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Linux Mint project leader Clement Lefebvre announced a few moments ago the release date of the beta version for the upcoming Linux Mint 19 "Tara" operating system series.

Attempts to establish Linux as a gaming platform have failed time and time again, with Valve’s SteamOS being the latest high-profile casualty. Yet, Linux has emerged as a significant platform in the much smaller niche of retro gaming, especially on the Raspberry Pi. Atari has now re-emerged from the fog of gaming history with an Ubuntu-based Atari VCS gaming and media streaming console aimed at retro gamers.

2DayGeek: yum-config-manager & dnf config-manager commands are allowing users to manage repository easily.

Looking for a command line utility to sort content in text files? Look no further than Sort, a tool specifically built for this purpose. In this tutorial, we will discuss this command using some easy to understand examples.

Tesla is still a long way from fully releasing its cars' full open-source programs and Linux operating system code, but it's on its way.

This guide will demonstrate how you can adjust the volume and panning of tracks, beats, and even individual notes. I will also demonstrate a few sound effect plugins that come with LMMS as well to play around with.

News briefs for May 30, 2018.

When I learned that our new sister company, Private Internet Access (PIA), was opening its source code, I immediately wanted to know the backstory, especially since privacy is the theme of this month's Linux Journal. So I contacted Andrew Lee, who founded PIA, and an interview ensued. Here it is.

The one thing Android users always complain about is not getting updates. While our dear friends with Apple devices enjoy regular updates to IOS. With project treble, Google might just end up solving the problem with regular android updates.

Valentin Breiz's PS4 Linux Loader, the tool that makes it possible to hack your PlayStation 4 gaming console to install a Linux-based operating system, has been updated to work with newer firmware.

Trac is a free and an open source Web-based project management and bug tracking system that helps developers to write great software while staying out of the way. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install Trac on Ubuntu 18.04.

CERN operates one of the largest OpenStack clouds in the world and had to reboot its entire cloud to patch for the meltdown and spectre vulnerabilities.

Review of the Budgie version of the latest Ubuntu 18.04 LTS release and is it better or worse than the original Ubuntu? Lets compare and contrast, pros and cons and dig into it. Bring your own opinion as well.

FFMPEG immensly powerful when it comes to manipulating and converting media files, but it's lacking one important feature. FFMPEG doesn't have the ability to handle multiple files at once. So, what can you do about it? You're a Linux user. You're not going to sit there and manually type in the same command over and over, are you?

This article was co-written with Lacey Williams Henschel. Sometimes the right tool for the job is a command-line application. A command-line application is a program that you interact with and run from something like your shell or Terminal. Git and Curl are examples of command-line applications that you might already be familiar with. read more

On the 25th May 2018, openSUSE Leap 15 was released for download. Over the last few days I have upgraded both of my systems to this new release. Although this was a big release for openSUSE, the media attention for this release was surprisingly low. The reason why this is a big release, is that the underlying software packages are all new. So openSUSE Leap 15 is a big release. But is it any good? In this article I will focus on the installation experience.

Passwords. They're the bane of computer users and a necessary evil, but they have risks and challenges associated with them. None of the choices are great. If it's up to your memory, you'll end up using the same password again and again.

At Wallaroo Labs, where I'm the VP of engineering, we're are building a high-performance, distributed stream processor written in the Pony programming language. Most people haven't heard of Pony, but it has been an excellent choice for Wallaroo, and it might be an excellent choice for your next project, too. read more

Just one week after he kicked off the development of Bodhi Linux 5.0, developer Jeff Hoogland announced the availability of the beta release of the upcoming operating system based on Ubuntu Linux.