This is the part 2 of our trilogy of posts about [VirtualBox]! You are going to see how to install it on [Linux]. I focused on the most popular distributions, but if you don’t use any of them, in the end you will find generic instructions, which should work on most Linux systems.

VirtualBox allows you to use Linux within a window, just like you use any other app on your familiar operating system. Do you want to use Linux? Just start it. Finished using? Just close it. That is handy because you can have your first contact with Linux without actually installing it. It is even handier...

Raspberry Pi is a low-cost, credit-card sized, single-board computer developed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation, a UK-based charity that aims to facilitate and promote teaching of basic computer science and digital inclusion. It is possible to install Linux on Raspberry Pi and use it as a desktop for everyday tasks – surfing the Internet, editing...

Today you are going to see how to set up the Google Chrome web browser to use digital certificates stored on criptographic media, such as smart cards or tokens. Same instructions for Chrome apply to its open source base Chromium. To test your setup, you are going to log in to a smart card enabled...

The Linux Kamarada Project announces the first release of the homonym Linux distribution, which enters beta phase and is now available for download.The Linux Kamarada Project was born from my desire to show people “Linux as I see it”: an operating system suitable for everyday use at home and at work. So I started writing...

You connected your laptop to a projector. Now, you want to play a video fullscreen on the projector, but keeping playback controls on your laptop. Here you are going to see how you can achieve that using the VLC media player.In the post about 20 apps you can use the same way on both Linux...

Relive your childhood playing classic games of the 90s!

This post is the second of two presenting 20 apps which are available for both Linux and Windows, with a bonus at the end: I present some well-known services which can be used directly from a web browser, without installing any app. Those services also work the same way on both Windows and Linux.

Maybe you don't give Linux a chance because you are afraid of not knowing how to use the system, or of not finding the applications you use everyday. What if I tell you that that there are at least 20 popular Windows apps which can be used the same way also on Linux, a free...

Today’s post is for developers. If you use the Git version control system with a service such as GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket to host and manage your projects source codes, you know that by default Git connects to remotes using the HTTPS protocol, which requires you to enter username and password every time you run...