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Like open source, innersource is all about being transparent and collaborative. This usually leads to a sense of belonging that favors employee happiness if done right. Regardless of org charts, geographies, or expertise levels, innersource creates an inclusive environment where employees contribute and collaborate in the open and learn from one another.

Jellyfin is a free and open-source media streaming solution that allows you to host your own media server. In this tutorial, we will explain how to install and set up a media server with Jellyfin on Ubuntu 20.04.

In the previous article in this series, we looked at how to get started with Fedora Flatpaks and how to use it. This article compares and contrasts between the Fedora Flatpaks remote and the Flathub remote. Flathub is the de-facto standard Flatpak remote, whereas Fedora Flatpaks is the Fedora Project’s Flatpak remote. The things that differ between the remotes include but are not limited to their policies, their ways of distribution, and their implementation.

Devs and maintainers getting paid – but not to concentrate on security. Open-source software has always been more secure than proprietary software, but that doesn't mean it's "secure." To lock it down, we need to invest serious cash in developers and maintainers.

Sometimes the process to delete Kubernetes namespaces gets hung up, and the command never completes. Here's how to troubleshoot terminating namespaces.

If, like me, you were a computer-science graduate student who cut your teeth on Berkeley Unix – complete with the first open-source implementation of TCP/IP – you know Section 8 as the cryptic System Maintenance Commands section of the Unix User's Manual.

Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is a desktop sharing protocol that allows you to control a computer remotely using the VNC client software. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install a VNC server on the Debian 11 Bullseye. This tutorial uses TigerVNC packages to enable the VNC server and we will secure the VNC connection using an SSH tunnel.

You’ve switched on your computer, preparing to do some work, edit a document, mix a composition, or just play a game... but something goes wrong. Ubuntu won't boot. Sadly, as reliable as Linux is in general, and as popular as Ubuntu is, sometimes it runs into problems, just like Windows 10 or macOS. In most cases, you'll be able to work around this. Whether you're using Ubuntu desktop or Ubuntu Server, here’s what to do if Ubuntu doesn’t boot.

January 2022 was another excellent month for Enable Sysadmin. During the month, we published 23 new articles and received nearly 798,000 reads from more than 505,000 readers across the site.

While Linux distributions tend to make great servers, you may be wondering if Arch Linux would be a good choice for a server, given its rolling-release nature. It could be if you wanted to, with some caveats.

Generally, you consider it a good thing when people want to use your application. However, when the application runs on a server, there's a cost for popularity. With users come increased demands on resources, and at some point, you may find that you need to scale your app. One option is to throw more servers at the problem, establish a load balancer like Nginx, and let the demand sort itself out.

The ability to write code is a huge differentiator for every job role in an enterprise Linux environment. As an Operations and DevOps manager, I was constantly challenged to improve my team’s programming skills, and the team genuinely wanted to be more proficient. But how?

Google Pagespeed Module is an open-source module for optimizing your websites under the Nginx and Apache web-server. In this tutorial, we will show you how to build the Nginx Pagespeed module on the latest Debian 11 Bullseye.

Ever started using a new computer, by choice or because the old one let the magic smoke out, and got frustrated at how long it took to get everything just right? Even worse, ever spent some time reconfiguring your shell prompt, then realizing you liked it better before?

Keeping your images current is standard procedure for operating and managing a containerized environment. Here's how to do it.

Setting up a Raspberry Pi board has always required a second computer, which is used to flash your operating system of choice to an SD card so your Pi can boot. But the Pi Foundation is working on a new version of its bootloader that could connect an OS-less Pi board directly to the Internet, allowing it to download and install the official Raspberry Pi OS to a blank SD card without requiring another computer.

PHP Composer is the most used dependency manager for PHP. It lets you declare the dependencies your project needs, and it will manage (install/update) them for you.

RISC-V International, the global open hardware standards organization, has announced that Intel has joined RISC-V at the Premier membership level. Let that sink in for a minute. Intel, which has made billions from its closed-source, complex instruction set computer (CISC) x86 processors, is joining forces with RISC-V, the open-source reduced instruction set computer (RISC) CPU group. What next? Dogs and cats living together!?

There has been a multi-year effort to overhaul the Linux kernel's printk() code and as part of that the newest patch series out is providing threaded console printing support. This threaded console printing support is fulfilling plans drafted back in 2019 to create a kernel thread for each registered console and making console printing completely decoupled from printk() callers.

What happens when a senior engineer at Red Hat, a member of the Lutris development team, and the creator of Proton-GE decides to create a Linux distribution? Well, the aforementioned titles belong to the same person, Thomas Crider (aka "Glorious Eggroll). And what you get is the promising Nobara Project, a distro powered by Fedora and targeted squarely at gamers and content creators.