Competing software installers

With an increasing number of software installation methods, testing cutting-edge applications may require learning about the installer first.

New Linux distro for high school education

EdUBudgie Linux is an Ubuntu clone created by a teacher and aimed directly at the education market.

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Chronicler Zack Brown reports on the latest news, views, dilemmas, and developments within the Linux kernel community.

Evolution of a Passion Project

Knoppix, a portable operating system and rescue disk, continues to evolve.

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:Knoppix 9.1 and Zorin OS 15.3 Core

Secure communication over the unreliable UDP transport with DTLS

TLS encryption is wonderful if it is running over a reliable transport protocol like TCP; but if your needs call for the less reliable UDP transport, you’d better start learning about DTLS.

Improving Linux package management

Linux package managers work too slowly. The experimental distri research project investigates ways to speed up package management.

Setting up a dgamelaunch game server

If you are into retrogaming, dgamelaunch lets you set up a server to play Roguelike games and compete with friends, all while preserving a piece of gaming history.

Access Raspberry Pi GPIO with ARM64 assembly

Reading, writing, and arithmetic with the Raspberry Pi in ARM64 assembly language.

Raspberry Pi OS now comes with PulseAudio and a graphical printer manager

The Raspberry Pi Foundation regularly adds new features to the official operating system, Raspberry Pi OS. The December 2020 update added the PulseAudio sound server and a print manager.

Write screenplays with Kit Scenarist

Creative writers take note! Kit Scenarist is a free application designed to simplify the process of writing a screenplay.

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In the news: Apple M1 Hardware Support To Be Merged into Linux Kernel 5.13; KDE Launches the Qt 5 Patch Collection; Linux Creator Warns Next Kernel Could Be Delayed; System76 Updates Its Pangolin Laptop; New Debian-Based Distribution Arriveson the Mark…

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This month in Linux Voice.

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This month Graham looks at SonoBus, NewsFlash, Kinto.sh, RetroShare, Emilia Pinball, and much more!

Working with the JSON data format

JSON data format is a standard feature of today’s Internet – and a common option for mobile and desktop apps – but many users still regard it as something of a mystery. We’ll take a close look at JSON format and some of the free tools you can use for r…

Create GUI dialogs in one line of code

The Zenity command-line utility lets you create simple dialog boxes with your own data or with the output of utilities and applications.

The Long Life of Open Source Code

As two examples of how open source code can evolve, maddog discusses the long history of text editors and of the RAND message handling system.

Quantum computers and the quest for quantum-resilient encryption

The encryption methods we use today are no match for tomorrow’s quantum computers. We’ll show you why and what’s ahead for cryptography in the post-quantum era.

Go library shows filesystem changes across platforms

Inotify lets applications subscribe to change notifications in the filesystem. Mike Schilli uses the cross-platform fsnotify library to instruct a Go program to detect what’s happening.

News Flash: COBOL Rises from Its Own Non-Ashes