. An important certificate doesn't get renewed, and services become inaccessible. It happened to Microsoft Teams in early February 2020, awkwardly timed just after the launch of a major television campaign promoting it as a Slack competitor. Embarrassing as that may be, it's sure to happen to someone else in the future. read more

In this article, we will learn how we can back up files and folders local and remotely in Debian 10 using system commands cp and rsync and how to schedule backups with cron.

This guide explains how to build Python 3.8 on CentOS 8 from the source code. We’ll also show you how to create a virtual environment.

Over the past decade, solid-state drives (SSD) have brought about a new way of managing storage. SSDs have benefits like silent and cooler operation and a faster interface spec, compared to their elder spinning ancestors. Of course, new technology brings with it new methods of maintenance and management. SSDs have a feature called TRIM. This is essentially a method for reclaiming unused blocks on the device, which may have been previously written, but no longer contain valid data and therefore, can be returned to the general storage pool for reuse. read more

Tilix works as a great terminal alternative for your Linux PC. Let's see how you can use it to turn your terminal into a modern and efficient workspace.

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In this guide, let us learn to compress and decompress files in parallel using Pigz in Linux.

For this week’s blog, I turn to a desktop activity that I use fairly frequently. It’s screen capturing – offering the ability to share images on my computer screen with a colleague or friend. Recording a video or screencast might be snazzier, but a still-image screen capture, known as a screenshot, is often all I need to get the message across.

Byobu is a text-based window manager and terminal multiplexer. It's similar to GNU Screen but more modern and more intuitive. It also works on most Linux, BSD, and Mac distributions. Byobu allows you to maintain multiple terminal windows, connect via SSH (secure shell), disconnect, reconnect, and even let other people access it, all while keeping the session alive. read more

In today’s article, we’ll give you some tips on how to enhance your gaming performance regardless of how you are running them.

As part of my role as a senior product marketing manager at an enterprise software company with an open source development model, I publish a regular update about open source community, market, and industry trends for product marketers, managers, and other influencers. Here are five of my and their favorite articles from that update.

Guake drop-down terminal version 3.7.0 has been released with the ability to set terminal background and foreground color on a per-tab basis, an option to only show the last directory of the current path as the terminal name, and more.

Orangescrum is an open-source and collaboration web application written by using CakePHP. It is simple and easy to use tools to manage projects, teams, documents, tasks, and communicate with the team on important issues.

An “Embedded Online Conference” scheduled for May 20 is open for free registration through Feb. 28 and will then cost $90. The online event will stream 16 sessions in four tracks. Beningo Embedded Group and EmbeddedRelated.com have launched an Embedded Online Conference scheduled for May 20 with 16 sessions for live streaming and interactive Q&A […]

The Mozilla Firefox 73 open-source web browser is now available to download for all supported platforms, including GNU/Linux, Windows, and macOS.

A new major version of Ksnip screenshot tool was released yesterday with numerous improvements like global hotkeys for taking a screenshot on Linux (X11) and Windows, a system tray icon and the ability to start Ksnip minimized to the tray, the ability to add watermarks to screenshots, and more.