The post Learning Shell Scripting: A Guide from Newbies to System Administrator first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .If you’re starting your journey in the world of system administration or want to automate your tasks on L…
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News: Kali updates project’s repository key, Trinity desktop receives update, UBports testing home directory encryption, Gentoo a…
The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for May 4th, 2025, brings news about Firefox 138, qBittorrent 5.1, 4MLinux 48, openSUSE Leap 16 beta, LibreOffice 25.2.3, Trinity Desktop Environment R14.1.4, Thunderbird 138, as well as all the latest distro and software u…
Read MoreBe sure to take the included poll after you read this delve into Redis and the wishy-washy world that has become the company’s relationship with open-source.
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Linux system monitoring app Mission Center has put out its first update in 6 months – and it’s a big one! Mission Center 1.0 adds new hardware tracking, UI tweaks, and refactors its backend to provide palapble performance improvements, boost the …
Read MoreDid you miss this week’s top articles? Here are the five most read article on FOSS Force for the week that just ended.
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Want to round corners of windows in KDE Plasma Desktop? Here’s a KWin effect can do the job in recent Plasma desktop from v5.27 to v6.3. There was a ShapeCorners KWin/5 effect can do the job to enable rounded window corners, which however discontinued. What I’m going to introduce is KDE-Rounded-Corners, a fork of ShapeCorners […]
Read MoreSharing my favorite Logseq plugins that I love to use for managing my personal knowledge base.
Read MoreDownload from https://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gettext/gettext-0.24.1.tar.gz
New in this release:
Bug fixes:
Fix bad interactions between autoreconf and autopoint.
xgettext: Creating the POT file of a package under Git version control is now fas…
Read MoreDid you have time to keep up with the news this week? Here’s your chance to brag… or not. This week there are 10 questions. Good luck!
The post FOSS Force Mostly Open Tech News Quiz – May 2, 2025 appeared first on FOSS Force.
If you use the Papirus icon theme on Ubuntu, you’ll be pleased to hear a new version is available to download. Frequent updates are a major reason why the Papirus icon set is so popular with Linux users. After all, it’s annoying to switch to a st…
Read MoreThe post 15 Easy Ways to Speed Up Ubuntu in 2025 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .Ubuntu is known for its user-friendly interface and robust performance, but over time, even the best operating systems can slow
The post 15 Ea…
The post Top 25 Network Ports You Must Know for Interviews first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .If you’re preparing for a networking, Linux system administration, DevOps, or cybersecurity interview, understanding network p…
Read MoreThe post How to Use Shutdown, Poweroff, Halt, and Reboot Commands in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .In this article, we’ll explain the difference between the shutdown, poweroff, halt and reboot commands in Linux. We’…
Read MoreCanonical has announced the first official Ubuntu desktop image for the Qualcomm DragonWing platform. A beta image of Ubuntu 24.04 desktop compatible with Qualcomm Dragonwing QCS6490 and QCS5430 processors, and specifically tailored for the Qualco…
Read MoreIf you’ve ever wanted to use a rolling release distribution with WSL, now’s your chance.
Read MoreTwenty-one new GNU releases in the last month (as of April 30, 2025):
Read MoreHere’s what people were reading the most on FOSS Force during the month of April, 2025.
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The initial injustice of proprietary software often leads to further injustices: malicious functionalities.
The introduction of unjust techniques in nonfree software, such as back doors, DRM, tethering, and others, has become ever more frequent. N…
Read MoreDevelopment today opened on Ubuntu 25.10 “Questing Quokka”, the next short-term release of Ubuntu, due for release in October. Canonical engineer Utkarsh Gupta fired the figurative starting pistol for developers in a post to the Ubuntu mail…
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