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Delete unnecessary packages in Debian, Ubuntu to maintain a clean system with the essential packages of your choice.

The most humble of window managers, TWM, is a little akin to those sample photographs you get when you buy a picture frame. It's basic, almost a bare-minimum proof of concept that Xorg ships with the X11 Windows System to demonstrate that a desktop can indeed be created for a graphical user interface (GUI).

Docker Compose is a tool that can be used to define and run multiple containers as a single service. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and use Docker Compose in CentOS 8.

Another sweet new release of pyLinuxWheel is up, giving you even more options for managing your Logitech Steering Wheel on Linux thanks to new features.

The Peppermint OS team released today the first respin images to their latest Peppermint 10 Linux-based operating system for personal computers.

Secure Shell (SSH) is a cryptographic network protocol used for an encrypted connection between a client and a server. The ssh client creates a secure connection to the SSH server on a remote machine. The encrypted connection can be used to execute commands on the server, X11 tunneling, port forwarding, and more. Learn how to use the OpenSSH command-line client to log in to a remote machine and run commands.

When the UDE project started in 1996, the developers took on a bold name—Unix Desktop Environment (UDE)—and held high hopes of reinventing what a desktop could be. They weren't just trying to redefine Unix desktops; they were trying to change the way users interacted with applications on their system.

Python contributor Tim Peters introduced us to the Zen of Python in 1999. Twenty years later, its 19 guiding principles continue to be relevant within the community. We start our Pythonukkah celebration—like Hanukkah, a festival of lights—with the first two principles in the Zen of Python: on beauty and explicitness.

In today’s post, you’ll read a full review of Ubuntu MATE 19.10, and why we think it was the best this year.

In this tutorial we will show you how to install Roadiz CMS on a Debian 9 VPS. Roadiz is a polymorphic CMS based on a node system that can handle many types of services. It is based on Symfony components, Doctrine ORM, Twig and Pimple for maximum performance and excellent security.

SuperTuxKart continues getting even better. The 1.0 release back in April was huge, with SuperTuxKart 1.1 getting a first Release Candidate now to improve on the previous new features like online play.

Linux ls command is a basic command which is essential to know for all Linux users. It is used to list information of files and directories within a file system. In this tutorial, we will show you how to use ls command by using several examples of ls command.

There are organizations helping to accelerate tech for good by connecting developers who want to make a change with communities and nonprofits who desperately need better technology. These organizations often serve specific audiences and recruit specific kinds of technologists, but they all share a common thread: open source.

The fast-paced arena styled first-person shooter Red Eclipse 2 has now officially released on Steam so anyone can jump in, as it's free and open source.

RAK has launched a $212 and up “RAK7244 LoRaWAN Developer Gateway” with a Raspberry Pi 4, a LoRa and GPS enabled RAK2245 Pi HAT, and an optional RAK2013 Cellular Pi HAT with a Quectel EG95 LTE CAT4 module. RAK Wireless’ latest gateway for low-power, long distance LoRa communications offers optional LTE. The RAK7244 LoRaWAN Developer […]

The Plasma desktop by the KDE community is a pinnacle among open source desktops. KDE got into the Linux desktop market early, but since its foundational Qt toolkit did not have a fully open license at the time, the GNOME desktop was created. Since then, Qt has become open source, and KDE (and its derivatives, like the Trinity desktop) has thrived.

It is important to learn to use man pages efficiently to find out what exactly you want to know. In this brief tutorial, I will be sharing few important tricks which I use daily when referring man pages.

If you have been working with Linux systems for quite some time, you already know how important it is to keep your filesystem structured. In some cases, you may need to create temporary directories with random names that need to be renamed later on. Renaming directories on Linux is not done with a dedicated renaming command but with a command that serves multiple purposes : the “mv” command. In this tutorial, we are going to learn how you can rename directories on Linux.

In the first article in this series, you created your first, very small, one-line Bash script and explored the reasons for creating shell scripts. In the second article, you began creating a fairly simple template that can be a starting point for other Bash programs and began testing it. read more

Lambda falls under “Compute” service in AWS (Amazon Web Services). Using Lambda we can code without provisioning or managing servers. In this article, we will see how to create a simple Lambda function that can start/stop an EC2 instance.