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One of the major features of the GNOME 42 desktop environment is a highly-customizable dock or dash. Let's look at how you can customize the new dock in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) or later to have a similar look to that of macOS.

Information about Linux and open source abounds on the internet, but when you're entrenched in your work there's often a need for quick documentation. Since the early days of Unix, well before Linux even existed, there's been the man (short for "manual") and info commands, both of which display official project documentation about commands, configuration files, system calls, and more.

In this article, we are going to learn what are ansible tags and the effective ways to use tags in Ansible playbooks to run specific tasks.

With the release of Firefox 101, the Mozilla developers are now focusing their efforts on the next release, Firefox 102, which has been promoted to the beta channel earlier this week for public beta testing.

Cron is a simple yet brilliant UNIX tool. With it, you can easily manage recurring tasks in your system. Learn the basics of using it today.

A nascent Linux-based botnet named Enemybot has expanded its capabilities to include recently disclosed security vulnerabilities in its arsenal to target web servers, Android devices, and content management systems (CMS).

Linux Lite has been around since 2012 and version 6, codenamed "Fluorite", is one of the first Ubuntu-based distros to offer a version built on Ubuntu 22.04 "Jammy Jellyfish", released just last month.

In just three years, this community site "by sysadmins, for sysadmins" has given millions of people information to help them do their work better.

GNOME developer Jonas Dreßler shared recently some of the work that was put into advancing the mobile port of the GNOME desktop environment, specifically the GNOME Shell UI, as well as upcoming plans to make it on par with current offerings.

Networking within Kubernetes isn't so different from networking in the physical world. Remember networking basics, and you'll have no trouble enabling communication between containers, Pods, and Services.

An article and coverage of the new major release Linux Lite 6.0 which brings Ubuntu 22.04 base, Xfce 4.16, a new theme and more.

IBASE Technology has launched an expandable embedded system that integrates their own MI989 Mini-ITX motherboard. The processor featured on this device is the AMD Ryzen Embedded V2000 (up to 4.15GHz) which is designed using the Zen 2 x86 core architecture (7nm process).

In this tutorial, we are going to explain the differences between relational database management systems such as MySQL, SQLite, and PostgreSQL.

This type of relational database management system is used worldwide, based on relational models, where the information is stored in tables linked between with relations, making the data to be easily referenced.

I'm an ardent KDE Plasma Desktop user, but at work I happily use GNOME. Without getting into the question of which desktop I'd take to a desert island (that happens to have a power outlet), I see the merits of both desktops, and I'd rather use either of them than non-open source desktop alternatives.

The May 2022 issue of my exclusive “Xfce’s Apps Update” monthly roundup is here and it’s packed with news about the latest release of your favorite Xfce applications, plugins, and tools.

horcrux is an open source tool that’s designed to split files and keep them secure with encryption. This encryption doesn’t require remembering a passphrase or retaining a private key. Instead, the utility uses the Shamir Secret Sharing Scheme to break an encryption key into parts that can be recombined to create the original key, but only requiring a certain threshold to do so.

This guide explains what is a conditional statement and how to use the when conditional statements in Ansible playbooks to evaluate conditions and run tasks based on the outcome.

An editorial about the GNOME Shell and components for mobile phones in terms of the current state, progress and future.

Linux Lite is a Linux distro based on Ubuntu that includes the ultra-lightweight Xfce desktop environment. The new major version Linux Light 6.0, is now available for download and usage, based on the newest Ubuntu 22.04 LTS release. Here’s what is new.

Flatseal creator Martín Abente Lahaye announced today the release of Flatseal 1.8 as the latest stable release of this open-source application that lets you manage permissions of Flatpak apps on your GNU/Linux distribution.