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PC/OpenSystems announced today the release of the Linspire 8.5 Linux operating system, the commercial variant of the free and open-source Freespire Linux OS.

Since my transition to Linux I have acquired a culture of open source software, a culture that is expanding with every day I spend in Linux. Especially after having seen the importance of open source applications in fighting the monopoly of Big softwares companies such as Microsoft, Apple, Adobe ...

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I was recently given a laptop that came with Windows 10 on it and wanted to install Linux over it because well. Windows sucks.

Here are the basics of how to install, set up, and troubleshoot the Dovecot mail server.

As technology evolves and the use of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning becomes increasingly mainstream, consumers are more concerned than ever before about protecting their privacy. Awareness surrounding how activities are being tracked and how personal information is being accessed and used is growing. The worlds biggest companies are frequently being challenged on the ways that they collect and utilize people's data.

Yesterday, Jack Dorsey made a bold statement: Twitter will cease all political advertising on the platform. “Internet political ads present entirely new challenges to civic discourse: machine learning-based optimization of messaging and micro-targeting, unchecked misleading information, and deep fakes. All at increasing velocity, sophistication, and overwhelming scale,” he tweeted.

“Revenge, punishment and ‘cancel culture’ are themselves unethical. It’s a fascist programme.”

The Linux Mint project have published today their monthly newsletter to keep the community behind this very popular Ubuntu-based operating system up to date with the latest developments and upcoming releases.

This tutorial shows how to get system details on your Debian 10 system like Kernel name, Kernel release, Kernel version, hostname, hardware architecture, processor type, hardware platform, and OS information.

Digilent’s “Eclypse Z7” and “Genesys ZU” SBCs run Linux on Zynq 7020 and Zynq UltraScale+ Arm/FPGA SoCs, respectively, and offer expansion slots for Pmod and higher-speed SYZYGY modules including new DAC and ADC modules.

Vim has its own terminology for copying, cutting, and pasting. Copy is called yank (y), cut is called delete (d), and paste is called put (p).

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Awk is one of the oldest tools in the Unix and Linux user's toolbox. Created in the 1970s by Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger, and Brian Kernighan (the A, W, and K of the tool's name), awk was created for complex processing of text streams. It is a companion tool to sed, the stream editor, which is designed for line-by-line processing of text files. Awk allows more complex structured programs and is a complete programming language. This article will explain how to use awk for more structured and complex tasks, including a simple mail merge application.

Lukasz Erecinski of Pine64 (Interview) Pinebook Pro Pinetab Specs Pinephone Pinetime (Smartwatch) Gnome Won’t Back Down From Patent Trolls Canonical Has A New Ubuntu Desktop Director

Having problems with services failing to start because other services are taking too long? Here's one person's solution.

Ansible has long been seen as more than configuration management—it's an orchestrator more than anything, a conductor of the orchestra rather than playing a singular instrument. Since realising this, various tech communities have used Ansible to automate some interesting technology arenas.

It was fun to work at a large web property in the late 1990s and early 2000s. My experience takes me back to American Greetings Interactive, where on Valentine's Day, we had one of the top 10 sites on the internet (measured by web traffic). We delivered e-cards for AmericanGreetings.com, BlueMountain.com, and others, as well as providing e-cards for partners like MSN and AOL.

Fedora 31 Workstation comes with a Firefox backend moved from X11 to Wayland by default. That’s just another step in the outgoing effort of moving to Wayland. This affects Gnome on Wayland only. There is a firefox-wayland package available to activate the Wayland backend on other desktop environments (KDE, Sway) Wayland architecture is completely different […]

Vivaldi Technologies have released today the Vivaldi 2.9 web browser for desktop platforms, including GNU/Linux, macOS, and Microsoft Windows, a release that adds various improvements.

WordPress is a free, open-source and most widely used content management system in the world. In this tutorial, we will explain how to install WordPress with Nginx on CentOS 8 server and then we secure the server by using a free Let's Encrypt SSL certificate.