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Year of the Linux Desktop imminent for a quarter century. Though it may not have managed to bring Linux to the desktop in any meaningful sense, 4 July marks 25 years since the first stable release of not-a-Windows-emulator, Wine.…

Ubuntu, and Linux in general is not known as the go-to platform for multimedia production. Instead, Apple Mac systems are probably the most popular systems for graphic designers, video editors, and music production specialists, with Windows PCs coming a close second. But Linux also has a lot of good stuff for video editors, it's another thing that most people don't know it. So here is a collection of best video editing software for Linux in 2018.

VIDEO: Are you a Windows power-user? You can get and install Linux Mint running on your PC -- either to try it out or as a replacement for Windows.

When it comes to self hosted cloud storage Nextcloud is definitely the best option. It's fully open source, and allows you full control over your server. You can, of course, create your own user accounts and manage access too. There are a couple of options when it comes to setting up Nextcloud on Ubuntu. You can use Docker or you can follow the traditional install method. Either one will work. The Docker method will probably work better if you don't want to configure and manage the entire server yourself.

Some command-line tricks for detecting truncations, such as a 100-character string clipped to 50 characters in a database.

Before we talk about Google Peering, Google owns the smartphone market and this has led to the popularity of all of its services such as Google Drive, Youtube, Play Store etc. Since we spend significant time on these services it would be really great if we could get uninterrupted speeds on these web services.

How excited to be? Cautiously, unless you need to get cracking with testing for P's big changes Google’s emitted a new beta of Android P, but it’s not obvious how excited to get about it.…

Hello, Ubuntu fans! Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver comes with a huge major upgrade; switching from Unity to GNOME Desktop Environment. This sounds fun and refreshing but unfortunately, Desktop Environment switch has also left some users quite confused over one thing they love the most: theming.

Airsonic is free and open source media server. It's a self-hosted web-based media streamer that provides ubiquitous access to your music, makes it easy to share your music with friends or listen to your music while at work. In this tutorial, I will show you step-by-step how to install Airsonic on Ubuntu 18.04.

Arduino has launched the Arduino Yun Rev 2, an upgrade of the original OpenWrt-driven Arduino board with enhanced LAN, USB, security, and power supply features. Just when we thought we had seen the last of the Linux-driven Arduino boards, Arduino updated the original, WiFi-enabled Arduino Yun (or Arduino Yún), which launched back in 2013.

As usual there's been a flurry of activity in the cloud and DevOps security space recently. In case you missed it, a particularly painful flaw was found in Red Hat Enterprise Linux's DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) service not long ago.

News briefs for July 3, 2018.

Micro Focus sold the German-based Linux distribution SUSE to Sweden-based private equity group EQT for over $2.53 billion. The last time SUSE changed hands was in 2014, when Micro Focus took ownership in a $1.2 billion merger with The Attachmate Group.

The problem with Nemo is that it's especially designed for the Cinnamon desktop, and there are some annoyances / inconveniences when using it on other desktop environments, such as Gnome.

This article tries to cover these inconveniences and suggest workarounds for Ubuntu 18.04 (Gnome desktop) where possible, to make the most of Nemo and properly integrate it with the desktop.

When working with Linux, you easily can download any of the most common distributions to install and configure—be it Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE or something entirely different. And although you should give several distributions a spin, building your own custom, minimal Linux distribution is also a beneficial and wonderful learning exercise. Follow along with this step-by-step guide to build your own distribution from source and learn how it installs, loads and runs.

You might think the only synergy one can find in Game of Thrones is that between Jaime Lannister and his sister, Cersei. Characters in the show's rotating cast don't see many long term relationships, as they're killed off, betrayed, and otherwise trading loyalty in an effort to stay alive. Even the Stark children, siblings suffering from the deaths of their parents, don't really get along most of the time. read more

This tutorial guides you through the process of changing a hostname on a CentOS 7 system.

There exists a command - dubbed dmesg - that you can use if you want to access messages printed by kernel. In this tutorial, we will understand how the dmesg tool works using some easy to understand examples.

Gitlab is web GUI based manager for git repositories with support for CICD, issue tracking & wiki. Gitlab provides easy to use commands & controls for the git repositories, we can easily create new git repositories, manage them & all that using a nice graphical interface. With Gitlab, we can make our repositories completely private or can also allow public access over LAN or over INTERNET.

I started my journey as a software engineer at Northern Telecom, where I developed proprietary software for carrier-grade telephone switches. Although I learned Pascal while in college, at Northern Telecom I was trained in a proprietary programming language based on C. I also used a proprietary operating system and a proprietary version-control software.