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I've been on a journey from Mac to Linux since joining the staff at Opensource.com almost two years ago. In a huge step for me, I finally made the call to have my personal laptop also run Linux. Due to the coverage of System76 in our community, I thought I'd give it a shot. I'm coming from a MacBook Pro as my go-to device, so I went with a near-standard build of the Lemur Pro for a comparable system. A reasonably priced upgrade to more RAM and a speedy NVMe hard drive later, my order was on its way. read more

In this article I will show you how to create a VPC along with Subnets, Internet Gateway, NAT Gateways, and Route Tables. We will be creating 1 VPC with 4 Subnets: 2 Private and 2 Public, 2 NAT Gateways, 1 Internet Gateway, and 4 Route Tables.

Remember netstat? Say hello to ss as netstat's chattier replacement.

Apache Tomcat is an open-source web server and Java servlet container. It is one of the most popular choices for building Java-based websites and applications. Tomcat is lightweight, easy to use, and has a robust ecosystem of add-ons. This tutorial describes how to install and configure Tomcat 9 on Ubuntu 20.04.

Soldat, a side-scrolling multiplayer shooter that was ridiculously popular in the early 2000s is now open source.

The latest Ubuntu release, 20.04, marks an opportunity for both LTS users and people on the previous 19.10 release to update Ubuntu and take advantage of the latest features.

Please checkout tutorial with examples on how to use Awk for text processing.

WordPress is best known as a website content management system, but it also a great learning management system (LMS) for delivering online courses. If that is what you are looking for out of WordPress, then H5P should be the top plugin on your list.

One way to get started with an open source community is to write about it. You can contribute to technical documentation, share how you use the software, or write an article for Opensource.com. But getting started writing is easier said than done. The two most common excuses I hear for not writing are: "I have nothing new to say" and "I'm not a good writer." I'm here to dispel both of those myths.

In our work as dance and sound artists, we occasionally need to get out into the streets and perform with our interactive setup there. This is a record of the journey I took to set up Raspberry Pi 4 as a mobile machine for SuperCollider and MiniBee movement sensors.

Cockpit is an extensible web application to help you monitor and manage your Linux system. Learn how to manage your Linux system with Cockpit.

2DayGeek: This tutorial helps you to configure disk quota in Linux.

It's been a long time since I properly learned a new language—computer or human. Maybe 25 years. That language was Java, and although I've had to write little bits of C (very, very little) and JavaScript in the meantime, the only two languages I've written much actual code in have been Perl and Java. read more

What happened to the promise of live patching Linux kernels? This article looks at its history, its problems, and the cheapest and easiest ways to do it on Ubuntu Focal Fossa (20.04 LTS).

This brief tutorial describes how to directly SSH into a particular directory of a remote Linux system

Python 2 has reached its end of life, with the open source project no longer providing updates, but that doesn't mean the 2.x version of the programming language has disappeared — yet.

A few months ago, we got a requirement to provide a stable and reliable Domain Name System (DNS) server for a new project. The project dealt with auto-deployment using containers and where each new environment would generate a unique, random URL. After a lot of research on possible solutions, we decided to give PowerDNS (PDNS) a try.

The cURL linux command can use various network protocols to download and upload data on Linux. Normally, using the cURL command is pretty basic, but it has a ton of options and can grow more complicated very quickly. In this guide, we'll go over some of the more common uses for the cURL command and show you syntax examples so you can use it on your own system.

Like with all the first releases of Ubuntu, the first point release to iron out the issues and bugs which may be got missed during the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS release – and that makes the first point release is very important.

The workspaces, or Virtual Desktops, is a main feature of the Linux desktop. It has been around for a long time and is available for almost every Linux window manager. Gnome3 doesn't make it easy for you to manage your workspaces. Let's see how you can work with multiple workspaces in Gnome.