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Linux has become a go-to operating system for much larger platforms, such as servers, supercomputers, and cloud computing, as well as the small, handy devices we keep on our persons at all times; smartphones.

There are loads of Linux books on the market today, covering a wide range of skill levels, many of which may not suit your unique situation. We’ve comprised this years top 10 best Linux books, sorted from beginner to expert...

In mid-October, System76 made an exciting announcement for open source hardware fans: It would soon begin shipping two of its laptop models, Galago Pro and Darter Pro, with the open source BIOS coreboot. read more

Plasma is the desktop environment for people who want modern looking, customizable, and want new features every now and then.

What training and certification opportunities should you seek as a Linux system administrator? Which ones should you look for if you want to hire a Linux system administrator? There are answers.

As part of my role as a senior product marketing manager at an enterprise software company with an open source development model, I publish a regular update about open source community, market, and industry trends for product marketers, managers, and other influencers. Here are five of my and their favorite articles from that update.

A modular, open-spec “YABA DesktopBox” controller and IoT gateway has launched on Indiegogo with an RPi CM3 based control board and an Arduino based analog and digital I/O board. A USB 3.1 backplane supports LVDS/EtherCAT and I2C buses. A startup called YABA (Yet Another Backplane Architecture) based in Italy and Latvia has gone to Indiegogo […]

Google has released today the Android Security Patch for November 2019 to address various security vulnerabilities and fix bugs in its latest Android 10 mobile operating system.

The ‘useradd’ command in linux is a popular tool used to create or add user accounts.Much like the command ‘usermod’, the ‘useradd’ command affects many files when it is invoked to create a new user account, namely, /etc/shadow, /etc/passwd, /etc/gshadow , /etc/login.defs, /etc/group

When cloning a Git repository or creating new feature branches, you will have to set upstream branches in order to work properly. But what are upstream branches? Upstream branches are closely associated with remote branches. Upstream branches define the branch tracked on the remote repository by your local remote branch (also called the remote tracking branch)...

Conky is a system monitor for X originally based on torsmo. In this article, we will explain how you can install the Conky utility and the Conky Manager application through the Debian command line.

This article explains how to use FFmpeg to extract the audio stream from a video, either without re-encoding (keeping the original format), or converting the resulting audio file to CBR (constant bitrate) or VBR (variable bitrate) MP3 or Ogg Vorbis.

Dell has been offering Linux laptops for over a decade now, but never before have they offered so many high-end developer laptop models with 18 different configurations.

Nvidia has released today a new graphics driver for UNIX systems, including GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, to add support for new GPUs and various improvements.

Discover three core security themes concerning containers.

Webmin is a free, open-source and web-based system configuration and management tool for Unix-like operating systems. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Webmin using two different methods on CentOS 8.

Awk comes in several varieties: There is the original awk, written in 1977 at AT&T Bell Laboratories, and several reimplementations, such as mawk, nawk, and the one that ships with most Linux distributions, GNU awk, or gawk. On most Linux distributions, awk and gawk are synonyms referring to GNU awk, and typing either invokes the same awk command. See the GNU awk user's guide for the full history of awk and gawk. read more

If you ever attach to a WiFi system outside your home or office, you often see a portal page. This page may ask you to accept terms of service or some other agreement to get access. But what happens when you can’t connect through this kind of portal? This article shows you how to use […]

Continuing in the theme of showing the lighter side of Linux, here’s a curious program. It’s called lolcat, an oddity that applies rainbow colors to text output in the terminal. It works in a similar way to the venerable cat command but jazzes things up with configurable rainbow colors.

2DayGeek: This tutorial allows you to backup configuration files on a remote system.

Woolly bullies in the context of the Free software world