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I don't very often play games. I know that seems odd, because I do often write about gaming. Honestly though, I very rarely actually take the time to play video games. Recently, however, there has been an exception to that rule.

Backing up data is one of the most important tasks everyone should be doing regularly. This series will demonstrate using three software tools to backup your important data. When planning a backup strategy, consider the “Three Rs of backup”: Redundant:... Continue Reading →

Sometimes, while working on the command line in Linux, you may need to perform a copy operation in way that the data/text gets formatted before it's written at the destination. A simple example could be to copy text from a file and write the case-changed version (lower to upper, or upper to lower) to the destination file.

A kernel is the central part of an operating system (in other word, core component or heart of an operating system). It’s act as a bridge between applications and hardware.

I reviewed it as an everyday desktop distribution (as opposed to a server or other workstation distribution) to see if I could use it regularly; I find that its slowness and a handful of usability issues make it not the right distribution for me.

LaTeX is a professional document preparation system and document markup language written by Leslie Lamport. It’s a very mature system with development starting more than 30 years ago.

QXmlEdit is an open source XML editor written using Qt libraries that has some unusual features that can help you in complex situations. read more

An attempt to bring back the IBM Model F keyboard.

In this short tutorial, we’ll show you how to rename a file in Linux. Most commonly these commands are used on cloud servers and work on most Unix-based systems, including CentOS and Ubuntu.

In the past few years, containers have become a hot topic among not just developers, but also enterprises. This growing interest has caused an increased need for security improvements and hardening, and preparing for scaleability and interoperability. This has necessitated a lot of engineering, and here's the story of how much of that engineering has happened at an enterprise level at Red Hat. read more

Seminal time-sharing OS needs emulator for ancient Honeywell DPS8M CPU Seminal time-sharing OS Multics - the Multiplexed Information and Computing Service - has been resurrected in a new simulator.…

On April 29, Turkish authorities banned access to Turkish Wikipedia and the other 296 world-language Wikipedias in the context of purges following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt. read more

Open source is only for two-thirds of a life, says veteran Open source luminary Roland McGrath has decided “enough is enough” – after 30 years on the GNU compiler library project.…

A major compromise of U.S. critical infrastructure will occur in the next couple of years, according to a majority of IT security professionals -- and most expect breaches of their own enterprise networks to occur even sooner.

This week in Linux and open source, the 'Big 4" accounting firms are becoming power players in blockchain, Oracle expands open source container efforts, and more in this weekly digest!

If you fancy running Windows games or apps on your Linux, Android, or OS X operating system, then you should know that there's a new Wine development release available for download, versioned 2.12.

The single biggest threat to your Linux system is your web browser. When you think about it, it makes perfect sense. A browser is a large and complex piece of software with the ability to execute code, and it accesses the open Internet and executes just about everything that it comes into contact with.

Despite installing Linux on a computer and harvesting those benefits, you may still feel like your system could still use an extra boost to actually get more speed. Here are four ways you can quickly and easily accelerate the system to get the best performance possible from it.

I covered Top Lightweight Linux Distributions To Try In 2017. In that article I also listed Linux Lite. There were several reasons that I mentioned it (of course lightweight among them) but I also like how team behind the distro build what Linux users like. So today, I'm going to publish an email interview with Linux Lite project manager, Jerry Bezencon and ask him about the distro, its success and so on.

Awk is a versatile programming language designed for pattern scanning and processing language and often used as a data extraction and reporting tool. It’s a standard feature of most Unix-like operating systems.