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Purism, the computer manufacturer known for its high-quality, privacy-focused laptops powered by a Linux-based operating system, announced an upcoming partnership with GDquest.

Red Hat is expanding its developer tools portfolio with a commercially supported distribution of the open-source Eclipse Che project, providing a Kubernetes-native approach to application development.

Jupyter is a popular browser-based interactive notebook for programming, mathematics, and data science.

Fedora Classroom sessions continue with two introductory sessions, on using Fedora Silverblue (February 7), and creating Fedora badges designs (February 10). The general schedule for sessions is availble on the wiki, along with resources and recordings from previous sessions. Details on both these upcoming sessions follow.

In this article, we will explain how to enable/disable touchpad edge scrolling for your Ubuntu system. We have run the commands and procedures mentioned in this article on a Ubuntu 18.04 LTS system.

That some titles perform better, from an FPS number perspective, when using DXVK is clear, which has lead to some people asking why this is the case. It's the why that I'd like to discuss here.

This step-by-step tutorial teaches you to install Kali Linux on VirtualBox on Windows and Linux. This is the safest, easiest & quickest way of using Kali Linux.

2DayGeeK: This tutorial helps you to check the hard disks and partitions in Linux using multiple ways.

IntelliJ IDEA is a full-featured IDE for JVM and Android Development. It has built-in debugging support, Docker and Docker Compose support, embedded Git control, integrates major build automation tools such as Maven and Gradle, syntax highlighting, code completion, ssh terminal, code refactoring, and rich navigation capabilities.

News briefs for February 5, 2019.

Although a Linux desktop or server is less susceptible to viruses and malware than a typical Windows device, there isn't a device on the internet that isn't eventually attacked. The culprit might be the stereotypical nerd in a bedroom testing his or her hacker chops (think Matthew Broderick in War Games or Angelina Jolie in Hackers). Then again, it might be an organized military, criminal, terrorist or other funded entity creating massive botnets or stealing millions of credit cards via a dozen redirected attack vectors.

Canonical released an updated kernel for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS users to address a regression that occurred after users updated their systems to the latest Linux kernel security update.

The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the February 2019 issue.

Google released today the Android Security Patch for February 2019 to Pixel and Nexus users to address multiple security vulnerabilities and fixing various bugs reported by users lately.

If we pay for it, we should be able to use it. Perhaps because many free software coders have been outsiders and rebels, less attention is paid to the use of open source in government departments than in other contexts. It's unfortunate that the most famous attempt to convert a government IT system from proprietary code to open source—the city of Munich—proved such a difficult experience. Although last year saw a decision to move back to Windows, that seems to be more a failure of IT management, than of the code itself.

We all know how important it is to use strong passwords for our systems, online accounts, and other sensitive applications. The real deal is how to generate a password that you can rely on and the one that follows the criteria of a strong password. This article describes 7 such ways of automatic password generation.

News briefs for February 4, 2019.

The development team behind the LibreELEC Linux operating system for embedded devices released this past weekend a new major version that introduces the latest Kodi media center software.

HackerRank surveyed over 71,000 developers to better understand how developers are working today, providing multiple insights into the programming languages and frameworks that are most in demand.

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