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The title above is one of the questions that once existed in my mind, maybe also the readers. I am currently a Xubuntu user, but many of my community partners use different distributions. Some use Linux Mint, Arch, Ubuntu, Kali and many others.

SpaceFM has a feature that offers instant access to the apps you want to use to open your files. Here's how to use it to easily open multiple files in Linux

This post is about zipping files and directories in Linux. I have explained zip command through the use of examples. Please check it out.

Redis is an open-source in-memory key-value data store. It can be used as a database, cache and message broker and supports various data structures such as Strings, Hashes, Lists, Sets, etc.

As a Linux system administrator, inspecting log files is one of the most common tasks that you may have to perform. Linux logs are crucial : they store important information about some errors that may happen on your system. They might also store information about who’s trying to access your system, what a specific service is doing, or about a system crash that happened earlier. As a consequence, knowing how to locate, manipulate and parse log files is definitely a skill that you have to master.

Latest preview will also 'crash less'! Hooray! A fresh preview of Microsoft's open-sourced Windows Terminal landed overnight with a couple of standout features to make the app a handy addition to the toolkit of Windows 10 shell-botherers.…

The best way to clean a data table? Clean the data before it gets entered. Build an error-free lookup list and enforce its use.

The docker run command creates a container from a given image and starts it using a given command. It is one of the first commands you should become familiar with when starting to work with Docker. In this article, we'll use the official Nginx image to show various ways to run a Docker container.

We are approaching that time of year when many folks are visiting family members or reconnecting with old friends during the holiday season. Your loved ones may or may not be the most tech-savvy. Our readers tend to fill the sysadmin role after hours. What kind of IT requests do you receive?

One of Linux's many advantages is its ability to install and run on old computers. What Linux can't technically do is make an old computer's hardware magically perform better. After all, the hardware is the same hardware as ever, and sometimes old hardware feels notably slow when processing modern software that tries to take advantage of new hardware features. read more

Managing games across multiple stores, emulators and compatibility layers doesn't need to be a hassle. Lutris takes the majority of that annoyance away and a big new release is now available.

Security Enhanced Linux or SELinux is a security mechanism built into the Linux kernel used by RHEL-based distributions.

Writing code requires reading a lot of documentation. Zeal is an offline documentation browser for you to access software documentation on your computer.

Sysadmins have many tools to view and manage running processes. For me, these primarily used to be top, atop, and htop. A few years ago, I found Glances, a tool that displays information that none of my other favorites do. All of these tools monitor CPU and memory usage, and most of them list information about running processes (at the very least). read more

Microweber is a drag and drop website builder and a powerful next-generation CMS and based on the PHP Laravel Framework. This tutorial will show you how to install Microweber on a fresh Debian 10 (buster) system with Nginx as a web server and MariaDB as a database engine.

Coreboot Version 4.11 Firefox Sweetens The Pot HPLIP Gets A New Release YouTube vs FTC: Family-Friendly Content at Risk? Linux 5.4 out and 5.5 Kernel Coming Half Life 3 Confirmed Sort Of Google Stadia

"Most designers don't have a clue about open source," says Eriol Fox of Ushahidi, a non-profit social enterprise that creates humanitarian, open source tech tools. Unfortunately, this means there are few design-related contributions to open source software, and this results in an abundance of poorly designed open source tools. read more

In this tutorial, we are going to discuss about some good alternatives to 'top', the command line task manager program.

Two Steam Play updates to share this morning! The official Proton was updated to Proton 4.11-9 and Proton 4.20 GE 1 is also up.

Troubleshooting VLANs is complicated. Here are some techniques to save your sanity.