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Becoming a programmer from an underrepresented community like Cameroon is tough. Many Africans don't even know what computer programming is—and a lot who do think it's only for people from Western or Asian countries. read more

Within your Linux system, there’s a file called “sudoers” which permits or denies users from gaining super-user access and holds some special preferences for sudo.

Shrew'd thinking: Code Shrew helps peeps who want to, or need to, gobble a slice of Py To help aspiring programmers start writing code, researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology in the US have developed a free web-based platform called Code Shrew.…

One of the nicest things about Linux (and open source software in general) is the freedom to choose among different alternatives to address our needs. I've been using Linux for a long time, but I was never entirely happy with the desktop environment options available. Until last year, Xfce was the closest to what I consider a good compromise between features and performance. Then I found i3, an amazing piece of software that changed my life. read more

Based on the latest Qt 5.11 open-source application framework and the forthcoming KDE Frameworks 5.50 software suite, due for release on September 8, the upcoming KDE Plasma 5.14 desktop environment promises yet another set of new feature and improvements.

This tutorial explains how to create MySQL or MariaDB databases through the command line.

After launching the Android 9.0 Pie operating system, Google released today the Android Security Patch for August 2018 to all supported devices, addressing numerous security vulnerabilities and other issues reported by users lately.

But through it all, what I want you to know is that these kids, getting their first computer will have a new world opened to them. A world without restrictions, A world you built for them.

In this systemd tutorial series, we have already talked about systemd timer units to some degree, but, before moving on to the sockets, let's look at three examples that illustrate how you can best leverage these units.

As of today, the upcoming Ubuntu 18.10 (Cosmic Cuttlefish) operating system is now powered by the Linux 4.17 kernel, which provides users with better hardware support and some exciting new features.

Continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) are extremely common terms used when talking about producing software. But what do they really mean? In this article, I'll explain the meaning and significance behind these and related terms, such as continuous testing and continuous deployment. read more

Installing Android on VirtualBox takes away one of the sluggiest aspects of Android development, this tutorial will show you the detailed steps how.

News briefs for August 6, 2018.

on episode 34 of TWinL: Linus WireGuard Comments, Lubuntu New Direction, LineageOS, OpenWRT, SteamOS, RebeccaBlackOS, NetSpectre, Humble Bundle, Hiri, GNOME 3.30 Beta, Plasma Engineering, & more

AI: open source's next big win.

I avoided using GNU Make in my data journalism work for a long time, partly because the documentation was so obtuse that I couldn’t see how Make, one of many extract-transform-load (ETL) processes, could help my day-to-day data reporting. But this year, to build The Money Game, I needed to load 1.4GB of Illinois political contribution and spending data every day, and the ETL process was taking hours, so I gave Make another chance. Now the same process takes less than 30 minutes. read more

GPaste, with its native Gnome Shell extension, makes the perfect addition for those looking for a Gnome clipboard manager. Using GPaste in Gnome, you get a configurable, searchable clipboard history, available with a click on the top panel. GPaste remembers not only the text you copy, but also file paths and images.

Google today revealed Android P stands for Android Pie, succeeding Android Oreo, and pushed the latest source code to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). The latest version of Google’s mobile operating system, Android 9.0 Pie, is also starting to roll out today as an over-the-air update to Pixel phones.

I manage a personal website and edit the web pages by hand. Since I don't have many pages on my site, this works well for me, letting me "scratch the itch" of getting into the site's code. When I updated my website's design recently, I decided to turn all the plain quotes into "smart quotes," or quotes that look like those used in print material: “” instead of "". read more

The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the August 2018 issue.