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Automad is a file-based content management system (CMS) and a template engine written in PHP. In this tutorial, we will go through the Automad CMS installation and setup on Debian 10 (buster) system by using NGINX as a web server.

2DayGeek: This article will help you to upgrade from Linux Mint 19.1 (Tessa) to Linux Mint 19.2 (Tina).

This was originally intended for the September 2019 issue of Linux Journal Magazine focused around the theme of Cool Projects. Many months ago I stumbled onto an exciting kit in which one can assemble an Altair 8800 emulator (and at a fraction of the size and weight of the original Altair). I knew I had to purchase this. I also knew that I had to reach out to the individual (Chris Davis) designing and selling these emulator kits, to learn more about the motivation behind it.

From its early days, the availability of source code was one of the defining characteristics of open source software. Indeed, Brian Behlendorf of the Apache web server project, an early open source software success, favored "source code available software." read more

If you are new to Linux administration, you may be wondering how Linux file permissions work on Linux systems.

Maybe you have been denied the read access to a file and you are trying to discover why and how to solve it. Or you may have tried to move a file from a directory to another, only to discover that you don’t have the permissions to do it.

Today, we are taking a very close look at how file permissions work on Linux

This tutorial explains how to change or fake MAC address in Linux.

Hexdump is a utility that displays the contents of binary files in hexadecimal, decimal, octal, or ASCII. It’s a utility for inspection and can be used for data recovery, reverse engineering, and programming. read more

In mathematics, iterated function systems (IFSs) are a method of constructing fractals; the resulting fractals are often self-similar. If you want an introduction to IFS fractals, give IFStile a whirl. Create your own IFS fractals with this useful tool.

One of the most common arithmetic operations when writing Bash scripts is incrementing and decrementing variables. This is most often used in loops as a counter, but it can occur elsewhere in the script as well. Incrementing and Decrementing means adding or subtracting a value (usually 1), respectively, from the value of a numeric variable. In Bash, there are multiple ways to increment/decrement a variable. This article explains some of them.

Libreoffice is one of the leading opensource cross-platform (Linux, Windows, MacOs) project, that offer Linux users specially a great free office suite alternative to the commercial MS office suite. The team behin it, continue their hard work to introduce us today as Linux users, the new update that brings remarkable improvements and notable changes.

Yaru, the default Ubuntu 18.10+ theme, was recently rebased on the new Adwaita theme that was released with Gnome 3.32. The target is to have this in Ubuntu 19.10 Eoan Ermine.

The /tmp directory is a temporary landing place for files. Users also have write access to this directory, which can be a bad thing, but there is a solution.

This tutorial shows how to find out if a user is sudoer or not. You’ll also learn to list all sudo users on your Linux system.

EndeavourOS is trying to develop a beginner-friendly Arch-based distribution around a friendly community. Read this review of EndeavourOS Linux distribution.

As a person who normally manages software development teams, over the years I’ve come to care about metrics quite a bit. Time after time, I’ve found myself leading teams using one project platform or another (Jira, GitLab, and Rally, for example) generating an awful lot of measurable data. From there, I’ve promptly invested significant amounts of time to pull useful metrics out of the platform-of-record and into a format where we could make sense of them, and then use the metrics to make better choices about many aspects of development. read more

By default, the system hostname is set during the installation process, or if you are creating a virtual machine it is dynamically assigned to the instance at startup, but there are situations when you need to change it.

Fix for security issue but LibreLogo still installed by default on Windows The Document Foundation has made some tweaks to improve file loading and save times in its word processor and spreadsheet programs in the latest version of LibreOffice, 6.3.…

Developer relations, in all its iterations, is built on the foundation of open source community management, says Mary Thengvall, an author, consultant, and community builder. It encompasses a variety of roles and titles, including developer advocate, community manager, and developer evangelist/technical ambassador.

Need to run your own VPN? This article will get you started with an open source option.

In 2014, when I switched to Linux I spent hours, days and month looking for free and open source alternatives to the commercial ones, by watching video, reading articles, story and even comments, it was a hard time but it made me a more positive and happy Linux user, now after five years i want to share with you my favorite list of open source alternatives including distros, tools, software... as a result of my humble Linux experience. Have a pleasant reading.