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It is my pleasure to introduce Opensource.com's selection of books that would make excellent holiday gift ideas. We hope you find them interesting items to give as gifts this holiday season or to add to your own holiday wishlist. Each book exhibits qualities that make them excellent gifts for open source enthusiasts, as they all encourage learning, exploring, and tinkering.

Text expansion (or substitution) helps you save time by transforming abbreviations into a long string of text. Use it to boost your productivity by quickly inserting a phrase that you need to type frequently, your address, code and so on, in any application. This tutorial explains how to automate repetitive typing using AutoKey, a desktop automation utility for Linux / X11.

Renowned Linux kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman released today the first point release to the latest Linux 5.4 kernel series, which is now stable and ready for mass deployments.

A better operating system thanks to Rust's combination of safety and performance? The Redox OS, written in Rust and currently under development, is only "a few months of work away" from self-hosting, meaning that the Rustc compiler would run on Redox itself, according to its creator Jeremy Soller.…

The Orange Pi 4 and 4B SBCs have launched at $59.90 and $69.90, respectively, running Linux or Android on a RK3399 with 4GB LPDDR4, 16GB eMMC, WiFi/BT, GbE, HDMI, Type-C with DP, 40-pin, PCIe, and more. The 4B adds a 2.8-TOPS NPU. Earlier this month, Shenzhen Xunlong teased a Rockchip RK3399 based Orange Pi 4 […]

We have all been in the situation where we ran out of space, and need to add another drive. Back before LVM, you would have to add a second drive, create a partition, and find a decent place to mount it. You will be happy to hear those days are over. It is a bit more complicated, but the space is just magically available for LVM to put wherever you need it.

The clock is ticking for Windows 7, as Microsoft is projected to stop servicing this OS version on January 14.

But at the same time, Linux continues to be a worthy alternative.

Django is the comprehensive web framework by which all other frameworks are measured. One of the most popular names in Python API development, Django has surged in popularity since its start in 2005. Django is maintained by the Django Software Foundation and has experienced great community support, with over 11,600 members worldwide. On Stack Overflow, Django has around 191,000 tagged questions. Websites like Spotify, YouTube, and Instagram rely on Django for application and data management. read more

Toolbox allows you to sort and manage your development environments in containers without requiring root privileges or manually attaching volumes. It creates a container where you can install your own CLI tools, without installing them on the base system itself. You can also utilize it when you do not have root access or cannot install […]

The title above is one of the questions that once existed in my mind, maybe also the readers. I am currently a Xubuntu user, but many of my community partners use different distributions. Some use Linux Mint, Arch, Ubuntu, Kali and many others.

SpaceFM has a feature that offers instant access to the apps you want to use to open your files. Here's how to use it to easily open multiple files in Linux

This post is about zipping files and directories in Linux. I have explained zip command through the use of examples. Please check it out.

Redis is an open-source in-memory key-value data store. It can be used as a database, cache and message broker and supports various data structures such as Strings, Hashes, Lists, Sets, etc.

As a Linux system administrator, inspecting log files is one of the most common tasks that you may have to perform. Linux logs are crucial : they store important information about some errors that may happen on your system. They might also store information about who’s trying to access your system, what a specific service is doing, or about a system crash that happened earlier. As a consequence, knowing how to locate, manipulate and parse log files is definitely a skill that you have to master.

Latest preview will also 'crash less'! Hooray! A fresh preview of Microsoft's open-sourced Windows Terminal landed overnight with a couple of standout features to make the app a handy addition to the toolkit of Windows 10 shell-botherers.…

The best way to clean a data table? Clean the data before it gets entered. Build an error-free lookup list and enforce its use.

The docker run command creates a container from a given image and starts it using a given command. It is one of the first commands you should become familiar with when starting to work with Docker. In this article, we'll use the official Nginx image to show various ways to run a Docker container.

We are approaching that time of year when many folks are visiting family members or reconnecting with old friends during the holiday season. Your loved ones may or may not be the most tech-savvy. Our readers tend to fill the sysadmin role after hours. What kind of IT requests do you receive?

One of Linux's many advantages is its ability to install and run on old computers. What Linux can't technically do is make an old computer's hardware magically perform better. After all, the hardware is the same hardware as ever, and sometimes old hardware feels notably slow when processing modern software that tries to take advantage of new hardware features. read more

Managing games across multiple stores, emulators and compatibility layers doesn't need to be a hassle. Lutris takes the majority of that annoyance away and a big new release is now available.