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As part of my role as a senior product marketing manager at an enterprise software company with an open source development model, I publish a regular update about open source community, market, and industry trends for product marketers, managers, and other influencers. Here are five of my and their favorite articles from that update.

The lightweight Linux distribution 4MLinux released the latest stable version 33 with new features and latest app updates.

It's been almost two years since I switched from Mac to Linux. I used Apple for about 15 years before my move and was a complete Linux newbie when I installed my first distribution in summer 2018.

Are you worried about online privacy? Protect your privacy by turning your Raspberry Pi into a simple Tor proxy server for your home network.

Language matters, yet replacing 'blacklist' with 'blocklist' creates problems when you're listing blocks. GitHub will scrub the term "master" from its services in response to protests about ingrained racism.…

Linus Torvalds has kicked off the development cycle of the upcoming Linux kernel 5.8, which he dubbed it as one of the "biggest release of all time".

Ralph is a free, open-source, simple and powerful Asset Management, DCIM and CMDB system for data center and back office. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Ralph Asset Management System with Docker on Ubuntu 20.04.

Growing up in Silicon Valley, Nuritzi Sanchez saw the powerful impact software can make on the world. Yet, unlike many others who were also steeped in the tech industry, her journey has taken her into the world of open source, where she is contributing to that impact.

Java is the most widely used programming language. It can be used to create server and desktop applications and Java runs on almost all operating systems like Mac OS, Windows, and Linux. This article will show the installation of Java 8 and Java 11 JDK and JRE on Ubuntu 20.04 using the terminal and how to switch between these two versions.

Here’s our recommended GNOME shell extensions. Most of the extensions are not officially supported by GNOME. But they all take the desktop to the next level, either by adding useful functionality, improving your workflow, or simply offering a touch of panache to the desktop. All the extensions all compatible with the latest release of GNOME. Naturally there’s only open source goodness on offer.

PDF Mix Tool is a simple, lightweight open-source PDF editing application that lets you extract pages from PDF, merge two PDFs, delete pages from PDF files among a few other things.

The open-source, free and cross-platform FFmpeg 4.3 multimedia framework has been released as a major update bringing lots of new features and filters.

Bash has a rich history. That is, it's an old shell with an even older ancestor (the Bourne shell), but it also has a great history command that surpasses all other shell history interfaces based on its number of features. The Bash version of history allows for reverse searches, quick recall, rewriting history, and more. read more

Microsoft’s strategy of hijacking the Free software movement wasn’t a reflex and didn’t come about overnight; the people behind it and their thinking (as shared openly for the media to publish) reveal the true motivation, the real agenda

KDE Plasma 5.20 which is scheduled to be released later this year, just announced a new taskbar feature for this gorgeous desktop.

The latest Intel CrossTalk vulnerability is now patched in Debian GNU/Linux, CentOS Linux, as well as Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems.

GitBucket is an open-source Git web platform powered by Scala. It provides a Github-like user interface features such as Git repository hosting via HTTP and SSH, issues, wiki, repository viewer, and pull requests.

Try this method of using an OCI runtime hook for tracing syscalls before you build a container.

The CentOS community announced today the general availability of the CentOS Linux 8.2 operating system as the current stable release of the CentOS Linux 8 series, tagged as “2004.”

This quick article helps users learn how to create an user without a password on Linux.