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The software featured in this article all produce high quality professional documents. The majority of them rely on LaTeX as their rendering engine. LaTeX is a distinguished typesetting system which is designed for the production of scientific and technical documentation. It employs beautifully crafted typesetting algorithms.

It's smart to learn new skills throughout your life—it keeps your mind nimble and makes you more competitive in the job market. But some skills are harder to learn than others, especially those where small rookie mistakes can cost you a lot of time and trouble when you're trying to fix them. read more

In this tutorial, we’ll be deploying an RDP-enabled Linux host serving as a Remote Desktop on a limited access (no internet connectivity) environment. For that purpose, we’ll be using two mirrored instances of Ubuntu Cloud servers, one online and the other offline, so that the correct packages can be deployed on the offline server.

The developers of the Debian-based AV Linux multimedia oriented GNU/Linux distribution have released a new version and announced some major upcoming changes in the development of the project.

Yaru Colors is a fork of the Yaru theme (default Ubuntu Gtk, icon and Gnome Shell themes) in 11 colors, with each Gtk theme being available in regular and dark versions, great for those who like Yaru, but would like to to use different accent / folder colors. Only the Gnome desktop is supported (not only on Ubuntu, but other Linux distributions as well).

The past decade has been an interesting time for the development of decentralized technologies. Before 2009, the progress was slow and without any clear direction until Satoshi Nakamoto created and deployed Bitcoin. That brought blockchain, the record-keeping technology behind Bitcoin, into the limelight. read more

How to remove old revisions of snaps, and how to set the snap retain value to minimum, to free up disk space.

By furthering its open-source company friendships, Google is making it clear they're much more open-source friendly than Amazon Web Services.

Tutanota is a secure, open source email service that's been available as an app for the browser, iOS, and Android. The client code is published under GPLv3 and the Android app is available on F-Droid to enable everyone to use a completely Google-free version. read more

GlassFish is a fully-fledged open-source reference implementation of Java EE application server for developing and deploying Java-based applications. It supports JPA, JSF, JSP/Servlet, JMS, RMI, as well as many other Java-based technologies. It also provides both web and CLI-based administration consoles for easier configuration and management of your Java applications and their respective components. In this article, we will show you how to install GlassFish on a Linux VPS with Ubuntu 18.04 OS.

The MX Linux development team released a new version of their desktop-oriented, Debian-based operating system that brings latest software and security updates from Debian Stable.

Roderick W. Smith‘s sgdisk command can be used to manage the partitioning of your hard disk drive from the command line. The basics that you need to get started with it are demonstrated below. The following six parameters are all that you need to know to make use of sgdisk’s most basic features: -pPrint the […]

Matomo formerly known as Piwik is a free web analytics application that can be used to tracks online visits to one or more websites and displays reports on these visits for analysis. In this tutorial, I am going to explain how to install Matomo on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS server.

Proprietary software giants with their sponsorships and gifts are more like Trojan horses or parasites striving to infect the host; how can the LF be protected from them?

Another serious security hole in the Magneto e-commerce platform

Like most people in the world, I'm rarely further than an arm's reach from my smartphone. My Android device provides a seemingly limitless number of communication, productivity, and entertainment services thanks to the open source mobile apps I've installed from Google Play and F-Droid.

The Vulture hooks a talon into Microsoft's Edge-y take on Chromium. Having gripped our claws on Microsoft's shiny new Edge browser we have... thoughts. And they aren't all good ones.…

Doing DevOps and doing it at scale are two very different things. Here’s how to push past barriers to wider success.

The best way to choose a virtual private server for your app is to benchmark it. Learn how to benchmark a Linux server and choose which is best for you.

The RK3399-based SOM-RK391 and the Rockchip PX30-based SOM-RP301 are a pair of SOMs launched by Arbor. The boards both support Linux and Android. A carrier board supporting these, and future Arbor Arm-based SOMs is provided as well. Arbor Technology has introduced a pair of System-on-Module (SOM) products both based on Rockchip SoCs, the RK3399-based SOM-RK391 […]