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Rust has drawn plenty of attention from programmers on sites like Hacker News for a while. While many have long loved using the language for hobby projects, it didn't start catching on in industry until 2019, when this really started to change.

The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the January 2020 issue.

This article describes how to install and configure dnscrypt-proxy to use DNSCrypt and DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) with DNSSEC.

Exhumed, also known as PowerSlave, a retro shooter from the 90s has been revived with the power of open source.

Gitea is a code hosting web application written in Go. As its name suggests, it is designed to be used with the popular source control program Git, similarly to Gitlab and Github. This guide will explain the installation of Gitea on CentOS 8 with an Nginx HTTPS reverse proxy.

Historically and theoretically speaking, a decade, a century, or a millennium starts when the clock turns midnight on January 1 of the year one of its decimal order. For example, the 20th century started on January 1, 1901, not on January 1, 1900. The reason for this is simple: there is no year 0 in our modern calendar, so these periods of time start on year 1 (using the Gregorian calendar). But that's not how we refer to time periods colloquially and culturally; for example, when we mention '80s music or movies, we're talking about the period from 1980 to 1989. read more

EPEL repository is part of special groups within the fedora group, it creates & maintains additional packages for Enterprise Linux, mainly CentOS, RHEL, Scientific Linux, Oracle Linux. EPEL stands for Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux & provides packages…

I'm not quite dead, mutters 2.7 as rigor mortis sets in With the arrival of 2020, the Python Clock has stopped ticking, marking the end of development for the Python 2 programming language.…

Translation is an important step in software localization which helps make software more popular globally, and impacts international user experience. In recent years, localization processes have been evolving worldwide to become more continuous, faster, efficient with automation. In Fedora, the development of the Zanata platform and its plugins, then Transtats, and now the migration to […]

devilutionX, based upon the reverse engineered code from Devilution, has a big 1.0 release for playing the original Diablo on modern systems.

Kobol’s open spec “Helios64” NAS system will go on pre-order for $189 (SBC) or $285 (full kit) next week with a hexa-core RK3399 with 4GB RAM, 16GB eMMC, UPS, M.2, 5x SATA, 4x USB, and both GbE and 2.5GbE ports. Next week, Kobol will launch pre-orders for an open HW/SW NAS system available as both […]

Wallabag is a read it later kind of service. It allows you to save webpages so that you can read it later at your own leisure pace. This tutorial will cover how to install and setup Wallabag on a server running on Ubuntu 18.04 and above.

In this installment, we'll explore how Richard Stallman's revolutionary free and open source licensing philosophy spread and forked, and where it has taken us to today.

In this short article, you will learn how to copy one file into many directories. The obvious answer would be to use the cp command but this not exactly correct since the cp command is rather used to copy several files into one directory. You will see what additional commands and combinations are needed to pull this off. Let’s get started.

The easiest and best Linux desktop had a new long-term support release during the holidays. Here's what's new and neat in this latest version.

Rust or rust-lang, is a modern, fast, cross-platform, and open source systems programming language designed to replace C/C++ but with high-level abstractions to please those coming from C# and Java. This guide explains how to install Rust using rustup , how to update Rust, and finally how to create and run a sample rust program in Linux.

Juan Linietsky, lead developer of the FOSS game engine Godot Engine has written a retrospective article while also going over future plans for Godot Engine.

If you are a web developer or a software engineer, it is very likely that you are pushing a lot of commits to your Git repository everyday. However, in some cases, you committed some files that should not be pushed to your Git repository. Sometimes, you may want to perform additional changes before issuing the commit. As a consequence, you need to undo the last commit from your Git repository. In this tutorial, we are going to see how you can easily undo the last commit, maybe to re-commit changes later on.

Faking of “openness” in the LMS space; the case study [pun intended] of Latitude Learning

One of the typical tasks of Linux administrators is to check successful and failed login attempts in the Linux system. This ensures that there are no illegal attempts at the environment. This tutorial helps the user to check successful and failed user login attempts on the Linux system.