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My first attempt to set up an "entertainment PC" was back in the late 1990s, using a plain old desktop computer with a Trident ProVidia 9685 PCI graphics card. I used what was known as a "TV-out" card, which had an extra output to connect to a standard television set. The onscreen result didn't look very nice and there was no audio output. And it was ugly: I had an S-Video cable running across my living room floor to my 19" Sony Trinitron CRT TV set.

This tutorial teaches everything you need to know about Linux file permissions. You'll also learn to change the file permissions and ownership.

This article extends the previous Docker article and shows how to interact with Docker containers by executing commands inside containers, installing software inside containers, inspecting container status, accessing containers using Bash, persisting changes into images and removing unused containers and images.

PerfSONAR is a network measurement toolkit collection for testing and sharing data on end-to-end network perfomance. The overall benefit of using network measurement tools like PerfSONAR is they can find issues before they become a large elephant in the room that nobody wants to talk about. Specifically, with the right answers from the right tools, patching can become more stringent, network traffic can be shaped to speed connections across the board, and the network infrastructure design can be improved.

Stacer is an open source system optimizer and application monitor for users needing an easy way to manage systems with different aspects. It’s an all in one system utility featuring a responsive design. Originally the software required the Electron framework, but the current version is written in C++, and only needs curl and systemd.

Virtualbox allows you to run a virtual machine on your PC. This shows how to install Virtualbox on Ubuntu and install and run virtual machine on your PC.

"Linux Sucks" Not

Funny, entertaining, and accurate. Worth the 50 minutes it takes to watch this video.

WordPress is the most popular open source blogging and CMS platform worldwide, powering a quarter of all websites on the internet today. It is based on PHP and MySQL and packs a ton of features that can be extended with free and premium plugins and themes. WordPress is the simplest way to create your online store, website, or blog.

UBports is currently working on the sixth OTA (Over-the-Air) update to their Ubuntu Touch port for Ubuntu Phone devices, and they recently put out a call for testing.

In what might be its last acquisition as an independent company, Red Hat has purchased Israel-based multi-cloud storage software company NooBaa.

Thanks to 'dark patterns' and 'nudging', no doesn't mean no. Seven European consumer organisations have filed a blockbuster complaint arguing that Google's location tracking in Android lacks a valid legal basis in the European Union.…

The State of Mozilla annual report for 2017 is now available here. The new report outlines how Mozilla operates, provides key information on the ways in which we’ve made an impact, and includes details from our financial reports for 2017.

In the aftermath of being purchased by IBM, Red Hat keeps making hybrid-cloud moves.

Renowned Linux kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman announced the end of life of the Linux 4.18 kernel series, urging users to upgrade their distributions to a newer kernel as soon as possible.

OpenSnitch is an open source alternative to Little Snitch of macOS. It lets you control internet access per application basis. Read the full review of OpenSnitch.

Simply trusting that code taken from an upstream Github project repository is safe, is not a good practise for maintaining application security.

In this guide, we’ll show you how to install and configure the latest version of Joomla! Content Management System on Debian 9.

Amazon Web Services open-sources its new Firecracker lightweight hypervisor technology based on KVM, in an effort to help improve serverless security and performance.

Every time I tell my friends about my hobby—which became my career as the executive director at The Document Foundation—I face lots of questions. A worldwide community? Contributors around the globe? An open source community? Can you eat that?! read more

Firefox ESR (Extended Support Release) is an official version of Firefox that doesn't come with the latest features, but instead focuses on security and stability fixes. This article explains how to install Firefox ESR in Ubuntu or Linux Mint, using an official PPA or using Snap packages.