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As useful as navigating through directories from the command line is, rarely anything has become as frustrating as repeating over and over "cd ls cd ls cd ls ..." If you are not a hundred percent sure of the name of the directory you want to go to next, you have to use ls. Then […]Continue reading... The post How to speed up directory navigation in a Linux terminal appeared first on Xmodulo. Related FAQs: How to make spreadsheets in a Linux terminal What is a good terminal emulator on Linux? How to mount a remote directory over ssh on Linux How to version control /etc directory in Linux How to record and replay a terminal session on Linux

Fedora Scientific is a Linux distribution specifically designed for enabling open science. It is a Fedora spin targeted at users whose work involves scientific and numerical computing. Perhaps like other Fedora spins, it was conceived out of a simple need: the need to avoid constantly installing the same software on a fresh Linux installation. read more

Thunderbird Email Encryption with GnuPG2 This tutorial describes the configuration of Thunderbird and GnuPG2 to send and receive encrypted email.

Technologic unveiled a Yocto Linux-ready COM with a single- or quad-core Freescale i.MX6 SoC and optional wireless and industrial temperature support.

PDF Annotations in Evince — the default PDF viewer in Fedora — are currently getting some much needed attention by GNOME Google Summer of Code student Giselle Reis.

The networking focused Enea Linux 4.0 has arrived with new virtualization features including KVM and Open vSwitch support, plus a Yocto 1.6 build. Swedish telecom software company Enea announced version 3.0 of its Yocto-based commercial Linux distribution and development platform in May 2013, adding real-time Linux support, among other features.

At the end, you have the RetroArch project fully installed and configured, which includes all of the major emulators you'd want and a centralized method to configure them, plus an EmulationStation graphical front end the Pi can boot directly into that makes it simple to navigate to the game you want, all from a gamepad.

This morning the U.S. Supreme Court issued an important decision concerning software patents and took a small-but-meaningful step in the right direction. In Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank, the Court reaffirmed that abstract ideas are not by themselves patentable and unanimously held that the software at issue was no more than an abstract idea. It also held that "merely requiring generic computer implementation fails to transform that abstract idea into a patent-eligible invention."

The Android-based Amazon Fire smartphone was launched today and includes some innovative features.

CircuitCo debuted an HDMI- and flash-free OEM version of the BeagleBone Black called the “BlueSteel-Basic,” to be followed by industrial and COM versions.

Here at the Fedora Project, we love our upstream projects, they are the folks that produce all the awesome software that we ship to make Fedora awesome. This weekend the folks at LibreOffice — the default office suite shipped in Fedora — are holding a bug hunt event.

An extensible module for I/O management greatly facilitates handling event loops.

The idea of creating a Linux distribution with Firebird database came to me a long time ago when I was structuring the IT department of a company which develops automation software for drugstores. read more

Building an active community requires thoughtful planning, patience, support, and constant evangelism. Even then, any of several well-known errors can prevent a community from developing.

How to Add a Swap File On Ubuntu Linux A swap file enables an operating system (OS) to utilize hard disk space to simulate additional memory. Effectively, as the system goes on the low-memory mode, it swaps a certain section of the RAM that an idle program may be using onto the hard disk to release memory capacity for other vital programs. Subsequently, when the user returns to the swapped out program, it swaps places with another program in RAM. This intelligent mix of RAM and swap files is commonly referred to as virtual memory, and its use allows the system to run a far greater number of programs than possible using only the built-in RAM.

Recent developments in the world of open source have had far reaching impacts more so than most critics initially envisaged. For example the recent announcement that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is committed "... to the principles of open government" and "... (to) encouraging innovation and entrepreneurship," and thus will be releasing source code for an array of its software projects, hits home to the authors of this article. read more

The medical image community embraced open source as a standard practice back in 2000, with the adoption of the Insight Toolkit (ITK). ITK is sponsored by the US National Library of Medicine and was built as a C++ library. It is the equivalent to a usable encyclopedia of image processing algorithms. read more

After three years, RHEL 7 is now GA, but that doesn't mean RHEL users didn't benefit from features updates for RHEL 6

CentOS has upgraded a lot packages, and the post that I've wrote 1 year ago no longer works in CentOS 6.5 updated up-to-date. I did a research and it looks like this will be the first tutorial in 2014 how to install owncloud in centos with nginx, postgresql and ssl.

With concerns over online privacy at its highest since the birth of the internet, we speak exclusively to the anonymous developers behind Tails.