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TaskBoard is a free and open-source Kanban application used to keep track of things that need to get done. In this tutorial, I will show you how to install Taskboard on Debian 11.

Also: AI is near the 'trough of disillusionment'. Gartner analyst Milind Govekar believes that application development is moving to "low code or no code," and software development shifting to "assembly and integration."…

The mainframe is a foundational technology that has powered industries for decades, including government, financial, healthcare, and transportation. With the help of surrounding communities, the technologies built around this platform have paved the way for the emergence of a new set of technologies we see deployed today. Notably, […]

TDE releases 14.0.11 and LXQt hits 1.0. There are loads of Linux desktops to choose from, but the majority use some version of GNOME's Gtk. Only a handful favour the Qt toolkit, and two of them just released new versions.…

Both released with new features and better performance. Microsoft has released .NET 6.0 with long-term support, and Visual Studio 2022, its all-purpose Windows IDE.…

I am excited to announce that Eric Muhlheim has joined Mozilla Corporation as our Chief Financial Officer (CFO). As our CFO Eric will be a key member of our steering committee reporting to me. He will lead our continued strategy to scale our mission impact by growing and diversifying our revenue through new investments, product […]

Finding the hardware hard to come by? The software is just a download away. It's been a while, but the Raspberry Pi OS has had a major version bump, taking this flavour of Linux for the diminutive computer to Debian Bullseye.…

Tekton is a Kubernetes-native open source framework for creating continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) systems. It also helps to do end-to-end (build, test, deploy) application development across multiple cloud providers or on-premises systems by abstracting away the underlying implementation details.

JavaScript is a language developed for the web, but its usefulness has gone far beyond just the Internet. Thanks to projects like Node.js and Electron, JavaScript is as much a general-purpose scripting language as a browser component. There are JavaScript libraries specially designed to build command-line interfaces. Yes, you can run JavaScript in your terminal.

Solar photovoltaic technology, which converts sunlight directly into electricity, has fallen in cost so far that it is now the most inexpensive method of getting electricity, period. If you have any money in the bank and own your home or business, consider investing in solar power for yourself now, as you can do some good for the planet and your wallet simultaneously.

Memcached is an open-source and distributed memory object caching system that holds the most frequently queried data in memory. In this tutorial, I will show you how to install Memcached on Debian 11.

In this article we will see the steps to implement a simple CI/CD  pipeline using  Jenkins. We will be using a sample Java Code and we will be deploying that code onto Apache Tomcat Web-Server as a .war file.

Cruft removed to improve performance. Version 13 of the Google-sponsored Angular JavaScript framework is here and the old View Engine renderer is gone, as is IE11 support, making Angular faster and smaller.…

MariaDB is a robust, scalable, and reliable SQL server. It is an enhanced, drop-in replacement for the MySQL relational database management system. In this guide, I will show you how to install and secure MariaDB on Debian 11.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (shortened to RHEL) 8.4 is now available for the Linux customers. RHEL 8.4 has various updates and enhancements for developers, designers, and production teams. So now you can download the latest version from Red Hat’s official site.  But before downloading RHEL 8.4 you might want to have a sneak peek at all the new features offered by this model. This article will explain that and then will take you through the upgrade procedure using the dnf command-line option.

Python is a popular language for many applications. Those that run as backend services, now in the 2020s, are often run inside containers. For that to work, though, you have to build a container. Often, with microservice architectures, it makes sense to build a "root" base image, which all of your services get built on. Most of this article focuses on that base image since this is where it is easiest to make mistakes. However, I also cover the applications themselves because a good base without good applications isn't of much use. read more

Netdata is an open-source web-based real-time Linux system performance and health monitoring system. in this tutorial, I will show you how to install Netdata on Debian 11.

This article will show you how to backup and restore an Elasticsearch cluster on Ubuntu Linux. A shared NFS directory is used as storage for the backup.

Also SMB3 server in the kernel, and new DAMON memory monitor. Linus Torvalds released version 5.15 of the Linux kernel yesterday with a new NTFS driver, an SMB3 server and an advanced memory monitor among the features. 5.15 is likely to be an LTS release unless 5.16 squeezes in before year end.…

Here we go! Fedora Linux 35 is now officially released. I know I say it every time, but: this is a good one! You'll want to get it (or upgrade) right away.