How to Use the Linux Zip Command to Compress and Uncompress Files Quickly
In the world of Unix-based operating systems like Linux, file packaging and compression utilities play a…
Mastering Text Manipulation With the Sed Command
The Linux command line interface provides a wealth of tools for text processing, and one of…
The Community Platform Engineering F2F 2023 Experience – Part II
20 Mar 2023 – 23 Mar 2023 – Barcelona, Spain Intro If you have not already…
The Power of the Select Command to Automate Tasks in Bash
Introduction The select command in Linux is a versatile tool primarily used for menu creation in…
GNOME Core Apps Update
It’s been a while since my big core app reorganization for GNOME 3.22. Here is a…
WebKitGTK API for GTK 4 Is Now Stable
With the release of WebKitGTK 2.40.0, WebKitGTK now finally provides a stable API and ABI for…
Update from the world of Fedora Workstation
Let me start by saying that I now also have a Mastodon account, so please follow…
Stop Using QtWebKit
Today, WebKit in Linux operating systems is much more secure than it used to be. The…
Common GLib Programming Errors, Part Two: Weak Pointers
This post is a sequel to Common GLib Programming Errors, where I covered four common errors:…
Common GLib Programming Errors
Let’s examine four mistakes to avoid when writing programs that use GLib, or, alternatively, four mistakes…
Best Practices for Build Options
Build options are sometimes tricky to get right. Here’s my take on best practices. The golden…
How to get your application to show up in GNOME Software
Written by Richard Hughes and Christian F.K. Schaller This blog post is based on a white…
Why the open source driver release from NVIDIA is so important for Linux?
BackgroundToday NVIDIA announced that they are releasing an open source kernel driver for their GPUs, so…
Why is Kopper and Zink important? AKA the future of OpenGL
Since Kopper got merged today upstream I wanted to write a little about it as I…