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Allan McRae made a brief announcement at the end of last week to inform users of the acclaimed GNU/Linux operating system about some important changes in the default package manager.

At some point you will find it very handy to be able to run the same command on multiple servers. Sure, you could just put a list of IPs in a file and run something against it using a for loop, but gsh is going to make your life much easier.

Also in today's open source roundup: DistroWatch reviews PCLinuxOS 2016.03 MATE, and your best bets for desktop Linux distros.

Recently I wrote about 5 free alternatives to Google drive on Linux and I mentioned 5 interesting cloud storage services. When I was searching the web for some more interesting services, I got to know that Copy, one of the popular cloud services, has been planned to be discontinued in May this year. Because Copy has great number of Linux users so it's a big point to notify all you Linux users who use Copy to backup your data as soon as possible.

The Raspberry Pi is an inexpensive computer that has become the most popular device for smaller computing projects and learning. Sales have surpassed 8 million units making it the best selling UK personal computer.

As we reported last week, the final Beta of the upcoming Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) operating system was announced, which also included the Beta 2 builds for several official flavors.

Do you know the American TV show Mr. Robot? It aired in June 2015, and at SxSW Interactive this year, a panel convened to talk about "Coding of Camera: Mr. Robot and Authenticity on TV." The panel consisted of Sam Esmail, Rami Malek, and Christian Slater. read more

Meld, the open-source diff and merge tool, which has been updated to version 3.15.2, a release that introduces better support for the GTK+ 3.20 GUI (Graphical User Interface) toolkit.

So you've gotten, via inter-library loan, the pdf's you requested to aid you in researching the article you're writing. For purposes of putting them on your e-reading device, the form they're in is probably perfectly suitable. But what if you'd like to do other things with one or more of them, such as printing them out? There is quite a range of pdf manipulation tools that can help you put them in a form more congenial to such aims.

The time has come for us to take the first test release of the upcoming Parsix GNU/Linux 8.10 distro for a test drive, as its developers have just announce it earlier today.

Many people know about cat command which is useful in displaying entire file content. But in some cases we have to print part of file. In today’s post we will be talking about head and tail commands, which are very useful when you want to view a certain part at the beginning or at the end of a file, specially when you are sure you want to ignore the rest of the file content.

NFS is a distributed file system protocol built on top of Sun's RPC (remote procedure call). NFS is popularly used to share directories and files in LAN network environments, and is also adopted in many Network Attached Storage (NAS) systems and cloud storage backends. In a typical NFS deployment, an NFS server exports part of its local file system as NFS shares, and one or more remote NFS clients mount and access exported shares within their own file system.

The source code release of the 2D drawing package Toonz as OpenToonz is ready for download from github at: https://github.com/opentoonz/opentoonz

Ubuntu Kylin 16.04 LTS Beta 2 has been released as part of today's Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) Final Beta, bringing a complete redesign of its Unity user interface.

Hello, open gaming fans! In this week's edition we take a look at what's new in the world of Linux gaming. Open gaming roundup for March 20-26, 2016 Tomb Raider coming to Linux Feral interactive announced the Tomb Raider reboot is coming to Linux this spring. Join them on March 30 at 6 p.m. GMT on their Twitch channel for a live demo. read more

Now that everyone is enjoying Linux kernel 4.5, the time has come for early adopters to take Linux kernel 4.6 for a test drive.

Google said that since Windows, Mac and Linux users prefer to launch their apps from within Chrome, it is discontinuing the app launcher.

Staring and screaming at Xcode – 11/10, would watch again Remember when soccer's governing body FIFA spent $30m making a film about itself starring Tim Roth and Gérard Depardieu?…

Moritz Bunkus announced the release of MKVToolNix 9.0.0, the open-source MKV (Matroska) manipulation software.

At SXSW Interactive 2016, I had the amazing chance to attend a panel of visionaries talking about lack of women in the tech industry. The panel included: Michelle Mandansky, Laura Weidman Powers, Trae Vassallo, and Megan Smith. read more