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Microsoft and its boosters (media insiders) spread the illusion that Microsoft is “opening up”; the reality, however, is that it’s looking to tighten control over Linux while at the same time profiting from exFAT patents owing to back room deals

eSpeak is a compact open-source software speech synthesizer for English and other languages, for Linux and Windows. In this article, we will explain how you can install the command like tool eSpeak and its GUI alternative Gespeaker on your Ubuntu.

Re-ordering fields in a table with lots of fields isn't simple on the command line (or in a spreadsheet!). The job can be made easier with a GUI dialog, as demonstrated in this post.

Automate Red Hat Enterprise Linux system registration and subscription attachments with this quick Ansible role.

Java is an object-oriented programming language, which views the world as a collection of objects that have both properties and behavior. Java's version of object-orientedness is pretty straightforward, and it's the basis for almost everything in the language. Because it's so essential to Java, I'll explain a bit about what's under the covers to help anyone new to the language.

Chris Beard announced today he will be stepping down as CEO of Mozilla at the end of this year. After five and a half years of leading Moz, and 15 years in total with the Firefox maker, Beard says he will give up the hot seat, though he won't be leaving the organization completely: he will stick around albeit no longer in charge of everything.

In computer science (and casual computing), a variable is a location in memory that holds arbitrary information for later use. In other words, it’s a temporary storage container for you to put data into and get data out of. In the Bash shell, that data can be a word (a string, in computer lingo) or a number (an integer).

Thank you, Chris. Chris Beard has been Mozilla Corporation’s CEO for 5 and a half years. Chris has announced 2019 will be his last year in this role.

Linux gamers have had to wait a while but, with the launch of the new director’s cut, The Bard’s Tale IV now has a native port. The new enhanced version also has a lot of new improvements over the original game.

Ibase’s compact, Ubuntu-ready “CMI300-988” embedded computer is based on its MI988 Mini-ITX board equipped with a quad-core AMD Ryzen Embedded V1807B. Highlights include up to 32GB DDR4, HDMI and DP, and 4x USB 3.1 ports. Ibase has announced a fanless embedded computer based on AMD’s Ryzen Embedded V1000 processor aimed at graphics-intensive retail, automation, and […]

LA DOT created the Mobility Data Specification (MDS) as a set of data specifications and data sharing requirements for dockless e-scooters and bicycles, which it shared on GitHub. The post City-Led Open Mobility Foundation Uses Open Source To Manage Transportation appeared first on Linux.com.

ERPNext is a free, open-source, modern and easy-to-use business management software used by thousands of companies across the world. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install and configure ERPNext on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS server.

unlink is a command-line utility for removing a single file. In this article, we will show you how to remove a file in GNU/Linux systems using the unlink command.

Kooboo is a free and open-source content management system written in ASP.NET language. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install Kooboo CMS on Ubuntu 18.04 server.

HTTPie is a delightfully easy to use and easy to upgrade HTTP client. Pronounced "aitch-tee-tee-pie" and run as http, it is a command-line tool written in Python to access the web. read more

Pngquant is a free, open source and cross-platform command-line lossy PNG compressor. It is based on a portable libimagequant library and is written in C99.

When SparkFun Electronics founder and CEO Nathan Seidle was an engineering student at the University of Colorado, he was taught, "Real engineers come up with an idea and patent that idea." However, his experience with SparkFun, which he founded from his college apartment in 2003, is quite the opposite. read more

In this article, I will show you the different ways to list mounted drives on Linux. We can use mount, cat, findmnt and df commands to list mounted device any Linux distribution like Ubuntu or Centos.

iTunes is a media player developed by Apple Inc, that allows you to download, organize, and play media on your system as well as sync it to other devices. In this article, we will see how to install and run iTunes on Linux.

Execution Unit have now officially released their fantastically styled exploration shooter Smith and Winston, with great Linux support.