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The Debian Project unveiled today the default theme and wallpaper/artwork of the upcoming Debian GNU/Linux 10 "Buster" operating system series, due for release in Spring 2019.

Linux has a good selection of versatile open source screenshot programs, both graphical and console based. Our longstanding favorite was Shutter. Although the software is still under development, the software has only received bug fixes in recent years.

PriTunl is a fantastic VPN terminator solution that's perfect for small businesses and individuals who want a quick and simple way to access their network privately. It's open source, and the basic free version is more than enough to get you started and cover most simple use cases. There is also a paid enterprise version with advanced features like Active Directory integration. read more

SEO Panel is a free and open source SEO control panel application that can be used for managing search engine optimization of your websites. In this tutorial, we will be going to install Seo Panel on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

The development team behind the Freespire and Linspire GNU/Linux distributions have announced their roadmap for new releases during the 2019-2020 period.

also on TWinL50: Buttercup (password manager), SubSync (subtitles syncing tool), Clonezilla Live, Funtoo, Fedora, Metasploit, Modlishka (2FA phishing tool), SuperTuxKart, and A Story About My Uncle

Pikuniku from the studio Sectordub and Devolver Digital is releasing January 24th and it will support Linux at release.

Knowing how to list installed packages on your Debian based system can be helpful in situations where you need to install the same packages on another machine or if you want to re-install your system. In this guide, we’ll explain how to list and filter installed packages on Debian. We will also show you how to check whether a specific package is installed, count installed packages and find out the version of an installed package.

IEI unveiled a Linux-driven “Puzzle” series of 1U rackmount network appliances and uCPE systems with VNF support and a choice of Intel Coffee Lake, AMD Epyc 3000, Armada 8040, NXP LS2088, and Cavium Octeon CPUs. IEI is launching a new family of Puzzle-branded 1U network appliances that supports software virtual network functions (VNFs) and real-time […]

Despite OpenJDK 11 being the latest long term release, it's currently only available in Ubuntu 18.10 and newer. This article explains how to install OpenJDK 11 in Ubuntu 18.04, 16.04 or 14.04, and Linux Mint 19.*, 18.* and 17.*, by using an official Ubuntu PPA.

Python is one of the most popular programming languages in the world. With its simple and easy to learn syntax Python is a great choice for beginners and experienced developers. This tutorial describes how to install Python 3.7 on Ubuntu 18.04

Kubernetes is an open source container-orchestration system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. If you've played around with it or OpenShift (which is an enterprise-ready version of Kubernetes in production), the following questions may have occurred to you: Does OpenShift support running applications at scale? What are the cluster limits? How can we tune a cluster to get maximum performance?

When I started my career as an open source attorney, a significant concern was the proliferation of new forms of open source licenses, each requiring time-consuming analysis. As my colleague Scott Peterson points out in his article, "Open source licenses are shared resources": read more

RubyMine is an intelligent and fully featured IDE for Ruby developed by JetBrains. It also provides support for Javascript, Typescript, and CSS etc. You can also extend RubyMine features by using plugins.

The KDE Project announced the general availability of the KDE Frameworks 5.54.0 open-source software suite for current and upcoming releases of the KDE Plasma desktop environment.

Have to hand it to the folks over at Jackbox Games, they're certainly putting in the effort here. They now officially support Linux with all their Party Pack games and more.

The tee command reads from standard input and writes to both standard output and one or more files at the same time. Tee is most commonly used in combination with other commands through piping.

There seems to be a mad rush at the beginning of every year to find ways to be more productive. New Year's resolutions, the itch to start the year off right, and of course, an "out with the old, in with the new" attitude all contribute to this. And the usual round of recommendations is heavily biased towards closed source and proprietary software. It doesn't have to be that way. Here's the first of my picks for 19 new (or new-to-you) open source tools to help you be more productive in 2019. read more

There are two different ways to sort a field "horizontally" on the command line, but neither of them is simple.

The gzip command is a popular tool used for compressing/decompressing files in Linux. We've already covered the basics of this tool here. This utility produces .gz files in output. But sometimes - like while transferring files - the extension may get chopped off. You'll be glad to know there exists a tool that you can use to force the .gz extension back to these compressed files.