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LaTeX is a powerful system, especially for writing scientific and technical documents. But writing documents in LaTeX can be confusing because you need to know a lot of commands, and your text is littered with backslashes, curly braces, and other syntax distractions. But being productive as a writer requires that you focus on the text's content instead of how it looks. Fortunately, the GNU Emacs Org mode extension makes it easy to write plain-text documents and seamlessly export them to LaTeX and PDF. read more

Flatseal is a simple graphical GTK application that allows the users to review and modify flatpak apps basic permissions in Linux.

Loved by sysadmins and hated by intruders. Get the inside scoop on Tripwire to enhance your system's security.

This month's Linux distro review isn't of a Linux distribution at all—instead, we're taking a look at FreeBSD, the original gangster of free Unix-like operating systems.

In this tutorial, we will explain how to install Skype on Debian 10. Skype is one of the most popular communication applications in the world.

Use Chrome/Firefox headless mode to create snapshots of URLs from the Linux command line.

Due to the outbreak of COVID-19 and its rapid development, we are all being called to take protective and preventative measures, including avoiding social contact as much as possible. Events are canceled, trips are postponed, and companies are asking their employees to work from home. It's an exceptional situation for everyone, as remote work cultures with distributed teams are being introduced overnight. Many companies are being challenged to quickly organize a team that works completely remotely. read more

This guide explains how to copy or move files/directories from one location to another and cd into the destination directory instantly in Linux.

Keeping your filesystems respectably clean is an ongoing task and there are pitfalls to avoid along the way.

VNC stands for "Virtual Network Computing" is a GUI desktop sharing application that can be used to access and control other computers over a network. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install VNC server on CentOS 8.

The open-source effort hits a major milestone, as the Eclipse Foundation takes aim at providing a stable competitive alternative to Visual Studio Code.

WinSystems’ fanless, Linux-ready “SYS-ITX-N-3900” computer has an Apollo Lake SoC, -20 to 60°C support, wide-range power, M.2 and mini-PCIe expansion, and a compact 150 x 150 x 50mm footprint. A year and a half after the first Intel Gemini Lake based embedded computers arrived, we have seen only a few models based on this latest […]

Another reason to hate auto-play videos: they drain your power. Brave has updated its Android web browser and claims a 5 per cent battery saving versus the previous release.…

As part of my role as a senior product marketing manager at an enterprise software company with an open source development model, I publish a regular update about open source community, market, and industry trends for product marketers, managers, and other influencers. Here are five of my and their favorite articles from that update.

Logs can be a pain to deal with but they are also lifesavers when you need to find out what went wrong on a system. Find out how to set up this essential service on your systems.

The internet is now our lifeline, as a good portion of humanity lives as close to home as possible. Those who currently don’t have access will feel this need ever …

LF Edge, the edge-focused project that the Linux Foundation started early last year, is growing. On Wednesday, State of the Edge, an open project to define, explain, and quantify an edge computing ecosystem, officially became part of LF Edge. The Open Glossary of Edge Computing, which had been a stand-alone project within LF Edge, is getting rolled into State of the Edge.

Abby Kearns, the Cloud Foundry's executive director, is stepping down leaving the most popular Platform-as-a-Service clouds in the capable hands of its CTO Chip Childers.

The independent directors of the Mozilla board are pleased to announce that Mitchell Baker has been appointed permanent CEO of Mozilla Corporation. We have been conducting an external candidate search …

Nvidia has released the Nvidia 440.82 proprietary graphics driver for GNU/Linux distributions, as well as FreeBSD and Solaris systems to address a few issues and improve support for some games.