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An opinion article about Cutefish OS development discontinuation, its future, best road ahead with additional details.

An application written using programming languages like C and C++ requires you to program the destruction of objects in memory when they're no longer needed. The more your application grows, the great the probability that you'll overlook releasing unused objects.

Tutorial on how to use IF, ELSE and ELIF statements in Bash scripts to evaluate conditions

The second-generation TUXEDO Pulse 15 is up for pre-order with shipping expected in late July, which comes with the powerful AMD Ryzen 7 5700U that TUXEDO have pushed up to 35w.

The simplest way to set up SSH on your Chromebook is by installing the Secure Shell extension. This extension supersedes the Chrome SSH app. While the latter is still available for Chromebook users on the Web Store, it will go away for regular users in 2021 and enterprise users in 2022.

Fwupd maintainer Richard Hughes released today version 1.8.2 of the open-source firmware updating utility for GNU/Linux distributions, a release that adds support for more devices and new features.

Meta has open-sourced a machine-learning resource that could one day supplant Wikipedia as the world's biggest publicly available knowledge-verification database.

Like many of the folks in open source, the LF’s Kenny Paul is a huge fan of building things out of LEGO. For Kenny however, it goes a bit beyond just opening a box and following the instruction book. In fact, he rarely ever builds anything from a kit, instead building highly complex and detailed models entirely from his imagination. Yes, for you LEGO Movie fans, Kenny is a Master Builder.

Emacs is a flexible piece of software. Aside from being an editor, you can also use it to chat online. Learn how to use IRC with Emacs today.

Today, the KDE Project released KDE Plasma 5.24.6 as the sixth maintenance update to the long-term supported KDE Plasma 5.24 LTS desktop environment series.

What the powers that be have disabled in the BIOS, you must enable once more. Lenovo's laptops caused a disturbance last week after a security engineer found himself unable to boot up a copy of Linux due to restrictions that are apparently insisted upon by Microsoft.…

This tutorial shows the installation of an Ubuntu 22.04 base server in detail with many screenshots. The purpose of the guide is to show the base installation of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS that can be used as a basis for our other Ubuntu tutorials here at howtoforge like our perfect server guides.

Oracle VirtualBox is a virtual machine software application designed to run a complete x86_64 compatible operating system within a hosting application running on Windows, macOS, Linux, and Solaris operating systems. It’s the most common virtualization application after VMware.

A short tutorial on how to use the OS module in Python to list and change the current working directory

The suspension of active development on the CutefishOS has led to concerns among Linux users that the project no longer exists.

This guide explains what is Quickemu and how to create and run Linux, macOS and Windows desktop virtual machines with Quickemu in Linux.

If the soap opera of Microsoft's relationship with open source had a theme tune, it'd be "The Long and Winding Goad". To a company whose entire existence depended on market control, open source's radical freedoms were an existential, cancerous threat. In return, open source was only too happy to play the upstart punk movement to Microsoft's bloated prog rock.

Qmmp is a free and open-source audio player that is similar to Winamp. It is written in C++ using the Qt widget toolkit for the user interface.

Undoubtedly, Ubuntu will be the first Linux distribution for most people who have started Linux for the first time and will certainly be the most familiar distribution.

For this reason, we will cover the step-by-step process of downloading, installing, and setting up the latest Ubuntu operating system using VirtualBox running on your Windows 10 or 11 64-bit computer.

This is a very beginner’s guide, so it will be useful for a lot of new starters who want to try Ubuntu for the first time, and once you get familiar with Ubuntu, you can follow the same steps to install it on physical hardware.

The Banana Pi BPI-Leaf-S3 is a low power MCU built around the Espressif ESP32-S3 SoC from Espressif. As other ESP32 based devices, Banana Pi BPI-Leaf-S3 supports Wi-Fi/BLE 5.0, a 3.7V external battery and several I/O peripherals.