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Even though summer is here in the northern hemisphere, we’re not taking any breaks. Firefox continues our focus on making a browser that is smarter and faster than any other...

A lot of years have passed since, back in 2001, Steve Ballmer declared Linux to be a cancer. These days, Microsoft loves Linux. It says so right on its website. Two years ago, Steve Ballmer also proclaimed his love for Linux... That didn’t stop some number of open-source developers from swearing off GitHub and looking for other places to host their projects. GitLab, a minor competitor to GitHub, seemed poised to be the natural beneficiary of this move. In a Twitter post dated June 3rd, it cited that its GitHub to GitLab conversion rate was running at ten times normal.

In this tutorial we’ll will walk you through installing Plex Media Server on Ubuntu 18.04. Plex is a streaming media server that lets you organize your video, music, and photo collections and stream them to all of your devices at anytime and from anywhere.

Gaming has traditionally been one of Linux's weak points. That has changed somewhat in recent years thanks to Steam, GOG, and other efforts to bring commercial games to multiple operating systems, but those games are often not open source. Sure, the games can be played on an open source operating system, but that is not good enough for an open source purist. read more

This tutorial explains the process of installing an open source web analytic application named Matomo (formerly known as Piwik) on a CentOS 7 VPS.

On this episode of This Week in Linux, we take a look at some Distro News with Peppermint 9, Devuan 2.0, GeckoLinux which is based on openSUSE Leap 15 and then we take a closer look at Linux Mint 19 which should release soon.

Splunk is a powerful log database that can be used for searching, monitoring, and analyzing machine-generated big data through a web-interface. It is a very useful tool for analyzing, exploring and searching data. In this tutorial, we will be going to learn how to install Splunk on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) server.

Since its development in the early 2000s, Arduino products like the Uno and Nano have revolutionized what people can make at home with inexpensive and easy-to-use components. Robotics and automation are no longer solely in the realm of engineers; anyone willing to spend the time to learn how these devices work can create their own inventions. read more

We might have come across a situation where we might want to rename user in Linux system, for whatever reasons. We can easily rename user in Linux & also we can rename the home directory or its UID as well.

A cross-vendor framework for edge functionality is no small task If one thing stood out at OpenStack's Vancouver summit in May, it's that the open-source project isn't just about data centre-based cloud computing any more.…

Professional social networking—creating interpersonal connections between work colleagues or professionals—can take many forms and span organizations across industries. Establishing professional networks takes time and effort, and when someone either joins or departs an organization, that person's networks often need to be rebuilt in a new work environment. read more

Once we have our Gitlab server ready, we must be able to perform common operations like the ones mentioned below, 1- Add SSH keys 2- Create/Remove User 3- Create/Remove Groups 4- Create Project

We are big fans of pytest and use it as our default Python testing tool for work and open source projects. For this month's Python column, we're sharing why we love pytest and some of the plugins that make testing with pytest so much fun. What is pytest? As the tool's website says, "The pytest framework makes it easy to write small tests, yet scales to support complex functional testing for applications and libraries." read more

VIDEO: SUSE will soon release the next version of SLES, SUSE Manager 3.2, and SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15.

With any new openSUSE release, I am interested in the improvements that the big applications have made. One of these big applications is LibreOffice. Ever since LibreOffice has forked from OpenOffice.org, there has been a constant delivery of new features and new fixes every 6 months. openSUSE Leap 15 brought us the upgrade from LibreOffice 5.3.3 to LibreOffice 6.0.4. In this post, I will highlight the improvements that I found most newsworthy.

When DeVeDe first starts up, it'll ask you which type of project you want to create. In this instance, the first option, "Video DVD," is the right choice. DeVeDe will open up a new window for your project. The top half of the window is dominated by a huge white field where you can add video files to your project. Below it are controls that allow you to control format and give you an idea as to how large the resulting image will be.

News briefs for June 25, 2018.

Rose-tinted spectacles ON. Nope, not doing anything. Windows 98 turns 20 today. However, rose-tinted spectacles still don't make a hybrid 16 and 32 bit OS tottering on top of MS-DOS any more appealing.…

Libre Computer unveiled a “ROC-RK3399 (Renegade Elite)” SBC that runs Android Oreo or mainline Linux 4.19+ and offers GbE with PoE, HDMI 2.0, 2x USB Type-C with DP, 3x USB 2.0, and dual 60-pin headers.

Here's what Opensource.com readers were most interested in the week of June 18-24. Our articles covered topics ranging from Dropbox to Portable Apps, with an IoT electronics kit giveaway from SparkFun thrown into the mix.