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How many times have you repeatedly typed out a long command on the command line and wished there was a way to save it for later? This is where Bash aliases come in handy. They allow you to condense long, cryptic commands down to something easy to remember and use. Need some examples to get you started? No problem! To use a Bash alias you've created, you need to add it to your .bash_profile file, which is located in your home folder. Note that this file is hidden and accessible only from the command line. The easiest way to work with this file is to use something like Vi or Nano. read more

Linux is well endowed with graphical file managers with tons of original creations together with fork upon fork of GNOME Files. Polo File Manager is not a fork of GNOME Files nor any other established file manager. This original creation is written in the Vala programming language.

Image Capturing is a powerful feature especially when it comes to sharing technical how-to’s, blogs, tutorials and workarounds over the Internet. In this tutorial, we will explain how to install/uninstall this tool and also list some basic functions that you can perform with Shutter.

Linux Lite creator Jerry Bezencon kicked off the development of the Linux Lite 4.2 operating system series with the first beta release, which includes various updated packages and minor improvements.

News briefs for September 27, 2018.

Pulsar is a highly scalable, low-latency messaging platform running on commodity hardware. It provides simple pub-sub and queue semantics over topics, lightweight compute framework, automatic cursor management for subscribers, and cross-datacenter replication.

RTMP (Real Time Messaging Protocol) is a high-performance protocol for transmission of data, audio, and video over the internet between flash-based platform technologies. Originally developed by Macromedia, and now owned by Adobe. In this tutorial, I will show you how to install and configure the Nginx web server with the RTMP module.

Three years ago, Mark Russinovich, CTO of Azure, Microsoft's cloud program, said, "One in four [Azure] instances are Linux." Then, in 2017, it was 40 percent Azure virtual machines (VM) were Linux. Today, Scott Guthrie, Microsoft's executive vice president of the cloud and enterprise group, said in an interview, "Slightly over half of Azure VMs are Linux. The most popular operating system on Microsoft's Azure cloud today is -- drumroll please -- Linux.

Acutronic Robotics has launched an Arm-based “H-ROS” module that runs real-time Linux and ROS 2.0 and is designed for modular development of robotic components. It also demo’d a “MARA” robotic arm based on H-ROS. Two years ago, Zurich, Switzerland based Acutronic Robotics acquired Erle Robotics, the Basque, Spain based manufacturers of open source, Linux-driven robots […]

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