How to Use Tiling Assistant on GNOME Desktop?

Wondering how to use tiling windows on GNOME? Try the tiling assistant. Here’s how it works.

How to set permanent DNS Nameservers in Ubuntu

Setting permanent DNS nameservers in Ubuntu is essential for a stable network connection. This guide explains how to configure DNS settings using Netplan or resolv.conf, depending on your Ubuntu version, to ensure your system consistently uses your pre…

How to install necessary hardware drivers on Linux Mint

Installing important drivers in Linux Mint is crucial for getting the most out of your hardware. This guide provides detailed instructions on identifying and installing key drivers, from graphics and sound to Wi-Fi and printers, enhancing your Linux Mi…

Guide to Installing MySQL 8.0 on AlmaLinux 9 and 8

This guide shows two methods to install MySQL 8.0.x on AlmaLinux 9, 8 utilizing the default appstream or importing the MySQL community RPM and installing the latest stable version.
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Put Bluetooth Battery Levels in Ubuntu’s Quick Settings Menu

A new GNOME Shell extension makes it easier to check Bluetooth battery status in Ubuntu 23.10. Emphasis on easier as we can already see battery level for connected Bluetooth devices from the Settings > Power pane, no extensions required. But out of sig…

How to Install Cockpit Web Console on Debian 12

Cockpit is a web-based Linux administration tool that allows you to manage multiple Linux servers from a single dashboard. This guide will show you how to install Cockpit on a Debian 12 server.
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FSF Blogs: Only six days left to support the FSF through the Combined Federal Campaign

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Solus 4.5 Released With Calamares Installer, PipeWire, Linux 6.6, and New Xfce Edition

Dubbed “Resilience,” Solus 4.5 is here six months after Solus 4.4 and introduces a new Xfce edition that replaces the previous MATE edition, which is no longer maintained, featuring the latest Xfce 4.18 desktop environment. Existing users a…

Best Free and Open-Source Alternatives to Adobe Lightroom Classic

Adobe Lightroom Classic is creative image organization and image manipulation software. This photo editing app is optimized for the desktop. Adobe Lightroom Classic is proprietary software and not available for Linux. We recommend the best free and ope…

Social Engineer Reveals Effective Tricks for Real-World Intrusions

Jayson E. Street, Chief Adversarial Officer at Secure Yeti, discusses intriguing aspects of social engineering and unconventional methods for gathering target information.
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How To Download and Install Alternative Fonts on Ubuntu

This tutorial will help you download and install fonts listed on the alternative fonts comparison table we published. It means you will practice visiting websites of respective fonts like Carlito’s and Liberation’s, downloading, extracting, viewing, in…

KDE Plasma 6’s Financial Targets Met and Surpassed

Plasma 6’s thriving community ensures financial success, hitting goals 50 days before the desktop environment’s launch.
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Linux Networking: Configuring Network Address Translation (NAT)

by George Whittaker

Introduction

In the vast ocean of network communications, Network Address Translation (NAT) stands as a pivotal lighthouse, guiding the flow of data packets to the…

How to Install Latest libheif to handle HEIF/AVIF in Ubuntu 22.04/20.04

This simple tutorial shows how to install the latest version of libheif library, for better HEIF and AVIF image formats support, in Ubuntu 22.04 and/or Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Libheif is a popular free open-source library for encoding and decoding HEIF and AVIF. Which, also has partial support for JPEG-in-HEIF, JPEG2000, uncompressed (ISO/IEC 23001-17:2023) capabilities. It […]

Git Installation Process on Ubuntu

Practical guide on how to install Git on Ubuntu 22.04 and earlier versions using the Ubuntu package manager (apt), the Git Maintainers PPA, and the Git source.

Distribution Release: Solus 4.5

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Solus is an independent Linux distribution featuring the eopkg package manager and the flagship edition runs the Budgie desktop environment. The latest release of Solus, version 4.5, int…

How to add song recognition to the Linux desktop

If Linux is your desktop operating system of choice, and you’d like to add song recognition software into the mix, SongRec has your back.

Free Command Examples

The free command in Linux helps you gain insights on system memory usage (RAM), and more. Here’s how to make good use of it.

Top 15 Linux commands for effective file viewing and editing

This guide introduces 15 essential Linux commands for file viewing and editing. Master commands like ‘cat’, ‘less’, ‘nano’, and ‘vim’ to efficiently navigate, view, and modify files in Linux, enhancing your command line proficiency and overall system m…

How to Find a File in Linux

In this tutorial, we’re going to show you how to find a file in Linux with the find and locate commands.
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