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Some fun news for game developers and the Vulkan ecosystem as another FOSS rendering engine is being ported over to Vulkan.

So you can work on something while you work on something. Google has added virtual desktops to its Chrome OS, used in Chromebooks, enabling users to create multiple workspaces and switch between them.…

Advantech has released a “ROM-5720” SMARC module with a i.MX8M SoC and a “ROM-7720” Qseven module with an i.MX8 QuadMax plus a new SMARC carrier board. The modules support Linux and Android with Timesys’ Vigilis security service. Advantech has begun shipping two NXP i.MX8 family compute modules with Timesys’ new Vigilis security service. We covered […]

Inkscape is one of the best free scalable vector graphics (SVG) applications. Here we will show how you can easily create a simple logo with Inkscape.

This tutorial shows you how to install Trimage image optimization tool on Debian 10 and how to use it to optimize and compress images losslessly.

In this tutorial, we will explain how to install Elgg on a Debian 9 VPS as well as all of the necessary components, such as the Apache web server, the MariaDB database server, and PHP. Elgg is a free and open-source social network platform that allows users to build their own self-hosted social network environments, such as a campus-wide social network for your university, school, or college, or an internal collaborative platform for your organization.

This is a weekly blog about the Raspberry Pi 4 (“RPI4”), the latest product in the popular Raspberry Pi range of computers.

ExpressionEngine is a mature, flexible, secure, free open-source content management system (CMS) written in PHP. This guide will walk you through the ExpressionEngine installation process on a fresh CentOS 8 using PHP, MariaDB as a database, and Nginx as a web server.

Python 3.8 is not available in Ubuntu’s default repositories. In this tutorial, we’ll cover two different ways to install Python 3.8 on Ubuntu 18.04.

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

The media that caused Dr. Stallman to lose his place at MIT and also at the FSF (which he had founded) still libels him, having just — yet again — wrongly asserted that Stallman “defended” the person whom he actually called “serial rapist”

Canonical has published a roadmap for official support for the Raspberry Pi 4 single-board computer on their lates Ubuntu Server and Ubuntu Core operating systems.

Paperboy is a small, simple command line PDF management utility written in Haskell that's designed to help with downloaded PDF documents that don't have proper / discernible filenames. The tool uses the PDF metadata and content to offer suggestions for quickly renaming the file, while also letting you open the PDF to check out its content before renaming it.

UK-based video games publisher Feral Interactive announced today that official availability of the Shadow of the Tomb Raider video game on Linux and macOS platforms.

In this tutorial, we will explain how to download files from the internet using the Linux command line by using wget and curl.

PostgreSQL is a powerful and feature-rich relational database management system (RDBMS). This tutorial shows you how to set up streaming replication with replication slots on two Debian 10 nodes.

Acrosser’s “ACM-XD15MT” COM Express Basic Type 7 module runs Linux 4.9 on an octa-core, 2.6GHz Xeon D-1548 and offers up to 32GB DDR4, 32x PCIe lanes, dual SATA III interfaces, and support for GbE and dual 10GbE ports. Acrosser announced its first COM Express Type 7 module. The 125 x 95mm Basic Type 7 form-factor […]

GNU/Linux developer Arne Exton released a new version of his Raspbian PIXEL fork for PC and Mac with a whole new system base and up-to-date components.

The story of my first mistake goes back to the beginning of my learn-to-code journey. I taught myself the basics through online resources. I was working through tutorials and projects, making progress but also looking for the next way to level up. Pretty quickly, I came across a blog post that told me the best way for beginners just like me to take their coding skills to the next level was to contribute to open source.

As a system administrator, you may be asked to manage disks between different operating systems such as Windows, Linux and MacOS. As a consequence, you may have to format your disk partitions accordingly in order for them to be compatible across multiple environments. What filesystems should you use?