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2DayGeek: It's mandatory for Linux admin to understand /etc/passwd file format. If not, check out this article now.

Linux mint 19.2 “Tina” was released yesterday with a number of new features and a collection of system improvements. Tina is a step closer to making the distro more user friendly, stable, and customizable.

A file path is the human-readable representation of a file or folder’s location on a computer system. You’ve seen file paths, although you may not realize it, on the internet: An internet URL, despite ancient battles fought by proprietary companies like AOL and CompuServe, is actually just a path to a (sometimes dynamically created) file on someone else’s computer. read more

Recently, Debian has released version 10 with the codename Buster. Many websites discuss this distribution. Debian is one of the distributions that is a pioneer the birth of various cool distributions, one of which is Ubuntu.

LanguageTool is a free and open source proofreading tool for English, German, Spanish, Russian, and more than 25 other languages.

There are plenty of tools available to find hardware specifications on Linux systems. Here, I have listed three most commonly used tools to get almost all hardware (and software) details of a Linux system.

Aitech announced that its VxWorks-driven “Ai-RIO” computer, which is available in separate Space and Mil/Aero configurations, now offers a Linux BSP. The rugged Ai-RIO runs on a PowerPC-based NXP P1020 and offers radiation resistance and modular I/O expansion. Commercial space travel is on the verge of becoming a major market for embedded computing. Much of […]

News briefs for August 2, 2019.

The Linux Mint project released today the Linux Mint 19.2 "Tina" operating system, which is now available for download as Cinnamon, MATE, and Xfce editions.

Managed services and software optimized for Red Hat OpenShift and Linux aimed at helping enterprises move to the cloud.

I sometimes need to tidy up data tables by replacing all nearly-the-same versions of a data item with a single "normalised" version. This post describes a script for doing this job neatly with a GUI dialog while also making progressive back-ups of the table.

The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the August 2019 issue.

Usually, when installing a fresh copy of some Linux distribution on your laptop or PC, you’ll need a bootable USB containing the distribution you want to install. This tutorial will take you through the steps necessary to create a bootable Linux USB stick on Windows, macOS and Linux machines. You can use this USB stick to boot and test out or install the Linux distribution on any computer that supports booting from USB.

American computer manufacturer System76 informs Softedia News today that they plan on unveiling their first 4K OLED Linux laptop in early August 2019.

Spreads the Openshift love around for Cloud Paks. There are many reasons for IBM’s recent purchase of Red Hat, but one of them became apparent today - the Big Blue has announced that it has packed more than 100 products across its software portfolio into containers, designed for Red Hat’s OpenShift.…

Fragmentation has long been a problem for the Linux desktop, but now the two biggest open-source desktop foundations are joining forces.

Axiomtek’s “IPS962-512-PoE” embedded vision PC supports 6th or 7th Gen Intel chips and offers 4x PoE-ready GbE, PCIe, 4x USB 3.0, modular I/O expansion, and real-time vision-specific I/O with microsecond-scale and LED lighting control. Axiomtek has launched a IPS962-512-PoE machine vision controller with modular I/O expansion, isolated I/O interfaces, and real-time controls. The latter include […]

Valve has long wanted Linux to be a serious gaming platform. It's now taking its efforts into the Linux kernel itself.

This bash script will trigger an email once in a day with newly created users information.

Arch Linux fans rejoice, the first Arch Linux ISO snapshot powered by the latest Linux 5.2 kernel series is now available for download.