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Virtualbox allows you to run a virtual machine on your PC. This shows how to install Virtualbox on Ubuntu and install and run virtual machine on your PC.

"Linux Sucks" Not

Funny, entertaining, and accurate. Worth the 50 minutes it takes to watch this video.

WordPress is the most popular open source blogging and CMS platform worldwide, powering a quarter of all websites on the internet today. It is based on PHP and MySQL and packs a ton of features that can be extended with free and premium plugins and themes. WordPress is the simplest way to create your online store, website, or blog.

UBports is currently working on the sixth OTA (Over-the-Air) update to their Ubuntu Touch port for Ubuntu Phone devices, and they recently put out a call for testing.

In what might be its last acquisition as an independent company, Red Hat has purchased Israel-based multi-cloud storage software company NooBaa.

Thanks to 'dark patterns' and 'nudging', no doesn't mean no. Seven European consumer organisations have filed a blockbuster complaint arguing that Google's location tracking in Android lacks a valid legal basis in the European Union.…

The State of Mozilla annual report for 2017 is now available here. The new report outlines how Mozilla operates, provides key information on the ways in which we’ve made an impact, and includes details from our financial reports for 2017.

In the aftermath of being purchased by IBM, Red Hat keeps making hybrid-cloud moves.

Renowned Linux kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman announced the end of life of the Linux 4.18 kernel series, urging users to upgrade their distributions to a newer kernel as soon as possible.

OpenSnitch is an open source alternative to Little Snitch of macOS. It lets you control internet access per application basis. Read the full review of OpenSnitch.

Simply trusting that code taken from an upstream Github project repository is safe, is not a good practise for maintaining application security.

In this guide, we’ll show you how to install and configure the latest version of Joomla! Content Management System on Debian 9.

Amazon Web Services open-sources its new Firecracker lightweight hypervisor technology based on KVM, in an effort to help improve serverless security and performance.

Every time I tell my friends about my hobby—which became my career as the executive director at The Document Foundation—I face lots of questions. A worldwide community? Contributors around the globe? An open source community? Can you eat that?! read more

Firefox ESR (Extended Support Release) is an official version of Firefox that doesn't come with the latest features, but instead focuses on security and stability fixes. This article explains how to install Firefox ESR in Ubuntu or Linux Mint, using an official PPA or using Snap packages.

Garz & Fricke unveiled a compact “Nallino Core” SBC that runs Linux on an i.MX6 ULL SoC and offers LAN, USB, CAN, and serial I/O. G&F is also prepping a i.MX6 Solo based “SANTVEND Battery Core” SBC with a 4G modem. Braunschweig, Germany based embedded vendor Garz & Fricke has posted specs for a “coming […]

Transparency is key in an open organization. This isn't a controversial statement. But is too much transparency in an organization possible? read more

pytest turns out to be easy to use, easy to work with and easy to integrate into my work. Part of the reason for this is that pytest abandons the Python idea of "there's only one way to do it", giving developers a great degree of flexibility and freedom in choosing how to write tests.

If you are a Linux system admin, or your work involves managing users, there are many tools that you should be aware of. Once such command line utility is finger, basics of which we'll be discussing here in this tutorial.

Bio-Linux was introduced and detailed in a Nature Biotechnology paper in July 2006. The distribution was a group effort by the Natural Environment Research Council in the UK. As the creators and authors point out, the analysis demands of high-throughput “-omic” (genomic, proteomic, metabolomic) science has necessitated the development of integrated computing solutions to analyze the resultant mountains of experimental data. read more