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Many people today are using assistant software in their homes and offices to help with everyday tasks. There are many different models to purchase, but did you know you can build your own? Amazon Developer allows you to use the Alexa software to create your own Amazon Echo with Raspberry Pi.

A while ago, I cobbled together Photo Funnel, a simple tool for importing photos and RAW files from storage cards to a Linux machine. Although it wasn’t meant to replace digiKam, I ended up using it as my primary import tool for two reasons: speed and simplicity.

A colleague recently told me about one of his favorite utilities, PDFtk. Among other things, it lets you merge, split, and burst PDF documents, with or without encryption. You can learn more about it in this Opensource.com article.

Boxes is the GNOME application for running virtual machines. Recently Boxes added a new feature that makes it easier to run different Linux distributions. You can now automatically install these distros in Boxes, as well as operating systems like FreeBSD and FreeDOS. The list even includes Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Fragmentation has been a big problem for IoT since the beginning. Companies were doing their own workarounds, there were no standardizations, and there was no collaborative platform that everyone could work on together. Various open source projects are working to solve this problem...

When rooting your Android device, tools like Magisk allow you to easily gain complete control over your Android device without the need for complicated hacks.

There are many GUI tools available to compare files & folders to check for any changes or dissimilarities, but it does not mean that one can’t perform comparison or diff using CLI on a...

When it comes to sending personal information over the Internet, whether it is account information, credentials, contact information, location information or anything else that may be abused, the public is, to a large extent, purely paranoid to hackers and identity thieves.

The following article will describe a Minecraft server configuration procedure on Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver Linux. As you will see later, it is possible to run multiple instances of the Minecraft server on a single host. From this reason we will create a separate directory for each instance under the /opt/minecraft directory.

Red Hat's strategic planning isn't like yours, but with 64 straight quarters of revenue growth and continuing on course to become the first billion-dollar-a-quarter open-source company, the Linux and cloud power is clearly on to something.

Linux Lite developer Jerry Bezencon announced today the release and general availability of the final Linux Lite 4.0 operating system series based on Canonical's Ubuntu 18.04 LTS operating system.

News briefs for May 31, 2018.

Google announced on Thursday that it released the Chrome 67 web browser for its Android mobile operating system and it's rolling out to users worldwide via Google Play Store.

Chris Aniszczyk, CTO of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation provides insight on new projects and technologies that will expand open-source cloud efforts.

Feral Interactive have ported a lot of AAA games to Linux and they're once again teasing that another is about to arrive.

Performing network speedtest on servers or on desktops are one of the common tasks that are performed almost on regular basis. Most of the speed tests...

An anonymous entity just pledged to donate $1 million to the GNOME foundation over the next two years.

Learning the vi text editor takes some effort, but experienced vi users know that after a while, using basic commands becomes second nature. It's a form of what is known as muscle memory, which in this case might well be called finger memory. read more

Although software engineers regularly use the command line for many aspects of development, arrays are likely one of the more obscure features of the command line (although not as obscure as the regex operator =~). But obscurity and questionable syntax aside, Bash arrays can be very powerful. read more

As the name suggests (Secure Key), Secure-K OS is a live operating system, based on Debian 9 Stretch, meant to be run from any USB key and “developed with security in mind”, according to its developers...