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Environment variables play a major role in Linux. Most programs, whether command line based or GUI based, deal with environment variables in one way or the other. So naturally, there are tools that let you access environment variables from the command line. One such tool is printenv. In this tutorial, we will discuss printenv using some easy to understand examples.

The Total War team along with Feral Interactive have confirmed that Total War: THREE KINGDOMS is officially coming to Linux.

In this article, we will use various examples to customize and recolor the prompt of our Terminal application that will enable you to do the same depending on your needs.

In a corporate environment it is common to limit Internet access - both for security and accountability. This is often accomplished by using proxy servers that enable access to the Internet after some sort of authentication, while inspect and log all traffic passing trough them. This way the company can, for example find the employee who downloaded the virus that wreak havoc within the corporate system (or at least the employee who's credentials where stolen to do so), or filter the traffic, preventing access to well-known harmful sites to protect employee equipment.

The Linux desktop ecosystem offers multiple window managers (WMs). Some are developed as part of a desktop environment. Others are meant to be used as standalone application. This is the case of tiling WMs, which offer a more lightweight, customized environment. This article presents five such tiling WMs for you to try out. i3 i3 […]

Rclone is a Terminal-based utility that syncs folders and files to multiple cloud storage providers. Learn how you can use Rclone in Linux to sync to the cloud.

If you’ve managed a Linux server for any length of time, you’re familiar with the problem of log files. They can sometimes be difficult enough to even find in the first place, and then you’re sometimes confronted with a file that’s hundreds of MB in size (or even GB).

In the first four articles in this series comparing Perl 5 to Perl 6, we looked into some of the issues you might encounter when migrating code, how garbage collection works, why containers replaced references, and using (subroutine) signatures in Perl 6 and how these things differ from Perl 5. read more

The KDE neon team is proud to announce the rebase of our packages onto Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver".  We encourage all users to upgrade now.  The installable ISOs and Docker images have also been updated to run on 18.04.

The KDE Project announced the availability of the seventh point release of the long-term supported KDE Plasma 5.12 LTS desktop environment.

GNU was publicly announced on September 27, 1983, and today has a strong following. GNU is... an operating system an extensive collection of computer software free software licensed under the GNU Project's own General Public License (GPL) What else is GNU to you? Which tool is your favorite? Here are five great responses. read more

IT teams need to adapt as voice rewrites development rules. Keep these five fundamental changes top of mind

If you're wary of the Microsoft takeover of GitHub, or if you've been looking for a way to ween yourself off free public repositories, or if you want to ramp up your DevOps efforts, now's a good time to look at installing and running GitLab yourself. It's not as difficult as you might think, and the free, open-source GitLab CE version provides a lot of flexibility to start from scratch, migrate or graduate to more full-fledged versions.

Because Julia is a new language there are relatively limited resources to help you get started with it besides the official documentation. But we’ve researched the finest open source resources to help you master the language.

At the Linux Security Summit, Microsoft’s Ryan Fairfax revealed the inner workings of Azure Sphere OS and its security model, including modifications to the Linux kernel that let it run in 4MB. It’s still a bit unsettling to see a Microsoft speaker at a Linux Foundation conference. Yet, at the recent Linux Security Summit, Ryan […]

News briefs for September 26, 2018.

Red Hat and the Fedora Project announced the availability of the beta release of the upcoming Fedora 29 Linux operating system, a major version expected to arrive later this fall.

Johan Hovold posted patches to add a GNSS subsystem (Global Navigation Satellite System), used by GPS devices. His idea was that commercial GPS devices might use any input/output ports and protocols—serial, USB and whatnot—forcing user code to perform difficult probes in order to determine which hardware it was dealing with. Johan's code would unify the user interface under a /dev/gnss0 file that would hide the various hardware differences.

Apache GUI is a free and open source Java-based tool that can be used to manage and configure Apache web server through the web browser. It is specially designed for those who are looking for a comfortable graphical interface (GUI) to configure Apache servers.

Video: Linux-savvy legal experts from the past and present weigh in on this knotty, open-source licensing matter.