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The side effect of Debian's stability is that you are not running the latest version of any software. Learn how to install newer software in Debian.

FFmpeg is a free and open source command line tool for transcoding multimedia files. It contains a set of shared audio and video libraries such as libavcodec, libavformat, and libavutil. With FFmpeg you can convert between various video and audio formats, set sample rates and resize videos.

The non-profit technology consortium XBMC/Kodi Foundation proudly announced the limited availability of the second-generation "Kodi Edition" Raspberry Pi case.

Kontron’s “SMARC-sAL28” module runs Linux on a dual-core, Cortex-A72 LS1028 SoC with -40 to 85°C support and up to 5x GbE ports with Time Sensitive Networking. Kontron invented the ULP-COM standard that formed the basis of the SMARC form factor, and it has delivered numerous SMARC modules over the years, including Arm products such as […]

IPFire project's Michael Tremer announced today the general availability of IPFire 2.21 Core Update 125, an incremental update to the hardened open-source Linux firewall distribution targeted at routers and hardware firewalls.

There are unlimited videos available on the Internet on numerous video hosting websites but sometimes we need to download some videos for offline use. In this article, we are providing you with three tools that you can use to download videos not only from YouTube but numerous other supported websites.

The Zimbra Collaboration Server is a mail server, collaborative web application and a web-based mail server admin console in a single application. It provides LDAP, antivirus, antispam, collaboration features and an ajax webmail client. In this tutorial, we will see how to upgrade an installation of Zimbra 8.7.11 to Zimbra 8.8.10 (latest version available).

On Opensource.com, we have a lot of reasons to be thankful. Over the past 12 months, we've had the pleasure of working with writers from a range of open source communities, organizations, and projects. We've had ongoing relationships and friendships with many of them, plus we've enjoyed welcoming dozens of new contributors to the site and new moderators to our community moderator program.

We have already written about snaps and its advantages against other packaging application system. If we compare RPM and DEB packages to snaps we can see on snaps automatic background updates allowing up-to-date applications, with bugs fixes more frequently.

GNU/Linux developer Arne Exton has made a new distro for the tiny Raspberry Pi single-board computers, this time based on the popular openSUSE Tumbleweed operating system and the lightweight Xfce desktop environment.

The service command lets you run a System V init script. In this tutorial, we will briefly discuss this tool using some easy to understand examples.

As the global technology evangelist director of Red Hat’s portfolio product marketing group, I have a secondary focus on portfolio architectures. I research customer successes in solution implementation using our open source technologies, then produce generic higher-level architectural content so that others may benefit from these real-life experiences. read more

nnn is a very fast terminal file manager whose main goal is seamless desktop environment integration. The Ncurses based keyboard-driven terminal application features basic, details (default) and disk usage analyzer modes, with navigate as you type, vidir integration, terminal locker, and much more.

Fun with retro-coding a Roman numeral converter—I head back to my college years and solve me homework anew!

One great thing about programming languages is that there is such diversity that you can choose the best one to solve any given problem. But sometimes the worst thing can be when projects take advantage of this and build applications or systems of applications that require domain knowledge of many different languages. When this happens, it can be difficult for everyone, or even anyone, to fully understand the scope of the project. read more

One of Intel’s fixes for the Spectre variant 2 chip flaw (CVE- 2017-5715) appears to have taken a big bite out of the performance of the latest Linux kernel. The mitigation in question is the Single Thread Indirect Branch Predictors (STIBP), one of three that Intel proposed not long after details of the Meltdown and Spectre flaws were made public in January.

The sudo command allows privileged users to run all or selected commands as root, but understanding how it works and doesn't work is a big help.

C# is a general purpose, type safe programming language implemented with the Object Oriented Paradigm in mind, The following tutorial is aimed at users that already know the basics of programming and are looking for a fast guide to get started with C# and .NET Core on Linux. The whole tutorial is divided into different posts, […]

cp command in Linux is used for copying files and directories. In this tutorial, you’ll learn some of the essential usages of the cp command.

Neofetch is a command-line interface system information script written in bash 3.2+. The script displays information about your system next to an image, your operating system logo, or any ASCII/image file of your choice. It’s designed to capture information about your system and display it in an aesthetic and visually pleasing way.