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Passwords. They're the bane of computer users and a necessary evil, but they have risks and challenges associated with them. None of the choices are great. If it's up to your memory, you'll end up using the same password again and again.

At Wallaroo Labs, where I'm the VP of engineering, we're are building a high-performance, distributed stream processor written in the Pony programming language. Most people haven't heard of Pony, but it has been an excellent choice for Wallaroo, and it might be an excellent choice for your next project, too. read more

Apache Tomcat is an open source Java Servlet implementation developed by the Apache Software Foundation. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and configure the Apache Tomcat 9.0.8 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver). We will also learn how to install Java on Ubuntu 18.04, configure a user for apache tomcat, and run the apache tomcat as a systemd service.

Matrix is a protocol for decentralized instant messaging that has recently grown in popularity. Matrix can be used for a wide range of communication tasks, such as group chats, video chats, sharing files, and bridging to existing IRC rooms. One of the easiest ways to use Matrix is the RiotIM web client or desktop application.

Claudia Garad is the Executive Director of Wikimedia Österreich, Wikipedia's Austrian chapter. Claudia will deliver Akademy's second keynote on Sunday, 12th of August. Claudia graciously met up with us (Ivana and Paul) to tell us all about her job, how the Wikipedia community works and the challenges it faces. This is what she told us.

News briefs for May 29, 2018.

Today on "Cooking with Linux without a Net", I cover (and install) @RocketChat , show you another Linux distribution you've never heard of (Nitrux Linux), and hunt rootkits and perform security audits. Oh, and I crash and burn too. Much fun was had, so watch and enjoy.

Last week, an article on Linux vs. Unix was our most popular read. See what else Opensource.com readers were into.

Shenzhen Xunlong’s open-spec, $25 “Orange Pi 3G-IOT” SBC runs Android 4.4 on a dual Cortex-A7 MediaTek MT6572, and supplies WiFi, BT, GPS, FM, and 3G, along with 40-pin GPIO. If you want a cellular connected hacker board, but don’t have access to or want 2G service and don’t have or can’t afford 4G LTE, Shenzhen Xunlong’s new Orange Pi 3G-IOT may be the “just right” compromise........

Looking inside a binary/executable file to grab human-readable strings isn't the kind of work that everybody does, but what if you are asked to do this? Opening the file in an editor, and manually looking for stuff isn't an elegant solution. So, what to do? Yes, you guessed it right - there exists a command line utility that does this for you.

This article is part of a Go series by Mihalis Tsoukalos. Read part 1: Creating random, secure passwords in Go. read more

In this tutorial, we'll learn how to protect your ONLYOFFICE portal with HTTPS using Let's Encrypt, and with two-factor authentication using Twilio service. ONLYOFFICE is an open-source solution that combines powerful online document editors for text documents, spreadsheets and presentations, as well as broad productivity features.

In the first article of this series on using Ansible to configure a workstation, we set up a repository and configured a few basic things. In the second part, we automated Ansible to apply settings automatically when changes are made to our repository. In the third (and final) article in this series, learn how to automate GNOME configuration changes with Ansible.

The tremendous growth of the machine learning field has been driven by the availability of open source tools that allow developers to build applications easily. (For example, AndreyBu, who is from Germany and has more than five years of experience in machine learning, has been utilizing various open source frameworks to build captivating machine learning projects.)

Protect yourself from privacy-defeating ad trackers and malicious JavaScript with these privacy-protecting plugins.

IT organizations strive to deliver business value by increasing productivity and delivering services faster while remaining flexible enough to incorporate innovations like cloud, containers, and configuration automation. Modern workloads, whether they run on bare metal, virtual machines, containers, or private or public clouds, are expected to be portable and scalable. Supporting all this requires a modern, secure platform. read more

As readers may be aware, Fedora 28 recently released to great acclaim. That means Fedora 26 hits its End of Life (EOL) status on June 1, 2018. Read more here about what this means, and what steps you can take with your older Fedora systems. After June 1, packages in the Fedora 26 repositories no […]

CMS Made Simple is a free and open source content management system written in PHP and uses MySQL to store their data. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install CMS Made Simple on Ubuntu 18.04.

All the attention geographical information systems (GIS) have gotten in recent years may make you think they are something new. In fact, geospatial data helped play a major role more than 160 years ago in identifying the source of the deadly London cholera outbreak of 1854. Dr. John Snow, a local physician, suspected that contaminated drinking water was the source of the disease. read more

KDE Connect developers gathered in Verse's offices in Barcelona to work together for a weekend... it was very productive! ... the work carried out there has already started to trickle down into our devices.