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Plausible is a simple, privacy-friendly analytics tool. It helps you analyze the number of unique visitors, pageviews, bounce rate and visit duration. If you have a website you would probably understand those terms. As a website owner, it helps you know if your site is getting more visitors over the time, from where the traffic…
The term cloud native is widely used when thinking about computing and software development, encompassing a wide range of concepts that are regularly used in technology. Let’s break it down and take a closer look – what does cloud native really mean? What you need to know Read moreKali Linux 2017.2 Release | Kali Linux…
There are plenty of to-do list applications available for Linux. There is one more added to that list in the form of Sleek. Sleek to-do List app Sleek is nothing extraordinary except for its looks perhaps. It provides an Electron-based GUI for todo.txt. For those not aware, Electron is a framework that lets you use…
The transition to virtualized infrastructure and software network functions requires a re-evaluation in the telecom production environments. Network function is not alone. It has always been an important piece in the puzzle but requires a set of non-functional bits to complete the big picture and which brings the lifecycle management of network functions to the…
At Flutter Engage, Ken VanDine, engineering manager for the Ubuntu desktop, made an appearance in the keynote speech to talk about Flutter on Ubuntu. Canonical has been working to support Flutter for some time now, bringing the SDK to Linux, committing to build a new Ubuntu installer, and now, making Flutter the default choice for…
And that was February! A month where a rover showed what perseverance means and a small drone what ingenuity looks like. February will be remembered as the month where two robots landed on Mars, telling us all to “dare mighty things”. Perseverance and Ingenuity Do you want to know what Mars sounds like? Well, here…
By default, all Linux distributions already come pre-installed with a terminal application or terminal emulator (correct technical term). Of course, depending on the desktop environment, it will look and feel different. Here’s the thing about Linux. You are not restricted to what your distribution provides. You can opt for an alternative application of your choice….
The Ubuntu in the wild blog post ropes in the latest highlights about Ubuntu and Canonical around the world on a bi-weekly basis. It is a summary of all the things that made us feel proud to be part of this journey. What do you think of it? Adlink Technology devices using certified Ubuntu Canonical…
The web team at Canonical run two-week iterations building and maintaining all of Canonical websites and product web interfaces. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration. Meet the team My name is Clément, I live in Toulouse, France. I joined Canonical four months ago and I’m working as a…
Ubuntu Core 20 was recently released. What can it do for IoT developers? How does it work? What’s new? If you are asking yourself any of these questions, or more, there is good news. David Beamonte, the Product Manager for Ubuntu Core, will be answering questions on a YouTube live stream on the Ubuntu channel….
This is a guest post authored by Chris Psaltis. We are reproducing it here with Chris’ permission. Chris is the co-founder and CEO of Mist.io and uses Ubuntu and LXD on his platform on a regular basis. Thanks, Chris! One of the advantages that Ubuntu brings to the cloud equation is improving an organization’s ability…
There are two popular ways to check disk usage in Linux terminal: du command and df command. The du command is more for checking the space used by a directory and the df command gives you the disk utilization on filesystem level. There are more friendly ways to see the disk usage in Linux with…
There is not a single decent screen recording software for Linux that supports Wayland display server. GNOME’s built-in screen recorder is probably the rare (and lone) one that works if you are using Wayland. But that screen recorder has no visible interface and features you expect in a standard screen recording software. Thankfully, there is…
Snapcraft is our delightful tool for building snaps. It’s not the only way to build them, but it’s certainly a popular one. A benefit of Snapcraft is that typically a developer can configure the packaging definition once, and not have to update it for a long time. Snapcraft will keep cranking out releases, via CI…
Dual booting Ubuntu and Windows is not that complicated and I have covered it in detailed tutorial in the past. Recently, I also wrote about dual booting on a Bitlocker encrypted Windows system. And yet here I am talking about it again. Why? Because the scenario is slightly different and several It’s FOSS readers have…
This is guide, howto upgrade Fedora 33 to Fedora 34 using DNF. This method works on desktop and server machines. You can also upgrade older Fedora installations (example Fedora 32/31/30) directly to Fedora 34. I have tested this method on several machines, but if you have problems, please let me know. Always remember backup, before…
Linux Mint is undoubtedly one of the best Linux distributions for beginners. This is especially true for Windows users that walking their first steps to Linux world. Since 2006, the year that Linux Mint made its first release, a selection of tools has been developed to enhance user experience. Furthermore, Linux Mint is based on…
by George Whittaker On Saturday and Sunday, March 20th and 21st, 2021, free software supporters from all over the world will log in to share knowledge and experiences, and to socialize with others within the free software community. This year’s theme is “Empowering Users,” and keynotes will be Julia Reda, Nathan Freitas, and Nadya Peek….
I have been an Ubuntu user for as long as I remember. I distrohopped a little but keep on coming back to Ubuntu. But recently, I have started using openSUSE to try something non-Debian. As I keep exploring openSUSE, I keep on stumbling upon things that are slightly different in SUSE-worse and I plan to…
Brief: gImageReader is a GUI tool to utilize tesseract OCR engine for extracting texts from images and PDF files in Linux. gImageReader is a front-end for Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine. Tesseract was originally developed at HP and then was open-sourced in 2006. Basically, the OCR (Optical Character Recognition) engine lets you scan texts from…