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After you download and install Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa you may wonder what to do next or how to best customize your Ubuntu 20.04 system to make everything you do as efficient as possible.This guide helps you to identify things to do after installing Ubuntu 20.04 that are right for your specific needs.

COPR is a collection of personal repositories for software that isn’t carried in Fedora. Some software doesn’t conform to standards that allow easy packaging. Or it may not meet other Fedora standards, despite being free and open source. COPR can offer these projects outside the Fedora set of packages. Software in COPR isn’t supported by […]

Arch Linux’s ISO snapshot for May 2020 is now available for download and it’s the first Arch Linux ISO to be powered by the latest Linux kernel 5.6 series.

You can download videos from over 1,000 online content providers using this crafty Python script. In this quick tip we show you how to install and use youtube-dl to download videos for offline viewing!

Unbound is a simple DNS service that you can install, set up, and manage yourself.

ZFS gets more accessible, security becomes a bigger priority, and Ubuntu speeds up overall.

Humans transfer information in many different ways. On the internet, the primary format is text, which is how you're reading this article. However, there is other data on the internet, such as images and sound files and so on. It might seem easy to post an image online or attach a document to an email, until you realize that HTTP/1.1 and SMTP are text-based protocols. Data transferred over such protocols must be represented as a subset of ASCII text (specifically, characters 33 to 126). read more

In Learning to love systemd, the first article in this series, I looked at systemd's functions and architecture and the controversy around its role as a replacement for the old SystemV init program and startup scripts. In this second article, I'll start exploring the files and tools that manage the Linux startup sequence. I'll explain the systemd startup sequence, how to change the default startup target (runlevel in SystemV terms), and how to manually switch to a different target without going through a reboot.

You couldn’t get anything more candy like than oneko, a program that creates a cat chasing after your mouse cursor. Makes me want to watch some Tom & Jerry cartoons.

Schools are closed in many countries around the world to slow the spread of COVID-19. This has suddenly thrown many parents and teachers into homeschooling. Fortunately, there are plenty of educational resources on the internet to use or adapt, although their licenses vary. You can try searching for Creative Commons Open Educational Resources, but if you want to create your own materials, there are many options for that too.

Any project of GNU going into GitHub is making it seem or feel acceptable for GNU projects to be ‘outsourced’ to Microsoft; so what does it mean to have some of GNU inside the proprietary software jail of Microsoft? The first part deals with GNU projects that have GitHub dependencies.

As tech conference organizers ramp up for the fall season, you may be seeing calls for papers (CFP) landing in your email box or social media feeds. We at All Things Open (ATO) have seen a lot of presentation proposals over the years, and we've learned a few things about what makes them successful. read more

Nginx pronounced “engine x” is an open-source, high-performance HTTP and reverse proxy server responsible for handling the load of some of the largest sites on the Internet. It can be used as a standalone web server, load balancer, content cache, and reverse proxy for HTTP and non-HTTP servers. Compared to Apache, Nginx can handle a much large number of concurrent connections and has a smaller memory footprint per connection. This tutorial describes how to install and manage Nginx on Ubuntu 20.04.

In this second of the two-part DNS troubleshooting series, gain more insight into DNS and its moving parts and what to do when they don't move.

Google Analytics is the most popular website analytics tool. Millions of developers and creators turn to it to collect and analyze their website statistics. More than 53% of all sites on the web track their visitors using Google Analytics. 84% of sites that do use a known analytics script use Google Analytics. read more

Cp is the command in Linux that is used to copy a file from one location to another. But what if we need to copy a file to multiple locations. There is a way I can show how to achieve that in Linux.

As we know already, the majority of keyboards come with a dedicated Windows key because most manufacturers have partnered with Microsoft to optimize their peripherals for the company’s operating system.

In times like these, it becomes all the more important to take a closer look at tools like Zoom, Slack, and Facebook Messenger. read more

Mattermost is an open-source messaging system that can be used as a Slack alternative. Mattermost brings team communication to a single place and makes it accessible from your Desktop PC, Android devices, and iPhone.

Everybody loves a VPN these days. Whether you use it to connect to the office while working from home, or to connect to your own home server, or to encrypt your traffic on an otherwise unsafe network, a Virtual Private Network (VPN) is a vital component to dynamic and secure modern computing. Got VPN? Check out a better solution with Tailscale and WireGuard.