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When cloning a Git repository or creating new feature branches, you will have to set upstream branches in order to work properly. But what are upstream branches? Upstream branches are closely associated with remote branches. Upstream branches define the branch tracked on the remote repository by your local remote branch (also called the remote tracking branch)...

Conky is a system monitor for X originally based on torsmo. In this article, we will explain how you can install the Conky utility and the Conky Manager application through the Debian command line.

This article explains how to use FFmpeg to extract the audio stream from a video, either without re-encoding (keeping the original format), or converting the resulting audio file to CBR (constant bitrate) or VBR (variable bitrate) MP3 or Ogg Vorbis.

Dell has been offering Linux laptops for over a decade now, but never before have they offered so many high-end developer laptop models with 18 different configurations.

Nvidia has released today a new graphics driver for UNIX systems, including GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, to add support for new GPUs and various improvements.

Discover three core security themes concerning containers.

Webmin is a free, open-source and web-based system configuration and management tool for Unix-like operating systems. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Webmin using two different methods on CentOS 8.

Awk comes in several varieties: There is the original awk, written in 1977 at AT&T Bell Laboratories, and several reimplementations, such as mawk, nawk, and the one that ships with most Linux distributions, GNU awk, or gawk. On most Linux distributions, awk and gawk are synonyms referring to GNU awk, and typing either invokes the same awk command. See the GNU awk user's guide for the full history of awk and gawk. read more

If you ever attach to a WiFi system outside your home or office, you often see a portal page. This page may ask you to accept terms of service or some other agreement to get access. But what happens when you can’t connect through this kind of portal? This article shows you how to use […]

Continuing in the theme of showing the lighter side of Linux, here’s a curious program. It’s called lolcat, an oddity that applies rainbow colors to text output in the terminal. It works in a similar way to the venerable cat command but jazzes things up with configurable rainbow colors.

2DayGeek: This tutorial allows you to backup configuration files on a remote system.

Woolly bullies in the context of the Free software world

The SparkyLinux development team announced today the general availability of November's release of the latest SparkyLinux 2019 "Po Tolo" rolling release series.

While working on the Linux command line you interact with a lot of different files. Each of these files has attributes attached to them. These attributes contain details about the files size, permissions, modification time, and an assortment of other information. There are a multitude of reasons that you might need to the print the attributes of a file. This is where the Linux stat command comes in. In this article we will discuss how to use the stat command, using it’s options and formatting the output.

Every system administrator got this error at least one time in a shell : “bash : command not found“. However, you were pretty sure that you wrote the command correctly, or that you installed the tool that you are actually trying to execute. So why are you getting this error? The “bash : command not found” error can happen for various reasons when running commands in a Bash terminal...

This guide will walk you through installing Python 3 and Python 2 on CentOS 8.

Ubuntu 19.10 Bug Shares Your Media Folders With Others, Without Warning

UBports developer Marius Gripsgard has announced today on Twitter that the official Ubuntu Touch installer now supports more Ubuntu Phones, including OnePlus 3 and Sony Xperia X.

Intel unveiled dual-core Pentium Gold 6405U and Celeron 5205U processors — two low-end additions to its 10th Gen, 14nm, Comet Lake-U series, which includes four Core models led by a hexa-core i7-10710U. Intel “quietly announced” two more Comet Lake-U processors, according to an AnandTech report. There’s a dual-core, quad-thread Pentium Gold 6405U clocked at 2.4GHz […]

It's been a month since Consistency was announced as an official goal for KDE at Akademy. During this time, we have focused on setting up all the tools needed to support the goal and tracking already active consistency tasks. Here's an update on what we have done so far and the main tasks we're working on.