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This article explains how to free up space in the /boot partition on Ubuntu, Debian, Linux Mint, Pop!_OS, elementary OS, and other Debian or Ubuntu based Linux distributions.

Basic usage of Cron Jobs with practical examples.

FreeIPA is a free and open source Identity, Policy, and Audit (IPA) suite sponsored by RedHat. It's an IPA solution combination of Linux (Fedora), 389 Directory Server, MIT Kerberos, NTP, DNS Bind, Dogtag, Apache web server, and Python.

In this article, we will learn how to configure networking in Ubuntu using Netplan. We will see both static and dynamic IP configuration.

The bash shell keeps a hash table for all the commands run in your current shell. It uses this table to quickly look up the full path of an executable without searching PATH. In this article we will discuss how to manipulate this table using the bash builtin hash command.

Linux is the go-to choice for security testing dues to the advantages it offers. In this article, we will show you some special purpose Linux distributions for performing security-related tasks.

Microsoft’s tactics against GNU/Linux have not changed much in two decades, they’re just framed differently

If you're a Python developer and a MacOS user, one of your first tasks upon getting a new computer is to set up your Python development environment. Here is the best way to do it (although we have written about other ways to manage Python environments on MacOS).

Have you always wanted to start contributing to Fedora but don’t know how? Submitting a supplemental wallpaper is one of the easiest ways to start as a Fedora contributor. Keep reading to learn how. Each release, the Fedora Design team works with the community on a set of 16 additional wallpapers. Users can install and […]

For the fifteenth week running, here's your bite-sized round-up podcast of a few interesting bits of Linux gaming news from the past week.

Here's a potentially loaded question: How many browser tabs do you usually have open at one time? Do you have multiple windows, each with multiple tabs? Or are you a minimalist, and only have a couple of tabs open at once. Another option is to move a 20-tabbed browser window to a different monitor so that it is out of the way while working on a particular task. read more

MapSCII is a Node.js based Vector Tile to Braille and ASCII renderer for xterm-compatible terminals. It’s billed as the whole world in your console.

2DayGeek: This shell script will trigger an email when the system reaches 80% CPU utilization.

Internet radio is a great way to listen to stations from all over the world. Like many developers, I like to turn on a station as I code. You can listen to internet radio with a media player for the terminal like MPlayer or mpv, which is what I use to listen via the Linux command line. read more

Microsoft’s tactics against Free/Libre/Open Source software and other competitors explained, based on its own documents and track record

Node.js is an open source cross-platform JavaScript run-time environment built on Chrome’s JavaScript engine that allows server-side execution of JavaScript code. It is mainly used to build server-side applications, but it is also very popular as a full-stack and front-end solution.

A look at how well Steam Play is doing for Linux gaming compatibility, thanks to a data dump from ProtonDB.

nslookup is one of the popular networking commands in Linux used for querying the Domain Name System (DNS) records. Unsurprisingly, nslookup stands for name server lookup.

A simple tutorial on how to install Git on Ubuntu.