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Decision making is one of the most fundamental concepts of computer programming. Python supports the common flow control statements found in other languages, with some modifications. The if control statement is one of the most basic and well-known statements that is used to execute code based on a certain condition.

Today is another great day for the Freespire development team, as we announce the release of Freespire 6.0. This release is our FOSS solution, with no binary-only drivers or multimedia codecs included and strictly Libre applications. Freespire is released bi-annually and showcases the best that the open-source community has to offer.

Has your Linux sysadmin career stalled? Take this poll to find out the source.

2DayGeek: Glances is a best alternative to top/htop command on Linux. If you have never tried it before, you can try it now.

The SparkyLinux project released today SparkyLinux 2020.02, the second update to the semi-rolling version of this Debian-based, desktop-oriented operating system.

I met Brendan Becker working in a computer store in 1999. We both enjoyed building custom computers and installing Linux on them. Brendan was always involved in several technology projects at once, ranging from game coding to music composition. Fast-forwarding a few years from the days of computer stores, he went on to write pyDance, an open source implementation of multiple dancing games, and then became the CEO of music and gaming event MAGFest. Sometimes referred to as "Mr. read more

OpenShot, a free and open source video editor, was updated to version 2.5.0 with some significant improvements like hardware encoding and decoding support, much faster keyframe performance, support for exporting and importing EDL and XML (Premiere, Final Cut Pro and more) files, and Belnder 2.8+ support, among others.

MPD, as the name implies, is a Music Playing Daemon. It can play music but, being a daemon, any piece of software can interface with it and play sounds, including some CLI clients. One of them is called ncmpcpp, which is an improvement over the pre-existing ncmpc tool. The name change doesn’t have much to […]

Change Apache default port to a custom port on CentOS, Ubuntu Linux

Jonathan Thomas, the creator of the OpenShot, released over the weekend a new major version of his open-source and cross-platform video editor, OpenShot 2.5.

In my article about getting started with YaCy, I explained how to install and start using the YaCy peer-to-peer search engine. One of the most exciting things about YaCy, however, is the fact that it's a local client. Each user owns and operates a node in a globally distributed search engine infrastructure, which means each user is in full control of how they navigate and experience the World Wide Web. read more

dutree is a command line tool to analyze disk usage. It’s written in the Rust programming language. It’s free and open source software. How does it compare to other disk usage analyzers?

As a Linux administrator, it’s important to keep an eye on how your server (or servers) is performing. One way to measure its performance is to track the CPU usage. This will give you insight into the performance of the system as well as show how the hardware resources are being divided up across the various running services.

The Bash sequence expression generates a range of integers or characters by defining a start and the end point of the range.

In this article we discuss using the uniq command to print or remove adjacent duplicated lines. We also discuss the different between uniq and sort -u, which are often compared as having the same functionality.

Linus Torvalds has released today the first RC (Release Candidate) milestone of the upcoming Linux kernel 5.6 series, kicking off the one and a half months long development cycle.

Jenkins – How to build a specific branch on GitHub. In this guide you are going to learn how to configure Jenkins to trigger build automatically once a change is made to a specific branch in GitHub.

Redis is an open-source in-memory key-value data store. It can be used as a database, cache and, message broker and supports various data structures such as Strings, Hashes, Lists, Sets, and more. Redis provides high availability via Redis Sentinel and automatic partitioning across multiple Redis nodes with Redis Cluster. This guide covers the installation and configuration of Redis on CentOS 8.

The Linux GOTY Award 2019 is now over, there were thousands of votes across many categories and we have the winners in so it's time to show the top five for each group.

With only one month left until its final release, the upcoming GNOME 3.36 desktop environment is now available for public beta testing.