Year after year, Linux Mint remains the best Linux desktop for both beginners and experienced users.
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In this article, we explain what KDE Connect is, its main features, basic usage guide, and the installation steps.
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Experience shows that you can never be too paranoid about system backups. When it comes to protecting and preserving precious data, it is best to go the extra mile and make sure you can depend on your backups if the need arises.
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In this article, I will walk you through the steps needed to upgrade to Linux Mint 20.3 from 20.2. The upgrade process for all three Linux Mint editions i.e. Cinnamon, MATE, and Xfce is same.
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JavaScript developer Marak Squires wasn’t happy about not making money from his open-source libraries, so he deliberately corrupted them, leaving programmers and end-users with dead-in-the-water programs.
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An astonishing incident in recent days highlights the risks of widespread dependence on open source software – while also highlighting the free labor corporations benefit from by using open-source software. Marak Squires, an open-source coder and maintainer, sabotaged his repository to protest against unpaid work and his failed attempts to monetize faker.js and color.js, two major NPM […]
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Clonezilla Live 2.8.1 is here one and a half months after Clonezilla Live 2.8 and it’s the first release of the live Linux system to be powered by the latest and greatest Linux 5.15 LTS kernel series. The previous release was powered by Linux kernel 5.14, which reached end of life in November 2021. Linux […]
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Based on the Linux 5.16 kernel series, the GNU Linux-libre 5.16 kernel is here to introduced an analogous firmware_reject_builtin function for the new firmware_request_builtin call in Linux kernel 5.16, as well as to unify the various separate shell functions used by the cleanup scripts to disable request_firmware and the _nowarn variant, and extended them to […]
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In my last post, Qubes-lite with KVM and Wayland, I described setting up a QubesOS-inspired Linux system that runs applications in virtual machines. A Wayland proxy running in each VM connects its applications to the host Wayland compositor over virtwl, allowing them to appear on the desktop alongside normal host applications. In this post, I extend […]
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Here are some faster, better and feature rich alternative command line tools to replace the decades-old legacy Linux commands.
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After more than half a year of development, qBittorrent 4.4 is finally and it’s the first stable release of popular BitTorrent client to offer a pre-compiled binary in the AppImage universal binary format for GNU/Linux distributions. The good news is that it’s now a lot easier to run qBittorrent on your favorite distro. Created on […]
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The Linux df command has many helpful use cases. Learn how to check disk space in Linux using the df command here.
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MariaDB is a fast, scalable, and robust RDBMS. Learn how to install MariaDB on NetBSD here.
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The echo command is one of the most basic, important commands in programming. Get a basic overview of the echo command in Linux here.
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Extension Manager is a new, unofficial application to browse and install GNOME Shell extensions from your desktop, without having to use a web browser. Learn how to install and use Extension Manager here.
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XFS is a 64-bit journaling file system that works with Linux. Learn how to create an XFS file system in Linux here.
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Linux has some special file permissions called SUID, GUID, and Sticky Bit. Learn more about special file permissions in Linux here.
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LUKS acronym stands for Linux Unified Key Setup which is a widely used method of disk encryption used by Linux Kernel and is implemented with the cryptsetup package.
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Webex offers calling, meetings, and messaging in the cloud for teams of all sizes. What are the best free and open source alternatives to Webex?
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Unveiled in mid-October 2021, the PinePhone Pro features a custom-made RK3399S Rockchip Hexa-Core processor that runs at at 1.5GHz, an ARM Mali T860 GPU, a gorgeous in-cell 1440×720 IPS display with 18:9 aspect ratio and Corning Gorilla Glass 4, 4GB of dual-channel 800MHz LPDDR4 RAM, and 128GB of internal eMMC flash storage. The Linux phone […]
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