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Uri Herrera announced today the release and general availability of the Nitrux 1.3.5 update to this KDE Plasma-based GNU/Linux distribution for the masses.

The excellent article 7 Git tricks that changed my life inspired me to write about another Git feature that's had a major impact on my experience using Git on the command line: aliases. Defining Git aliases to serve as substitutes for commands provides two major benefits: read more

Collabora Productivity informs 9to5Linux today about the general availability of the Collabora Office 6.4 office suite for mobile platforms, including Android, iOS, and Chrome OS.

Today we will see how to enable timestamp for history command in Fish shell in Linux. In addition, we will also learn how to create a simple function to show the date and time stamps in history command output in fish shell.

Since early 2020, when I wrote about some fun Raspberry Pi projects and our Raspberry Pi eBook, I (like almost everyone) have been living and working from home. read more

You may already be versed in debugging Bash scripts (see How to Debug Bash Scripts if you are not familiar with debugging Bash yet), yet how to debug C or C++? Let’s explore. GDB is a long-standing and comprehensive Linux debugging utility, which would take many years to learn if you wanted to know the tool well. However, even for beginners, the tool can be very powerful and useful when it comes to debugging C or C++.

How to Install PHP 8 on Debian.

LXer Feature: 30-Nov-2020

I got a new laptop and I want to use a jump-drive to run different versions of Linux on it. These are my adventures..

Some people follow the tradition of creating New Year's resolutions. A year is a long time, though, so I plan with a seasonal theme or trajectory. Each quarter, I sit down and look at the upcoming three-month season and decide what I'll work on during that time. For my latest theme, I decided I wanted to write a daily journal. I like having clear commitments, so I committed to writing for five minutes each day. I also like having observable commitments, even if it is just for me, so I put my entries in Git. read more

Minder is a tool that lets you create, develop and visualize your ideas. It’s written in Vala and published under an open source license.

The TypeScript open source project can help make JavaScript code more robust, which is why Bloomberg has embraced it across millions of lines of code.

"I'd absolutely love to have [an M1 laptop] if it just ran Linux," Torvalds said.

You might not know this, but according to Distrowatch, MX Linux is currently the No. 1 most downloaded Linux distribution.

Here's this week's roundup series, curated for you from the Linux and open-source world on application updates, new releases, distribution updates, major news, and upcoming highlights.

Despite being an unmaintained software that didn’t get any similar quality features that its rival LibreOffice was receiving over the period of 10 years, OpenOffice is still being downloaded more than 1.5 million times per month, as shown on the project’s page on SourceForge. Which is mind-boggling.

It’s that special time of year when you can get great discounts on tech for your favorite sysadmin. Read More at Enable Sysadmin The post Cyber Week 2020: 13 ideas for what to buy the sysadmin in your life appeared first on Linux.com.

KDE Plasma is my favorite desktop environment on Linux. In this video, I offer my Top 5 Reasons why I think KDE Plasma is the best desktop environment for me.

This brief guide explains how to enable timestamp for history command in Zsh shell in Linux operating system.

The GNOME 40 is under development at the moment. And a recent change on App Grid functionality shows that it now scrolls horizontally.

So you have decided to give the Linux operating system a try. You have heard it is a good stable operating system with lots of free software and you are ready to give it a shot. It is downloadable for free, so you get on the net and search for a copy, and you are in for a shock. Because there isn’t one “Linux”, there are many. Now you feel like a deer in the headlights. You want to make a wise choice, but have no idea where to start. Unfortunately, this is where a lot new Linux users give up. It is just too confusing.