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In 2021, there are more reasons why people love Linux than ever before. In this series, I'll share 21 different reasons to use Linux. The ability to choose your own terminal is a big reason to use Linux. Many people think once you've used one terminal interface, you've used them all. But users who love the terminal know there are minor but important differences between them. This article looks at three of my favorites.

After being in development for more than a year and a half, the Mageia 8 operating system is now officially released as a major update to this distro forked from Mandriva Linux.

"I want to contribute to Kubernetes, but I don't know where to start." I have heard (and even said) versions of this sentiment many times since Kubernetes started gaining influence. So, over the last year, I've spent time contributing to the project, and I've found it worth every minute. I've discovered that Kubernetes is a project with the right scale for anyone to make an impact in whatever time they have available in their schedule. For me, that was just four hours a week. No more, no less.

OpenWeather is an app that offers a simple way to access the latest weather forecast from your Android device. The software aggregates meteorological data from tens of thousands of weather stations, on-ground radars and satellites.

ERPNext is a completely robust ERP framework intended for small and medium-sized businesses. It covers an extensive variety of features, including accounting, CRM, inventory, selling, purchasing, manufacturing, projects, HR and payroll, website, e-commerce, and more – all of which make it profoundly adaptable and extendable.

FreeDOS is an open source implementation of DOS. It's not a remix of Linux, and it is compatible with the operating system that introduced many people to personal computing. This makes it an important resource for running legacy applications, playing retro games, updating firmware on motherboards, and experiencing a little bit of living computer history. In this article, I'll look at some of the essential commands used to navigate a FreeDOS system.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to change the MAC address of a network card using two different methods and how to verify that new MAC address.

PowerShell is a task-based configuration tool of the Windows operating system which is also available for Linux. It is a very powerful tool used to automate system administrator tasks.

This tutorial explains different ways to find and list all groups and list the members of a group in Linux and Unix-like operating systems.

Specialist databases will still be necessary, analyst says. EDB, a prominant backer of the PostgreSQL open-source database, expects to focus on graph, JSON, and time-series data in the upcoming autumn release. Analysts, however, are sceptical about its ability to optimise for different data models ahead of built for purpose databases.…

Some CentOS users still aren't happy, but Red Hat is keeping its promise to open-source organizations that they'll have access to a free version of RHEL.

This brief guide describes how to find number CPU cores from command line in Linux and other Unix-like operating systems.

Xubuntu technical lead and Xfce core developer Sean Davis shares today a progress update for the upcoming Xubuntu 21.04 operating system, due for release in late April 2021.

The Khronos Group and the European Machine Vision Association have formed an Embedded Camera API Exploratory Group to explore open, royalty-free API standards for controlling embedded cameras and sensors. Beaverton, Oregon based The Khronos Group, known for graphic standards such as OpenGL and Vulkan, has announced a collaboration with the European Machine Vision Association to […]

This tutorial shows step-by-step how a root user or user with sudo priveliges is able to change the sudo password on centOS 8.

Apache Guacamole is a free, open-source, web-based and clientless remote desktop application that supports standard protocols like VNC, RDP, and SSH. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install the Guacamole server on CentOS 8.

The Blender Foundation released today Blender 2.92 as a major release to this open-source and cross-platform 3D computer graphics software used for creating 3D and printed models, visual effects, animated films, motion graphics, and computer games.

Everything you do in the open source FreeDOS operating system is done from the command line. The command line begins with a prompt, which is the computer's way of saying, "I'm ready. Give me something to do." You can configure your prompt's appearance, but by default, it's: read more

In this guide you are going to learn how install specific version of Node.js using NVM - Node.js Version Manager

Google Creative Lab’s Alto project tasks the Coral USB Accelerator and Raspberry Pi Zero SBC to implement easy-to-understand machine learning using an open-source mini robot that you build yourself. Google Creative Lab has unveiled a project called Alto. Alto by Google Creative Lab is a “teachable object using the Coral USB Accelerator.” “ALTO” stands for […]