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Tails, the amnesic incognito live system based on Debian GNU/Linux, has been updated to version 4.6, a new release that brings several new features and security fixes.

Jitsi Meet is a free and open-source video-conferencing application that can be used as a standalone application or embed in your web application. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Jitsi Meet Video Conferencing application on Debian 10.

For some time now, the GNOME desktop has had the ability to launch specific games and applications using a more powerful GPU if you're in a multi-GPU environment and now it's advancing further.

Happy 1.0 to the fruits of volunteer labour Open-source, cross-platform vector drawing package Inkscape has reached its version 1.0 milestone after many years of development.…

Does the GNU project have any policy about trusting Microsoft with control of vital free software projects at all?

More than three years in the making, the Inkscape 1.0 release of the best free and open-source vector graphics editor software is finally here and it’s a massive update.

Two bits of Vulkan related news to share today. Recently the Vulkan specification was bumped again with new extension and today a new NVIDIA Vulkan Beta Driver went up.

On this episode of This Week in Linux, we’ve got news from Fedora, PopOS, Red Hat, openSUSE, and a follow up for the Ubuntu 20.04 release. There are 7 Ubuntu Flavours and all of them have a 20.04 release with some really interesting stuff happening in each one. If that wasn’t enough, Inkscape 1.0 has finally be released after 16 Years of continuous develop so this episode is just jam packed with Linux News. All that and much more on Your Weekly Source for Linux GNews!

In Linux, groups are used to organize and administer user accounts. The primary purpose of groups is to define a set of privileges such as reading, writing, or executing permission for a given resource that can be shared among the users within the group. A new group can be created using the groupadd command. If a group is no longer needed and can be removed from the system. This article explains how to remove a group in Linux, using the groupdel command.

In a table with thousands of scientific names like "Stropharia rugosoannulata var. rugosoannulata Farl. ex Murrill, 1922", are all the Latin bits correctly spelled? This post explains how to build and use a custom dictionary of scientific names, entirely on the command line.

The KDE Project released the KDE Plasma 5.18.5 bugfix update to make the latest Plasma 5.18 LTS desktop environment series more stable and reliable.

FieldComm’s “HART-IP Developer Kit” combines a RPi 3B+, a WaveShare High-Precision AD/DA Board, a DLSRKIT PoE HAT, and open source software for exploring the HART-IP field instrumentation comm protocol. The FieldComm Group has announced a HART-IP Developer Kit built around the Raspberry Pi for evaluation, demonstrating, and prototyping devices that use HART-IP, the company’s IP-enabled […]

Video games are a big business. That's great for the industry's longevity—not to mention for all the people working in programming and graphics. But it can take a lot of work, time, and money to keep up with all the latest gaming crazes. If you feel like playing a few quick rounds of a video game without investing in a new console or game franchise, then you'll be happy to know that there are plenty of open source combat games you can download, play, share, and even modify (if you're inclined to programming) for free. read more

I've made installation on bare metal and have to notice that after system reboot during major system load obtained several times "Tainted warning" from 5.3 kernel and consequently failure to boot up system, however finally (after cold shutdown ) something inside instance started to work properly but once again boot up time seems to be too much versus Fedora 32, easily installing DDE as second desktop environment, booting up speed is extremely slow. I realize that compete with with RH's system couldn't be easy for Debian based clone kind of Deepin 20

at is a command-line utility that allows you to schedule commands to be executed at a particular time. Jobs created with at are executed only once.

Way back in 2012, Harvard Business Review published an article that proclaimed "data scientist" to be the sexiest job of the 21st century. Interest in data science has exploded since then. Many great open source projects, such as Python and the R language for statistical computing, have facilitated the rapid developments in how we analyze data. read more

In this article, I will show you how you can adjust the brightness of your screen with the pre-installed xrandr utility on CentOS 8.

MySQL is the most popular open-source relational database management system. It is fast, easy to use, and an integral part of the popular LAMP and LEMP stacks.

If you need to set up a simple DNS service in Linux, try Unbound.

This tutorial shows how to set up file synchronization between two Debian 10 servers with Unison. Unison is a file-synchronization tool similar to rsync, the big difference is that it tracks/synchronizes changes in both directions, i.e., files changed on Server 1 will be replicated to Server 2 and vice versa.