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From the early days of Linux, I was a fan of this innovative, open-source Operating System (OS). I appreciated it as a hobbyist, helping me run Linux at home. I appreciated it as an educator, helping my computer engineering students walk with […]

A detailed list of the best Linux distros that use KDE Plasma Desktop. Screenshots, pros and cons, their features, and more.

Apache Kafka is a distributed data store for processing streaming data in real time. In this tutorial, we will install Apache Kafka on the Rocky Linux server and learn the basic usage of Kafka as a message broker for streaming data via the Kafka plugin.

Where do people come together to make cutting-edge invention and innovation happen? One possible answer is the corporate research lab. More long-term focused than most company product development efforts, corporate labs have a long history, going back to Thomas Edison's Menlo Park laboratory in New Jersey. Perhaps most famous is Bell Labs' invention of the transistor—although software folks may associate it more with Unix and the C programming language.

Powered by Linux kernel 6.0, the just-released Fedora 37 gives its users the latest GNOME 43 and Raspberry Pi 4 support.

The previous two articles in this series looked at open source community health and the metrics used to understand it. They showed examples of how open source communities have measured at their health through metrics. This final article brings those ideas together, discussing the challenges of implementing community health metrics for your own community.

DebugPoint Weekly Roundup #22.13: AlmaLinux 8.7, sed new release, Deepin 23 Alpha, Thunderbird "Supernova" updates + More.

Today I’m excited to share the results of the hard work of thousands of Fedora Project contributors: the Fedora Linux 37 release is here! Let’s see what the latest release brings you. As always, you should make sure your system is fully up-to-date before upgrading from a previous release. Can’t wait to get started? Download […]

Kooha is billed as a simple GTK-based app to “elegantly record your screen”. It’s free and open source software written in the Rust programming language.

Odoo (formerly known as OpenERP) is a self-hosted suite of over 10,000 open Odoo is a free and open-source ERP solution for multiple types of businesses. In this tutorial, we will the Odoo open-source ERP on the Ubuntu 22.04 server.

UK-based Linux hardware vendor Star Labs announced today that its long-anticipated StarFighter Linux laptop is now available to order, surprising us with two display options including one with a 4K screen.

A list of five free and opensource application which are truly notepad++ replacement in Ubuntu and other Linux distros.

Even people who are very online can use some help navigating the internet – from keeping credit card details safe when online shopping to generating a password when one simply doesn’t have any more passwords in them. Using Firefox as your main browser helps take care of that. Want to level up? With a Firefox […]

A list of 10 things that you can perform after installing Fedora 37 Workstation Edition. A curated list just for you of this release.

The Fedora Project released today the final version of the Fedora Linux 37 distribution, a major update to this Red Hat-sponsored distro that comes with some of the latest and greatest GNU/Linux technologies.

One of the advantages of working in a terminal is that it's faster than most other interfaces. Thanks to the GNU Readline library and the built-in syntax of shells like Bash and Zsh, there are several ways to make your interactions with the command line even faster. Here are five ways to make the most of your time in the terminal.

In this tutorial, we are going to show you how to install and configure Elasticsearch on Ubuntu 22.04. Elasticsearch is a search engine based on the Lucene library. It is distributed, scalable, and open-source software used to store the collected data. On a daily basis, the administrators use elasticsearch because it has many features such as high availability, various sets of APIs, support for more than one index, native Java API, and many more.

Bruce Byfield and Jean Hollis Weber announce the second edition of Designing with LibreOffice. The book is available as an .ODT or .PDF file under the Creative Commons Attribution/Sharealike License version 4.0 or later.

Rudra Saraswat, the maintainer of the official Ubuntu Unity flavor has released today a new tool that lets you install the latest version of the Unity7 desktop environment on your Arch Linux computer.

Django is a python framework used for developing dynamic websites and applications. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install the Django framework on a Ubuntu 22.04 server.