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Symlinks are essential for linking files and directories but can easily break without notice. Here's how to find broken symlinks in Linux.

Subtitld is a new* PyQt5 subtitle editor for Linux and Microsoft Windows (macOS support might come in the future). The software can be used to create new subtitles from scratch, edit, synchronize and transcribe subtitles.

The KDE Project released today the KDE Applications 20.12 open-source software suite as a major update bringing numerous new features and improvements across most of the included KDE apps.

Java is a powerful language. Maybe because it’s often seen as an "industrial-strength" tool, you might not expect it to be the foundation of a text editor. After all, text editing is almost too easy for such power. In fact, in most modern programming toolkits, the component accepting text entry is a pre-programmed widget. Using a Java toolkit, a simple text editor can be written in about 100 lines of code. So what can jEdit possibly offer to justify its existence?

This article explains how to repeat a command every X seconds on Linux, in 2 ways: using watch, and using sleep in a while loop (with a way to avoid time drifting when using long-running commands).

I've been using a QNAP NAS for a couple of years. For an appliance, it did a decent job. But after a long while, I realized that I actually don't want an appliance: I want a proper Linux server. My immediate thought was to set up a Raspberry Pi-based server. Then I remembered that I still have a ThinkPad T410 stashed in a storage box.

Rocking the Red Hat boat with an alternative distro designed for production use. Gregory Kurtzer, the founder of the CentOS project, has kicked off a new venture called Rocky Linux, the aim being to build "a community enterprise operating system designed to be 100 per cent bug-for-bug compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)".…

A tiny “Orange Pi R1 Plus” router board has launched for $22 with a quad -A53 Rockchip RK3328, 1GB DDR4, 2x GbE, USB 2.0 host and Type-C, microSD, and a 13-pin GPIO header. Shenzhen Xunlong has updated its circa-2017 Orange Pi R1 mini-router SBC. The Orange Pi R1 Plus advances from a 1.2GHz, quad-core, Cortex-A7 […]

Managing a remote team is both challenging and rewarding. Glean best remote team management practices from someone who does it.

2DayGeek: This quick article shows you how to resize and convert images on Linux.

Gaming world is abuzz with Cyberpunk 2077. The good news is that there is a way to play Cyberpunk 2077 on Linux. The not so good news (if you have NVIDIA) is that you’ll need AMD GPU.

Loops in C Sharp allow us to repeat a single statement or a block of statements multiple times. When you know how many times the loop should repeat the statement, you mention it in the loop. The would repeat itself exactly how many times you want it to. Sometimes you don't know how many times the loop should repeat itself, in this case, we need to give loop a condition to stop. According to a condition, the loop will be stopped.In case we don’t mention when the loop should stop itself, it will keep on running and never stop. There is a loop that comes with the condition to stop. That loop is called the foreach loop. I will be explaining the structure of the loop and also explain all the loops for you with examples.

Google has opened its forthcoming operating system, Fuchsia, to community contributions, but has not addressed the question hanging over it: how will it be used?

Taiga is an open-source project management system that helps you to manage both simple and complex projects for startups. It is a simple, powerful, and customizable application specially designed for Agile developers and designers to manage the development of the project.

One of the most anticipated games of 2020, Cyberpunk 2077, is finally here and it looks like it’s playable on Linux with a few simple tricks.

This article explains how to use the chattr command to change file attributes on Linux file systems.

OCS "Open Computers and Software Inventory Next Generation" is an open-source assets management solution that allows you to inventory IT assets. In this tutorial, we will explain how to install OCS inventory on CentOS 8 server.

Google's super secret, experimental in-development operating system, Fuchsia, is still alive. Google recently put out a blog post titled "Expanding Fuchsia's open source model" announcing that the company is now accepting public contributions and bug fixes for whatever this OS ends up being. There is now a public mailing list, a public bug tracker, and even a roadmap.

The goal of continuous delivery (CD) is to produce high-quality software rapidly. While the emergence of microservices and cloud-native technology has brought huge benefits in scalability, it has added a layer of complexity to this approach. Security is another big challenge. In this discussion with Tracy Miranda, Executive Director of the Continuous Delivery Foundation, we talked about some of the pain points the organizations face when bolstering their CD practices and how the Foundation is helping to address them.

Working with MySQL or MariaDB database, you might have faced a situation where you might have forgotten root or another user's password, or being SysAdmin, you might have had to deal with users who have forgotten their password. In this tutorial, we will learn to reset the root password in Mysql or resetting any other user account's password (the same steps can also be used to reset the user's password in MariaDB as well).