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In the world of modern enterprise technologies, open source software has firmly established itself as one of the biggest forces to reckon with. After all, some of the biggest technology developments have emerged because of the open source movement. read more

There seems to be a mad rush at the beginning of every year to find ways to be more productive. New Year's resolutions, the itch to start the year off right, and of course, an "out with the old, in with the new" attitude all contribute to this. And the usual round of recommendations is heavily biased towards closed source and proprietary software. It doesn't have to be that way. Here's the fourth of my picks for 19 new (or new-to-you) open source tools to help you be more productive in 2019. read more

The more digital we become, the less human we remain.

News briefs for January 15, 2019.

ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors is the free open-source office suite distributed under GNU AGPL v.3.0. In this tutorial, we'll learn how to easily connect ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors to your Nextcloud instance.

Lucky few get Chocolate Factory's endorsement as Enterprise Mobility Management Google is extending its Android Enterprise Recommended program to mobile device management.…

Let's face it: writing one-liners and scripts using shell commands can be confusing. Many of the names of the tools at your disposal are far from obvious in terms of what they do (grep, tee and awk, anyone?) and, when you combine two or more, the resulting "sentence" looks like some kind of alien gobbledygook.

For the last three years Firefox has invested heavily in innovation, and our users have been an essential part of this journey. Through the Test Pilot Program, Firefox users have …

Craft is an open source CMS written in PHP which allows you to easily create and manage great-looking content, and to design and build exactly what you need. This tutorial will walk you through the Craft CMS installation procedure on a fresh CentOS system using Nginx as the web server and we will secure the website with a Let's encrypt SSL certificate.

After seven years, Metasploit Framework, the popular open-source hacking and security tool, has been given a major update.

There seems to be a mad rush at the beginning of every year to find ways to be more productive. New Year's resolutions, the itch to start the year off right, and of course, an "out with the old, in with the new" attitude all contribute to this. And the usual round of recommendations is heavily biased towards closed source and proprietary software. It doesn't have to be that way. Here's the third of my picks for 19 new (or new-to-you) open source tools to help you be more productive in 2019. read more

Groboard has unveiled a tiny, Adafruit Feather form-factor “Giant Board” SBC that runs Linux on Microchip’s SiP implementation of its Cortex-A5-based SAMA5D SoC and offers 128MB RAM, micro-USB, microSD and I/O including ADC and PWM. Groboard has posted specs for a 51 x 23mm SBC based on a Microchip System-In-Package (SiP) module equipped with the […]

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In my last two articles, I introduced pytest, a library for testing Python code (see "Testing Your Code with Python's pytest" Part I and Part II). pytest has become quite popular, in no small part because it's so easy to write tests and integrate those tests into your software development process. I've become a big fan, mostly because after years of saying I should get better about testing my software, pytest finally has made it possible.

News briefs for January 14, 2019.

There seems to be a mad rush at the beginning of every year to find ways to be more productive. New Year's resolutions, the itch to start the year off right, and of course, an "out with the old, in with the new" attitude all contribute to this. And the usual round of recommendations is heavily biased towards closed source and proprietary software. It doesn't have to be that way. Here's the second of my picks for 19 new (or new-to-you) open source tools to help you be more productive in 2019. read more

The kernel team is working on final integration for kernel 4.20. This version was just recently released, and will arrive soon in Fedora. This version has many security fixes included. As a result, the Fedora kernel and QA teams have organized a test day for Tuesday, January 15, 2019. Refer to the wiki page for links to the […]

One significant limitation of the netboot server that we have built in this series is that the operating system image being served is read-only. Some use cases may require that the end user be able to modify the image. For example, an instructor may want to have the students install and configure software packages like […]

PriTunl is a fantastic VPN terminator solution that's perfect for small businesses and individuals who want a quick and simple way to access their network privately. It's open source, and the basic free version is more than enough to get you started and cover most simple use cases. There is also a paid enterprise version with advanced features like Active Directory integration. read more

SEO Panel is a free and open source SEO control panel application that can be used for managing search engine optimization of your websites. In this tutorial, we will be going to install Seo Panel on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.