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Mozilla released today the fourth maintenance update to the latest Firefox 66.0 "Quantum" web browser series to address a major issue preventing all types of extensions from running or being installed.

On DL118 - Pop!_OS 19.04, Scientific Linux Ending, SE350 Server By Lenovo, Nvidia GTX 1650, Intel Cascade Lake Benchmarks, Handshake $300,000 To Debian, Epic Game Store on Linux plus more

Using lock files as job control for Linux bash scripts. Learn how to create a basic lock file, locking files with flock and see examples of each.

Linus Torvalds has announced today the release of the Linux 5.1 kernel series, a featureful kernel branch that brings lots of great additions, as well as improvements to existing features.

Regularly updating your CentOS system is one of the most important aspects of overall system security. If you don’t update your operating system’s packages with the latest security patches, you are leaving your machine vulnerable to attacks.

With Linux now serving as the foundation for cloud computing infrastructure, Red Hat is expected to delve deeper into the capabilities of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8 at the show. The flagship operating system, currently in beta, is well suited to run mission-critical applications on commodity hardware.

There can be so many reasons when you need to record your screen. When I started using Linux, I used to record my screen whenever I had any problem and upload it to Linux communities. Today I sometimes record my screen for demonstration purposes in my tutorials. Similarly, you can record your screen in Linux. In this article, I'm going to mention 5 Best screen recorders in Ubuntu. So let's get started!

Much as I like using AWK, there are some processing jobs with data tables that are easier to do with cut and paste on the command line.

Python is one of the most popular programming languages in use today—and for good reasons: it's open source, it has a wide range of uses (such as web programming, business applications, games, scientific programming, and much more), and it has a vibrant and dedicated community supporting it. read more

openSUSE Leap 15.1 is almost ready for release! However, there is not much buzz around this release. When I tried to establish what was new in Leap 15.1, I started to understand why. Leap 15.1 mostly features minor updates. Still there are updates that are noteworthy. This article describes the new features for openSUSE desktop users.

Fondo is a desktop wallpaper app for Linux where you can search for the most beautiful wallpapers on the Internet from within the app itself and set your preferred image as your desktop wallpaper by just clicking on the image directly. The app is simple and easy to use.

Firefox users are reporting being unable to install new extensions and having existing extensions disabled.

Today is another great day for the freespire development team, as we announce the release of Freespire 4.8. It is our FOSS solution, with no binary-only drivers, multimedia codecs and strictly libre applications, nothing proprietary included. Freespire is released bi-annually and showcases the best of the FOSS and KDE communities.

Conventional wisdom says you can either be a fan of Star Trek or of Star Wars, but mixing the two is like mixing matter and anti-matter. I'm not sure that's true, but even if the laws of physics cannot be changed, these two acclaimed sci-fi series have influenced the open source universe and created their own open source multi-verses. read more

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and perform the first-time setup of Roundcube on Ubuntu 18.04.

When writing Bash scripts you will often need to compare two strings to check if they are equal or not. Two strings are equal when they have the same length and contain the same sequence of characters.

Arch Linux is one of the most beloved Linux distributions for a reason. It puts the control in your hands. Learn how to install it.

Sometime in recent history, sci-fi nerds began an annual celebration of everything Star Wars on May the 4th, a pun on the Jedi blessing, "May the Force be with you." Although most Linux users are probably not Jedi, they still have ways to use the force. Of course, the movie might not have been quite as exciting if Yoda simply told Luke to type man X-Wing fighter or man force. Or if he'd said, "RTFM" (Read the Force Manual, of course). read more

If you can remember all of your passwords, they're not good passwords. I used to teach people how to create "good" passwords. Those passwords needed to be lengthy, hard to guess and easy to remember. There were lots of tricks to make your passwords better, and for years, that was enough. That's not enough anymore.

Want to move into the hot job market for Kubernetes pros, but lack experience? Use this expert advice.