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In this article, we will learn how to install Cinnamon 3.4 desktop environment on Ubuntu. Cinnamon offers flexibility, speed, a traditional but elegant desktop look with the bottom panel and app menu.

Environment variables in Linux let you set options for various apps without having to edit configuration files. Learn how to manage them.

Academic work fits nicely into the open source ethos: The higher the value of what you give away, the greater your academic prestige and earnings. Professors accomplish this by sharing their best ideas for free in journal articles in peer-reviewed literature. This is our currency, without a strong publishing record not only would our ability to progress in our careers degrade, but even our jobs could be lost (and the ability to get any other job). read more

In this guide, we will show you how to remove (delete) symbolic links in Linux/UNIX systems using the rm, unlink, and find commands.

Vecow unveiled an “EMBC-3000” 3.5-inch SBC with SUMIT expansion and an “SPC-5200” embedded PC with PoE that run Linux or Win 10 on Whiskey Lake-UE CPUs. I/O includes 4x USB 3.1 Gen 2, 2x SATA, 2x GbE, 2x mini-PCIe, and triple displays. Taiwan-based embedded vendor Vecow has been making Intel-based computers for years, dating back […]

With the Firefox 69 out the door, Mozilla has kicked off development of the next major Firefox release, version 70, which brings exciting new features and various improvements.

In this tutorial, we will learn how to install the latest version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 on a dedicated hardware server machine or on a private or public cloud virtual machine using the DVD ISO image or by using a bootable RHEL USB. Red Hat Linux is a highly stable Open Source Linux distribution developed by Red Hat and one of the most older and popular Linux distribution for which the support must be paid via subscriptions.

In this article, we will learn how to install and use Cruftbuster to clean a Linux PC. We will use Ubuntu 18.04 LTS for describing the procedure mentioned in this article.

Microsoft's strategy seems to be working; it's hoping to devour Linux and buy off most Free software repositories without actually becoming a different company (just more of the same and worse)

As part of my role as a senior product marketing manager at an enterprise software company with an open source development model, I publish a regular update about open source community, market, and industry trends for product marketers, managers, and other influencers. Here are five of my and their favorite articles from that update.

This brief guide will explain how to enable SSH on FreeBSD to access it from remote systems on the network.

It looks like Dropbox will soon stop following symbolic links to files or folders outside of the Dropbox folder. When placing a symbolic link (symlink or soft link) in the Dropbox folder before this change, the symlink is replaced by the data it points to, so you have the actual data on the Dropbox servers, and not just the symlink.

Writing is not an easy task, and therefore any assistance provided by a useful app can be very much appreciated, and even totally relied upon. The apps included here needed to satisfy only three criteria to make it to this list: they had to be compatible for Linux, they had to be a writing tool but not a word processing app, and they had to be great.

In the beginning, there was machine languages and assembler. Neither was easy to use, but then along came COBOL, and everything changed.

If you've considered giving Linux a closer look but are put off by the slashes, dots, roots, mounts, and terminal weirdness, this introduction to the Linux filesystem structure explains it all from a DOS/Windows perspective.

Mastodon is a free and open-source network platform that is very similar to the famous social media platform known as Twitter. However, unlike Twitter, there is no single central authority and there is no advertising. Mastodon is written in Ruby and JavaScript and its open-source nature makes sure that it remains open for anyone to use privately and securely.

FriendlyElec has launched a tiny, $13 “ZeroPi” SBC that runs Linux on a quad -A7 Allwinner H3 with 512MB DDR3 and provides single GbE, USB 2.0, and micro-USB ports — but no GPIO.

The Document Foundation announced today the general availability of the first point release of the latest LibreOffice 6.3 open-source and cross-platform office suite series for all supported platforms.

There are techniques from traditional programming environments that can help. Some basic tools like using an editor with syntax highlighting will help as well. There are builtin options that Bash provides to make debugging and your everyday Linux System Administration job easier.

In this article, we will learn how to launch Opera as a snap in Ubuntu. On Ubuntu 18.04 and 19.04 TS, snap comes preinstalled.