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This brief guide describes how to change Linux console font type and size.

A new version of Mark Text, a popular Markdown editor, is out. Mark Text 0.15.0 includes a new find in files backend, new GUI settings, and a rewritten image component.

We are letting the tech giants win, says Kyle Rankin Linux Journal has closed with "no operating funds to continue in any capacity", according to a notice on its site.…

We are letting the tech giants win, says Kyle Rankin Linux Journal has closed with "no operating funds to continue in any capacity", according to a notice on its site.…

Symlinks are files that link to other files. In Linux, symlinks serve as shortcuts. Here is how to manage symlinks and fix broken symlinks in Linux.

This tutorial shows you how to create a bootable Ubuntu USB stick on Linux using Etcher ISO image writing software.

American computer manufacturer System76 has officially launched today their first 4K OLED Linux laptop, the Adder WS.

Matomo (formerly Piwik) is a free and open-source web analytics application developed by a team of international developers, that runs on a PHP/MySQL webserver. This tutorial will show you how to install Matomo on a FreeBSD 12.0 system using Nginx as the webserver and we will secure the website with a Let's Encrypt SSL certificate.

Because scrum and kanban both fall under the agile methodology umbrella, many people confuse them or think they're the same thing. There are differences, however. For one, scrum is more specific to software development teams, while kanban is used by many kinds of teams and focuses on providing a visual representation of an agile team's workflow. Some argue that kanban is about getting things done, and scrum is about talking about getting things done. read more

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and configure WordPress with OpenLiteSpeed on an Ubuntu 18.04 VPS. OpenLiteSpeed is a lightweight, open-source HTTP server developed and copyrighted by LiteSpeed Technologies, Inc.

The du command, short for "disk usage" reports the estimated amount of disk space used by given files or directories.

Email remains a fact of life. Despite all its warts, it's still the best way to send information to most people, especially in automated ways that allow messages to queue for recipients. read more

Pico is an open-source simple and fast flat-file CMS written in PHP. In this tutorial, we will install Pico CMS with Nginx on Debian 10 (buster) system.

Some gripes at this stage, but the potential is there. Hands On Container wunderkind Docker has released a preview of Docker Desktop for Windows Subsystem for Linux 2.…

Markdown is a widely adopted plain-text formatting syntax used to specify HTML rendering. It is also an essential skill to learn if you want to contribute to open source software.  Like many concepts in open source communities, there are multiple, domain-specific distributions of Markdown. CommonMark provides an unambiguous rendering specification for defined Markdown incantations while many communities offer extensions to the official specification. read more

Having an offsite backup in your RV is great, and after a year of use, I've discovered some ways to make it even better.

Jonathan Corbet wrote a document for inclusion in the kernel tree, describing best practices for merging and rebasing git-based kernel repositories. As he put it, it represented workflows that were actually in current use, and it was a living document that hopefully would be added to and corrected over time.

How to get started using Python's asyncio.

A look into what causes kernel panics and some utilities to help gain more information.

Containerizing the GUI separates your work and play. Virtualization has always been a rich man's game, and more frugal enthusiasts—unable to afford fancy server-class components—often struggle to keep up. Linux provides free high-quality hypervisors, but when you start to throw real workloads at the host, its resources become saturated quickly. No amount of spare RAM shoved into an old Dell desktop is going to remedy this situation. If a properly decked-out host is out of your reach, you might want to consider containers instead.