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Plus: Web giant hears developers' extension concerns, ignores them. Google released Chrome 83 on Tuesday after skipping version 82 entirely due to coronavirus-related challenges, bringing with it security for DNS queries, a revised extension interface that developers dislike, and a few other features.…

The Fedora Silverblue project takes Fedora workstation, libostree and podman, puts them in a blender, and creates a new Immutable Fedora Workstation. Fedora Silverblue is an OS that stops you from changing the core system files arbitrarily, and readily allows you to change the environment system files. The article What is Silverblue describes the big […]

This quick tutorial explains the steps to install and use GNOME Boxes and create virtual machines, and with some tips and troubleshooting as well.

Linux on Windows just took a big graphical desktop step forward with Microsoft's plans for Windows Subsystem for Linux.

Vivaldi Technologies announced today a partnership with Startpage, world’s first privacy-oriented search engine, to offer users of the Chromium-based web browser more privacy features.

An introduction to deploying playbooks to build a home lab with Ansible Tower.

Microsoft used the Build developer conference to show just a small teaser of the upcoming Microsoft Edge for Linux, which is projected to go live at some point in the coming months.

A chat with Fedora project leader Matthew Miller:

Autotrash is a utility that searches a trash folder on FreeDesktop.org for information about its contents and then deletes part of the trash depending on the options you specify. This article explains how to install the Autotrash utility, find help, and use it. We’ll explain the procedure with some examples that will help you understand the widely used features of this utility.

MongoDB is an open-source and cross-platform document-oriented database system written in C++. It stores data in collections of JSON-like, flexible documents and used to create powerful websites and applications. In this tutorial, we will explain how to install and use MongoDB on Ubuntu 20.04 server.

In this quick tutorial I want to show you how to correctly enable 3D acceleration on VirtualBox if you want to make your Ubuntu 20.04 LTS virtual machines more faster and smoother.

Driver code open-sourced. Build Microsoft has followed up the crowd-pleasing announcement of GUI and GPU-enablement for Linux apps running on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) 2 with details of the tweaks needed to make the magic happen.…

PostgreSQL or Postgres is an open-source general-purpose object-relational database management system with many advanced features that allows you to build fault-tolerant environments or complex applications. In this guide, we will explain how to install the PostgreSQL database server on Ubuntu 20.04, and explore the basics of PostgreSQL database administration.

Foxconn, Socionext, and Hailo are launching a fanless “BOXiedge” AI edge server with Socionext’s Linux-driven SynQuacer SC2A11 SoC with 24x Cortex-A53 cores. The system also features an up to 26-TOPS Hailo-8 NPU for analyzing 20 streaming cam feeds in real time. In January, Foxconn, Socionext, and Network Optix announced a BOXiedge AI video analysis solution […]

Canonical published today a new Linux kernel live patch security update Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS systems to address a single security vulnerability.

Python has earned a reputation as a wonderful beginner programming language. But where does one begin? One of my favorite ways to get people interested in programming is by writing games. PursuedPyBear (ppb) is a game programming library optimized for teaching, and I recently used it to teach my children more about my favorite programming language. read more

fdisk is a menu-driven command-line utility that allows you to create and manipulate partition tables on a hard disk.

Wireguard is a new connection protocol to make your VPN connection more secure. Learn what Wireguard is and how it works with just about everything.

Recently, I wrote an article explaining how we can implement Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) using the Quagga routing suite. There are multiple software suites that can be used instead of Quagga to implement different routing protocols. One such option is free range routing (FRR). read more

During the Microsoft Build 2020 developer conference, Microsoft has raised a number of eyebrows at their Linux plans.