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It seems clear that backups are always a hot topic in the Linux world. read more

Radiotray-NG is a continuation of the discontinued Radio Tray. It seeks to embrace the same philosophy, fixing some of its flaws, and adding a few new features along the way.

If you’ve been reading the Community blog, you’ll already know: AskFedora has moved to Discourse! Read on for more information about this exciting platform. Discourse? Why Discourse? The new AskFedora is a Discourse instance hosted by Discourse, similar to discussion.fedoraproject.org. However, where discussion.fedoraproject.org is meant for development discussion within the community, AskFedora is meant for […]

Recently, I wrote an article pointing out that the voxel-based first person shooter Sector's Edge might come to Linux, well it's now confirmed.

Audio files in formats such as MP3, AAC, and Ogg Vorbis have made music ubiquitous and portable. With the explosive growth of storage capacity, you can store huge libraries of music. But how do you keep all that music organized?

Bludit is a simple, fast, secure, flat-file CMS that allows you to create your own website or blog in seconds. In this tutorial, we will go through the Bludit CMS installation and setup on Debian 9 (stretch) system by using NGINX as a web server.

The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the May 2019 issue.

News briefs for May 8, 2019.

Video: If the mountain won't come to Muhammad, then Muhammad must go to the mountain. Or, in this case, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella came to Red Hat Summit to announce a new Microsoft/Red Hat partnership: Azure Red Hat OpenShift.

Where would be without our teachers? Today, on National Teacher Day, take a few minutes to send a special note to one of your favorite teachers. Five of our writers did. Read their heartfelt notes below, but first, take note of these three awesome book recommendations for students looking to learn more about coding, open source, and Linux. Book recommendations Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms by Hannah Fry read more

Slack is one of the most popular collaboration platforms in the world that brings all your communication together. Conversations in Slack are organized in channels. You can create channels for your teams, projects, topics, or any other purpose to keep information and conversations organized. You can search through everything that’s been posted in channels or your messages. Slack also allows you to talk with your teammates over audio or video calls and share documents, images, videos, and other files.

The development for Ubuntu 19.10 Eoan Ermine has begun. Learn the release date of Ubuntu 19.10 and the new features it is expected to bring.

Shared libraries use version numbers to allow for upgrades to the libraries used by applications while preserving compatibility for older applications. This article reviews what's really going on under the book jacket and why there are so many symbolic links in /usr/lib on a normal Linux system.

Of course we have Python! You just need to specify whether you want Python 3 or 2 as we didn’t want to set a default. Give yum install python3 and/or yum install python2 a try. Or, if you want to see what packages we recommend, use yum install @python36 or yum install @python27. Read on for why.

In this third article in a three-part series on the RPM Package Manager, discover the ins and outs of software dependencies, and learn how to control and customize your software packaging. (This series replaces an earlier series on RPM written by Dan Poirier.)

FreeRADIUS is an authentification, authorization and accounting protocol. It was built in the dial-up era to manage users & keep track of the bandwidth usage by each connection for billing purposes.

In this article, I provide a survey of a number of popular Linux data visualization tools and include some insight into their other capabilities.

Python is one of the most popular programming languages in use today—and for good reasons: it's open source, it has a wide range of uses (such as web programming, business applications, games, scientific programming, and much more), and it has a vibrant and dedicated community supporting it. This community is the reason we have such a large, diverse range of software packages available in the Python Package Index (PyPI) to extend and improve Python and solve the read more

The upcoming version of Windows 10 will feature a real Linux kernel in it as part of Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). In a way, this is a bad news for the growth of desktop Linux.

The printk() function is a subject of much ongoing consternation among kernel developers. Ostensibly, it's just an output routine for sending text to the console. But unlike a regular print routine, printk() has to be able to work even under extreme conditions, like when something horrible is going on and the system needs to utter a few last clues as it breathes its final breath.