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The open organization community at Opensource.com published more than 50 articles in 2019. That's more than 50 new, openly licensed resources to help you explore the ways open principles are changing the way we work, manage, and lead in modern organizations.

Check out these sysadmin technical how-tos, advice pieces, and horror stories that people in the trenches submitted for 2019.

This post explains how to use AWK printf formatting to inventory the POSIX character classes in your system, and how to "see" some invisible characters.

Java is a free, open-source and one of the most popular programming languages expressly designed for use in the distributed environment of the internet. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install OpenJDK 8, OpenJDK 11 and Oracle 8 on CentOS 8.

Topics covered in this episode: Linux Mint 19.3 Released, Dual GPU Improvements Coming to Gnome, Purism Announces Librem Server, FUSE For macOS Goes Closed Source, Life Is Strange 2

Apache Cassandra is a free and open-source NoSQL database with no single point of failure. It provides linear scalability and high availability without compromising performance.

With the end of the year approaching fast, it is a good time to look back at 2019 and go through the most popular articles on Fedora Magazine written by our contributors. In this article of the “Best of 2019” series, we are looking at developers and how to use Fedora to be a great […]

Manage Python packages using Pipenv on Linux.

Software development is a discipline rife with trade-offs. For every choice, there is an equally defensible but opposite choice. Make a method private? You're encouraging copy-paste. Make a method public? You're committing prematurely to an interface. Software developers make hard choices every minute. While all the principles in the Zen of Python cover trade-offs to some extent, the following principles take the hardest, coldest look at some trade-offs.

The Mouse Cursor on the guest VM on Redhat Linux KVM is not pointing or working properly. To resolve this issue, we need to add additional hardware on your guest VM under virt-manager utility. Here's how to do it.

I haven't used the Fast Light Toolkit (FLTK) for anything serious yet, but I'm a fan of the C++ GUI toolkit that's pretty simple to learn and (in my experience) reliable even across updates. When I found out that there was a desktop environment built with FLTK, I was eager to try it—and I was quickly glad I did. The Equinox Desktop Environment (EDE) is a fast and simple desktop written in C++ and FLTK for Unix desktops.

Your Linux terminal probably supports Unicode, so why not take advantage of that and add a seasonal touch to your prompt?

Python had a big year in 2019. According to popular resources like GitHub and Stack Overflow, it's trending as the second most popular language in the world.

Our readers were drawn to these Linux articles (from commands you need to know to magic with SSH) during 2019. Check them out, and you might just learn something new.

If you're reading this in 2019, it's almost Christmas (as celebrated according to the Western Christian calendar), and, like all children and IT professionals, it's time to write your letter to Santa/St. Nick/Father Christmas. Don't forget: those who have been good get nice presents and those who haven't get coal. Coal is not a clean-burning fuel, and with climate change well and truly upon us,1 you don't want to be going for the latter option. read more

In Bash, there are multiple ways to append text to a file. This article explains some of them.

A decade later, has LibreOffice succeeded? With business still hooked on Microsoft Office, not really The LibreOffice team is testing the first release candidate of version 6.4, which is set for release at the end of January.…

The Zen of Python is called that for a reason. It was never supposed to provide easy-to-follow guidelines for programming. The rules are specified tersely and are designed to engage the reader in deep thought. read more

Here are some practical examples you can follow to learn how the netcat command is used in Linux.

BASH script to display animated Christmas tree in Terminal.