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List of the most used Open source FTP servers for Linux, Unix, and Windows servers.

Looking to test the waters with Linux gaming and don't want to lose access to your favourite Windows games? Here's a simple no-nonsense guide to actually using Steam Play.

DevOps teams appreciate using DevOps processes, especially in multi- and hybrid cloud infrastructures, for many reasons. For one thing, DevOps breaks down barriers and enables agile software development and continuous delivery of IT operations. read more

In this article, I want to look at a GIS option available for Linux—specifically, a program called SAGA (System for Automated Geoscientific Analyses). SAGA was developed at the Department of Physical Geography in Germany.

The Budgie Desktop is one of the latest and modern Gnome-based desktop that gives a minimal and elegant desktop experience and is available for all major Linux distributions. In today’s article, we will see how to install Budgie desktop in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

WonderCMS is a free and open source flat file CMS, aimed to be extremely small, light and simple. In this tutorial, we will go through the WonderCMS installation and setup on Fedora 30 system by using Nginx as a web server, and optionally you can secure the transport layer by using Acme.sh client and Let's Encrypt certificate authority to add SSL support.

Good news everyone! Canonical will now be offering NVIDIA users up to date graphics drivers without the need to resort to a PPA or anything else.

The game is changing for the IT ops community, which means the rules of the past make less and less sense. Organizations need accurate, understandable, and actionable metrics in the right context to measure operations performance and drive critical business transformation. The more customers use modern tools and the more variation in the types of incidents they manage, the less sense it makes to smash all those different incidents into one bucket to compute an average resolution time that will represent ops performance, which is what IT has been doing for a long time. read more

This guide lists 3 different methods to automatically disable Touchpad when external Mouse is connected in Ubuntu and its variants.

Few games have a demo that capture my interest so intensely as Eagle Island, thankfully my enjoyment of the demo translated well into the full game.

Ready to build some fantastic rides again? FOSS game engine OpenRCT2 has a brand new release available for playing RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 on Linux.

Fedora Silverblue is becoming more and more popular inside and outside the Fedora world. So based on feedback from the community, here are answers to some interesting questions about the project. If you do have any other Silverblue related questions, please leave it in the comments section and we will try to answer them in a future article.

The df command is used for checking disk space in Linux. Learn some of the most common usage of the df command in Linux.

When I decided I wanted to play with color this summer, I thought about the fact that colors are usually depicted on a color wheel. This is usually with pigment colors rather than light, and you lose any sense of the variation in color brightness or luminosity.

News briefs for July 12, 2019.

The modern Linux desktop is one where "everything just works," and "you're able to use the applications that you've come to rely on in your day-to-day life," says Canonical's Will Cooke.

Bash keeps a history of the commands you type, which can be accessed by typing "history". By default you see a number followed by the commands you've used recently. This article explains how to get the Bash history to show the timestamp (date and time) when each command was executed.

MariaDB is an open source, multi-threaded relational database management system, backward compatible replacement for MySQL. MariaDB is the default implementation of MySQL in Debian.

Earlier this week, Mozilla released version 68 of the Firefox web browser. Firefox is the default web browser in Fedora, and this update is now available in the official Fedora repositories. This Firefox release provides a range of bug fixes and enhancements, including: Better handling when using dark GTK themes (like Adwaita Dark). Previously, running […]

The KDE Project released the third of five maintenance updates to the latest KDE Plasma 5.16 desktop environment series, a bug fix release that addresses various issues.