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What is dead may never die, and it's all thanks to Jim Hall. Retro Tech Week The last mainstream DOS-based OS was Windows ME, which went out of support 20 years ago. And yet, thanks to free software, DOS lives on. We spoke to FreeDOS founder Jim Hall about how the project started and how it's progressing.…

The GCompris open-source and cross-platform educational software suite suitable for children aged 2 to 10 has been updated today to version 3.0, a major release that brings new features and improvements.

As you know, there are redirection operators, which allow you to append text to a file. When you use the >> operator, the text is appended to the end of the file, while the > operator replaces the existing content.

Writing a bash script to backup multiple directories on a local machine with rsync to a remote server.

The list of impressive features and enhancements of the KDE Plasma 5.27 desktop is arriving in February.

Ventoy is a free, open-source, cross-platform utility for creating bootable USB drives for Linux and Windows. It is feature-rich and supports most system images and computer architectures. This article highlights Ventoy's best features and teaches you how to configure and use this Rufus alternative.

Steve Revill of RISC OS Open chats to us about taking the project into the future Retro Tech Week The mid-1980s codebase for RISC OS, the original native OS for the Arm processor, is still run on present-day hardware and actively maintained and developed. We spoke to RISC OS Open MD Steve Revill about its 26-bit origins, working to bring it to newer 32-bit Arm chips, and efforts to update its BSD-based network stack.…

About one-third of Firefox users have installed an add-on before – whether it’s an extension to add powerful and customizable features or a visual theme to personalize the web browsing experience. But if you’re unfamiliar, add-ons are sort of like apps for your browser. They can add all kinds of features to Firefox to make […]

In this article, we will explore the Linux Engineer career path, the education and skills required, the opportunities and challenges faced at different stages, and the best practices and resources for building a successful career in Linux Engineering. This guide will provide you with the information you need to navigate the Linux Engineer career path and achieve your professional goals.

PikaOS is a brand new Ubuntu-based Linux distribution aimed at gamers, offering a vanilla GNOME experience with some exciting features.

Linux partitioning is one of the most complex parts of the OS installer. Anaconda Web UI storage feedback requested to help with design!

Metabase is a Java-based open-source Business Intelligence (BI) tool. It connects to a number of databases and uses a question builder to hide the complexity of large SQL queries, allowing you to visualize customer data in a readable format and analyze it. You will learn how to install Metabase on a Ubuntu 22.04 server using Docker.

Don't expect to see any more big AIX news. This means the last Unix left is… Linux It's the end of an era. As The Reg covered last week, IBM has transferred development of AIX to India. Why should IBM pay for an expensive US-based team to maintain its own proprietary flavor of official Unix when it paid 34 billion bucks for its own FOSS flavor in Red Hat?…

MotionBuilder is 3D character animation software. The software is designed for virtual cinematography, motion capture, and traditional keyframe animation. Capture, edit, and play back complex animations.

The 120th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on January 15th, 2023, keeping you guys up to date with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

Find out how to configure Fedora Silverblue as a kiosk and learn why it is ideally suited to that role.

Not getting the option to take screenshots in the menu options? Not to worry, we have four easy solutions for you to try out on your Linux machine.

This article introduces how to use the MQTT plug-in in JMeter.

This month, Vecow introduced the ECX-3000 which is a Workstation-grade fanless embedded system compatible with 13th/12th Gen Intel processors and Intel 600 Series Chipset. This rugged embedded system is equipped with up to 8x 2.5GbE LAN ports with 4x PoE, 5G connectivity, Wi-Fi6 and extensive storage support. The datasheet for the ECX-3000 Series specifies that […]

The git rebase command allows you to adjust the history of your Git repository. It's a useful feature, but of course, mistakes can be made. As is usually the case with Git, you can repair your error and restore your repository to a former state. To recover from an unsuccessful rebase, use the git reflog command.