Thunderbird is a free email client developed by the Mozilla Foundation, the same foundation behind the well-known Firefox web browser. And Gmail needs no introduction: it’s the free email service offered by the giant Google. In this post, you'll see how to install Thunderbird and set it up to sync your Gmail messages.

The latest openSUSE Leap release, 15.1, has been made generally available this past Wednesday, May 22. Users of the previous release, 15.0, are now able to upgrade. If you are a newcome user and havent’t upgraded openSUSE yet, you are going to realize it is an easy and safe procedure. In this post, you are...

Today's release of the openSUSE Leap 15.1 brings professional users, entrepreneurs and Independent Software Vendors updated support for modern hardware. The release of Leap 15.1 improves YaST functionality and the installer. "Continuity and stability are what we are providing users with Leap 15.1", said Haris Sehic, a member of the openSUSE community. "With Leap 15,...

Here you will learn how to update the installed packages to retrieve new features, optimizations and fixes to your system.

Would you like to use a stylish desktop? Most people don’t mind using the default look provided by the Linux distribution, but some people take customization very seriously. The [GNOME] desktop with its essential-features-only design doesn’t seem to offer options to customize theming. But actually they are sort of hidden in the Tweaks app and...

Are you the kind of user who consumes high memory? Browser with many tabs open, IDE, virtual machine, the [Android] emulator are some examples of programs which can drain your computer resources. How to monitor resources to avoid a system crash? If you use the [GNOME] desktop, you can install the System Monitor extension. How...

Integrating your [Google] account to the [GNOME] desktop makes it more intelligent, productive and interesting, once you can have access to services like e-mail, calendar and files in the cloud straight from your desktop. Also, you can receive notifications from those services while using your computer. That integration is easy to setup, as you are...

Google Chromecast is a small device that, once connected to your Wi-Fi network and plugged into your TV’s HDMI port, allows you to stream video, music, web pages or even your computer’s or mobile device’s whole screen content to the TV. On Linux, you can use the Google Chrome web browser or its open equivalent,...

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Sometimes it is important to verify a downloaded file. Two common verifications that greatly reduce chances of using a corrupted or tampered file are the checksum and the digital signature. In this post, you are going to see how to do those verifications with sha256sum and gpg, two command-line utilities that come already installed on...