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Welcome to 2020 at Opensource.com! Last month, on December 31, 2019, while our editorial team had settled down for a long winter's nap—no, truthfully we were simply taking a well-deserved break—Opensource.com hit a record with 2.1 million reads and 1.3 million unique visitors. That kind of growth shows that people—a lot of them—are looking for help in figuring out how to choose and use open source. And our intention is for our community to be the place that continues to help them contribute. Here's what that will look like in 2020.

Vim is a popular text editor that comes preinstalled on macOS, Linux Distros and BSD Like operating systems. Vim is a free and opensource text editor available today. Finding or searching a word is a frequent task that we often do. In this tutorial, you are going to learn How to Find or Search a Word in Vim or Vi Text Editor.

Crikey, you lot have been busy writing in December. We've got more data munging from Greg Sutcliffe; we've got writing modules for orchestrating security; we've got networks, containers and thoughts from a sysadmin. No YouTubes this month—we thought you'd have enough reading here with the articles. Enjoy!

Procs is a command line utility to show information about active and running processes in Linux. Procs is written in Rust programming language and it is cross-platform. As of writing this guide, Procs fully supports Linux. Mac OS and Windows are experimentally-supported. In this brief tutorial, let us see how to install Procs and how to display process information using Procs on Linux.

There are a lot of lovable Linux tools available, but here are my top five picks.

Beefy Firefox release despite new 4-weekly release cycle, but users stick stubbornly to Google Chrome Mozilla has aired a bunch of new features aimed at making web 2020 a little less unpleasant in its release of Firefox 72.…

NComputing has launched a Citrix HDX optimized “RX420(HDX)” thin client that runs Stratodesk’s Linux-based NoTouch OS on the Raspberry Pi 4. The 2GB RAM equipped device supports dual 4K@30Hz displays without requiring the earlier RPi Zero-based add-on. Following up on its earlier Raspberry Pi 3-based RX-HDX thin client, which we covered in 2017, and a […]

Mozilla is a global community that is building an open and healthy internet. We do so by building products that improve internet life, giving people more privacy, security and control …

Node.js is an an open source JavaScript development platform for general purpose programming that enables users to build applications that need a persistent connection from the client (browser) to the server. Node.js is useful for real time applications such as web push notifications, chat, news feeds…

If you want a top-of-the-line Chromebook for work, your first choice has been the Google's Pixelbook Go. Now, Samsung is releasing a challenger, the Galaxy Chromebook.

This guide explains how to create multiple bootable USB drives using Popsicle, all at once.

Most people practicing DevOps are familiar with the work of Gene Kim. You might have been introduced to DevOps and "The Three Ways" through The Phoenix Project, or you might rely on The DevOps Handbook as a guide to change your team’s culture and increase their productivity. Kim is back with a new volume from the perspective of a lead developer and architect in The Unicorn Project.

The KDE Project announced today the release and general availability of the fifth and last maintenance update to the latest KDE Plasma 5.17 desktop environment for Linux-based operating systems.

To zip all files in a given directory on Linux with the zip tool, you can use * with the zip command. This will take care of files with and without extensions since extensions are not so special on Linux. The * will match zero or more characters, with the dot included. The files that begin with a dot however are not considered when using * (or even *.*)

NXP unveiled a 1.8GHz, quad -A53 “i.MX8M Plus” SoC with a 3D GPU, a Cortex-M7 MCU, a HiFi4 DSP, dual ISPs, and a 2.3 TOPS NPU. A Linux BSP and EVK are also in the works. NXP has begun sampling its first processor with an AI chip. Applications for the i.MX8 Plus include “people and […]

GRUB is a boot loader that functions to prepare the operating system when the computer is turned on. Usually, we can see the default grub display on Ubuntu Linux with various menus. If you install more than 1 operating system on Ubuntu. You can choose the operating system to run through GRUB when booting.

Tired of having to manually handle certain tasks on your computer by yourself? Check out our guide on how to schedule and automate tasks in Ubuntu.

The goto shell utility allows users to navigate to aliased directories and also supports autocompletion. How it works Before you can use goto, you need to register your directory aliases. For example: goto -r dev /home/iridakos/development then change to that directory, e.g.: read more

Symfony is a free, open-source and high-performance PHP framework that can be used to build web applications, APIs, microservices and web services. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Symfony 5 with Nginx on Debian 10.

Are you interested in building an internet-based phone system? First, you need to understand the protocols that underpin Voice over IP, or VoIP.