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The KDE Project released the third of five maintenance updates to the latest KDE Plasma 5.16 desktop environment series, a bug fix release that addresses various issues.

Part 1 of this series looked at a couple of AWK array basics, namely index strings and value strings. This post deals with a very common use of AWK arrays, namely filtering or modifying a file based on information in another file.

Introducing the Yocto Project and the benefits of using it in embedded Linux development.

The Debian Edu team announced the release and general availability of the Debian Edu / Skolelinux 10 "Buster" operating system based on the Debian GNU/Linux 10 "Buster" series.

Edge computing is augmenting the role that Linux plays in our day-to-day lives. A conversation with Jaromir Coufal from Red Hat helps to define what the edge has become.

In an effort to make exFAT (a patent trap) the 'industry standard', even inside Linux, Microsoft now wants exFAT inside the very heart of Linux and people are pushing back

Whenever you type Linux commands in capital letters, the SUDO utility will run them as sudo user! So, you need not to use "sudo" in-front of a Linux command.

2DayGeek: This bash script will trigger an email when it's found "Warning, Error and Critical" in the /var/log/messages file.

Discord is free to use and manage, has VOIP support and is pretty customizable too. Here are five of the best Discord bots you should consider using.

If you’re in quality assurance, system administration, or (believe it or not) media production, you might have heard some variation of the term gold master, golden image, or master image, and so on. It’s a term that has made its way into the collective consciousness of anyone involved in creating one perfect model and then producing many duplicates from that mold. That’s what a gold master, or golden image, is: The virtual mold from which you cast your distributable models. read more

We already know how to create lists, they are comma separated values. Dictionaries are also comma separated key-value pairs. Dictionaries in python are declared very similar to JSON. Have a look at the following code.

Microsoft's bullying tactics aren't "old news"; the same tactics carry on to this date and they're the moral or corporate equivalent of doxing

LEMP is an excellent alternative to traditional LAMP servers. Nginx is lighter weight and faster than Apache in some situations. It can also be configured to do other useful things, like serve as a reverse proxy. Just like with LAMP, Debian is an excellent platform for LEMP servers. Everything you need is available in the Debian repositories, so it's simple to get started.

Telegram is an alternative chat application that you can use besides Whatsapp. This application has a function that exactly matches whatsapp. But for now, Telegram doesn't support video calls. Apart from functioning as a chat application, users of this application get many useful features provided.

Gateworks’ headless “Ventana GW5910” SBC runs OpenWrt or Ubuntu on a dual-core i.MX6 and provides GbE with PoE, WiFi/BT, optional GPS, Sub-1GHz, and 2.4GHz radios, and dual mini-PCIe slots for further wireless expansion. Freescale’s i.MX6 was ahead of its time when it launched in 2011, and in the NXP era it it has continued to […]

IBM's acquisition of Red Hat is a big deal -- a $34 billion big deal -- and many Linux professionals are wondering how it's going to change Red Hat's role in the Linux world.

Syncthing, an open source continuous file synchronization tool, had a new release yesterday. The new Syncthing 1.2.0 adds QUIC with NAT traversal as a new transport protocol, fixes some bugs, and enables automatic error reporting.

exFAT (Extended File Allocation Table) is a proprietary Microsoft file system optimized for flash memory devices such as SD cards and USB flash drives. It was designed to replace the old 32bit FAT32 file system that cannot store files larger than 4 GB. This tutorial explains how to enable exFAT support on CentOS 7.

In this article, we will explain how you can install the ALSA utility package if it is already not installed on your Ubuntu. We will also explain how you can control the audio properties of your sound cards through Alsamixer - the graphical interface for ALSA and Amixer - the command-based utility for ALSA.

In this opinion article, you will find a set of suggestions for the inclusion of enterprise technology into software engineering courses. This piece goes through the difficulties that students face and proposes simplifications successfully used in the past. The continual advancement of enterprise technologies leads to a simplifying of the inclusion process in education. read more