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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has developed a cheap ventilator and is releasing the design to the open source community in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Steam Locomotive is a tiny C program, written in 295 lines of code. It’s just a harmless bit of fun.

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In this short tutorial, we cover see some simple commands that will help users learn how to open a file in linux or view its contents on the command line.

Repeatedly seeing “Enter password to unlock your login keyring” popup message in Ubuntu? It’s not an error but a security feature. Learn more about it.

In 2019, DigitalOcean and the open source community celebrated the sixth annual Hacktoberfest, an inclusive community event that inspires open source participation and maintenance. It was an exciting year with record-breaking numbers of pull requests, participants, and events around the world.

WordPress is the most popular and most widely-used content management system (CMS). It is the CMS of choice for 26% of the entire web. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the steps of installing WordPress on an Ubuntu 18.04 VPS with all necessary components, such as Apache web server, PHP and MySQL/MariaDB database server, and configure WordPress to use a database on a remote server.

In this guide you will install WordPress, configure your website to use Google Cloud Storage for media files, setup instance template, auto-scaling group to manage live traffic. You will also configure Google Cloud CDN for your website.

A nice looking desktop replacement level mini-computer. A bit overpriced for what you get and still in the funding stage, so you might want to wait until it's in production.

Compared to XMLHttpRequest and the libraries built around it, like JQuery.ajax, the fetch API defines a more modern and cleaner way of performing asynchronous requests, based on the use of promises. In this article we will see some of the interfaces provided by the API, like Request and Response, and we will learn how to use the fetch method to perform various types of asynchronous requests.

Gradle is a powerful and flexible build tool used primarily for Java projects, combining the best features of Ant and Maven. Unlike its predecessors, which use XML for scripting, Gradle uses Groovy, a dynamic, object-oriented programming language for the Java platform to define the project and build scripts. This article describes how to install Gradle on Debian 10 Linux.

Find out five backup and restore tips from someone who's been there, failed, and then succeeded.

Navi is an interactive commandline cheatsheet tool. Navi provides a list of examples for a given command, skipping all other comprehensive text parts.

Python 2 reached the end of life on January 1, 2020. Python 3 has been available since 2008, but converting from 2 to 3 has been slow because of dependencies on libraries that were not available in Python 3 initially. This tutorial will show you how to convert Python 2 code to Python 3 using the 2to3 tool.

Composer is a dependency manager for PHP. Composer will pull in all the required PHP packages your project depends on and manages them for you. It is used in all modern PHP frameworks and platforms such as Laravel, Symfony, Drupal, and Magento 2. This tutorial goes through the steps of installing Composer on CentOS 8.

New open source Kubernetes release lands with AppProtocol, security certificate and memory enhancements.

In this edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look open source solutions for COVID-19, Google's new security tool, code cleanup software from Uber, and more!

This brief guide teaches how to convert images into ASCII format in Linux using Jp2a. Jp2a is a CLI tool to convert the image(s) into ascii characters.

There are times when solutions that  seem to compete against each other turn out to be complementary. This is exactly what happened with Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes. 

This tutorial shows how to install a mail server on Debian 10 using ISPConfig server control panel.