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I had high hopes for the GDPR (the EU's General Data Protection Regulation), which famously went into effect one year ago. I even suggested that we re-brand 25 May "Privmas Day" (hashtag #privmas) since I expected the GDPR would go far toward protecting personal privacy online, which prior to that date had been approximately nil. I even published, here in Linux Journal, what I called an FUQ for the GDPR.

How to Install WordPress with Apache, PHP 7.3, Let's Encrypt SSL on Ubuntu 18.04.

In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at Microsoft open sourcing Bing smarts, Tor comes to Andriod, NASA releases robots, and more. read more

Here are several ways to run Linux bash commands in Windows.

fd is a simpler alternative to the find command. It uses a truncated syntax to keep your typed commands short. Learn how to use fd on Linux and macOS.

Olivia is a fairly new free, open source Qt5 cloud-based music player for Linux. It can play music from YouTube, comes with more than 25,000 Internet radio stations, it supports themes, has a mini player mode, it can save songs for offline playback, and much more.

How to install and minimally configure Knot to act as your home lab's local domain master and slave servers.

In today's connected embedded device market, driven by the Internet of things (IoT), a large share of devices in development are based on Linux of one form or another. The prevalence of low-cost boards with ready-made Linux distributions is a key driver in this. Acquiring hardware, building your custom code, connecting the devices to other hardware peripherals and the internet as well as device management using commercial cloud providers has never been easier. read more

Left is a free and open source distraction-free text editor for Linux, Windows and Mac. Its main goal of is to get you to focus on writing, sporting writing essentials like autocomplete, synonym suggestions and writing statistics.

What is packit Packit (https://packit.dev/) is a CLI tool that helps you auto-package your upstream projects into the Fedora operating system. But what does it really mean? As a developer, you might want to add or update your package in Fedora. If you’ve done it in the past, you know it’s no easy task. If […]

Inviska Rename is a free and open source GUI batch file rename utility for Linux, Mac and Windows. It supports renaming based on music tags and Exif information, and much more.

Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Alex Gounares of Polyverse Linux about Cybersecurity for everyone.

What I need to do is be able to process Apache log files and isolate specific problems and glitches that are being encountered—a perfect use for a shell script. In fact, I have a script of this nature that offers basic analytics in my book Wicked Cool Shell Scripts from O'Reilly, but this is a bit more specific.

When writing Python scripts, you may want to perform a certain action only if a file or directory exists or not. For example, you may want to read or write data to a configuration file or to create the file only if it already doesn't exist.

When it comes to media streaming, there's no better player than Kodi. Here's how you can install Kodi on some of the most popular Linux distros.

On this episode of Destination Linux we sit down with Richard Brown, of openSUSE, for an interview about his journey into Linux and becoming the Chairman of openSUSE.

For this review, I’ll run through PyRadio. Unlike the other radio players I’ve covered, PyRadio is curses based software.

With old sysvinit and Upstart, users could force a disk check on next reboot using a simple command (sudo touch /forcefsck), but that's no longer the case nowadays, with most Linux distributions using systemd. This article explains how to force fsck to run at boot time in two ways, which work with systemd. You'll also find a command that shows when a partition was last checked by fsck, at the end of the article.

Having a cluster built out of Raspberry Pi's is not only fun but also eases your work. As we discussed in our latest article in the series you can use the cluster to compile software or make it gather data from various sources on the Internet. There are many uses for such a thing. However, after compiling for an hour straight you might get curious as of how your nodes perform. How they work under load, if they're not under-powered or if the CPU temperature is not rising above desired levels.