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SparkyLinux 2020.02 “Po Tolo” special editions, including GameOver, Multimedia and Rescue, are now available for download for fans of this semi-rolling, Debian-based GNU/Linux distribution.

Oftentimes you need to run a command every X seconds on Linux. Granted you can use cron but unfortunately, it does not handle time granularities of less than a minute.

OpenTaxSolver is an open source application for US taxpayers to calculate their state and federal income tax returns. Before I get into the software, I want to share some of the information I learned when researching this article. I spent about five hours a day for a week looking into open source options for doing your taxes, and I learned about a lot more than just tax software. read more

Canonical’s Design and Web team have recently updated the official Ubuntu website to make it easier for users to find the right Ubuntu image for their tiny Raspberry Pi computers.

This brief tutorial explains how to limit the number of SSH logins per user or group or system on Linux using /etc/security/limits.conf file.

Clear Linux OS is the best benchmarking distro. But what's it like to live with?

Startup applications are the programs that are launched automatically when Ubuntu boots up. Sometimes you want to make an application start after you log in to the system, like for instance a chat app or fan controller app, etc..

OTRS is an open source service management solution used by many companies around the world. It's extensibility and ability to integrate with other systems no doubt add to it's popularity. Written in perl, this software will run on mostly anything, and it's low requirement on resources makes it ideal even for a small business to start ticketing, or standardize their internal processes.

Quite a few free and open source applications have been updated over the weekend. I don't have time to post articles about all of them separately, so this article covers (in short summary) the new releases of MyPaint 2.0.0, Blender 2.82, cheat 3.6.0, Gammy 0.9.56 and Drawing 0.4.11.

The Guest Additions offer several useful functionalities for guest machines such as shared folders, shared clipboard, mouse pointer integration, better video support, and more.

Ubuntu automatically assigns an IP address to the network via DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol ). It will continue to get such a dynamic IP (keeps changing) address until you decide to change it to a static one. Ubuntu has switched to the YAML based Netplan for configuring a network since release 18.04

If you’re looking for a no-frills drawing and painting application that works great with Wacom-like graphics tablets, MyPaint 2.0 is now available for download and it’s a massive update.

Coding is an essential part in the life of developers. Building good applications or web pages requires a good and reliable code editor or IDE. More and more developers are choosing Linux over other operating systems for the purpose of coding applications these days

The first thing you should do after installing Git on your system is to configure your git username and email address. Git associate your identity with every commit you make.

Apache Spark is a distributed computing system. It consists of a master and one or more slaves, where the master distributes the work among the slaves, thus giving the ability to use our many computers to work on one task. One could guess that this is indeed a powerful tool where tasks need large computations to complete, but can be split into smaller chunks of steps that can be pushed to the slaves to work on. Once our cluster is up and running, we can write programs to run on it in Python, Java, and Scala.

For this article, we’re looking at a different take on cowsay. It goes by the name xcowsay. This program displays a cute graphical cow and speech bubble. The program was first started over 12 years ago, but it’s still under active development, with a new release published only last week.

While Vim is fast and efficient, by default, it is but a mere text editor. At least, that's what it would be without plugins, which build upon Vim and add extra features to make it so much more than just a window for typing text. With the right mix of plugins, you can take control of your life and forge your own unique Vim experience. You can customize your theme, and you can add syntax highlighting, code linting, version trackers, and much much more. read more

Firewalls are great but they're ineffective if something goes wrong with them. The /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny files are the second line of defense against intruders.

The Q4OS team has kicked off the development of the next major release of their Debian-based distribution, Q4OS 4.0, and announced the availability of the first pre-release version for public testing.

This brief tutorial explains how to autostart Tmux session on a remote Linux system when logging in via SSH from your local system.