The latest update to the popular Ubuntu-based Linux distribution, Zorin OS 12.4 boasts of being “more secure and compatible than ever before.”

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OpenMeetings is a free and open source web-based application written in Java that can be used for presenting, online training, web conferencing, collaborative whiteboard drawing and document editing, and user desktop sharing.

Among them Pitivi, the non-linear video editor built using GTK and Gstreamer and offering up a basic video editing feature set.

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Osquery is an open source Operating System monitoring, query, and analytics software.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences — best known for ‘The Oscars’ award ceremony — has teamed up with the Linux Foundation to launch the Academy Software Foundation (ASWF).

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This tutorial describes how to limit CPU usage in Ubuntu 18.04. I will use the cpulimit utility for this purpose.

In development since June, the Linux 4.18 cycle has taken a little longer to fully form that anticipated, but with a decent change-log attached, I’m sure most won’t mind.

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The bash shell is one of the most widely used login shells in Linux. But there exist other shells as well, and you can use them for your command line work (until of course there‘s a specific requirement for your work).

Red Hat’s Richard Hughes has revealed that tech company Lenovo, who produce the ThinkPad line of laptops, is joining the Linux Vendor Firmware Service, better known as the LVFS.

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While the bzip2 command line utility can be used to compress files, there are many other tools that let you perform basic tasks - like comparing such files - without the need to uncompress them.

It’s called Advance and it aims to ‘advance’ you past the site you’re currently gawping at and on to the next. How? By giving you a list of articles and web pages based on your browsing history, of course.

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This tutorial shows how to resolve domain names on the Linux shell and how to query a name server for various kinds of DNS records like A, MX and NS records. To resolve a domain name on the shell, we will use the command dig.

The (now defunct) company behind this stunning 4X real-time strategy game has released the source code for both the main game and its expansion pack to the public, for free.

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Although the Linux find command does a fabulous job for searching on the command line, there may be situations where a dedicated tool may be more convenient.

Taskbook is a terrifically well made terminal app that lets you create todo lists, jot down notes, and organise your tasks using boards.

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Ruby on Rails (RoR) is an open source web application framework, published under the MIT License. It is a server-side web application framework that follows the MVC (Model-View-Controller) concept.

Canonical has announced that the well-known web browser is now available as a Snap app in the Ubuntu Snap store.

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Moodle is a flexible and powerful free open source course management system and e-learning platform written in PHP and often deployed in Linux under Apache/Nginx web servers with PHP and MySQL/MariaDB database management system, also known as LAMP or LEMP stack.

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (part of GCHQ) has released a new report full of advice on how to improve the security of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.