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Google have now finally unveiled their new cloud gaming service named Stadia, offering instant access to play games in Google Chrome. It's built on Debian Linux, using the Vulkan API.

Plex is a free and open source media server that can be used to store all your movies, shows, and other media in one place. Plex allows you to remotely stream those media libraries from any device like smart TV, web browser, Xbox One, PlayStation, and Apple TV.

In this article, we will explain installing Thunderbird both through the command line and the UI. We will then explain how to launch the application and use it to set up Thunderbird to access and use your already existing Email account on your Ubuntu.

It's official: artificial intelligence (AI) isn't the unbiased genius we want it to be. Alphabet (Google's parent company) used its latest annual report to warn that ethical concerns about its products might hurt future revenue. Entrepreneur Joy Buolamwini established the Safe Face Pledge to prevent abuse of facial analysis technology. read more

And an extension for those who prefer Visual Studio Code – but all very preview at the mo Microsoft has booted out a Postgres GUI for those moments when the command line is just too scary.…

Ahead of Pwn2Own, Mozilla released 21 security advisories for flaws that have now been fixed in the open-source web browser.

Nvidia has launched a stripped-down, quad -A57 Jetson Nano module with a CUDA-ready 128-core Maxwell GPU. There’s also a maker-friendly, $99 dev kit featuring the Linux-driven, AI-focused COM. At the GPU Technology Conference, Nvidia spun a version of its Arm-based, GPU-focused Jetson modules for the Linux maker market along with a $99 Dev Kit. The […]

This article is about text processing in Rust, but it also contains a quick introduction to pattern matching, which can be very handy when working with text.

Dropbox on Linux has dropped support for all other filesystems except for Ext4. This shows how to get Dropbox working agin in non-ext4 filesystem.

For those who have trouble keeping up with all the happenings, here's another bite-sized round-up of some interesting Linux gaming news recently.

Almost a hundred years ago, John Maynard Keyes suggested that the industrial revolution would effectively end work for humans within a couple of generations, and our biggest challenge would be...

2DayGeek: These commands are allowed you to perform the calculation right from the terminal.

The open nature of the consumer 3D printing industry has made for a much more consumer-friendly world. This article highlights an ecosystem that, so far, has largely avoided vendor lock-in and describes the benefits that openness has provided members of the community, myself included: 3D printing.

Do you want to create a homelab? Maybe you want to experiment with different technologies, create development environments, or have your own private cloud. There are many reasons to have a homelab, and this guide aims to make it easier to get started. There are three categories to consider when planning a home lab: hardware, software, and maintenance. We'll look at the first two categories here and save maintaining your computer lab for a future article. read more

Use the browser-based Cockpit tool to monitor and administer multiple Linux servers without leaving your desk.

ZIP is the most widely used archive file format that supports lossless data compression. A ZIP file is a data container containing one or more compressed files or directories. Compressed (zipped) files take up less disk space can be transferred from one to another machine more quickly than uncompressed files. ZIP files can be easily extracted in Windows, macOS, and Linux using the utilities available for all operating systems.

If you use Linux, there will be a time when you need to know more about your network. The ss command is useful for you to monitor your network connection.

News briefs for March 19, 2019.

Canonical announced that it would kick off the Extended Security Maintenance (ESM) support for the Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) operating system series beginning April 25th, 2019.

In this edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at Mozilla's Iodide tool for data science publishing, Google's Season of Docs program, why your open source project needs marketing, and more.