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Fish (friendly interactive shell) is a smart and user-friendly command line shell that works on Linux, MacOS, and other operating systems. Use it for everyday work in your terminal and for scripting. Scripts written in fish are less cryptic than their equivalent bash versions.

Applications are complex collections of code and configuration that have a lot of nuance to how they are installed. Like all open source software, they can be installed from source code, but most of the time users want to install something simply and consistently. That’s why package managers exist in nearly every operating system, which manages the installation process. read more

Most of the modern Linux Desktop systems come with Nvidia driver pre-installed in a form of the Nouveau open-source graphics device driver for Nvidia video cards. Hence depending on your needs and in most of the situations there is no need for an additional Nvidia Linux Driver installation procedure.

This article explains the basic Linux permissions model and what the numbers corresponding to the permissions mean.

Auto-cpufreq is an automatic CPU speed and power optimizer for Linux. Learn how to automatically optimize CPU speed and power with auto-cpufreq.

There's nothing like the thrill of experiencing the result of your Raspberry Pi creation. After hours of coding, testing, and building with your bare hands, your project starts to finally take shape and you can’t help but yell "woohoo!." I’m fascinated by the possibilities of what the Raspberry Pi can bring to daily life. Whether you are looking to learn something new, try a productivity hack, or just have fun, there is a Raspberry Pi project for you in this round-up.  read more

You-Get is a small command-line utility to download media contents (videos, audios, images) from the web. This software lets you access material from YouTube, Youku, Niconico and a whole of other sites without ever leaving the console.

The command line doesn't have to be tedious, it can be awesome with these shortcuts.

The SparkyLinux development team released today SparkyLinux 2020.03, a monthly snapshot in the rolling release series of the Debian-based GNU/Linux distribution.

Linutop’s Linux-based, kiosk-oriented Linutop OS can now run on the Raspberry Pi 4. Linutop also sells mini-PCs based on the Raspberry Pi 2 and 3 and the UP Squared. It’s been a long time since we’ve checked in with Parisian embedded Linux firm Linutop, which back in 2010 was shipping its kiosk-targeted, Linux-based Linutop OS […]

Copying directories on Linux is a big part of every system administrator routine. If you have been working with Linux for quite some time, you know how important it is to keep your folders well structured. In some cases, you may need to copy some directories on your system in order revamp your main filesystem structure. In this tutorial, we are going to see how you can easily copy directories and folders on Linux using the cp command.

In this post, I will show you how to plot graphs from the Wikipedia data tables.

Firejail is a SUID security sandbox based on Linux Namespace and seccomp-bpf (Secure computing mode). Firejail can run graphical or command-line applications in a sandbox, reduces the risk of security breaches by restricting the untrusted applications.

In the article you will learn how to run and manage a docker container on Linux Ubuntu and similar distros. You will also be able to push a new image to Docker Hub

The OSI in 2020 (or even prior years; since Microsoft started paying it) is led by corporations rather than people and the Open Source Definition (OSD) no longer seems to matter

This is an informative articles on things you need to do before you can install Linux on your machine. Step by step it will guide you through everything you need.

The Raspberry Pi is so accessible and affordable, and that means it can be easy to start a collection, even unintentionally. There are now nine different boards available, and amazingly all of them are still useful for something. Being so low-powered and easy to maintain, they have a surprisingly long shelf life, and a continual ability to keep working on whatever set of tasks it's been set up to do.

In early 2017, I was mentally in a bad spot. It was the perfect storm of stress, the kind that no one asks for, but you deal with the hand you're dealt. Work was piling up to a point where I couldn't process all the things that were expected of me. I was training for spring half-marathons, which should have been stress relief, but I was putting too much pressure on myself to perform at a high level.

We’re led to think that after Stallman’s departure women are suddenly “safe” or “welcomed”; the truth of the matter is, Stallman was never a barrier to their acceptance and the real obstacle is women’s perception that they’re used as pseudo-political pawns

PHP is the most popular open-source general-purpose scripting language and is widely used for web development. It’s part of the LAMP stack application suite and is used to create dynamic websites. Here's a simple way to install the latest PHP 7 on CentOS/RHEL 7 and 6 systems.