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There are plenty of applications that you can use to create a playlist on Linux, but Clementine is a longstanding favourite media player that plenty of Linux users already rely on to play their music libraries.

Got swappiness? Learn how to set appropriate swap settings in Linux, and clear your swap's contents.

I usually read eBooks on my phone or with my Kobo eReader. I've never been comfortable reading books on larger screens. However, many people regularly read books on their laptops or desktops. If you are one of them (or think you might be), I'd like to introduce you to three eBook readers for the Linux desktop.read more

Mesa 20, PipeWire 0.3, MyPaint 2.0, GTK, Maui Project, Untangle Firewall, Red Hat, Container Linux, Nvidia, Microsoft Defender, Humble Bundle and much more on Your Weekly Source for Linux GNews!

Raspbian's repositories now ship version 68.5.0 ESR of Firefox. This version was released in February 2020. As it's the latest Extended Support Release, I've revisited Firefox to see if it's a viable alternative to Chromium or Vivaldi on the RPI4.

Forgetting or never having the root password for a Linux system is a bad thing.

The logzero library makes logging as easy as a print statement, which is quite a feat of simplicity. I'm not sure whether logzero took its name to fit in with the series of "zero boilerplate" libraries like pygame-zero, GPIO Zero, and guizero, but it's certainly in that category. It's a Python library that makes logging straightforward.You can just use its basic logging to stdout the same way you might use print for information and debugging purposes, and it has a smooth learning curve towards more advanced logging, like logging to a file.read more

9to5Linux: Several months in development, Manjaro Linux 19.0 is dubbed Kyria and it;s the latest stable version of the GNU/Linux distribution that makes using Arch Linux a breeze

One of the most popular software enabling computers to be controlled remotely is TeamViewer, but there are many other options that are available as well, which have just as many features (desktop sharing, online conferences, and data transfers). Since TeamViewer dominates the major online users, it has long ranked number one by many users.

There are several Linux tools we can use to identify all of the processes on our systems

ddgr is a command line client for DuckDuckGo search engine. This guide explains how to search DuckDuckGo from commandline using ddgr in Linux.

itsFOSS:  Vokoscreen, open source screencasting tool, has been reborn as vokoscreenNG.

Here are 11 Linux commands that one sysadmin cannot live without.

While Shodan can potentially be used by hackers, it can also be used for good to help protect critical infrastructure, including energy utilities.

Phoronix: Aaron Griffin is stepping down as the Arch Linux Project Leader

Unlike some programming languages, AWK is flexible and tolerant. You can write AWK commands in several different ways and not worry too much about spaces, indentation and line breaks.

Add-ons and external repositories are essential for getting the most out of Kodi.

Sometimes the facts speak for themselves (or pictures speak louder than words)

Over the past few years, a number of open-source AI projects have popped up on the Internet.