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I’ve been writing reviews of Linux music players discovering a raft of gems along the way, together with a fair few turkeys. That’s the nature of open source software. It’s not necessarily an indication of quality or maturity. But with a mesmerizing selection on offer, there’s almost always free software that meets my specific requirements. For this review, I’m looking at Gemini, an audio player that sports an integrated wallpaper changer.

November's wander-around-the-web has turned up some interesting Ansible stories. It's fascinating to explore Ansible development through data, as Greg Sutcliffe does in his blog linked below. On the YouTubes this month, we found a couple of really interesting talks. Read on to see them for yourself.

Everything on Opensource.com's annual selection of tech gadgets would make an excellent holiday gift for your friends and family—or even something to add to your own holiday wishlist. Each of these gadgets encourages learning, exploring, and tinkering, qualities that reflect the values and interests of open source enthusiasts.

This article is part of a special series of 24 days of Linux desktops. Take a step back in time with Window Maker, which implements the old Unix NeXTSTEP environment for today's users.

A firewall is a security feature that filters incoming and outgoing traffic and keeps at bay potentially malicious applications. Additionally, a firewall gives the systems administrator the authority to determine which services and ports to allow and which ones to block or disallow. In this tutorial, you will learn how to stop and disable the firewall on CentOS 8.

The etc/passwd file is a text file with one entry per line, representing a user account.

If you're thinking about becoming a system administrator or continuing your career as one, you should read this excerpt from one system administrator's experience.

Using the fold command to wrap long lines of text makes it much easier text files on the command line. In this article we show you how to wrap at x number of characters or columns.

This tutorial shows how to build PHP 7.4 as PHP-FPM and FastCGI version on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS that uses the ISPConfig 3 Hosting Control Panel.

The openSUSE Leap 15.0 operating system release has reached end of life on November 30th, 2019, which was the last day when it received software updates and security patches.

In this short article, you will learn how to merge or split two or more PDF files using command line and GUI based tools. This is suitable for both beginners and experienced Linux users, so let’s get started.

The Lutris team announced yesterday that Epic Games have now awarded them a sum of money from the Epic MegaGrants pot.

VirtualBox is an open-source, cross-platform virtualization platform. It supports a number of guest operating systems, including Linux and Windows, and allows you to run multiple virtual machines simultaneously.

Every sysadmin needs a good troubleshooting strategy, and you can't fix a problem if you cannot identify it. These are my favorite commands to quickly filter through the possibilities of a given problem.

Jellyfin is a media server for streaming and organizing pictures, video, and audio. Learn how you can set up a home media server with Jellyfin on Ubuntu.

Struggling with what gifts to give the young person in your life this holiday season? Here are my top picks for open source presents that will spark creativity and inspire for years to come.

Chrome is a cross-platform, secure and light web browser which is developed by Google. In this tutorial, I am going to show you how to install Google Chrome on your Debian 10 machine using the terminal.

GNU/Linux developer Arne Exton released a new version of his Ubuntu-based Exton|OS distribution that's now based on the latest Ubuntu 19.10 (Eoan Ermine) operating system and Linux 5.4 kernel series.

From time to time, when I'm looking for some help on how to do something on my GNU/Linux desktop or server, I'll come across an article or conversation in a language other than English. If that language happens to be French or Spanish, that's fine for me. If it's in Portuguese or Italian, I can stumble through it. And, for other languages, occasionally, I'll give one of those online AI translators a go in the hopes of gleaning something useful.

How “Free Water” and “Free/Libre Software” (nowadays rebranded “OSS” or “FOSS”) relate to one another