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This article is about how Linux simplifies various things from software installations, to secure repositories to an easy to use terminal. We divided the Making life easier with Linux article into three parts so that we could carter for three groups of computer users; A novice, a professional and a developer.

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

As a debianized Penguin, some time ago I reviewed Secure-K OS, a commercial Linux-based live operating system meant to be run from a USB key and “developed with security in mind”, according to its developers. Good news is that the upstream developers have in the meanwhile open-sourced the architectural technology upon which Secure-K OS insists and a Community edition of the operating system itself on GitHub, named Open Secure-K OS.

Deb is the installation package format used by all Debian based distributions. Deb packages can be installed and uninstalled using either the command line or the graphical package manager.

It is pretty amazing news that in only two months, there are more than 2,500 games available for Steam Play for Linux. Specifically, there are actually 2,663 games available on the platform, which is really an amazing feat for Valve.

Chipzilla joins strangely controversial movement to encourage civility, inclusion Chip maker Intel has embraced guidelines to make its open-source software projects more open-minded and inviting.…

A symbolic link, also know as symlink or soft link, is a special type of file that points to another file or directory. In this guide, we will cover how to use the ln command to create symbolic links.

KDE Connect is not the only way to connect your Android and Linux desktop. If you are a GNOME user, you can use GSConnect to control your Android phone from Gnome.

Intel launched Intel System Studio 2019, updating the Linux-friendly embedded toolsuite with improved performance and enhanced I/O analysis. Meanwhile, due to soaring demand for Intel’s Core and Xeon sales, it’s scaling back its lower-end IoT business. Intel has a habit of launching and the discontinuing special projects outside its core processor business, but one experiment […]

There has long been a symbiotic relationship between the open source software movement and social justice champions. A recent research report, #MoreThanCode: Practitioners reimagine the landscape of technology for justice and equity, offers valuable advice to anyone interested in leveraging technology to support a cause.

Are there open source frameworks available for mobile development? There certainly are. Let’s take a look at two tools available for this particular task.

Video: Can you make a PC in the US anymore? Linux system builder System76 proved you can do it.

News briefs for November 2, 2018.

This is the story of the brief, shining history of the Asus Eee, the first netbook—a small, cheap and mostly well-made laptop that dominated the computer industry for two or three years about a decade go. It's not so much that the Eee was ahead of its time, which wasn't that difficult in an industry then dominated by pricey and bulky laptops that didn't always have a hard drive and by desktop design hadn't evolved much past the first IBM 8086 box.

In a recent article about how to fail gracefully and why it's necessary to do so, Jen Wike Huger, an editor and a friend of mine on the Opensource.com staff, wrote Living on the command line: Why mistakes are a good thing. In addition to discussing the fact that mistakes are inevitable, Wike Huger also discussed responses to those mistakes and the use of postmortems as a means of blamelessly moving forward. read more

System76 has launched a line of mostly open hardware, Ubuntu-equipped “Thelio” desktop PCs built in Colorado with a choice of AMD and Intel CPUs. We don’t regularly cover mainstream desktop and laptop computers, even when they ship with Linux, but System76’s Thelio is anything but mainstream. The x86-based Thelio computers are preloaded with either Ubuntu […]

This week Red Hat released RHEL 7.6 with enhancements to security and compliance, management and automation, and containers.

Let's discuss if there is a need for compressed audio data when CD quality is good enough.

Popular desktop Linux environment due for deprecation in RHEL - by 2024 While everyone was distracted by IBM's $34bn takeover bid, Red Hat quietly wrote a death-note for KDE – within Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) to be precise.…