Showing all newswire headlines

In 2019, I wrote my first Linux product review about StarLabs laptops. As a fan of Linux & open-source stuff, I consider their laptops one of the best. The StarLabs team kept working hard in developing new models and improving their hardware and software. Consequently, in the past few months, "StarBook" has been crowned as the new king of this ambitious kingdom. So what are the features of the new king? Is it worthy of this title?

System76 has released Pop!_OS 21.10, its bespoke Linux distribution based on Ubuntu. The most important feature of this release is the new Application Library. Here's what’s new!

Denver-based Linux hardware vendor System76 launches today the Pop!_OS 21.10 Linux distribution as a major update to their in-house build operating system that promises exciting new features, improvements, and some of the latest GNU/Linux technologies.

The Pop team officially released the POP OS 21.10. In this post, we wrap up the release highlights and give you download & upgrade details.

Writing comments in your Python code is not as trivial as one might think. In this article, How not to write Python comments, I explain how to write comments in Python. More importantly, I also share how not to use comments. These are good practices for any programming language, by the way!

PHP Composer is a dependency manager for PHP. In this article, we will show you how to install and use PHP Composer on a Debian 11 server.

System76 released today the Pop!_OS 21.10 operating system for PCs, but the Linux hardware vendor also launched a special edition made for Raspberry Pi 4 computers, called Pop!_Pi. Here’s a first look at System76’s new OS for Raspberry Pi.

I occasionally find truncated strings in a data audit. These usually appear when a data item N characters long has been entered in a free-text field with a character limit smaller than N. Detecting truncations programmatically is difficult and not always successful. This post describes the latest of four methods I've tried.

We give you details about the new default text editor of GNOME - the Gnome Text Editor.

PeerTube is an open source piece of software that enables anyone to run their own tube site (like YouTube) very easily. Now the PeerTube’s devs has finally released PeerTube 4.0. Here's what's new!

In this article, we are going to learn the step-by-step process to launch RHEL 8 from Amazon EC2 in AWS Cloud and how to access RHEL 8 server using Putty application.

Dracut is a tool used to build initramfs cpio archives. It originated, and is mainly used on Fedora and the other distributions that are part of the Red Hat family, but can be used also on community distributions like Gentoo, and Archlinux. The application functionalities are organized in modules.

The great resignation has left employers desperate for developers, project managers, and system administrators. One thing these jobs have in common is they require Linux-savvy people.

Penguinistas will get all the holiday fun of an extra release candidate instead. The Register can at last reveal the answer to the question on everyone's lips: who would win a hypothetical fight between Santa Claus and Linus Torvalds?…

In this article, we will be learning about the basics of cloud computing, it’s various models and types. We will also look into Cloud computing architecture and characteristics in detail.

Suppose we have our Linux system setup with an almost-full disk encryption, with only the /boot partition unencrypted. Assuming we achieved encryption by using a LUKS container, we need the appropriate software to unlock it at boot. This software, however, is part of the encrypted system. Since the Linux 2.6 series, the solution to this, and other similar problems, is called initramfs (Initial ramfs). In this article we see how an initramfs is composed and how to extract or list its content.

The disclosure of a critical security hole in Log4j last week has renewed calls to rethink how open-source software gets developed, paid for, and maintained, not that the long-simmering issue ever really went away. The Log4j bug, an unauthenticated remote code execution flaw (CVE-2021-44228) in Apache's open-source Log4j Java-based logging library, is particularly serious and far-reaching because exploitation is not difficult and the software is widely used and buried deep within many programs.

The following below is a not entirely trivial algorithm for students that creates a Python dictionary when scanning text according to the conditions of the problem, which is then processed as Pandas Dataframe to provide the output required

Much of today's music features the exacting work of a drum machine. The term might make you think of a drum set with mechanical levers and cranks armed with drumsticks, but all it actually refers to is a synthesizer programmed to play drum sounds. A good drum machine programmer (often also a drummer) can make a drum machine sound either hyper-robotic (if that's the sound the producer's going for) or almost human, with nuance and swing.

A hostname, also called a computer name, is a label assigned to a host on a network which distinguishes one device from another on a specific network. Although the system sets the hostname during the installation process, you can change the hostname at any time on Linux. Here's how!