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The UBports Foundation announced over the weekend the availability for public testing of the forthcoming Ubuntu Touch OTA-12 software update for Ubuntu Phone devices.

Official survey reveals barriers to adoption: challenging learning curve and limited IDE support "The overriding problem hindering use of Rust is adoption," according to the language's official survey, with some developers struggling to be productive and hampered by limited IDE support.…

Explore the tail and head commands as new additions to your sysadmin toolbox for manipulating and reading text.

Do you know you can turn your Linux PC into Bluetooth speakers for your phone using Pulseaudio? Yes, you can use a Linux PC as Bluetooth speakers for a mobile phone.

A tool to save, access and organize standup and other types of daily notes in the terminal.

Every day, millions of people all over the world access the OpenStack Foundation's (OSF) web properties to learn about open infrastructure. This level of usage requires a platform and toolsets that are fast, flexible, and affordable—and this is where open source comes in. Not only that, but given that we work for an open source software foundation, we naturally incorporate open source technologies into everything we do, including web development. read more

gti is intended to catch accidental typos of ‘gti’ instead of ‘git’. It displays an animation of a car driving by, and then launches git. Any parameters or arguments given to gti are passed through to git.

This brief guide explains how to disable suspend and hibernation in Linux.

We all know how important it is to keep WordPress sites updated. New updates provide the latest bug and security fixes against any nasties lurking on the web. But, more critically, an outdated site can also lead to poor performance, such as slow loading speed or an outdated look and feel.

Syzkaller is a valuable tool widely adopted by the kernel community to detect bugs in the kernel. Here is a how-to guide to install the tool and starting using it to improve your code base.

WireGuard is a modern VPN (Virtual Private Network) technology with state-of-the-art cryptography. Compared to other similar solutions, such as IPsec and OpenVPN, WireGuard is faster, easier to configure, and more performant. It is a cross-platform and can run almost anywhere, including Linux, Windows, Android, and macOS. Wireguard is a peer-to-peer VPN; it does not use the client-server model. Depending on its configuration, a peer can act as a traditional server or client.

WireGuard works by creating a network interface on each peer device that acts as a tunnel. Peers authenticate each other by exchanging and validating public keys, mimicking the SSH model. Public keys are mapped with a list of IP addresses that are allowed in the tunnel. The VPN traffic is encapsulated in UDP.

New to Arch Linux or Manjaro? Here are some essential pacman commands you should know to better manage your system.

Online editing support for Chocolate Factory's open-source dev framework. "Social development environment" CodePen has unfurled support for Flutter, Google's open-source cross-platform framework for mobile and web.…

Rockchip SoCs, notably the RK3399, are popular in devices such as Chromebooks and single-board computers. Indeed, they bring some interesting features, one of them being the Arm Frame Buffer Compression (AFBC).

Darktable 3.0.2 has been released as the second maintenance update to the Darktable 3.0 series, adding some minor enhancements to the user interface, along with improved camera support.

This brief guide explains how to fix libpulse dependency error and reinstall Pulseaudio in Ubuntu and its derivatives like Linux Mint.

With the release of the Linux 5.6, Collabora has outlined their contributions to the new kernel series and the various projects they’ve been involved in.

Plus some interesting new side-channel attack possibilities for crims to play with. With Silicon Valley under lockdown Chrome 82 has been abandoned by Google, but the Chocolate Factory boffins haven't been slacking and on Thursday released the beta build of Chrome 83 ahead of schedule.…

Many activities these days, be they sports, social work, arts or free and open source software, are organized in some sort of community. If backed by a respective legal entity, this not only helps with getting donations and entering contracts but also puts statutes and rules in place that establish the values and ideals all contributors share and abide by.

WonderCMS is a free, open-source, and database-free flat-file content management system written in PHP and jQuery. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install WonderCMS on an Ubuntu 18.04 VPS.