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The PinePhone is almost here and it looks like it already supports KDE's Plasma Mobile-based operating system for phones.

Where I live, almost everything is a 20- or 30-minute drive from my home, and I'm always looking for ways to use my car time productively. One way is by listening to podcasts on topics that interest me, so as an open source enthusiast, I subscribe to a variety of open source-related podcasts. Here are eight Linux and open source podcasts that I Iook forward to every week. read more

This introduction examines what /dev/null is, it's nicknames and how to use it for things like suppressing output, inputting EOF, and clearing files.

In this tutorial, we will explain how to mount ISO files on Linux.

This article explains some simple ways that you can use through your keyboard, mouse control. or both, in order to open the Debian Terminal application. We have run the commands and procedures mentioned in this article on a Debian 10 Buster system.

If you use Linux on a notebook, TLP is for you. It saves laptop battery power with a wide variety of features. There’s processor frequency scaling, Wifi power saving, hard disk advanced power management, GPU power management and much more.

This article explores awk's capabilities, which are easier to use now that you know how to structure your command into an executable script. Logical operators and conditionals You can use the logical operators and (written &&) and or (written ||) to add specificity to your conditionals. For example, to select and print only records with the string "purple" in the second column and an amount less than five in the third column: read more

The upcoming Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) and Debian GNU/Linux 11 "Bullseye" operating system are progressing on the removal of the now deprecated Python 2 implementation from their software repositories.

You'd think it would be easy to convince management that automation saves money. But you will have to prove that the time you spend doing repetitive tasks is better spent on more strategic work.

Koel is a web-based personal audio streaming app written in Vue.js on the client-side and Laravel on the server-side. This tutorial will cover how to install Koel on Ubuntu 18.04 based server.

The terminal is one of the most efficient ways to interact with a Linux computer. When you type a command into the shell, you tell your computer exactly what you want it to do, specifying both the source and destination of what you need done, and then there's no further interaction required. Every time you type a valid command into a shell, you're essentially programming, even though your program may only run for a millisecond. read more

In this guide, we will be discussing one of the most-widely used feature called “spell check” in Vim editor. If you’re a programmer who edits lots of text, then “spell check” feature might be quite useful.

A firewall is a method for monitoring and filtering incoming and outgoing network traffic. It works by defining a set of security rules that determine whether to allow or block specific traffic. A properly configured firewall is one of the most important aspects of overall system security. In this tutorial, we will talk about how to configure and manage the firewall on CentOS 8. We’ll also explain the basic FirewallD concepts.

Flatpak enables desktop applications to run in isolated sandboxes, which significantly improves security as it prevents applications from affecting one another and impacting the host system. In practice, however, typical applications still need to access services and user data that are shared among other applications and the host.

This tutorial allows you to find and kill an inactive SSH session on Linux.

OpenMandriva Association announced the release of the first pre-release version of the upcoming OpenMandriva Lx 4.1 operating system, the first major update to the OpenMandriva Lx 4 series.

Everything in a PC, laptop, or server is represented as binary digits (a.k.a. bits, where each bit can only be 1 or 0). There are no characters like we use for writing or numbers as we write them anywhere in a computer’s memory or secondary storage such as disk drives. For general purposes, the unit […]

Microsoft understands that by entrapping FOSS and GNU/Linux inside proprietary software platforms like GitHub and Azure it can utilise the false perception that it somehow speaks on behalf of both (whilst attacking both)

Shortwave, the successor of Gradio, had it first beta release over the weekend. This is a GTK Internet radio player written in Rust, which uses radio-browser.info as its radio stations database.

In this brief guide, we will see how to use Dockerfile to automate the process of building custom docker images on Linux.