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A previous Fedora Magazine article covered tracking your time and tasks. Another introduced some mind mapping tools. There you learned that mind mapping is a visual technique for structuring and organizing thoughts and ideas. This article covers another mind mapping app you can use in Fedora: Freeplane. Freeplane is a free and open source software […]

Arne Exton released today a new version of his Ubuntu-based LFA (Linux For All) distribution, a release that ships with some of the latest GNU/Linux technologies.

Skype is one of the most popular communication applications in the world. It is cross-platform, available on Windows, Linux, and macOS. With Skype, you can make free online audio and video calls, and international calling to mobiles and landlines worldwide. This guide shows two ways of installing Skype on Ubuntu 20.04. Skype can be installed as a snap package via the Snapcraft store or as a deb package from the Skype repositories.

I grew up in rural towns all over Ontario, Canada. We weren't particularly well off, although, as a kid in the middle of nowhere, I wasn't really aware of our socioeconomic status. What I was aware of was this beige box called a computer that sat in my dad's office. Dad worked for the bank, and for his job, it was essential for him to have a computer. So while we never had the latest gaming console, we always had a computer. read more

If you are one of those people who like the command line that much, then we've prepared a list of good open source password managers that can be launched and used, fully, from the command line.

The objective of this tutorial is to provide the reader with a quick-start guide on how to test 3d acceleration by checking for FPS on Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa.

We've all been there. "I'm going to get this Raspberry Pi to try out. They look kinda cool." And then, like tribbles on an Enterprise, suddenly you have Kubernetes clusters and NFS servers and Tor proxies. Maybe even a hotel booking system! read more

By default when you set up the server you will configure the primary network interface. This is part of the build work that everyone does. Sometimes you may need to configure an additional network interface for several reasons. This quick tutorial shows you about network interface card information.

KDE Plasma desktop environment version 5.20 is currently is in the development phase and some of the exciting feature highlights announced in the developer blog.

May 2020 was a great month for the Enable Sysadmin community! We published 33 articles and received over 240,000 page views. Today, we are looking back at our top ten articles to give readers a chance to catch up on any of the great content they may have missed! In this list, you will see various topics covered and we are confident that some, if not all will be of interest to you!

elementary OS 5.1.5 has been released as the fifth installment in the elementary OS 5.1 “Hera” series bringing more improvements and bug fixes, along with all the latest updates and security patches.

Chown command is one of the most important commands in Linux that we should absolutely know about. Those who have some experience with Linux System administration must know that a change in permission or ownership can break your application or even your system. That’s were ‘Chown command’ in Linux comes to the rescue.

This guide explains what is eCryptfs and how to encrypt directories with eCryptfs in Linux to store your personal and sensitive data.

The Linux Mint distribution team put out another of their monthly updates, and this month was quite interesting with their anti-Snap plans.

Each year, the team at Tidelift asks developers to update us on how they are managing their use of open source dependencies for application development. In June 2019, almost 400 professional software developers responded to our survey with input on "how they use open source software today, what holds them back, and what tools and strategies would help them use it even more effectively."

In Python, you can sort a list using the built-in list.sort() method or the built-in sorted() function.

There are ways you can join the fight to beat the pandemic that require neither money nor an at-home bedroom-turned-virus-laboratory. Distributing computing projects, in which individuals contribute computing processing power or data crunching, can contribute to analyzing and modeling data in the fight against the coronavirus.

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, and more. This tutorial describes how to install and configure Redis on Ubuntu 20.04.

Michael Tremer announced today the general availability of IPFire 2.25 Core Update 145, a new maintenance update of this popular Linux-based, open-source and free firewall distribution.

Made on a low-powered Linux laptop, the action-roguelike Burning Knight is well worth a look.