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The GNOME Project announced today the general availability of GNOME 3.34.4 as the fourth maintenance update to the latest GNOME 3.34 desktop environment stable series.

RAK Wireless’ $99 “RAK7246 LoRAWAN Developer Gateway” runs a Raspbian LoRa stack on a Raspberry Pi Zero W with a RAK2246 Pi HAT for 8x uplink channels and a single downlink. A $114 RAK7246G model adds GPS. RAK Wireless has introduced a cheaper alternative to its Raspberry Pi 4-based RAK7244 LoRaWAN Developer Gateway. The RAK7246 […]

Gedit, the default GNOME text editor, doesn't support Markdown by default. It does support plugins though, so with the help of a plugin called Gedit Markdown Preview, you can add Markdown support to modern Gedit versions (3.22 and newer).

Say you are new to Linux world and just installed Linux desktop and now you would like to fire up terminal window and start issuing commands, but wait you don’t know how to access a terminal window in Linux, in this article I will walk you through how to open a Linux terminal window and set up a keyboard shortcut for easier access.

PARC, Apple and Amazon – computing pioneer dies at 74. Obit Larry Tesler – self-described "primary inventor of modeless editing and cut, copy, paste" – has died at the age of 74.…

Feral Interactive announced today that the Total War: THREE KINGDOMS – Mandate of Heaven Chapter Pack DLC is now available for Linux and macOS systems.

The classic way for companies to violate the antitrust laws is to get together and agree to all do something the same way. Happily, the regulators understand that creating open standards and open source is a good thing. But you still have to keep the rules in mind if you want to stay on the right side of the line.

With virtual environments, you can isolate your software and avoid version conflicts.. Python virtual environments allow you to install Python packages in an isolated location for a particular application, instead of installing them globally. This articles explores what the advantages are and how you can quickly get started.

Ubuntu logs system events into the log files in order to help administrators maintain, analyze and diagnose system related issues and applications problems. Log files contain messages related to kernel, services and applications events that are kept on a centralized repository of log files under /var/log directory. In this article, we will provide an overview of Ubuntu log files, and show how to configure and use syslogd. You will also learn how log rotation works and how to view and read the log files. A brief introduction to systemd will be provided at the end .

How to Load Balance a PHP Application on GCP. This guide provides you with detailed and advanced steps to setup a HTTP(S) Layer 7 Load Balancer for your PHP web application.

Have you ever wanted to list all the files in a directory, but just the files, nothing else? How about just the directories? If you have, then the following script, which is open source under GPLv3, could be what you have been looking for.

Of course, you could use the find command:

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In meantime the only option brought me to success installing telegram-desktop on CentOS 8.1 appears to be snap.

For this week, I’m going to look at a few retro games, all nestling in Raspbian’s repositories. While its quad-core BCM2711 system-on-chip has more powerful processing cores, and the first upgrade to the graphics processor in the project’s history, it’s important to be realistic with expectations about the RPI4’s gaming potential.

There are several commands for finding files on Linux systems, but there are also a huge number of options that you can deploy when looking for them. Here’s a look at some of those options.

Like most developers, I search and read source code all day long. Personally, I've never gotten used to integrated development environments (IDEs), and for years, I mainly used grep and copy/pasted file names to open Vi(m). Eventually, I came up with this script, slowly refining it as needed. read more

There are many GUI applications on Linux that help optimize and compress images while retaining the original quality. In this article we will use two command-line based utilities , jpegoptim and OptiPNG. Let’s get started.

TeamPass is a collaborative password manager used for managing passwords and sharing them among team members with a specific role. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install TeamPass on Debian 10 and secure it with Let's Encrypt SSL.

The pgrep command is used to find out the PIDs of a running program based on different criteria.

F&S announced a 40 x 35mm “PicoCore MX8MN” module that runs Linux on a single- or quad-core, 1.5GHz i.MX8M Nano with up to 8GB RAM, 32GB eMMC, and optional WiFi/Bluetooth and -40 to 85°C support. At Embedded World later this month, F&S Elektronik Systeme will show a working demo of a tiny compute module due […]

Ronaldo Lemos joined the Mozilla Foundation board almost six years ago. Today he is stepping down in order to turn his attention to the growing Agora! social movement in Brazil. …