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X410 is billed as the ultimate X Server for running Linux GUI apps from the Windows Subsystem for Linux.

Pythonic is a graphical programming tool that makes it easy for users to create Python applications using ready-made function modules. The PyQt5-based application is aimed primarily at newcomers to programming, but experienced users can incorporate their own Python code into the application. read more

The development cycle of the upcoming GNOME 3.34 desktop environment continues with the second development milestone, GNOME 3.33.2, which is now available for public testing.

Making the effort to learn to use the powerful style tools in LibreOffice Writer will save you time in the long run, while freeing you up to concentrate on your writing.

The upcoming Linux 5.2 kernel series will come with lots of cool new features and performance improvements that users of Linux-based operating system will enjoy, including improved support for Logitech's wireless devices.

So, were you asked what you wanted to be when you grew up? Bet ya were. I'll also bet that most never saw what was coming either. Neither did I. It took me 50 years to grow up. Linux made it all possible.

It emerged as a force in the silicon market last year, and its been gaining momentum ever since.

Aaeon’s BIOS-driven “HERO SDK” hardware monitoring stack supports Linux-driven Aaeon systems that use Intel’s Gemini, Whiskey, and Coffee Lake CPUs. The company has also posted specs for a Coffee Lake based “COM-CFHB6” COM Express. Aaeon announced a HERO SDK to “help developers with monitoring and controlling hardware on Aaeon platforms.” Available for modern Intel-based systems […]

In this article, we will learn how to schedule backups to Google Drive in Ubuntu OS. We will use the Déjà Dup backup tool that comes pre-installed with Ubuntu OS.

The founder of the privacy respecting version of Android, /e/, says the time is right for phone makers to adopt an operating system that isn’t dependent on a single company.

This article presents 2 command line tools for checking your Internet connection speed. This can be useful to check if your ISP does indeed offer the speeds it claims, to diagnose possible issues with your Internet connection, and so on.

iRedMail is a free, open source mail server solution that automatically installs and configure all necessary mail server components on your server. In this tutorial, we will learn how to set up a full-featured mail server with iRedMail on Ubuntu 18.04 server.

In my previous articles on user namespace and rootless containers, I talked about how you can run and build containers using Podman and Buildah without becoming root. I showed how you could do some awesome stuff, including running containers with lots of different user IDs (UIDs), installing software, setting up networking, and running containers at Quay.io, Docker.io, or pretty much any other container registry. read more

News briefs for May 28, 2019.

East Asia is putting Microsoft’s monopoly on desktops/laptops at great risk; there might be more discussion about this in days/weeks to come

Install Mautic with LEMP on Ubuntu 18.04. In this article you are going to learn how to install and setup Mautic on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Nginx, PHP 7.2 and connect to Remote MySQL database.

2DayGeek: Learn, what are the different methods that available to install security updates on Red Hat and CentOS system.

In an effort to get some practice using Git, I began reading the documentation and some articles here on Opensource.com, particularly Seth Kenlon’s introductions. Once I finished reading, it was time to do some actual practice. read more

nnn console file manager was updated to version 2.5, which includes plugins support and 19 plugins available, with more to come, mouse and SSHFS mounts support, and more.

I met a lot of wonderful people and learned a great deal about how the Python community works at PyCon 2019 in Cleveland. But my main technical takeaway has to do with the magic of JupyterLab, which is described as a web-based user interface for Jupyter Notebook, an application "that allows you to create and share documents that contain live code, equations, visualizations, and narrative text." read more