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When working with Git, it is quite common for developers to create tags in order to have reference points in your development. Tags are created in order to have references to release versions for example. Furthermore, tags are Git objects meaning that they can be checked out like you would check out a branch or a commit for example.

Hacktoberfest is an initiative that invites developers from around the world to participate and contribute to open source. This is the second year in a row that I participated to completion of the challenge, and I was so inspired by it that I want to share my slightly longer journey to open source software. read more

In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to easily install ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors on multiple Linux distributions including Ubuntu from Flatpak. In case you prefer to install/update the suite as a DEB, snap, or AppImage package, refer to this tutorial.

In this tutorial, we will need to explore some basic concepts about MBR and GPT to understand their advantages, limitations and differences.

diff is a command-line utility that allows you to compare two files line by line.

Google Stadia promises that we can now play our games on almost any device anywhere without having to download and install games. I run Linux on my notebook computer and I was particularly interested to see how it would work there.

Organizations as a whole contribute to open source software projects for a variety of reasons. One of the most important is that the open source development model is such an effective way to collaborate with other companies on projects of mutual interest. But they also want to better understand the technologies they use. They also want to influence direction. The specific rationale will vary by organization but it usually boils down to the simple fact that working in open source benefits their business. read more

PinePhone could someday be turned into a makeshift portable desktop with the right accessories and connections.

Thunar comes with a powerful Bulk Rename tool. Here is how you can make use of the Bulk Rename tool to mass rename files in Linux.

Timekpr-nExT is graphical parental control tool for Linux, useful if you want to limit child activity on a computer. The application, which uses Python / GTK3, works with multiple desktop environments, including GNOME, Xfce, Cinnamon, KDE Plasma, Unity, Deepin and Budgie, under both X11 and Wayland.

Most workplaces don't endorse the browsing of reddit while you're being paid to work - in fact, I can't think of any that do.. while that's true, it never hurts to have 1/3 or 1/4 of your terminal assigned to your favorite subreddits out there while you're fighting the good fight.

The dig command allows you to check various DNS records for a domain from the Linux terminal.

Smartphone is one of the gadgets that are currently becoming people's needs. Many people use smartphones for other purposes besides communication, for example, for playing games, multimedia purposes, writing and for business. Based on the Netmarketshare website, Android is one of the mobile operating systems that is widely used by people around the world. That is, many people who use smartphones with the Android operating system.

Learning this lightweight text editing tool can help you navigate faster, inside and outside of the text editor.

This article shows you how to install the software you need to use Cockpit to create and manage virtual machines on Fedora 31. Cockpit is an interactive admin interface that lets you access and manage systems from any supported web browser. With virt-manager being deprecated users are encouraged to use Cockpit instead, which is meant […]

tonight I benchmarked my System76 Darter Pro (darp6) with coreboot using sysbench and geekbench. The current setup includes the 4.9ghz i7 cpu, 64gb memory and 500 nvme drive.

The last couple of weeks I’ve looked at whether the RPI4 is capable of two absolutely essential desktop activities: web browsing and email. I was impressed by the wee device in this regard. This week I’m summarizing my experiences of another fundamental desktop activity: running an office suite.

Python is a high-level, object-oriented programming language known for its simple syntax. It is consistently among the top-rated programming languages for building RESTful APIs. read more

When I was growing up, my grandfather had a shed in his garden. He would spend hours in there, making and fixing things. This was way before we had the internet, so I spent a lot of time studying him creating things in that shed. Although the shed was full of many tools, from drills to lathes to electrical gubbins and lots of things I doubt I could identify even today, he made use of only a tiny subset of what he had at hand. Yet there never seemed to be limits to what he could achieve. read more

Bash too basic? Too much whitespace in Python? Go too corporate? You should try Lua, a lightweight, efficient, and embeddable scripting language supporting procedural programming, object-oriented programming, functional programming, data-driven programming, and data description. And best of all, it uses explicit syntax for scoping! Lua is also small. Lua's source code is just 24,000 lines of C, the Lua interpreter (on 64-bit Linux) built with all standard Lua libraries is 247K, and the Lua library is 421K.