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The Fedora OS is comfortable and easy for lots of users. It has a stunning desktop that makes it easy to get everyday tasks done. Under the hood is all the power of a Linux system, and the terminal is the easiest way for power users to harness it. By default terminals are simple and […]

Google announced today during the GDC (Game Developers Conference) 2019 conference a new cloud-based video game streaming platform called Stadia.

plus SouthEast Linux Fest, Lakka, WireGuard in NetworkManager, Fider, TLP, Mesa 19.0, Linux Foundation Announces CommunityBridge Platform, Debian Package Maintainer Steps Down, Humble Bundle

There is something truly exciting about customizing your operating system through the collection of hidden files we call dotfiles. In What a Shell Dotfile Can Do For You, H. "Waldo" Grunenwald goes into excellent detail about the why and how of setting up your dotfiles. Let's dig into the why and how of sharing them. read more

Video of look and feel and new features being introduced in Ubuntu 19.04 Disco Dingo.

Shallot is billed as a file manager with the maximum degree of flexibility and customization. It’s Qt-based. We put it to the test together with 15 other Qt-based file managers.

Like many families, mine is inconveniently spread around, and I have many colleagues in North and South America. So, over the years, I've relied more and more on WhatsApp to stay in touch with people. The claimed end-to-end encryption appeals to me, as I prefer to maintain some shreds of privacy, and moreover to avoid forcing those with whom I communicate to use an insecure mechanism. read more

Google have now finally unveiled their new cloud gaming service named Stadia, offering instant access to play games in Google Chrome. It's built on Debian Linux, using the Vulkan API.

Plex is a free and open source media server that can be used to store all your movies, shows, and other media in one place. Plex allows you to remotely stream those media libraries from any device like smart TV, web browser, Xbox One, PlayStation, and Apple TV.

In this article, we will explain installing Thunderbird both through the command line and the UI. We will then explain how to launch the application and use it to set up Thunderbird to access and use your already existing Email account on your Ubuntu.

It's official: artificial intelligence (AI) isn't the unbiased genius we want it to be. Alphabet (Google's parent company) used its latest annual report to warn that ethical concerns about its products might hurt future revenue. Entrepreneur Joy Buolamwini established the Safe Face Pledge to prevent abuse of facial analysis technology. read more

And an extension for those who prefer Visual Studio Code – but all very preview at the mo Microsoft has booted out a Postgres GUI for those moments when the command line is just too scary.…

Ahead of Pwn2Own, Mozilla released 21 security advisories for flaws that have now been fixed in the open-source web browser.

Nvidia has launched a stripped-down, quad -A57 Jetson Nano module with a CUDA-ready 128-core Maxwell GPU. There’s also a maker-friendly, $99 dev kit featuring the Linux-driven, AI-focused COM. At the GPU Technology Conference, Nvidia spun a version of its Arm-based, GPU-focused Jetson modules for the Linux maker market along with a $99 Dev Kit. The […]

This article is about text processing in Rust, but it also contains a quick introduction to pattern matching, which can be very handy when working with text.

Dropbox on Linux has dropped support for all other filesystems except for Ext4. This shows how to get Dropbox working agin in non-ext4 filesystem.

For those who have trouble keeping up with all the happenings, here's another bite-sized round-up of some interesting Linux gaming news recently.

Almost a hundred years ago, John Maynard Keyes suggested that the industrial revolution would effectively end work for humans within a couple of generations, and our biggest challenge would be...

2DayGeek: These commands are allowed you to perform the calculation right from the terminal.