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QDirStat can pinpoint space hogs: find files and reclaim the space they take up. Learn how you can clean up hard disk storage with QDirStat.

Let's Encrypt is a certificate authority created by the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG). It provides free SSL certificates via a fully automated process designed to eliminate manual certificate creation, validation, installation, and renewal. Certificates issued by Let's Encrypt are valid for 90 days from the issue date and trusted by all major browsers today. Learn how to install a free Let's Encrypt SSL certificate on Debian 10, Buster running Apache as a web server.

Not a day goes by that I don't see a tweet or hear somebody talking about burnout. Burnout is becoming a pervasive part of our lives, especially in tech and open source communities. Instead of treating burnout once it kicks in, we need to do more to prevent it in the first place. Here is a reminder of the cause and a look at solutions.

Our 2020 New Year’s edition SBC catalog shows a snapshot in time of hacker-friendly, open-spec SBCs under $200 that run Linux or Android. Below you’ll find updated descriptions, specs, pricing, and links for 136 SBCs. A lot has been going on in the world of community-backed SBCs over the seven months since our June 3 […]

A new year has arrived, so let's have a quick look over some of the most promising titles to be coming to Linux across 2020. There's plenty to be excited about.

Getting one software process to talk to another software process is a delicate balancing act. It can be a vital function for an application, though, so it's a problem any programmer embarking on a complex project has to solve. read more

This is part 10 in an ongoing series about creating video games in Python 3 using the Pygame module. Previous articles are: read more

Display network bandwidth utilization by process, connection and remote IP or hostname on Linux.

Distributed app platform's proposed agreement 'isn't freedom respecting,' he says Special report Last year, lawyer Van Lindberg drafted a software license called the Cryptographic Autonomy License (CAL) on behalf of distributed development platform Holo – and submitted it to the Open Source Initiative (OSI) for approval as an Open Source Definition-compliant (OSD) license.…

Now this is some classic gaming. Cannon Fodder is a game I remember playing on the Amiga and it's being kept alive with a cross-platform open source game engine called Open Fodder.

Anaconda is the most popular Python/R data science and machine learning platform. It is used for large-scale data processing, predictive analytics, and scientific computing. In this tutorial, we will explain how to install Anaconda Python Distribution on CentOS 8.

In our daily computer work, we need to know the IP address of our machine from time to time. This tutorial lists three ways you can use to find the IP address of your local network card in Debian 10 with the help of the terminal.

Audacious is a free advanced audio player for Linux and many other UNIX-compatible systems. It focuses on low resource usage, high audio quality, and support for a wide range of audio formats.

Rust has drawn plenty of attention from programmers on sites like Hacker News for a while. While many have long loved using the language for hobby projects, it didn't start catching on in industry until 2019, when this really started to change.

The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the January 2020 issue.

This article describes how to install and configure dnscrypt-proxy to use DNSCrypt and DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) with DNSSEC.

Exhumed, also known as PowerSlave, a retro shooter from the 90s has been revived with the power of open source.

Gitea is a code hosting web application written in Go. As its name suggests, it is designed to be used with the popular source control program Git, similarly to Gitlab and Github. This guide will explain the installation of Gitea on CentOS 8 with an Nginx HTTPS reverse proxy.

Historically and theoretically speaking, a decade, a century, or a millennium starts when the clock turns midnight on January 1 of the year one of its decimal order. For example, the 20th century started on January 1, 1901, not on January 1, 1900. The reason for this is simple: there is no year 0 in our modern calendar, so these periods of time start on year 1 (using the Gregorian calendar). But that's not how we refer to time periods colloquially and culturally; for example, when we mention '80s music or movies, we're talking about the period from 1980 to 1989. read more

EPEL repository is part of special groups within the fedora group, it creates & maintains additional packages for Enterprise Linux, mainly CentOS, RHEL, Scientific Linux, Oracle Linux. EPEL stands for Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux & provides packages…