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Linux Foundation (LF) publicity stunts wind up disgracing the causes they claim to be serving; an insider's story revealed what had happened and we explain why that's a problem which prevails to this date (it's all about money)

After you've established a positive reputation in an open community—hopefully, as we discussed in our previous article, by being an active member in and contributing productively to that community—you'll have built up a healthy "bank balance" of credibility you can use to influence the direction of that community. What does this mean in concrete terms? It means you can contribute to the decisions the community makes.

A few days after the release of the Firefox 70 web browser, Mozilla kicked off the development of the next major version, Firefox 71, which is currently in the beta testing phase.

Everybody knows sudo, right? This tool is installed by default on most Linux systems and is available for most BSD and commercial Unix variants. Still, after talking to hundreds of sudo users, the most common answer I received was that sudo is a tool to complicate life.

Fedora, Red Hat's cutting-edge community Linux distribution, is a crystal ball into RHEL's future.

Fedora 31 is available now. You’ll likely want to upgrade your system to get the latest features available in Fedora. Fedora Workstation has a graphical upgrade method. Alternatively, Fedora offers a command-line method for upgrading Fedora 30 to Fedora 31. Upgrading Fedora 30 Workstation to Fedora 31 Soon after release time, a notification appears to […]

Cloud-native technologies like containers and microservices have made infrastructure infinitely more complex. Service meshes are there to help.

The Fedora Project announced today the final release of the long-anticipated Fedora 31 computer operating system sponsored by the Open Source giant Red Hat.

Fedora 31 Workstation is the latest release of our free, leading-edge operating system. You can download it from the official website here right now. There are several new and noteworthy changes in Fedora 31 Workstation. Read more details below. Fedora 30 Workstation includes the latest release of GNOME Desktop Environment for users of all types. GNOME 3.34 in […]

Will virtual machines disappear? No. Not anytime soon. This implies that the one day, container technology will eventually replace traditional virtual machines. So, I will save you from reading this entire piece to reach the conclusion of there being a clear winner. The answer is: no. There isn’t a clear winner primarily because both technologies are not one and the same. Each boasts their own respective features and functions and each solve their own set of problems. Understanding the problems in which each solves will better prepare you from misusing the technology.

KeePassXC 2.5.0 was released recently with important improvements, like an option to export a database to an HTML file (for paper backup), database statistics, re-enabled Wayland support, and more.

Alacritty is a cross-platform, GPU-accelerated OpenGL terminal emulator written in Rust Programming language.

Start tightening up your server security by lowering your attack surface.

Containers have taken the world by storm. Whether you think of Kubernetes, Docker, CoreOS, Silverblue, or Flatpak when you hear the term, it's clear that modern applications are running in containers for convenience, security, and scalability. read more

2DayGeek: This tutorial allows you to get the size of a given directory and its subdirectories on Linux.

I have been using Python since it was a little-known language in 1998. It was a time when Perl was quite popular in the open source world, but I believed in Python from the moment I found it. My parents like to remind me that I used to say things like, "Python is going to be a big deal" and "I'll be able to find a job using it one day." It took a while, but my predictions came true.

Feng Office is an open-source collaboration platform that is web-based and written in PHP. This application has three editions: Community, Professional, and Enterprise. In this tutorial, we will install the Community edition which is the basic Feng Office and includes excellent features such as task management, document management, workspaces, and a lot more. In this article, we will show you how to install Feng Office on an Ubuntu 18.04 VPS.

It’s here! We’re proud to announce the release of Fedora 31. Thanks to the hard work of thousands of Fedora community members and contributors, we’re celebrating yet another on-time release. This is getting to be a habit! If you just want to get to the bits without delay, go to https://getfedora.org/ right now. For details, […]

MyBB is a free and open-source, intuitive and extensible forum program. This tutorial will show you how to install MyBB forum software on Debian 10 (buster) system using Nginx web server and how to secure the installation with a Let's Encrypt SSL certificate.

Display random quotes from commandline in Linux Using the 'motivate' and 'fortune' command line programs.