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This tutorial shows how to install Opera web browser on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. The tutorial shows the installation on the command line and GUI.

Nginx Server Blocks allows you to run more than one website on a single machine. This is extremely useful, because for each site you can specify the site document root (the directory which contains the website files), create a separate security policy, use different SSL certificates and much more.

You can use your Linux desktop to share your wired Internet connection wirelessly, by creating a Wi-Fi hotspot. This allows your computer to act like a wireless router, allowing other devices to connect to the Internet via its Wi-Fi.

Moving from Python 2 to 3? Here's what you need to know about strings and their role in in your upgrade.

GIMP is a fantastic artist's tool for editing digital images, especially with the bevy of impressive features in the recent release of version 2.10. Of course, like all creative applications, you can get working more quickly if you can make yourself familiar with the various keyboard shortcuts and hotkeys available. GIMP, of course, gives you the ability to customize these shortcuts to match what you're personally comfortable with. However, the default shortcuts that GIMP ships with are impressive and generally easy to get used to. read more

Anyone who’s administered a Linux server for a certain amount of time is familiar with the “grep” command. With Linux’s philosophy of “Everything is a file”, grep becomes crucial to traversing log files, configuration files, checking for certain errors in output files, and getting the number of matches.

Video: No, protesting programmers are not removing code from Linux; there are no purges of politically incorrect Linux kernel developers. And Linus Torvalds is coming back.

The Fedora Project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Fedora 29 Beta, the next big step on our journey to the exciting Fedora 29 release. Download the prerelease from our Get Fedora site: Get Fedora 29 Beta Workstation Get Fedora 29 Beta Server Get Fedora 29 Beta Silverblue Or, check out one of […]

I recently stumbled on the Audiophile Linux project, one of a number of special-purpose music-oriented Linux distributions. Audiophile Linux: is based on ArchLinux provides a real-time Linux kernel customized for playing music uses the lightweight Fluxbox window manager avoids unnecessary daemons and services read more

Installing the Rust programming language on your Linux systems could turn out to be one of the more rewarding things you've done in years.

iWave’s “iW-RainboW-G30M” compute module runs Linux on a quad -A53 Zynq UltraScale+ SoC with 192K to 504K FPGA logic cells. The module ships with 6GB DDR4 and 8GB eMMC and supports -40 to 85°C temperatures. iWave has posted details on a computer-on-module built around Xilinx’s 64-bit, hybrid Arm/FPGA based Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC.

Long story short, following a serious of expletive-drenched outbursts, bickering and other misunderstanding, Linus Torvalds has come forward with an apology, and has decided to temporarily step away from the leadership position as the benevolent dictator for life, to rest, reflect on his (rude) behavior, and seek help. In other words, this is a monumental moment in history.

Most people (will) focus on the expletives part of this incident and the subsequent apology, but they are actually missing the bigger picture. It's not about the use of the English language, it is what will happen because of the use of that language. It's about the future of the Linux kernel.

/e/, a Google-free fork of Android, reached a milestone this month with its initial ROM release. It's available for download, so you can kick the tires, with nightly builds delivered via OTA (over the air) updates.

The primary goal for a Hackfest is to facilitate software development collaboration and knowledge sharing between participants, with an eye towards reflecting all ideas and conclusions back outward to the public open source community afterward.

News briefs September 24, 2018.

Linux is a very popular topic among computer geeks, especially FOSS enthusiast. It is a kernel that manages the computer hardware at the lowest level. Many associates Linux as another popular Operating System like Microsoft Windows and OS X. It is invented by a Finnish computer science student Linus Torvalds on September 17, 1991, and around that time, there arose the need for creating a Linux logo in the year 1996.

SOPlanning is a free, open source and Simple Online Planning tool specially designed to efficiently organize projects and tasks. In this tutorial, I am going to explain how to install SOPlanning on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS server.

Big telecoms want to make sure that when 5G is rolled out wholesale, that data centers are ready to handle expected new use cases from the edge. To make sure of that, they're developing software designed to get the job done and are releasing it as open source.

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Recently we added two new cheat sheets to our growing cheat sheet collection: Learn the i3 Linux window manager shortcuts Python 3.7 beginner's cheat sheet Do you have an idea for a new cheat sheet? Let us know about it: open@opensource.com. read more