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The latest entry in the Total War franchise has had me battling all over China in a bid to obtain the mandate of heaven. Becoming emperor is easier when you've got good friends.

It is my pleasure to introduce the 2019 Opensource.com summer reading list. This year's collection includes 13 great books recommended by members of the Opensource.com community.

Renesas announced an industrial voice control “RZ/G Solution for HMI” kit that runs Linux and Sensory’s TrulyHandsfree voice stack on iWave’s Renesas RZ/G1E-based iW-RainboW-G22D module. There’s also a mic and a 4.3-inch LCD. Renesas has partnered with Sensory, Shinko Shoji Co., and iWave to develop a voice control and speaker ID interface for industrial environments. […]

In this article, we will describe three tools through which you can listen to online radio right from your Linux Terminal. We will explain how you can install each of these tools, use them, and remove them from your system if need be.

On DL127 PC LinuxOS 2019.06, Linux Kernel 5.3, Shotcut 19.06, New Slimbook, Thinkpad P, Enviro+, Is it time to back Wayland, Google Stadia, Lonely Planet and more.

About three years back, I attempted to live entirely on the command line for 30 days—no graphical interface, no X Server, just a big-old terminal and me, for a month... if I'm being honest, the experience was not entirely unpleasant.

The Fedora Workstation edition is a fabulous operating system that includes everything a developer needs. But it’s also a perfect solution for anyone who wants to be productive online with their desktop or laptop computer. It features a sleek interface and an enormous catalog of ready-to-install software. Recently, Christian Schaller shared information about what’s coming […]

Firefox Focus frozen as Mozilla redirects Android effort ... despite small market share Mozilla has announced what is currently called Firefox Preview (codename Firefox Fenix), a new mobile web browser for Android.…

See Google, there are other ways to run browser content blockers smartly Software engineers working on the Brave browser have rewritten the browser's ad blocking engine in Rust and seen massive speed increases as a result.…

Although GNOME, in its 3.x iteration has been the object of many debates, due to its non-traditional desktop paradigm, it is probably the most used desktop on Linux. The default file manager included in GNOME is Nautilus (the application new name is "Files"). In this tutorial we will see how we can extend the file manager with functionalities provided by custom scripts.

News briefs for June 28, 2019.

The rapid development of technology, especially on computer hardware, is one of the good news. But the longer, the technology that comes out now will also be replaced by better ones in the future.

June 29 marks the 25th anniversary of FreeDOS. That's a major milestone for any open source software project, and I'm proud of the work that we've done on it over the past quarter century. I'm also proud of how we built FreeDOS because it is a great example of how the open source software model works. read more

Squid is a full-featured caching proxy supporting popular network protocols like HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. Squid is mostly used for improving web server’s performance by caching repeated requests, filtering web traffic and accessing geo-restricted content.

Googling the phrase "trailing whitespace" is like googling "coffee stains": you mainly get "how to remove" recipes. There are procedures for deleting trailing whitespace in C, Python, Vim, PHP, Java, Visual Studio, R, C++, JavaScript, etc etc. Nobody wants trailing whitespace in their code. Trailing (and leading) whitespace, though, isn't a big deal in data tables. This post explains how to find and delete it (if necessary) when it occurs inside fields.

Video: But, the gaming company isn't happy with Canonical and will try to work closer with other Linux distributors.

Arch Linux is notorious for being difficult to install and use, so here’s an install guide for beginners! This guide is meant to be as simple as it technically can be so that beginners can understand the basic process as deeply as possible. Once you understand everything in this guide, you should graduate to the Arch Wiki‘s guide for a more complete process.

VIDEO: With the /dev/null tool, you can send your outputs to /dev/null and it simply disappears. This is helpful when a command’s output isn’t interesting and you don't need to see it.

Have you ever wondered how you can monitor your entire Linux system performance easily? Today we are taking a very special look at the Node Exporter, a Prometheus exporter specialized in exposing Linux metrics...

In this article, we will explain how you can install Slack on your Ubuntu both through the command line and the Ubuntu UI. We will also explain how you can set up Slack along with adding the Slack icon to the tray to quickly perform frequent Slack operations.