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When I decided I wanted to play with color this summer, I thought about the fact that colors are usually depicted on a color wheel. This is usually with pigment colors rather than light, and you lose any sense of the variation in color brightness or luminosity.

News briefs for July 12, 2019.

The modern Linux desktop is one where "everything just works," and "you're able to use the applications that you've come to rely on in your day-to-day life," says Canonical's Will Cooke.

Bash keeps a history of the commands you type, which can be accessed by typing "history". By default you see a number followed by the commands you've used recently. This article explains how to get the Bash history to show the timestamp (date and time) when each command was executed.

MariaDB is an open source, multi-threaded relational database management system, backward compatible replacement for MySQL. MariaDB is the default implementation of MySQL in Debian.

Earlier this week, Mozilla released version 68 of the Firefox web browser. Firefox is the default web browser in Fedora, and this update is now available in the official Fedora repositories. This Firefox release provides a range of bug fixes and enhancements, including: Better handling when using dark GTK themes (like Adwaita Dark). Previously, running […]

The KDE Project released the third of five maintenance updates to the latest KDE Plasma 5.16 desktop environment series, a bug fix release that addresses various issues.

Part 1 of this series looked at a couple of AWK array basics, namely index strings and value strings. This post deals with a very common use of AWK arrays, namely filtering or modifying a file based on information in another file.

Introducing the Yocto Project and the benefits of using it in embedded Linux development.

The Debian Edu team announced the release and general availability of the Debian Edu / Skolelinux 10 "Buster" operating system based on the Debian GNU/Linux 10 "Buster" series.

Edge computing is augmenting the role that Linux plays in our day-to-day lives. A conversation with Jaromir Coufal from Red Hat helps to define what the edge has become.

In an effort to make exFAT (a patent trap) the 'industry standard', even inside Linux, Microsoft now wants exFAT inside the very heart of Linux and people are pushing back

Whenever you type Linux commands in capital letters, the SUDO utility will run them as sudo user! So, you need not to use "sudo" in-front of a Linux command.

2DayGeek: This bash script will trigger an email when it's found "Warning, Error and Critical" in the /var/log/messages file.

Discord is free to use and manage, has VOIP support and is pretty customizable too. Here are five of the best Discord bots you should consider using.

If you’re in quality assurance, system administration, or (believe it or not) media production, you might have heard some variation of the term gold master, golden image, or master image, and so on. It’s a term that has made its way into the collective consciousness of anyone involved in creating one perfect model and then producing many duplicates from that mold. That’s what a gold master, or golden image, is: The virtual mold from which you cast your distributable models. read more

We already know how to create lists, they are comma separated values. Dictionaries are also comma separated key-value pairs. Dictionaries in python are declared very similar to JSON. Have a look at the following code.

Microsoft's bullying tactics aren't "old news"; the same tactics carry on to this date and they're the moral or corporate equivalent of doxing

LEMP is an excellent alternative to traditional LAMP servers. Nginx is lighter weight and faster than Apache in some situations. It can also be configured to do other useful things, like serve as a reverse proxy. Just like with LAMP, Debian is an excellent platform for LEMP servers. Everything you need is available in the Debian repositories, so it's simple to get started.

Telegram is an alternative chat application that you can use besides Whatsapp. This application has a function that exactly matches whatsapp. But for now, Telegram doesn't support video calls. Apart from functioning as a chat application, users of this application get many useful features provided.