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News briefs for March 6, 2019.

Will our digital lives leave a fossil record? Or any record at all?

Do you love to cook? Looking for a better way to manage your recipes using Fedora? GNOME Recipes is an awesome application available to install in Fedora to store and organize your recipe collection. GNOME Recipes is an recipe management tool from the GNOME project. It has the visual style of a modern GNOME style […]

Purism revealed today that it's been working for a while on making its Debian-based PureOS Linux operating system convergent for the upcoming Librem 5 Linux phone and its Librem 13 and 15 laptops.

KSmoothDock is a cool desktop panel with parabolic zooming effect for KDE Plasma 5. While visually it is inspired by Mac OS X’s Dock, it aims to follow the traditional Linux model of desktop panel with the application menu, launchers, the pager, the task manager, the system tray and the clock.

I have to admit, it took me a rather embarrassingly long time to really get into Linux as a daily driver. One thing I recall from these years in the wilderness was how strange it was to watch open source types get so worked up about text editors. It wasn't just that opinions differed. Disagreements were intense. And you'd see them again and again. read more

Linux offers plenty of options to make your PC your own. The ability to choose virtually any keyboard layout is one of them. Learn how!

In this tutorial we take a look at the little known column command. This nifty utility allows you to format output into columns. You can format your output into tables, add headers, align text in the columns and even output JSON.

Skype is one of the most popular communication applications in the world that allows you to make free online audio and video calls, and affordable international calling to mobiles and landlines worldwide.

For sharing files between different operating systems, it can easily be done with Network Share. Here's how you can transfer files between Linux and Windows.

The KDE Project released today the eighth maintenance update to the long-term supported KDE Plasma 5.12 LTS desktop environment with numerous bug fixes and performance improvements.

Google has launched a sandwich-style, $150 “Coral Dev Board” with an RPi-like 40-pin header that runs Linux on an i.MX8M with an Edge TPU chip for accelerating TensorFlow Lite. The USB stick version sells for $75. Google unveiled its embedded oriented Edge TPU version of its Tensor Processing Unit AI chip in July. More details […]

The KaOS project released the first ISO snapshot for 2019 as KaOS 2019.02, an up-to-date live and installation media that contains all the latest software updates, bug fixes, and security issues.

Operators make life easier for Kubernetes users, but they're so popular that finding good ones is not easy. Operatorhub.io is an attempt to fix that.

How to use ncurses to manipulate your terminal screen.

Linux Lite users are among the first to try the recently released Linux 5.0 kernel on their computers powered by one of the supported Linux Lite releases.

If you've just installed Fedora and you're looking for a quick way of installing some popular third-party software that's not in the Fedora standard repositories, try Fedy.

In previous articles, including How does rootless Podman work?, I talked about Podman, a tool that enables users to manage pods, containers, and container images. read more

News briefs for March 5, 2019.

In this article, we will explain how to set timers, alarms, and stopwatches on your Ubuntu system in the GUI and on the command line.