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Linux on Windows is continuing to grow ever more powerful and functional. Now, graphical Linux programs are being integrated into WSL.

There are common beliefs about user experiences—the best ones are user-centered, iterative, and intuitive. When user experience (UX) research is conducted, user stories about these experiences are collected—but the research methods chosen inform user experiences, too. So, what makes for an engaging research experience, and how can methods evolve alongside products to better connect with users? read more

Advantech’s Linux-ready “SOM-2532” SMARC 2.1 module is built around Intel’s Atom-class, 10nm Elkhart Lake platform and supplies up to 16GB LPDDR4-3200, 256GB UFS 2.1, dual GbE with TSN, dual USB 3.1 Gen 2, dual CAN, and triple 4K support. Advantech is one of the early adopters of Intel’s newly announced Elkhart Lake Atom x6000E, Pentium, […]

We are on the threshold to the next gigantic leap, thanks to quantum computers. Sysadmins, are you ready?

Avalue’s rugged, 3.5-inch “ECM-EHL” runs Linux or Win 10 on an Atom x6000E and offers up to 32GB DDR4-3200, 2.5GbE and GbE, 2x USB 3.1 Gen2, triple 4K displays, and 2x M.2 slots with SIM. Avalue has posted specs for a 3.5-inch ECM-EHL SBC that runs on Intel’s new dual- or quad-core Elkhart Lake Atom […]

dupeGuru finds duplicate files in a given set of directories and sub-directories. It recognizes duplicates by comparing MD5 signature of files followed by a byte-to-byte comparison.

I just stumbled onto a new (to me) feature of the GNOME desktop that enables you to create a document template. A template is generally an empty shell of a document with certain things configured and is often referred to as boilerplate. An example might be a letterhead for a law firm, with its corporate title and address at the top. Another might be a bank or insurance carrier letter that contains certain disclaimers in the footer at the bottom of the document. read more

New editions of Manjaro Linux are in the works, Manjaro Deepin Edition with the Deepin Desktop Environment (DDE) and Manjaro UKUI Edition with Ubuntu Kylin’s UKUI desktop environment, and today I want to give you a first look at Manjaro Deepin Edition.

How to split a text file into multiple files using context lines. In this tutorial we discuss splitting files after a line with a matching string or after x number of lines.

Duf is a command line utility to find disk usage in Linux and Unix systems. It displays the disk usage details in a tabular-column layout.

Traefik is an open-source HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer that helps you to deploy microservices easily. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and configure Traefik as a reverse proxy on CentOS 8.

Happening in plain sight with Proton, WSL and Edge-for-Linux, says open source advocate Open source software advocate Eric S Raymond has penned an argument that the triumph of Linux on the desktop is imminent, because Microsoft will soon tire of Windows.…

This is part 13 in an ongoing series about creating video games in Python 3 using the Pygame module. Previous articles are: read more

Back in 2016, we carried a feature looking at 5 music software that were highly promising. The five music programs are qomp, Lollypop, Yarock, Pragha, and Volumio. How did these 5 music players fare over the last 4 years? Did they see a stable release, were they able to capture any market share at all, or are they only remembered like fingerprints on an abandoned handrail?

Following below is a brief "howto" succeed with mentioned installation on SparkyLinux 2020.09 in meantime

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Running Windows apps on Linux is quite the norm for many Linux users, but Microsoft is flipping the table today with plans to run Linux programs on Windows.

KaOS Linux 2020.09 has been released as the September 2020 updated ISO snapshot for this KDE Plasma-based, desktop oriented independent GNU/Linux distribution inspired by Arch Linux.

Python has a built-in function len() that returns the length of a given object. The object can be a list , tuple, string, dictionary, etc. Lists are one of the most commonly used data types in Python and are used to store collections of items of the same type. This article shows how to find the length of a list.

Take your remote working game to the next level with these Raspberry Pi home office projects.