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CodeIgniter is a free, open source and powerful PHP framework with a very small footprint. It is specially built for developers who need a simple and elegant toolkit to create full-featured web applications. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install CodeIgniter in Ubuntu 18.04 server.

I am very fond of combining both VPN and Firejail on my travel laptop (where I cannot use QubesOS), but I have recently discovered that I was leaving myself exposed to online tracking via so-called “WebRTC leaks.”

I want to start a series of articles where I discuss my road to the RHCA. I plan to discuss my challenges (right now, sometimes saying on target and focused can be difficult with all the other stuff life brings, but I have set my goals, which I plan to cover in my next article), and I also hopefully will highlight others who are particularly unrepresented but who have taken the plunge to become Red Hat-certified as well.

Red Hat Summit is the annual conference where Red Hat comes together with its customers, partners, and key communities. It all starts tomorrow, and the Fedora Community will be out in force. Fedora & CentOS booth One of the main features of the Partner Pavilion at summit is the gigantic Community Central area. Anchoring that […]

Zui Dighe has the type of resume that makes you question what you’ve been doing with your life. It’s only her third undergraduate year at Duke University, and she has already worked with numerous startups, helped create an open source medical device that won an international award, and succeeded in multiple internships with companies large and small. read more

Dana Lewis is the 2018 Women in Open Source Community Award winner! Here is her story about how open source improved her health in a big way.  Dana has Type 1 diabetes and commercially available medical devices were failing her. The continuous glucose monitor (CGM) alarm she was using to manage her blood sugar was not loud enough to wake her up. The product design put her in danger every time she went to sleep. read more

News briefs for May 7, 2018.

Opensource.com brought in 823,621 unique visitors, a new all-time record, who generated 1,323,446 page views in April, also a new all-time record. We published 96 articles this month, and welcomed 28 new authors. Almost 65% of our content was contributed by members of the open source community, and our community moderators contributed 26 articles.

Our hottest articles last week included contributions from PyCon and Red Hat Summit speakers. Read on to see what was most popular on Opensource.com the week of April 30-May 6.

Beginning of the end for Win-only .NET Framework? Build At its Build developer event under way in Seattle, Microsoft announced .NET Core 3.0, coming in 2019, with support for Windows desktop applications.…

As a novice software developer, the one thing I look for when choosing a programming language is this: is there a library that allows me to interface with the system to accomplish a task? If Python didn't have Flask, I might choose a different language to write a web application. For this same reason, I've begun to develop many, admittedly small, applications with Bash....

I’m excited to announce that Chris Lin is joining us today as our new Vice President of IT. Chris will work closely with me to scale our impact and optimize...

your service is still not much better than running the server directly. Let's jazz it up a bit by having it send out emails to the players, alerting them when the server becomes available and warning them when it is about to be turned off...

If you are new to Linux system administration, you should be aware of tools that help you in user management. One such utility is w, which shows info about users that are currently logged in to a system, including what they are doing. In this article, we will discuss this tool using some easy to understand examples.

Lanner’s Linux-friendly V3 Series of Apollo Lake based in-vehicle computers includes V3G and V3S models with -40 to 70°C and MIL-STD-810G ruggedization. The V3S adds a third mini-PCIe slot and 4x PoE-ready GbE ports for IP cameras. Lanner has launched the first two models in a rugged new V3 Series of “vehicle gateway controllers.” The […]

Several years ago, Pat David, an engineer, a photographer, and a member of the GIMP team, realized there was no central place for people interested in photography to learn about free and open source creative software and methods. He was also unhappy to see that most of the open source photography tutorials didn't measure up to his quality standards.

I recently asked our writer community to share with us what they're reading. These folks come from all different walks of life and roles in tech. What they have in common is that they are living and breathing Linux and open source every day. Drink in this fantastic list. Many of them are free and available to download.

As I mentioned in my original article on Firefox extensions, the web browser has become a critical component of the computing experience for many users. Modern browsers have evolved into powerful and extensible platforms, and extensions can add or modify their functionality. Extensions for Firefox are built using the WebExtensions API, a cross-browser development system.

Crowdfunding is a big discussion topic in the world of people who create things. In particular, subscription-based patronage models have been growing in popularity over the last few years. And it's not just for artists and other creatives. Open source development has started adopting this model with growing success.

What is Modularity? A classic conundrum that all open-source distributions have faced is the “too fast/too slow” problem. Users install an operating system in order to enable the use of their applications. A comprehensive distribution like Fedora has an advantage and a disadvantage to the large amount of available software.