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Just a couple of days ago, Mozilla released the Firefox 62 "Quantum" web browser for Linux, Mac, and Windows platforms, and now the new release is available for all supported Ubuntu OSes.

I don't know where to begin—and I mean that in a very positive way. I can best describe Valley of Genius: The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley (As Told by the Hackers, Founders, and Freaks Who Made It Boom) as a "literary documentary". The book provides a sort of oral history of the Valley from the legends who built it.

I want to show you how to use Netplan on Linux, to configure a static IP address and a DHCP address. I’ll be demonstrating on Ubuntu Server 18.04. I will give you one word of warning, the .yaml files you create for Netplan must be consistent in spacing, otherwise they’ll fail to work. You don’t have to use a specific spacing for each line, it just has to remain consistent.

Commenting on an issue on the Vulkan-Ecosystem GitHub page, an NVIDIA developer has mentioned how transform feedback support will come to Vulkan.

In this tutorial, we will show you how to use the Tar utility to extract and create tar archives through practical examples and detailed explanations of the most common Tar options.

Video: The sudo system is an ingenious way to manage who can run administrative commands on a Linux system. And, for the most part, it's pretty foolproof. But there are times, when I am busy multitasking or installing a new server software on a Linux box that sudo frustrates me. Why? Because of the default timeout.

For those awaiting the Linux version of Compulsion Games' We Happy Few, the rather strange action/adventure game set in a drug-fuelled, retrofuturistic city in an alternative 1960s England we have an update for you.

Osquery is an open source operating system instrumentation, monitoring, and analytics software. In this tutorial, we will show you how to setup File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) using osquery. We will be using the Linux operating systems Ubuntu 18.04 and CentOS 7.

Merriam-Webster defines "blame" as both a verb and a noun. As a verb, it means "to find fault with or to hold responsible." As a noun, it means "an expression of disapproval or responsibility for something believed to deserve censure." Either way, blame isn’t a pleasant thing. It can create feelings of fear and shame, foster power imbalances, and cause us to devalue others. read more

Learn how to add and remove users in Ubuntu in this guest post by Jay LaCroix, a Linux expert and the author of Mastering Ubuntu Server – Second Edition. Creating users in Ubuntu can be...

The UNIX operating system was created more than four decades ago at AT&T’s Bell Laboratories. With continuous development since its inception, UNIX has made its presence from tiny embedded devices to servers and supercomputers. This article provides a brief history, philosophy, specification of UNIX and discusses top ten operating systems of the UNIX systems.

What’s a fun way to promote the principles of free software without actually coding? Here’s an idea: open source cooking. For the past eight years, this is what we’ve been doing in Munich. The idea of open source cooking grew out of our regular open source meetups because we realized that cooking and free software have a lot in common. read more

The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the September 2018 issue.

If you missed any of the talks, or couldn't make it to Vienna to attend this year's Akademy, now you can watch the recordings from the comfort of your home. You can find and download the videos from our repository, or browse and share them from the YouTube playlist we have set up especially for all Akademy 2018 videos.

MX Linux is a descendant/spin-off from Antix and MEPIS Linux. I want to see what it is like to install and run on both UEFI and MBR laptops.

Man pages in Linux is the go to spot for first-level support when it comes to command line utilities. As most of you would know, you just write 'man [command-name]' and the corresponding man page pops up. But do you know the path where these man pages are searched for?

I first used and contributed to free and open source software in 1993, and since then I've been an open source software developer and evangelist. I've written or contributed to dozens of open source software projects, although the one that I'll be remembered for is the FreeDOS Project, an open source implementation of the DOS operating system. read more

While working with the sudo command for performing administrative tasks in Linux, you might have noticed that even if you have provided sudo password a while ago, you are asked to provide it again after some time. This tutorial describes how you can make very simple changes in the /etc/sudoers file to specify a time limit for a sudo session.

In this tutorial we will guide you on how to install Yarn on your Ubuntu 18.04 system via the Yarn APT package repository. The official Yarn repository is consistently maintained and provides the most up-to-date version.

Feral Interactive's latest Linux port, Life is Strange: Before the Storm the prequel to the original Life is Strange is set to release for Linux on September 13th.