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Students everywhere are returning to school this season. But to what kinds of schools are they returning? Are their classrooms organized like industrial-era factory floors, built around ideals like mass standardization and tailored for maximum efficiency? Or do they look more like agile, networked learning communities? Are they listening passively from the back of the room? Or are they collaboratively shaping what and how they learn as their teachers connect their lessons to projects and contexts outside the classroom? read more

The rsync command allows the administrator to synchronize the local backup with the remote server.

Curl is a command-line utility for transferring data from or to a remote server.

FLOSS is penetrating the government sector of countries throughout the world. That holds true right here in the good ole U.S.A. A world that was intent on utilizing proprietary software is slowly changing its tune. The United States has not been as progressive in this area as some other countries, but over the course of the last few years, it has finally decided to jump on the train. The benefits are just too hard to ignore. While this topic is wide ranging, the focus of this piece will be on the Department of Defense (DoD) in particular.

MySQL workbench is a graphical application which let us manage data and perform administrative tasks on MySQL databases. In this tutorial we will see how to install the program on Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver) and we will perform a brief tour of some of its most basic functionalities to make your Linux system administration job easier.

Purism has revealed its shipping schedule for its privacy-oriented Librem 5 smartphone. Comprised of six iterations, the shipping schedule spans from this month into Q4 2020, with each iteration including updates to the phone’s hardware, mechanical design and software. Purism has announced its shipping schedule for its Librem 5 phone running PureOS. We covered the […]

The Envoy S solar system monitor runs Linux and contains a Web server. Two simple requests to that server will return real-time and summary data for the system as a whole and for individual microinverters.

The GNOME Project announced the availability of the final milestone in the development cycle of the upcoming GNOME 3.34 desktop environment for Linux-based operating systems.

Mumble, the free VoIP application, has reached version 1.3.0 stable after more than 2 and a half years since the previous stable release, and almost 10 years since the last Mumble 1.2 feature release. Mumble 1.3.0 includes new Lite and Dark themes, individual user volume adjustment, dynamic channel filtering, and much more.

Apache CouchDB is a free and open-source NoSQL database solution. Apache CouchDB has a document-oriented NoSQL database architecture and is implemented in the concurrency-oriented language Erlang; Apache CouchDB uses JSON to store data with documents, it uses JavaScript as its query language using MapReduce, and it uses RESTful HTTP for its API. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and set up Apache CouchDB on a VPS running Ubuntu 18.04.

If you want to manage your Kubernetes container images securely and reliably, you should check out the latest release of Red Hat Quay.

The discussion about “Linux” is being saturated if not replaced by misinformation and marketing of Linux’s competition — owing largely to googlebombing tactics that the Linux Foundation participates in rather than tackle

In this article, we will show you how to install and configure Samba as a file storage system for Windows and Linux OS. We will also show you how to access Samba shared files using other Linux and Windows client OS.

Purism, the hardware manufacturer known for building and shipping Linux-based laptops and phones, announced that they are releasing a stable version of their Debian-based PureOS Linux operating system.

TikiWiki is a free and open-source content management system written in PHP language. TikiWiki comes with a rich set of features, including, Forums, Blog, Maps, Workspace, Slideshow, Shopping Cart, Bug and issue tracker, Multilingual, File and image gallery, Events and many more. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install TikiWiki CMS on Debian 10.

If you’ve ever wished that you could line up multiple terminal windows and organize them in a single window frame, there's some good news. The Linux Terminator can do this for you.

'Let's not play games,' says lang dad Guido van Rossum. Python 2 will sunset on January 1st 2020 – however, many applications have not yet upgraded to version 3, causing the coding lingo's team to mount a communications campaign to persuade devs to port their code.…

Standard files, directories, links, devices, sockets, Linux systems offer a wide variety of different file types. Today, we are focusing on links, and more specifically on hard and soft links. If you have always wondered how you can create a shortcut on a Linux system, this is probably the right tutorial for you.

Microsoft has confirmed today that it is working on a Linux version for its acclaimed Microsoft Teams universal communications platform.

Yaru theme might get a full light theme (and a full dark theme that already exists, but with further refinements) instead of the mixed theme that's currently default in Ubuntu.