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2DayGeek: Do you know all three methods to create an user account in Linux?

Debian, as well as all other Linux distributions is a multi-user operating system. Each user can have different permission level and specific settings for various command line and GUI application. Knowing how to add and remove users is one of the basic skills a Linux user should know.

This Group Test selects and ranks the best weather software including widgets for GNOME and KDE, general weather software, as well as software to stream your weather data to a web site.

The Raspberry Pi is a small, single-board computer originally intended for teaching and learning programming and computer science. But today it's so much more. It is affordable, low-energy computing power that people can use for all kinds of things—from home entertainment over server applications to Internet of Things (IoT) projects. read more

NVM stands for Node version manager & as you might have guessed with name, it’s used to control Nodejs versions installed on our system. It is a command line utility, which allows us to use & switch between multiple versions of Nodejs.

It works on Linux & MacOS but does not yet support Windows machines, but there are some other 3rd party tools for Windows to do the same job.

We've recently seen the spike in Linux games, many popular gaming platforms have focused on Linux gaming. Last year Steam released Steam Play to play Windows games on Linux. Awesome! The list is growing fast so Linux gamers need Gamehub, an app allows to install, run, uninstall games from different sources from one place.

Ahmed Darwish is the developer now pursuing this "kernel oops viewer" with the intention of implementing the support as "minimal" DRM drivers for each hardware

In this tutorial we explain how to use the trap bash builtin to exit bash scripts cleanly. We explore examples of how to clean up temp files, ensure services stay running and close ports.

Fedora test days are events where anyone can help make sure changes in Fedora work well in an upcoming release. Fedora community members often participate, and the public is welcome at these events. If you’ve never contributed to Fedora before, this is a perfect way to get started. There are two upcoming test days this […]

Regularly updating your Ubuntu system is one of the most important aspects of overall system security.

Until now, this series has focused on the Raspberry Pi's software side, but today we'll get into the hardware. The availability of general-purpose input/output (GPIO) pins was one of the main features that interested me in the Pi when it first came out. GPIO allows you to programmatically interact with the physical world by attaching sensors, relays, and other types of circuitry to the Raspberry Pi. read more

GNU/Linux developer Arne Exton released a new version of his ExTiX Linux distro that has been rebased on the upcoming Ubuntu 19.04 operating system and ships with Linux kernel 5.0.

Congatec announced a “Conga-B7E3” COM Express Type 7 module that runs Linux or Windows on AMD’s up to 16-core Epyc Embedded 3000 with up to 96GB DDR4, 4x 10GbE networking, 32x PCIe lanes, and an optional 1TB NVMe disk. AMD announced its embedded server class Epyc Embedded 3000 in Feb. 2018 in tandem with its […]

Data analysis sometimes turns up unexpected "bulges" in the value of data items. Forensic auditors are trained to look for such things in business and banking accounts, because a bulge might be evidence of fraud or embezzlement. In the following three examples, bulges appear for more innocent reasons.

GNOME Web (or just Web) is another cool Internet browser that is powered by the same engine (Webkit) that powers Opera and Google Chrome Internet browsers. It's aesthetically beautiful while at the same time modern web pages are rendered well like those major browsers. However, it's not the default web browser on GNOME desktop environment nor is it installed out of the box with the Operating System. Read on below to learn more about this cool browser and how you can install it on your computer.

Mathematics and science tools often depend on cluster and high performance computing, both undeniably Linux strengths. Couple that with the maturity of the science tools available for Linux and you get a lot of computational bang for your buck. Join us this weekend as we review physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, and other science programs for Linux.

Back in the fifth article in our series on getting started with the Raspberry Pi, I mentioned Minecraft as a way to teach kids to program using a gaming platform. Today we'll talk about other ways you can play games on your Raspberry Pi, as it's a great platform for gaming—with and without emulators. read more

CouchDB is a free and open-source fault-tolerant NoSQL database maintained by the Apache Software Foundation.

Following yesterday's kernel security patch for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) systems, Canonical released today a new Linux kernel security patch for Ubuntu 18.10 (Cosmic Cuttlefish) users.

This article explains how to convert the pages of a PDF document to image files (PNG, JPEG, and others).