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Here's this week's DebugPoint.com weekly roundup (ending Jan 31, 2021) series, filtered for you from the Linux and the open-source world on application updates, new releases, distribution updates, major news, and upcoming highlights. Have a look.

exFAT is a proprietary filesystem developed by Microsoft, and is commonly used for USB flash drive or SD cards. In order to mount an exFAT drive on Linux, you need to use exFAT FUSE or use kernel 5.4 or higher. This tutorial explains detailed procedures.

in today’s article we’ll see some good use cases of Snaps and how they are easing the life of users and developers across many fields in the open source world.

The eighteenth installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is out, for the week ending on January 31st, keeping you guys up to date with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

This guide explains how to enable minimize and maximize buttons in application windows using Gnome Tweaks and Dash to Panel extension in Fedora Workstation and Silverblue.

This article explains how to change the default shell in Linux. Using this you can set Bash, sh, Zsh, Csh, Fish, etc. as your shell.

O'Reilly's opinionated survey says low-code on the up and modern web dev is 'chilling'. A report from an online learning platform presents a different take on programming language and devops trends, showing Python and Java ahead of the usual survey winner JavaScript.…

With the recent GNOME 40 design change and Ubuntu decides to follow the “wait-and-watch” principle for its adaptation, we analyze whether Ubuntu should adopt KDE Plasma as its Default Desktop, saying goodbye to GNOME.

If you're a developer or hobbyist using a Fedora qcow2 image for the cloud, you always have to do a bunch of initial configuration before an image is ready to use. I know this all too well, and I was eager to find a way to make the setup process simpler. As it happens, the entire Fedora quality assurance team feels the same way, so we developed Testcloud.

With today’s release of Firefox 85, Mozilla pushed the next major release of its popular open source and cross-platform web browser, Firefox 86, to the beta channel for public testing.

Vsftpd is the acronym of Very Secure FTP Daemon: it is one of the most used ftp servers on Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. It is open source and released under the GPL license, and supports virtual users and SSL for data encryption. In this tutorial we will see how to install it and configure it on Linux.

Most of the packages, features of Fedora 34 are almost final following the string freeze. We give you a sneak peek of Fedora 34 new features and possible release dates. Take a look.

Jordan Petridis announced today via an email announcement the general availability for public testing of the alpha version of the upcoming GNOME 40 desktop environment.

root user is a privileged user in Linux, which is similar to an administrator in Windows. In this article, we will show you how to become a root user in many ways.

Here's this week's (ending Jan 24, 2021) roundup series, curated for you from the Linux and the open-source world on application updates, new releases, distribution updates, major news, and upcoming highlights. Have a look.

In prior years, this annual series covered individual apps. This year, we are looking at all-in-one solutions in addition to strategies to help in 2021. Welcome to day 15 of 21 Days of Productivity in 2021. Staying productive also means (to some extent) being organized enough to find my notes and reference them on demand. This is a challenge not just for myself but for a lot of people I talk to.

When the OpenStack Foundation shifted its focus from just OpenStack to a variety of open-source cloud technologies, it also changed its organization, and now, the Open Infrastructure Foundation has named its first board of directors.

EdgeQ is prepping an AI-enabled 5G “basestation on a chip” built on RISC-V cores and OpenRAN standards that claims to greatly reduce power, cost, and complexity for 5G basestations. Santa Clara based 5G chip startup EdgeV announced a highly integrated and programmable 5G modem processor based on a RISC-V reference design. The EdgeV system-on-chip is […]

Bloatware is a type of software which is installed by the product vendor (like Samsung) on top of the Android operating system in your mobile phone. The name clarifies; it makes your mobile bloated. Much of the utilities and services installed on your phone are simply not required, and at times may be annoying or consuming a fair bit of battery. Uninstalling a lot of these may buy you an extra day or two of battery power.

The MX Linux community recently announced their first respin for the Raspberry Pi computer, MX Linux Fluxbox-RaspberryPi Respin, so I thought to give you guys a first look at it to tell you what works, what doesn’t work, and what needs to be improved.