today's howtos

• How to install Budgie desktop on Manjaro

  Budgie is an elegant and simplified desktop environment that integrates very well with Manjaro. Budgie is developed and maintained by the Solus team. This article will delve into the details of everything you need to know while installing the Budgie Desktop on Manjaro.

• How To Update Fedora Linux using terminal to apply updates - nixCraft

  I recently switched from Windows server to Fedora 32/33 server running in the cloud. How do I apply software updates and patches on Fedora 32/33 server using the terminal application? Fedora Linux uses dnf command. It is the next upcoming major version of yum command. Yum is a package manager for RPM-based Linux distributions such as CentOS/RHEL 7.x and older version of Fedora Linux. You need to use the dnf command to update Fedora Linux using terminal for latest software patches. This page explains how to update a Fedora Linux using the terminal.

• How to Turn Off Automatic Brightness on Ubuntu Linux

  Some new laptops come with built-in integrated light sensor. Operating systems use this sensor to measure the ambient light conditions and change the screen brightness automatically. This helps in reducing eye strain. You can see that this is a useful feature. But not everyone might like it all the time. For example, while watching Netflix on Linux at night, it reduces the screen brightness at the lowest for me. This makes the movie scene quite dull. This is one of the many cases when you probably would not want automatic brightness. Turning off automatic brightness on Ubuntu is quite simple. I’ll show that to you in this quick article. This tutorial is valid for GNOME desktop environment. The command line method should work for MATE desktop as well. If you are not certain, check which desktop environment you are using.

• MultiCD - A Shell Script to Combine Multiple Bootable ISO's into One CD

  If you’ve ever used a multiboot CD that contains different utilities or bootable ISOs then creating one for yourself would be amazing. In this article, we shall take a look at MultiCD.sh, a shell script that is designed to help you build a multiboot CD image that can contain different, small Linux distros and/or utilities. There are many advantages of using this script and they include among others; no need for different CDs for small Linux distributions or utilities, you can simply use ISO images that you already have without downloading them again and in case of new versions, simply download them and run the script again and build a new multiboot image.

• Linux Sponge - Soak Up Standard Input and Write to a File - Putorius

  The sponge command is part of the moreutils package. It is a utility that provides a function that is so simple it’s genius. It’s basic use is to soak up (get it? sponge..) standard input and write it to a file. The terminology “soak up” is more important than just creating a fun play on words. In this short tutorial we show you the sponge commands basic usage and why the term “soak up” is important.

Moving commits between independent git histories

PyPy is an alternative Python implementation. While it does replace a large part of the interpreter, a large part of the standard library is shared with CPython. As a result, PyPy is frequently affected by the same vulnerabilities as CPython, and we have to backport security fixes to it. Backporting security fixes inside CPython is relatively easy. All main Python branches are in a single repository, so it’s just a matter of cherry-picking the commits. Normally, you can easily move patches between two related git repositories using git-style patches but this isn’t going to work for two repositories with unrelated histories. Does this mean manually patching PyPy and rewriting commit messages by hand? Luckily, there’s a relatively simple git am trick that can help you avoid that.

today's howtos

• Learn How to Use Postman to Test APIs

  Anyone who creates APIs should also be testing APIs. One of the most popular ways to test APIs is to use Postman. Postman has over 10 million users worldwide. We've released a Postman crash course on the freeCodeCamp.org YouTube channel that will teach you everything you need to know to start easily testing your APIs. Valentin Despa created this course. Valentin is a developer educator who has been teaching software concepts for many years.

• How to find NetworkManager version on Linux - nixCraft

  How do I check or find NetworkManager version on Linux distribution? We can use the nmcli command line for controlling NetworkManager and reporting network status. Another option is to use the NetworkManager to print the version on Linux.

• [Older] Introduction to database normalization: the first three normal forms

  The table above, doesn’t satisfy the first normal form, why? For the first normal form to be satisfied, each column of a table must contain atomic (indivisible) data. In the second row of our table, which contains information about the “The Usual Suspects” movie, we can see that the genre column contains data which is not atomic. Two genres are actually listed: Thriller and Neo-noir. Let’s say in our representation we want to allow one movie to be associated with more than one genre; how do we solve the problem? The first thing that comes to mind may be to add a new row in the same table, repeating the information about the movie, and just specify one genre per raw. This idea is quite horrible, since we would have a lot of redundant data (we should repeat the same movie information each time we want to associate it with a new genre!). Another slightly better solution, would be to add a new column, so to have, for example, a genre1 and genre2 columns. This however would, among the other things, represent a limit: what if a movie should be listed under more than two genres?

• How To Install Atom Text Editor on Manjaro 20 [Ed: The problem is that it's controlled by Microsoft]

  In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Atom Text Editor on Manjaro 20. For those of you who didn’t know, Atom is a free and open-source text and source code editor for OS X, Linux, and Windows with support for plug-ins written in Node.js, and embedded Git Control, developed by GitHub. It supports more than 35+ programming languages by default. This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you through the step-by-step installation of Atom Text Editor on a Manjaro 20 (Nibia).

• Learning through breaking | Bryan Quigley

  I run Steam in a flatpak for convenience and confinment reasons. One day my Steam install failed with

Free Software Foundation awarded consulting project grant from Community Consulting Teams of Boston

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced the award of a pro bono management consulting project from Community Consulting Teams of Boston (CCT). The strategic need is an analysis and marketing plan focused on the FSF's diverse network of supporters worldwide. The project is anticipated to be completed this summer. As one of eight pro bono consulting project grants awarded by CCT in 2021, the FSF was chosen among Boston-area nonprofits based on its demonstrated need, organizational stability, and readiness to plan and implement change. CCT has awarded over 200 consulting grants to Boston-area nonprofits since its inception in 1990, providing an estimated $20 million value.