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Want to upgrade Linux Mint 19.3 to 20? In this short tutorial we show you how. So put off a fresh install and upgrade to Linux Mint 20 the easy way.

Debian 8 LTS has officially reached the end of support

Phoronix is the leading technology website for Linux hardware reviews, open-source news, Linux benchmarks, open-source benchmarks, and computer hardware tests.

As a distribution built from scratch, the number of packages available in Solus repositories is limited, unlike Arch-based distributions that have AUR. But Solus compensate it with the support for Flatpak and Snap packages.





The package manager for Solus…

KeePassXC 2.6.0 was released recently with improvements like an overhauled user interface with new light and dark themes, new offline password health check, check passwords against the Have I Been Pwned online service, and more.

With more efforts from governments and people alike towards harvesting solar, hydro, and wind energy, the aim is to gradually shift towards environment-friendly resources. With the same approach, a blogger has deployed a setup that helps him power his blog…

Linux creator Linus Torvalds puts stamp on proposal to use neutral language in kernel code and documentation.

I came across this fantastic blog post about a shell noscript called "macho" that searches for manpages. It uses a variety of shell commands including: man, apropos, grep, sed, awk, sort and fzf. You can also use it in conjunction with a launcher like dmenu…

Phoronix is the leading technology website for Linux hardware reviews, open-source news, Linux benchmarks, open-source benchmarks, and computer hardware tests.

This article explains how to restart GNOME Shell from the command line, without closing any applications (X11 only). You'll find the command line equivalent to pressing Alt + F2 and typing r, as well as an alternative.

Odroid C4 & Raspberry Pi 4 head-to-head, including specifications, CPU benchmarks, GIMP filter test, drive (hdparm) tests, and YouTube playback. Tests conducted in Ubuntu 20.04 (64 bit on both boards), as well as Ubuntu MATE and Raspberry Pi OS.

My initial…

Don't trust the big tech with your data? Try these open source video conferencing tools for online meetings.

NewsFlash is a modern feed reader app for Linux desktops. Built in GTK the NewsFlash feed reader integrates nicely with the GNOME Shell desktop. Learn more.

Phoronix is the leading technology website for Linux hardware reviews, open-source news, Linux benchmarks, open-source benchmarks, and computer hardware tests.

The Rust programming language gets a nod of approval from Linux creator Linus Torvalds.

$20 for a low power home server

Slackel is a Linux distribution based on Slackware and Salix. It is fully compatible with Slackware but the difference is that it is based on the development branch. Slackel comes in three editions, KDE, Openbox and MATE. Today, I'm taking a look at the…

Brief: espanso is a cross-platform text expander tool written in Rust. A text expander lets you use shortcuts instead of typing long words and sentences.





If you’re using keyboard macros or mouse macros, you’re probably already saving a lot of time to…

The Star Labs Lite Mk III is a small, full-formed Linux laptop perfect for on-the-go computing. We share the laptop's specs, price, and where to buy.