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PostgreSQL is one of the most widely used databases in the world & is also very easy to administer. In this tutorial, we will learn some important postgresql commands that every beginner should know. In our previous tutorials,…

PostgreSQL (also called postgres) is very famous, powerful, open-source object-relational database management system that has been around for almost 30 years. PostgreSQL requires very minimum maintained efforts because of its stability. Therefore, if you develop applications based on…

As we near the end of 2019, it is time to look back at the top 10 articles we published about Git this year.

This has been a fantastic year for continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) and the world of DevOps. Opensource.com authors shared how they're moving toward agile and scrum as they focus on seamless, flexible, and scalable deployments. Here are some of the big themes in the CI/CD articles we published this year.

Python is always evolving. The Python community has an unending appetite for feature requests but also an unending bias toward the status quo. As Python gets more popular, changes to the language affect more people. The exact timing for when a change happens is often hard, but the Zen of Python offers guidance.

Here are our most-read networking guides for 2019. Whether you're a beginner or an advanced user, there's bound to be something here you'll find useful.

Crontab is an important Linux tool that is used to schedule tasks so that programs and scripts can be executed at a specific time. In this article, I am going to teach you how you can schedule a job in Debian 10 and show you some examples.

A great deal happened in the world of open source in 2019. Once upon a time, you would have been hard-pressed to find news about Linux, free software, and open source software outside of a small handful of specialist publications. Today, though, news about open source is everywhere; the online edition of Forbes even has its own Linux columnist.

The /etc/shadow file keeps records about encrypted users' passwords, as well as other passwords related information.

Krita is a software specializing in sketching and drawing. This tutorial will work as both an intro to sketching and the use of Krita for this purpose.

I learned a lot about "The Interview" during my first career transition. Hopefully, you will find some of these takeaways helpful.

Everybody uses open source software today. But not everyone knows where it came from, or how many battles were fought along the way before it emerged victorious. If you're not sure you know the whole story, this article is for you.

Fkill, stands for Fabulous Kill, is a cross-platform command line utility to interactively search and kill multiple processes at once.

The principle of least surprise is a guideline when designing user interfaces. It says that when the user performs an action, the program should do whatever would surprise the user the least. This is for the same reason kids love reading the same book over and over again: there is nothing more comforting to people than the ability to predict and have those predictions come true. read more

The Linux 5.3 kernel series has reached end of life and it will no longer receive maintenance updates that fix critical security issues or bugs.

As computers become more powerful and more efficient, they rapidly drain their batteries because they consume more electricity. While this might depend on the number of running applications, laptop moans are mainly caused by battery life especially when they are not plugged in throughout the day.

Screen makes multitasking in the terminal simple. With it, you can run many tools in parallel, each in their session, and detach and re-attach to it at will

When LinkedIn released its third annual Emerging Jobs report, engineers everywhere said, "Amen." More than half the list consists of engineering roles, with new fields like robotics appearing for the first time. But data science had a strong showing as well. The role shows 37% annual growth, topping that aspect of the Emerging Jobs list for the third year in a row.

Are you looking to challenge your children (or even yourself) to learn new things about open source technologies? Whether you're in elementary school, high school, or college, or even a parent or teacher, Opensource.com has some great reading about open source technologies suitable for the younger generation. Here are our top 12 articles from 2019 on open source for students (and those who love them).

It’s this time of the year again — the time to reflect, and look back at some Fedora Magazine’s most popular articles in 2019. This time it’s all about desktop users. Let’s highlight a few of the many articles written by our great contributors in 2019, focusing on Fedora as a desktop OS. Dash to […]