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Linus Torvalds: It's been two weeks, and the merge window is over, and Linux 5.3-rc1 is tagged and pushed out.

EnterpriseStorageForum: Phase Change Memory is an emerging area of technology that offers the promise of faster speed and increased durability over existing Flash storage devices.

Learn how you can install the command line utility Jpegoptim on Ubuntu.

Three ways to automatically disable Touchpad when typing in Ubuntu operating system and its variants like Linux Mint.

Maestral is a new open source Dropbox client for macOS and Linux, that's currently in beta.

GLava is an OpenGL audio spectrum visualizer for Linux.

Git Stash allows us to keep aside the current working directory & provides us with a clean working directory.

LinuxJournal: Often, a kernel developer will try to reduce the size of an attack surface against Linux, even if it can't be closed entirely.

As a Linux administrator, you must periodically check which files and folders are consuming more disk space.

Learn to install the WordPress Command Line Interface (WP-CLI) on Linux.

 MakeTechEasier: Snap applications are not available for Arch Linux by default

Phoronix: The latest openSUSE Tumbleweed release is using Link-Time Optimizations (LTO) by default.

Linux Mint 19.2 is a long term support release which will be supported until 2023. I

Swap is a space on a disk that is used when the amount of physical memory is full.

Using a checksum utilities to for file integrity checking is an important part of keeping a secure system.

The software IBM unveiled this morning is called Kabanero.

Learn how you can install the Conky utility and the Conky Manager application through the Ubuntu command line.

Zorin OS 15 was launched early June, and among the changes is a new theme for its Gnome (Shell) desktop

Snap packages are set to refresh (update) 4 times per day by default

MakeTechEasier: Foliate is an open source eBook reader for Linux.

 The sort command in Linux is used for sorting the contents of the text files.

ostechnix: Learn about four unofficial google drive clients to mount Google drive locally as a virtual file system in Linux.

TechRepublic: AWS Firecracker is great open source technology, but the best indication of its open source success is what Weaveworks built on top of it.

Phoronix: Thanks to the upstream work achieved by Red Hat engineers working on Fedora the past few cycles, Ubuntu 19.10 should have a flicker-free boot experience.

 Learn how you can change the font and font size of the text in Ubuntu Terminal through the Terminal itself.

RcloneTray is a GUI for Rclone, the "rsync for cloud storage" command line tool

 LinuxUprising: VirtualBox 6.0.10 was released today, and while this is a maintenance release, with mostly bug fixes, it does come with an important addition

Promotions are great, but blindly taking just any promotion can lead to misery.

Fedora CoreOS is built to be the secure and reliable host for your compute clusters.

In this guide, we will describe what character encoding and cover a few examples of converting files from one character encoding to another using a command line tool.

 Learn about Appimage a portable app format for Linux.

Datamation: Learn what capabilities are available in modern cloud-based project management tools and identify which one might be the right fit for your business.

Phoronix: With the in-development Linux 5.3 kernel is now support for Intel Speed Select Technology (SST) that was introduced as part of Cascade Lake processors

There are many ways to set a hostname.

ostechnix: This brief guide explains how to enable minimize on click feature for Dock icons on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS desktop system.

If you're using a growing number of microservices, service mesh tools can help you automate as you scale.

 EnterprisersProject: What is deep learning? How does it work?

 LinuxUprising: cheat.sh provides access to community-driven cheat sheets and snippets for Linux/UNIX commands and many programming languages, using various interfaces.

The Linux platform has matured into an excellent way of listening to streaming music services.