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Build a personal cloud using Fedora and Nextcloud.

The Solus 4.1 operating system has been released as refreshed installation medium for all supported flavors, adding new features, improvements, and updated components.

In this article we describe how to install the command line utility Jpegoptim on your Debian. We will also explain different ways you can use this program to optimize and compress your jpeg image files.

How systemd path units work together with service units to monitor files and directories and trigger actions on changes.

I’ve reviewed a smorgasbord of open source music players. But there’s still quite a few I’ve yet to put through their paces. For this review, I’m looking at Deepin Music. The software bills itself as a “beautiful and simple music player that plays local audio. It supports viewing lyrics during playback, playing lossless audio, and playlist customization”.

I am often approached by software developers who are on board with the switch to test-driven development (TDD). They understand that describing expectations first and then writing code to meet those expectations is the best way to write software. And they agree that writing tests first does not introduce any overhead since they must write tests anyway. Still, they find themselves stuck, not being clear on what to test, when to test it, and how to test it. This article will answer those questions. read more

Regex for Linux, regular expressions are similar to the wildcards which allow us to create a pattern to perform a specific search in data.

This tutorial shows you how to install nextcloud on an ISPConfig server by adding a website, database and FTP user in ISPConfig and then installing Nextcloud into the web directory of the newly added website.

With so many tools on the web offered as services, there's more to getting organized than just choosing the most convenient online vendor. You have to think of your system of organization as part of your product, whether that's personal productivity or a software project you ship to hundreds or thousands of users. Using open source isn't a matter of brand loyalty. Open source is about you owning the tools that enable you to do what you do.

Last year, I brought you 19 days of new (to you) productivity tools for 2019. This year, I'm taking a different approach: building an environment that will allow you to be more productive in the new year, using tools you may or may not already be using.

What's your favorite Linux distribution? Take our 7th annual poll. Some have come and gone, but there are hundreds of Linux distributions alive and well today. The combination of distribution, package manager, and desktop creates an endless amount of customized environments for Linux users.

Git commit messages are crucial : they are used in order to describe and share with others what you did. They are also used when trying to hotfix issues happening on your master branches. In this tutorial, you are going to learn how you can create Git commits with messages.

Sitecopy is a tool for copying locally stored websites to a remote web server (via FTP or WebDAV). It helps you to keep the remote site in sync with your local copy by uploading modified local files and deleting remote files deleted on the local computer. This tutorial shows you how to manage your remote site from your local Ubuntu 18.04 desktop with Sitecopy.

What we unfortunately notice in a lot of discussions online about Linux distributions is that people tend to use that ranking in an attempt to figure out which distribution is more popular than the other. But this is totally wrong.

Imagine you bought a new laptop with a shiny new USB-C docking station. You install fresh Fedora, encrypt your hard drive because laptop is a travel equipment and you do not want to travel around with non-ecrypted hard drive. You finish the installation, close the lid because you have external monitor, reboot the […]

Linux ranks third in the operating system market, and since the beginning of the new millennium, it has entered the best desktop operating system struggle after it won the title of the best server system “undisputedly”, so the GNU Linux developers began making plans to bring in more users, but it was not as effective as expected (in another article, we will take a look at these plans and the reasons for their lack of effectiveness)...

In this guide you going to learn how to install ElasticSearch and configure it with your WordPress and optimize the search queries using ElasticPress WordPress plugin.

The open-spec “Lindenis V536” SBC runs Linux on the Cortex-A7-based Allwinner V536, a 4k camera-oriented SoC with integrated ISP and VPU. The 130 x 85mm SBC design is built in an SoM plus baseboard configuration. Lindenis Tech Ltd., a Shenzhen, China startup staffed by former Allwinner employees, has released the Lindenis V536, an open spec, […]

If you’re using the Ubuntu 19.04 (Disco Dingo) operating system on your personal computer or server, you should know that it has reached end of life on January 23rd, 2020.

Most of the computer geeks are familiar with the Internet Download Manager tool. Although it is one of the best among download managers; being a soldier of open source software, I decided to share pyIDM as an alternative for anyone who is passionate about computer programming.