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Recently, I discovered that my great-great-grandfather wrote two books near the turn of the 20th century: one about sailing and the other about his career as New York City's fire chief. The books have a niche audience, but since they are part of my family history, I wanted to preserve a digital copy of each. But, I wondered, what portable document format is best suited for such an endeavor? read more

Like OpenMandriva, Mageia Linux is a fork of Mandriva. It was created (by a group of former Mandriva employees) in 2010 and first released in 2011, so there was next to no downtime between the end of Mandriva and the release of Mageia. Since then, Mageia has existed in the shadows of bigger, more popular flavors of Linux (e.g., Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, Elementary OS, etc.), but it’s never faltered.

Kernel development is truly impossible to keep track of. The main mailing list alone is vast beyond belief.

Deepin 15.9.2 Beta is out and it is the first Deepin released that is based on Debian Stable and no longer Debian Unstable, which means more stability to a great distro!

I recently accepted a new job in Virginia. Since my wife was working and watching our house in New York until it sold, it was my responsibility to go out and find a new house for us and our cat. A house that she would not see until we moved into it! read more

In this ongoing C programming tutorial series, we have already discussed some of the basic stuff like arithmetic, logical, and relational operators as well as conditional loops like 'if' and 'while'. Adding upon that, this tutorial will focus on assignment operators (other than =) and conditional expressions.

2DayGeek: This shell builtin allows you to change additional shell optional behavior.

Today, the GNOME project announced the release of GNOME 3.32. The release of the GNOME desktop is the default desktop environment in the upcoming release of Fedora 30 Workstation. GNOME 3.32 includes a wide range of enhancements, including: new default application icons, a new emoji chooser in the on screen keyboard, and improved per-app permissions […]

Drupal is one of the leading open source CMS platforms worldwide. It is flexible, scalable and can be used to build different types of websites ranging from small personal blogs to large corporate, political, and government sites.

Some fresh news about a wonderful open source game engine this morning, as OpenRCT2 for RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 has a new release out.

News briefs for March 15, 2019.

Google has released the first beta version of its upcoming Android 10 or Android Q mobile operating system series to give the community an early look at the upcoming features and improvements.

Most people install some form of Linux when they set up a Raspberry Pi computer. Until recently, the installation tools for creating a bootable SD card were only available for Windows and MacOS desktops. If you were running Linux on your desktop, you got a page of instructions on doing it manually from the command line. read more

Daylight Linux is the only official distribution for the Raspberry Pi to work with the Fluxbox interface. With Fluxbox, Daylight Linux is one of the lightest and fastest distributions for all Raspberry Pi models.

Museeks is an Electron based cross-platform music player using React.js as its user interface framework, as well as Node.js and TypeScript.

In this short tutorial we examine the PATH variable. We discuss what it is, it's basic function, how to add and delete directories from your PATH, and demonstrate the benefits of PATH.

Five projects you can take on with your team or your kids on Pi Day or any day of the year.

Canonical released a new Linux kernel update for the long-term supported Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) operating system series to address a recently discovered security vulnerability.

Did the world really need two enterprise JavaScript foundations? No. No, it didn't. So, now, under the auspices of the Linux Foundation, JS Foundation and Node.js Foundation have come together to form the OpenJS Foundation.

Nginx is an open source, lightweight, high-performance the fastest growing web server around the world. In this tutorial, we will explain some popular Nginx server security tips and tricks.