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Monitoring tools are vital and every system admin knows it. With the help of resource monitoring applications, we can continually observe the health of a system's resources when a task is running. Bashtop and Bpytop resource monitors are used to monitor system resources in Linux and Unix-like operating systems.

The open-source, free and multi-platform Darktable RAW image editor received today a new update that brings major new features and improvements, along with better camera support.

If you're the sort of person who waits until you're sure all the bugs are out before upgrading, you'll be glad to know that Canonical has just released the first point update of April 2020's Ubuntu Linux 20.04 Long-Term Support: Ubuntu 20.04.1.

There are several ways to merge and sort text files on Linux. The command you choose depends on your data and preferences. Here’s a look at some of the options.

Ryan Finnie announced today the release and general availability of the Debian-based Finnix 121 live Linux distro for system administrators.

Apache Cassandra is a free and open-source NoSQL database with no single point of failure. It provides linear scalability and high availability without compromising performance. Apache Cassandra is used by many companies that have large, active data sets, including Reddit, NetFlix, Instagram, and Github. This article guides you through the installation of Apache Cassandra on Ubuntu 20.04.

8086 Consultancy’s $99 “ClusterCTRL Stack” board-set enables clustering of up to 5x Raspberry Pi boards with support for a 12-24V power supply and dual 5V fans. You can also 3D print a case. 8086 Consultancy has launched a Raspberry Pi clustering kit on Tindie for $99. The ClusterCTRL Stack comprises a controller board and passive […]

It feels like forever since I wrote my Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Beta intro to Podman. In fact, it's been quite a while, and a lot has happened since then. Follow the migration of a virtual machine from Docker to Podman

Check out how to handle large CSV files on Linux Command line using XSV

The KDE Project released today KDE Frameworks 5.73, a new major version of its open-source software suite for the KDE Plasma desktop environment that adds numerous new features and improvements.

Here's a recap for the week in the form of weekly roundup, curated for you from the Linux and opensource world on application updates, new releases, distribution updates, major news, and upcoming trends.

In this week’s edition of our open source news roundup, an open source microfluidics pump, Germany rolls out an encrypted messaging platform based on Matrix, and more open source news.

Tor Browser is a customized version of Firefox that routes the web traffic through the Tor network, making it private and anonymous. When you browse the Internet with the Tor Browser, the connection to the website you are viewing is encrypted and protected from network surveillance and traffic analysis. This article describes how to install the Tor web browser on Ubuntu 20.04.

The Mageia development team announced today the availability of the beta version of the upcoming Mageia 8 operating system series, due for release later this year.

Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS the first point release is available now and you can immediately download or upgrade.

"Corporate-backed lies run the world, and the FSF used to get in the way."

Open source software is now mainstream; long gone are the days when open source projects attracted developers alone. Nowadays, users across numerous industries are active consumers of open source software, and you can't expect everyone to know how to use the software just by reading the code.

The developers behind elementary OS revealed today some of the upcoming features to be included in the next major release of their Ubuntu-based operating system, elementary OS 6.

With Microsoft abandoning PC-based office software, if you don't want to use cloud-based office suites such as Microsoft 365 or G Suite, LibreOffice 7 will be your best desktop office suite choice.

AMD released Radeon Software for Linux 20.30, a new version of its proprietary graphics driver for AMD Radeon GPUs with support for new GNU/Linux distributions.