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November 30, 2020 | by Scott Kilroy

Network monitoring from the cloud

Netdata helps you monitor your network with ease through a cloud dashboard.

November 30, 2020 | by Scott Kilroy

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Ubuntu 20.10 "Groovy Gorilla" and Fedora 33 Workstation

November 30, 2020 | by Scott Kilroy

Personal micro server

Turn a Raspberry Pi into a useful personal micro server for streaming Internet radio, reading RSS feeds, jotting down notes, sharing files, and more.

November 30, 2020 | by Scott Kilroy

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In the news: Dell to Enable Privacy Controls for Linux Hardware; Linux Mint Unveils New Packages; Pop!_OS 20.10 Now Supports DEB822 Format; Ubuntu 20.10 with Raspberry Pi Support; SaltStack Acquisition Brings More Automation to VMware; and New Storage …

November 30, 2020 | by Scott Kilroy

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This month in Linux Voice.

November 30, 2020 | by Scott Kilroy

Alternative Linux desktop environments

If you are looking for an alternative desktop interface, Bruce gives a rundown of seven Linux distros with unique desktops worth exploring.

November 30, 2020 | by Scott Kilroy

Choosing the best alternative with topsis-python

Complex decisions require the evaluation of multiple criteria. This article shows how to support such decisions with Linux, Python, and the TOPSIS Multi-Criteria Decision Model.

November 30, 2020 | by Scott Kilroy

Home-built shooting game with Nerf targets and a Raspberry Pi

A cool Nerf gun game for a neighborhood party provides a lesson in Python coding with multiple processors.

November 30, 2020 | by Scott Kilroy

Stock Watcher

Portfolio Performance helps you manage and analyze your investment portfolio.

November 30, 2020 | by Scott Kilroy

A command-line Twitter client

If you prefer to work from the command line, Rainbow Stream offers a quick and flexible Twitter client.

November 30, 2020 | by Scott Kilroy

Going from a sketch to a printed object

How do you get from an idea to a finished printed object? We’ll take you through the steps with a glamorous example: a pair of 3D-printed earrings.

November 30, 2020 | by Scott Kilroy

Hacking free software for creative writing

Some tools designed for programming can also be very helpful for writing fiction. A few to look at include personal wikis, random word generators, and version control tools.

November 30, 2020 | by Scott Kilroy

Keep Squawking

Today I’m remembering an episode that happened a few years ago. We are still a proud print publishing company, but, like most publishers, we deliver some of our copies in electronic form through content platforms available for personal computers and mo…

November 30, 2020 | by Scott Kilroy

Secure online communication with MOFO Linux

Controls, surveillance, and censorship are increasing rapidly on the Internet. MOFO Linux lets you anonymize your communication on the web with an easy-to-use live system.

November 30, 2020 | by Scott Kilroy

Problems with Restrictions

Recent discussions of introducing moral restrictions into free and open source software licensing have maddog remembering all the reasons early developers decided not to go down that road.

November 30, 2020 | by Scott Kilroy

Bloomberg Embraces TypeScript Language to Improve JavaScript Code

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.

November 30, 2020 | by Scott Kilroy

How to Go Full Dark Mode With LibreOffice

Want to use LibreOffice in complete dark mode? Here’s what you need to do for that in Linux.

November 30, 2020 | by Scott Kilroy

How to Deploy a Clojure Web Application with Nginx on Ubuntu 20.04

Clojure is a modern, dynamic and powerful programming language on the Java platform. In this tutorial, we will explain how to deploy a Clojure Web Application on Ubuntu 20.04.

November 30, 2020 | by Scott Kilroy

How to use bash if -z and if -n for testing strings in Linux

There are different string operators available in bash scripting language which can be used to test strings. In this guide, we will test these string operators using the if statement in Centos 8.

November 30, 2020 | by Scott Kilroy

How to create and use a CodeCommit GIT Repository on AWS

CodeCommit hosts Git-based repositories and is a fully managed service by AWS. Teams can use it to collaborate on code in a secure and highly scalable way. It helps us to eliminate the need of having our own self-hosted Source Code Management (SCM) sys…