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Drupal is one of the leading open source CMS platforms worldwide. It is flexible, scalable and can be used to build different types of websites ranging from small personal blogs to large corporate, political, and government sites.

Some fresh news about a wonderful open source game engine this morning, as OpenRCT2 for RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 has a new release out.

News briefs for March 15, 2019.

Google has released the first beta version of its upcoming Android 10 or Android Q mobile operating system series to give the community an early look at the upcoming features and improvements.

Most people install some form of Linux when they set up a Raspberry Pi computer. Until recently, the installation tools for creating a bootable SD card were only available for Windows and MacOS desktops. If you were running Linux on your desktop, you got a page of instructions on doing it manually from the command line. read more

Daylight Linux is the only official distribution for the Raspberry Pi to work with the Fluxbox interface. With Fluxbox, Daylight Linux is one of the lightest and fastest distributions for all Raspberry Pi models.

Museeks is an Electron based cross-platform music player using React.js as its user interface framework, as well as Node.js and TypeScript.

In this short tutorial we examine the PATH variable. We discuss what it is, it's basic function, how to add and delete directories from your PATH, and demonstrate the benefits of PATH.

Five projects you can take on with your team or your kids on Pi Day or any day of the year.

Canonical released a new Linux kernel update for the long-term supported Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) operating system series to address a recently discovered security vulnerability.

Did the world really need two enterprise JavaScript foundations? No. No, it didn't. So, now, under the auspices of the Linux Foundation, JS Foundation and Node.js Foundation have come together to form the OpenJS Foundation.

Nginx is an open source, lightweight, high-performance the fastest growing web server around the world. In this tutorial, we will explain some popular Nginx server security tips and tricks.

After disbanding community participation in the Board (but there are Microsoft staff on the Board now) the “Linux Foundation” (or Zemlin PAC) continues to take Microsoft money and polishes or launders that as “community”

Valve is getting ahead of the game with GDC fast approaching, with two bits of Steam news coming in hot today and some of it is open source too.

Seco announced a 3.5-inch “SBC-C43” that runs Linux or Android on an up to hexa-core i.MX8 with up to 8GB soldered DDR4 and 32GB eMMC plus WiFi/BT, 2x GbE, 3x USB, HDMI 2.0 in and out, 2x M.2, and -40 to 85°C support. We’ve seen about a half dozen compute modules based on the high-end, […]

I'm not afraid to admit it. When I first started getting flooded with these advertisements, it hacked me off. It was an advertisement for a "revolutionary new product" that will change the way you use your computer. Anyone wanna take a guess as to what this "revolutionary new product might be"?

For this article, I want to introduce a piece of software I've actually used recently in my own work. My new day job involves studying the ionosphere using an instrument called an ionosonde... Several methods exist for modeling the electromagnetic fields around conductors, but here I'm covering one called NEC2 (Numerical Electromagnetics Code).

After its regular 6-month development cycle, GNOME 3.32 will be released today. If you want to find out what new features and improvements are included with this release, read on.

Most managers and agile coaches depend on metrics over feedback from their teams, users, and even customers. In fact, quite a few use feedback and metrics synonymously, where they present feedback from teams or customers as a bunch of numbers or a graphical representation of those numbers. This is not only unfortunate, but it can be misleading as it presents only part of the story and not the entire truth. read more

PDF or Portable Document Format is mostly our first choice when it comes to printing, sharing and emailing documents, especially the large ones. In this article, we will explain how to create a PDF file, convert a document to PDF and how to edit PDF files on Ubuntu.