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Firefox Focus frozen as Mozilla redirects Android effort ... despite small market share Mozilla has announced what is currently called Firefox Preview (codename Firefox Fenix), a new mobile web browser for Android.…

See Google, there are other ways to run browser content blockers smartly Software engineers working on the Brave browser have rewritten the browser's ad blocking engine in Rust and seen massive speed increases as a result.…

Although GNOME, in its 3.x iteration has been the object of many debates, due to its non-traditional desktop paradigm, it is probably the most used desktop on Linux. The default file manager included in GNOME is Nautilus (the application new name is "Files"). In this tutorial we will see how we can extend the file manager with functionalities provided by custom scripts.

News briefs for June 28, 2019.

The rapid development of technology, especially on computer hardware, is one of the good news. But the longer, the technology that comes out now will also be replaced by better ones in the future.

June 29 marks the 25th anniversary of FreeDOS. That's a major milestone for any open source software project, and I'm proud of the work that we've done on it over the past quarter century. I'm also proud of how we built FreeDOS because it is a great example of how the open source software model works. read more

Squid is a full-featured caching proxy supporting popular network protocols like HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. Squid is mostly used for improving web server’s performance by caching repeated requests, filtering web traffic and accessing geo-restricted content.

Googling the phrase "trailing whitespace" is like googling "coffee stains": you mainly get "how to remove" recipes. There are procedures for deleting trailing whitespace in C, Python, Vim, PHP, Java, Visual Studio, R, C++, JavaScript, etc etc. Nobody wants trailing whitespace in their code. Trailing (and leading) whitespace, though, isn't a big deal in data tables. This post explains how to find and delete it (if necessary) when it occurs inside fields.

Video: But, the gaming company isn't happy with Canonical and will try to work closer with other Linux distributors.

Arch Linux is notorious for being difficult to install and use, so here’s an install guide for beginners! This guide is meant to be as simple as it technically can be so that beginners can understand the basic process as deeply as possible. Once you understand everything in this guide, you should graduate to the Arch Wiki‘s guide for a more complete process.

VIDEO: With the /dev/null tool, you can send your outputs to /dev/null and it simply disappears. This is helpful when a command’s output isn’t interesting and you don't need to see it.

Have you ever wondered how you can monitor your entire Linux system performance easily? Today we are taking a very special look at the Node Exporter, a Prometheus exporter specialized in exposing Linux metrics...

In this article, we will explain how you can install Slack on your Ubuntu both through the command line and the Ubuntu UI. We will also explain how you can set up Slack along with adding the Slack icon to the tray to quickly perform frequent Slack operations.

Opera Software announced today the release Opera 62 web browser for all supported platforms, including GNU/Linux, macOS, and Microsoft Windows, a release that adds various design updates and some new features.

This article contains a few tweaks for speeding up Google Drive access when mounted on Linux using Google Drive OCamlFUSE, so you can browse and perform file operations (rename, move, open) faster.

On June 29, 2019, the FreeDOS Project turns 25 years old. That's a major milestone for any open-source software project! In honor of this anniversary, Jim Hall shares this look at how FreeDOS got started and describes its Linux roots.

Perhaps the best known way the Fedora community pursues its mission of promoting free and open source software and content is by developing the Fedora software distribution. So it’s not a surprise at all that a very large proportion of our community resources are spent on this task. This post summarizes how this software is “packaged” and the underlying tools such as rpm that make it all possible.

People with disabilities often feel excluded from society, despite laws like the Americans with Disabilities Act and the UK's Equality Act 2010 that were created to safeguard accessibility for people with different abilities. This is even true on the web. According to the Web Accessibility Initiative: read more

UFW is very simple to use and configure. It's available right in the Debian repositories, and it integrates well into a Debian system. The simplified controls and ability to easily start and stop your firewall make in an excellent option for desktops and small servers.

This tutorial explains the Linux directory structure. You’ll learn the Linux filesystem hierarchy along with the purpose of the various directories on a Linux system.