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I've spent several hours now, enjoying the sometimes frustrating new game, Guard Duty, from Sick Chicken Studios. Did I say "frustrating"? Because I meant it, but in a good way. The Sick Chicken people have spent way too many hours watching Monty Python and reading Terry Pratchett novels, and it shows. They also have a thing for golden-age point-and-click games, classic 320x240 resolution pixel art, all combined with comedic and sometimes touching storytelling.

I like a good challenge. The Open Source Stories team came to me with a great one: Create a hardware project where students could create their own thing that would be put together as a larger thing. The students would be middle school girls. My job was to figure out the hardware and make this thing make sense. read more

To make any configuration changes, you have to open and edit the file. In this article, I will describe how to edit config files in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Using Gedit, Nano, Vim, Gvim, and Emacs Editor.

Video: If we're to ever have 5G in the real world, it's going to be running on Kubernetes.

?VidCutter is available for all major operating systems including Linux. On Linux, Vidcutter flatpak and snap both are available. Source code is available at github.

Icecast is a free, open source and most popular media streaming server that supports Ogg, Opus, WebM, MP3, and many more. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install Icecast media streaming server on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS server.

Libraries, schools, colleges, and other organizations that provide public computers need a good way to manage users' access—otherwise, there's no way to prevent some people from monopolizing the machines and ensure everyone has a fair amount of time. This is the problem that Libki was designed to solve. read more

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Open Web Analytics on a Debian 9 VPS.

Open Web Analytics is an open-source traffic analysis tool that helps website owners analyze how visitors use their websites. Open Web Analytics also allows owners to track their website’s visitors, including mouse movements, scrolling, and key-presses. Installing Open Web Analytics on Debian 9Additionally, Open Web Analytics has built-in support for tracking websites that are created with popular content management systems, such as WordPress and MediaWiki.

Mozilla also plans to be more aggressive towards taking down extensions that break its policies, with a focus on security issues.

Considering how critically important the Linux kernel is to the world—and, perhaps just as important, to our own personal computers and gadgets—it's rather amazing how little most people actually know about it.

Python is one of the most popular programming languages in use today—and for good reasons: it's open source, it has a wide range of uses (such as web programming, business applications, games, scientific programming, and much more), and it has a vibrant and dedicated community supporting it.

Open source use continues to skyrocket, not just in use cases and scenarios but also in volume. It is trivial for a developer to depend on a 1,000 JavaScript packages from a single run of npm install or have thousands of packages in a Docker image. At the same time, there is increased interest in ensuring license compliance. 

NVMe drives have paved the way for computing at stellar speeds, but the technology didn't suddenly appear overnight. It was through an evolutionary process that we now rely on the very performant SSD for our primary storage tier.

Three kernel developers describe what it's really like to work on the kernel, how they interact with developers from other companies, some pet peeves and how to get started.

Doc Searls talks to Zhen, Devon and Melora Lofretto of KidOYO and Doctor Michael Nagler, superintendent of the Mineola Public School system in Mineola Long Island.

At DockerCon 19, the CEO of Docker provides some clarity on a breach that impacted his company, as it prepares to move forward with new application development and cloud native technology efforts.

Copying files and directories is one of the most common tasks you’ll perform when working on the command line. In Linux, there are several commands for copying files with cp and rsync being the most popular.

For this article, let's take a look at the KmPlot plotting program. KmPlot is part of the EDU suite of programs from the KDE project, and it was designed to plot functions and interact with them to learn about their behavior...

Perhaps the most famous Linux/open-source logo after Tux the Linux Penguin, Red Hat's Shadowman is being replaced by -- naturally -- a Red Hat.

MEN Micro’s Linux-friendly “MC50I“ is a highly rugged DIN-rail industrial computer with an Intel Apollo Lake SoC, 3x GbE ports, M.2 NVMe storage, and modular I/O extensions. The fanless MC50I industrial computer is primarily intended as a 35mm DIN-rail computer, but it also ships with optional wall- and 19-inch rack mounting. The 144 x 132 […]