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Using a combination of the youtube-dl script and FFMPEG, you can easily rip audio from YouTube videos and instantly convert it to MP3, OGG, or any other audio format that you prefer for your music library.

When I visited the ubuntu and linux forums, I read one of the members asking about error problems when installing packages from snap in the software center. At that time I had never experienced that. But, not long after a member asked about the error. I also get the same error when installing Gwenview via snap.

The Linux Mint project has opened the upgrade path from the old Linux Mint 19.2 "Tina" release to the newly launched Linux Mint 19.3 "Tricia" release.

Sysadmins, those of us who run and manage Linux computers most closely, have direct access to tools that help us work more efficiently. To help you use these tools to their maximum benefit to make your life easier, this series of articles explores using automation in the form of Bash shell scripts. It covers: read more

I use Vim a lot. I'm a site reliability engineer (SRE), and Vim is the one thing I know I can access on every machine in our fleet. I also like Emacs, with its wide variety of useful packages, ease of extending, and its many built-in tools. Because they each have their own set of commands, I have to actively switch codes in my head (usually after typing :wq in Emacs or trying to C+X in Vim). read more

For this week’s blog, I’m putting the Raspberry Pi 4 through its paces as a viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. I look at the pre-installed solutions including qpdfview, comparing them to the many other PDF viewers in the Raspbian repositories.

Jenkins is an open-source automation server that offers an easy way to set up a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline.

When you manage a Linux instance, you’ll find that your job is made much easier by the many tools designed specifically to deal with something specific within the system. For example, if you need to install packages, you have easy-to-use package managers that make that a breeze. If you need to create, resize or delete […]

Following not long after game manager Lutris got an Epic MegaGrant, it was just announced today that the FOSS painting program Krita just got an Epic MegaGrant too.

fdns is a DNS-over-HTTPS proxy server targeted at small networks and Linux desktops. To speed up the name resolution fdns caches the responses, and uses a configurable adblocker and privacy filter to cut down unnecessary traffic. The software is written in C and it is released as part of Firejail project under GPLv3 license.

Learn where DevOps stands in the automation process, and how to build automation longevity into your DevOps strategy.

Quite a few applications received updates recently. I didn't have time to post articles about all of them, so this article covers (in short summary) the new releases of Moonlight PC 1.2.0, Monolith 2.1.0, Flowblade 2.4 and Shotcut 19.12.

Among the emerging efforts in the distributed computing space is the open source Ray project, which is a framework for building and running distributed apps.

The old-style PC is on its way out. It's being replaced by desktop-as-a-service, cloud-based PCs.

Do you create gaming videos or livestream? Open Joystick Display seems like an incredibly useful free, open source and cross-platform tool to display your inputs on-screen.

In this tutorial, we will explain how to add and use a downloaded font on your Debian 10 Buster system.

Odoo is a free, open-source and most popular ERP software that offers a wide range of business applications including, customer relationship management (CRM), sales pipeline, project management, manufacturing, invoicing, accounting and eCommerce. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install and configure Odoo 13 with Nginx as a reverse proxy on CentOS 8 server.

The Linux Mint 19.3 "Tricia" operating system is now available to download for all supported flavors and architectures ahead of the official announcement this week.

Lightweight Linux VMs for all. So long as Ubuntu is your thing. Canonical is preparing some festive fun for developers with a major release of its lightweight VM manager, Multipass.…

Viewnior is an image viewer application, created to be simple, fast and elegant. Its minimalistic interface provides more screen space for your images. In this tutorial, we will explain how to install Viewnoir to your Debian, both through the command line and the Software Manager. We will also tell you how you can configure Debian to use Viewnior as the default image/photos viewing application.