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I've been using Nextcloud (and before that, ownCloud), an open source alternative to file syncing and storage services like Dropbox and Google Drive, for many years. It's been both reliable and useful, and it respects my privacy. While Nextcloud is great at both syncing and storage, it's much more than a place to dump your files. Thanks to applications that you can fold into Nextcloud, it becomes more of an information hub than a storage space.

Amazon's AWS Greengrass aims to help make edge computing a reality on modest hardware. Here's how you can get Greengrass working on Raspbery Pi.

Raspberry Pi can be used in many different projects. One of the Raspberry Pi’s most popular use case is to turn Raspberry Pi into a home media center. Plex is a popular streaming media server that lets you organize your video, music, and photo collections and stream them to all of your devices at any time and from anywhere.

2DayGeek: Learn, how to push only security updates on Red Hat and CentOS system.

Bioinformatics has been defined in many different ways, but it is common ground to regard this discipline as the application of mathematics, computing and statistics to the analysis of biological information. The objective of bioinformatics is to enable the finding of new biological insights, and to create a broader, more critical view from which unifying principles in biology can be perceived.

Tor Browser 8.5, Kali Linux 2019.2, BlackArch Linux, Tails 3.14, SouthEast LinuxFest, Elisa 0.4.0, Drill Search, GitHub Launches Sponsorship Program, US v. Huawei, Humble Bundles (games and books)

In this tutorial, we will explain how to create a bootable CentOS USB stick from the Linux terminal.

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.