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More mojibake detective work: reconstructing the encoding histories of gibberished words from a museum database.

2DayGeek: This quick article shows you how to resize images with a right-click on Linux.

This guide explains how to add, delete and grant sudo privileges to users in Arch Linux and its variants.

The Home Assistant stack as exited beta with a 2020.12 release featuring “blueprint” templates. The open source home automation software is available on a $140 to $160 Odroid-N2+ Home Assistant Blue bundle with enclosure. The Home Assistant project has released its first non-beta version with a Home Assistant 2020.12 release. Initially intended to be called […]

As part of my role as a principal communication strategist at an enterprise software company with an open source development model, I publish a regular update about open source community, market, and industry trends. Here are some of my and their favorite articles from that update. read more

The “VIA Mobile360 L900 In-Vehicle System” runs Linux on a Jetson TX2 and offers 2x SATA, 2x M.2, 2x USB, WiFi/BT, GPS, GbE, HDMI, CAN, and 9x FAKRA camera connectors. VIA Technologies has launched another Mobile360 in-vehicle system for ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance Systems). The rugged VIA Mobile360 L900 In-Vehicle System runs Linux 4.9 on […]

The native extension app of GNOME - Extensions gets a nice and useful feature in GNOME 40.

Red Hat wants you to switch to rolling release model CentOS Stream. If you want something more stable for your servers when the support for CentOS 8 ends, here are some distributions recommendations that are more suitable for production servers.

If you read our previous linux subshells for beginners with examples article, or are experienced with subshells already, you know that subshells are a powerful way to manipulate Bash commands inline, and in a context sensitive manner.

The beta version of the upcoming Linux Mint 20.1 “Ulyssa” operating system is now available for download ahead of the final release near the Christmas holidays.

Key Mapper is a new GUI tool to remap your keyboard and mouse buttons on Linux desktops (it supports both X11 and Wayland).

Upset about what's happened with CentOS Linux? Here are your best alternative operating systems.

ASRock unveiled a line of 11th Gen Core powered industrial SBCs including barebones NUC 1100, STX-1500 (Mini-STX), and IMB-1224 (thin Mini-ITX), plus Windows-based NUC BOX 1100 and iBOX 1100 mini-PCs. ASRock typically preloads Win 10 on its embedded computers, including industrial focused models, but it usually sells its motherboards as barebones, without an OS. ASRock […]

The eleventh installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here, for the week ending on December 13th, keeping you guys up to date with the most important things that have happened in the Linux world.

Even though snaps show was created in VENV, everything works the same way on bare metal. After you created the new partition of desired size installer brings you to screen which allows to redefine functionality of partition and assign name to folder supposed to be mounted on this partition . In case name of folder is not on the list you can create new folder's name manually . . . .

My article about learning different programming languages lists five things you need to understand when starting a new language. An important part of learning a language, of course, is knowing what you intend to do with it. I've found that simple games are both fun to write and useful in exploring a language's abilities. In this article, I demonstrate how to create a simple guessing game in Java. read more

Choosing an operating system for your server or business is not an easy task, especially if you are looking to use a Linux distribution. This is because there are hundreds of versions available for Linux, each with their own benefits. Out of the hundreds of options, the most popular choices for web servers are Ubuntu and CentOS. Knowing the differences between Ubuntu vs. CentOS for small businesses can help you decide which will work best for your business’ use case.

The Tails project announced today the release and general availability of Tails 4.14, a new monthly update to their Debian-based live GNU/Linux distribution for keeping your online presence anonymous.

What if you could have a tiny text editor with different modes to emulate your choice of Emacs, Vi, Pico, NEdit, and even WordStar? Amazingly, such an editor already exists, and it’s called e3. It has no library dependencies, and its binary is less than 20KB. Installing On Linux or BSD, you can install e3 from your distribution’s software repository or ports tree. read more

For newer Linux users or people looking to switch, it can be a minefield to try and find accurate and up to date info on what Linux distro to game with. Here to help. What is the best Linux distribution for gaming? It's actually not a tough question.