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on DL100, we celebrate the milestone of 100 Episodes! We’re joined by 2 special guests, Rocco & Rob, the founders of Destination Linux! We also cover latest news and much more!

ASCII graphics have been admired by most players especially those who prefer large pixels and old-school gaming. Even with the visually impressive games such as the Rise of the Tomb Raider or Forza Horizon 3, there are some classic ASCII games still out there which are more popular. This article is for all those who either already love ASCII games or would like to try these out for a change.

While there's a lot of good games available natively for Linux, one area we really are lacking in is games for a younger audience. Steam Play has helped a lot here!

also on TWinL48: Lubuntu to Drop 32bit ISOs, Coreboot, GParted Live, Librem 5, HandBrake, Grep, Sed, Microsoft's Project Mu, Steam Winter Sale & much more!

Give your Linux desktop a Christmas makeover with these Christmas themed Linux wallpapers, snowfall on your desktop and a Christmas tree in the terminal.

In this article, we will show you how to install PHP 7.3 on Ubuntu 16.04. PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) is an open-source server-side scripting language and is widely used for creating dynamic web pages. PHP is among the most popular languages because it is secure, fast, simple, efficient, flexible and a loosely typed language. PHP can be run in any operating platform (Windows, Linux, MacOS) and almost on any web server (Nginx, Apache). PHP 7.3.0 was officially released on December 6, 2018 and it contains new improved features and functions.

The major stable release of Elive 3.0 has been updated. We were so pleased with this stable release of Elive and the result has been so amazing that there's almost nothing that needed to be changed from it. It was a truly a rock solid system and we wanted to update it with a slightly updated and polished build which includes: wallpaper - dynamically changes depending of the hour of the day, looking more magical and nicer for your eyes, and it also includes a hidden surprise for Christmas; pop-ups - you won't be annoyed any more by the Hotkeys Document that appears in the desktop startup, we moved it to the launcher bar of applications; desktop - disabled the screen off timeout and the asking for the presentation mode; Flash - updated the Adobe Flash player for common browsers to the last version, tested on Chrome, Firefox and Opera; multiuser - improved the multiple user desktop switching mode compatibility.

We're almost to the end of our 24-day-long Linux command-line toys advent calendar. Hopefully, you've been following along, but if not, start back at the beginning and work your way through. You'll find plenty of games, diversions, and oddities for your Linux terminal. And while you may have seen some toys from our calendar before, we hope there’s at least one new thing for everyone. read more

System Administrators needs to configure and manage users and groups in the system. There are different commands to Add User, Delete User etc. but to list all the users this may be a critical task.

You are collaborating on a project with a group of people and you have defined a naming convention for git branches. You created a new branch, pushed the changes to the remote repository and realised that your branch name was incorrect.

Canonical releases new Linux kernel security updates for all supported Ubuntu releases to patch users against several vulnerabilities discovered lately by various security researchers.

By using Let’s Encrypt you can get a free valid SSL certificate. Let’s Encrypt is the Certificate Authority (CA) which provides free SSL certificate.

In this edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look open source compliance projects coming together, California launching an open source code site, the Tor Project opening its books, and more. read more

Kubernetes is made up of many different inter-related concepts and abstractions that help to enable the container orchestration platform.

Every 6 months Ubuntu’s new version released and every 2 years we get LTS version of Ubuntu. It very important to check the Ubuntu Version you are using if you want to learn something reading tutorial

From 1916 to 2015 there were only minor ups and downs in the number and intensity of rainfall events. Interesting swings in event length might explain why older locals say "The rain's changed".

The Linux file command displays the type of a file. It’s helpful when you have to find out the type of file you’ve never seen before or the file does not have a file extension.

We're almost to the end of our 24-day-long Linux command-line toys advent calendar. Hopefully, you've been following along, but if not, start back at the beginning and work your way through. You'll find plenty of games, diversions, and oddities for your Linux terminal. And while you may have seen some toys from our calendar before, we hope there’s at least one new thing for everyone. read more

In short order, Istio has become a defacto standard approach to enabling a networking service mesh for cloud-native application deployment.

Today our development team is proud to announce the release of Freespire 4.5, the free-and-open-source subset of our flagship Linspire operating system. Freespire 4.5 is a security and functionality update of the previous 4.0 release and is equivalent to the Linspire 8.0 base. This includes all security updates until Dec 15, 2018.