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The upcoming Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla) operating system release has reached an important milestone in its six-month-long development cycle, the Feature Freeze stage.

Atom is an open-source, cross-platform code editor developed by GitHub. It has a built-in package manager, embedded Git control, smart autocompletion, syntax highlighting, and multiple panes. This guide shows two ways of installing Atom on Ubuntu 20.04. Atom can be installed as a snap package via the Snapcraft store or as a deb package from the Atom repositories.

During the last six months or so, my family and I have enjoyed a slower pace of life. With few museums and parks open, we’ve stayed safer at home together or going on outdoor excursions. My young children are pretty good at creating their imaginary worlds where they could play for hours. I think they are adapting to this new normal better than I am to tell you the truth. However, there will be weekends when we have all run out of ideas. Luckily, Opensource.com is chock full of boredom-busters for kids of all ages. read more

Uri Herrera announced the release of Nitrux 1.3.2, a new version of his desktop-oriented, Ubuntu-based distribution built around the latest KDE Plasma desktop and applications.

Qt Creator released 4.13 version with major improvements and fixes. This is what's new.

Draft spec reduces pages to inscrutable data blobs, says privacy bod. A proposed Google web specification threatens to turn websites into inscrutable digital blobs that resist content blocking and code scrutiny, according to Peter Synder, senior privacy researcher at Brave Software.…

After pushing the Firefox 80 web browser to the stable channel and Firefox 81 to the beta seed, Mozilla has now released the a new version of his popular and open-source email client, Thunderbird 78.2.

Recently, I bought a new laptop, and of course i erased the installed windows operating system, and I decided to give ubuntu 20.04 a try, after installing it, I said to myself: Why not making a series about Ubuntu tips and tricks? And this is what happened, as today I will show you how to hide the personal folders and the trash icon on the ubuntu 20.04 desktop.

The UBports Foundation has announced the availability for public testing of the upcoming Ubuntu Touch OTA-13 software update for their Ubuntu-based mobile operating system using the Lomiri (Unity 8) interface.

“There are still a few people (but sadly very few groups) doing this for the right reasons.”

Adoption of DevOps practices at Comcast led to increased automation and configuration of infrastructure that supports applications, back-office, data centers, and our network. These practices require teams to move fast and be self-reliant. Infrastructure is constantly turned upside down, with network traffic moved around it constantly. Good DNS record management is critical to support this level of autonomy and automation, but how can a large, diverse enterprise move quickly while safely governing its DNS assets?

Developers told to hurry up and get features stable as support for other features extends to help slow upgraders. The Kubernetes project has decided the time has come to stop existing in a state of permanent beta.…

In times when Governments around the world are peeking into everyone’s life, Journalists and activists around the globe are finding it difficult to communicate safely on the Internet.

Tips for documenting procedures from complex technical tasks to simple handwashing.

Winmate’s 3.5-inch “IQ30” SBC runs Android 9.0 on an octa-core Snapdragon 660 with up to 4GB LPDDR4, LAN with optional PoE, 802.11ac, M.2 with SIM, 3x USB, and touchscreen support. Winmate has posted a product page for an IQ30 SBC that runs Android 9.0 on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 660 (SDA660). This is the first 3.5-inch spin […]

Here's a list of 7 Firefox addons to enhance your privacy while browsing the Internet.

The developers of the SuperTuxKart free and open-source kart racing game announced today the general availability of the SuperTuxKart 1.2 update, which brings many new features and improvements.

Linux 5.2 was released over one year ago and with it, a new feature was added to support optimized case-insensitive file name lookups in the Ext4 filesystem - the first of native Linux filesystems to do it. Now, one year after this quite controversial feature was made available, Collabora and others keep building on top of it to make it more and more useful for system developers and end users. Here's a look at why this was merged, what improvements have been made since, and how to put it to work.

Containers are no more secure than physical machines. Find out how to scan yours for vulnerabilities.

A hacker can gain command line access to their cPanel account even after you've suspended it, additionally, they can get shell access even if you have disabled it in WebHost Manager (WHM).