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In this article, we will explain how you can install the DropBox application on your Ubuntu system, both through the UI and the command line.

If your organization is struggling to take advantage of the open source software (OSS) market, here are some proven ways it can help you achieve truly transformative success particularly if you are implementing DevOps. 1. New opportunities Commercial software and OSS both provide common capabilities as a commodity to all competitors in a market. However, OSS is distinguished in at least two important ways: read more

GSConnect, the Gnome extension which integrates Android devices with your Gnome desktop, was updated to version 15 recently, which includes a rewritten Gnome Shell UI, a new feature which allows sending keyboard events from the Gnome desktop to Android devices, along with some other improvements.

The KDE Project announced the third point release of the latest stable KDE Plasma 5.14 desktop environment series, a bugfix update that continues the trend of improving the stability and reliability of this widely used desktop environment for Linux-based operating systems.

This is the seventh in a series of articles about migrating code from Perl 5 to Perl 6. This article looks at how to create classes (objects) in Perl 6 and how it differs from Perl 5. read more

Sometimes, you may want to view the contents of a compressed file without uncompressing it first. Well, you'll be glad to know Linux offers a command line utility that lets you do this. In this tutorial, we will discuss the basics of the zmore command using some easy to understand examples.

Everything that is currently known about the new release of Ubuntu - 19.04

Should kids be technically literate? Of course! Is the best way to teach them this skill by turning them into programmers? Well, that's a tougher question. First, to be blunt, in much of the world, even in affluent areas, schools are not equipped to handle this task. Aside from lacking the physical technology, many also are lacking in adequate staffing resources in order to teach programming courses. read more

Nextcloud is an open source, self-hosted file share and collaboration platform, similar to Dropbox. It comes bundled with media player, calendar and contact management. Nextcloud is extensible via apps and has desktop and mobile clients for all major platforms.

Searching for files in Linux can be a bit clunky. A new search utility, FSearch, aims to change all that with quick and accurate searches. Check it out here.

We've made significant strides toward the long-rumored paperless society, but we still need to print hard copies of documents from time to time. If you're a Linux user and have a printer without a Linux installation disk or you're in the market for a new device, you're in luck. That's because most Linux distributions (as well as MacOS) use the Common Unix Printing System (CUPS), which contains drivers for most printers available today. This means Linux offers much wider support than Windows for printers. read more

New statements from Microsoft's management (Andersen) serve to show that Microsoft hasn't really changed; it's just trying to sell "Azure IP Advantage", hoping that enough patent trolls with their dubious software patents will blackmail GNU/Linux users into adopting Azure for 'protection'

Dmitry's idea is that users should be able to set the day and time on their virtual systems, without worrying about other systems being given the same day and time. This is actually useful, beyond the desire to live in the past or future. Being able to set the time in a container is apparently one of the crucial elements of being able to migrate containers from one physical host to another, as Dmitry pointed out in his post.

News briefs for November 7, 2018.

VMware is positioning itself to be a leader in the next generation of the cloud, enabling multicloud with Kubernetes based technology.

Gumstix has expanded its Linux-oriented Geppetto online embedded board development platform with a free “Board Builder” service that offers a checklist interface for selecting modules, ports, and more. Gumstix has added a free Board Builder service to its Geppetto Design-to-Order (D2O) custom board design service. The Board Builder improvements make the drag-and-drop Geppetto interface even […]

Most Linux users have heard about the open source RISC-V ISA and its potential to challenge proprietary Arm and Intel architectures. Most are probably aware that some RISC-V based CPUs, such as SiFive’s 64-bit Freedom U540 found on its HiFive Unleashed board, are designed to run Linux. What may come as a surprise, however, is how quickly Linux support for RISC-V is evolving.

Backup and Sync are have become essential today and this brings tools like rsync. Rsync is an amazing tool to sync files between 2 computers. But wouldn’t it be cooler if we could sync files from a computer to a cloud storage. This is where rclone - a mod of rsync comes in. Rclone can sync files from your computer to cloud-based storage services including google drive, one drive, drop-box, amazon drive and many more.

Epic Games have released Unreal Engine 4.21 and it includes some interesting stuff on the Linux side of things.

Opensource.com set a couple of big new records in October, with 1,025,814 unique visitors (our first time with more than a million visitors) and 1,574,964 page views. We published 94 articles last month, and welcomed 25 new writers. More than 63% of our content was contributed by members of the open source community, and our community moderators contributed 22 articles.