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Odoo, also known as OpenERP, is a free and open-source ERP platform. It’s one of the most popular ERP platforms available thanks to its customizability and flexibility. Written in the Python programming language, Odoo is used for many business applications, including sales pipeline, project management, CRM, invoicing, accounting, inventory, and much more. In this guide, we will show you how to install Odoo 12 with Nginx as a reverse proxy on a Debian 10 VPS.

Have you ever thought about how secure your Linux machine really is? There are numerous Linux distros, each with its own default settings, on which you run dozens of software packages with different version numbers, and numerous services running in the background, which we hardly know or care about. To find the security posture—the overall security status of the software, network, and services running on your Linux machine—you could run a few commands and get bits and pieces of relevant information, but the amount of data you need to parse is huge.

Stuck indoors like most of the rest of the world, a group of Opensource.com editors and correspondents—Seth Kenlon, Matt Broberg, Alan Formy-Duval, Jessica Cherry, and Chris Hermansen—decided to use their far-flung locations and variable-quality internet connections to try out several open source video-conferencing solutions.

We like finding non-Remond alternatives, but the free options make it tough for commercial operations. SoftMaker's Office 2021 – a cross-platform office suite that runs on Windows, Mac and Linux – has hit public beta.…

Bye-bye US, bonjour Brussels. The Eclipse Foundation today unveiled plans to make itself a little more European with a jump into Brussels.…

The upcoming Linux Mint 20 "Ulyana" operating system is still under heavy development, and it looks like the final release will be available as soon as next month.

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Ruby on Rails on the Debian Buster 10. This guide will cover the RVM (Ruby Version Manager) installation, PostgreSQL database installation, and creating the simple CRUD application with Ruby on Rails and using PostgreSQL as the backend database.

So no one told you life was gonna be this way Google's Go programming language, all but disallowed by the web giant's own Fuchsia team for its excessive memory consumption, tops developers' to-do lists. That's according to a survey by tech talent platform HackerEarth.…

If you've ever wondered how hacking began and who the first hackers were, wonder no more. Take a look at The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage.

In this article, you will learn how to install Yarn and manage NodeJS dependencies on CentOS 8 using the command line.

MNT Research has gone to Crowd Supply to launch a $999, open source hardware “MNT Reform” laptop that runs Linux on an i.MX8M based Boundary Devices Nitrogen8M SOM and offers a 12.5-inch HD screen and an NVMe SSD. We first reported on the MNT Reform laptop back in 2017 when the prototype was equipped with […]

In a previous article, you explored how to control the firewall at the command line in Fedora. Now you are going to see how to see how add, remove, and list services, protocols and ports in order to block or allow them. A short recap First, it’s a good idea to check the status of […]

Not just announced for Linux, it's being built with the open source Godot Engine! Cassette Beasts looks like a fun new RPG coming to Linux.

Node.js is a cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment built on Chrome’s JavaScript, designed to execute JavaScript code on the server-side. It is generally used to build back-end applications, but it is also popular as a full-stack and front-end solution. npm is the default package manager for Node.js and the world’s largest software registry. In this tutorial, we will explore three different ways of installing Node.js and npm on Ubuntu 20.04.

MYIR’s $599 Vision Edge Computing Platform (VECP) Starter Kit runs Linux on its Zynq UltraScale+ based MYC-CZU3EG module and integrates a CSI-connected Sony camera plus 4K@30 ISP, GigE Vision, and USB3 Vision IP cores. Last July, MYIR announced a MYC-CZU3EG CPU Module based on Xilinx’s quad -A53, FPGA-equipped Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC along with a MYD-CZU3EG […]

Find out how to leverage systemd to increase the security of your services through sandboxing.

An important step towards optimizing energy consumption is knowing your actual consumption. My house was built during the oil crisis in the 1970s, and due to the lack of a natural gas connection, the builders decided to use electricity to do all of the heating (water and home heating). This is not unusual for this area of Germany, and it remains an appropriate solution in countries that depend highly on nuclear power. read more

A guide to making work and study easier during the pandemic

Watson is a CLI-based open source utility that helps you track the time spent on projects. The program also lets you generate reports to provide to clients as and when needed.

Building a homelab can be a fun way to entertain yourself while learning new concepts and experimenting with new technologies. Thanks to the popularity of single-board computers (SBCs), led by the Raspberry Pi, it is easier than ever to build a multi-computer lab right from the comfort of your home. read more