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In this edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at funding for open source quantum computing, an alliance for open source smart cities, and more.

News briefs for July 6, 2018.

Millions of WordPress sites around the world were at risk from a pair of related file deletion vulnerabilities, that could have potentially enabled an attacker to delete arbitrary files.

ONLYOFFICE is a free and open-source office suite that provides an alternative for three major MS Office apps—Word, Excel and PowerPoint—working online.

A new Wine Project has rolled out which is compatible with your Android devices. Learn how you can run Windows apps on your Android device now with Wine.

Dirk Hohndel, VP and Chief Open-Source Officer at VMware discusses how the software firm manages and contributes open-source code.

In this tutorial we will show you how to list and filter installed packages on Ubuntu.

Marker is a free and open source GTK3 Markdown editor designed with the Gnome desktop in mind. While the application is still in early development, it already includes most of the things you'd need in a Markdown editor.

In this article, we will show you how to enable proxy settings for yum command on a CentOS 7 server. Yum is a package manager tool that works with RPM packages. It is available on RedHat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, and older versions of Fedora, and it is the most convenient way to handle OS packages and its dependencies on these operating systems.

Five areas where blockchain projects are showing tangible progress, including supply chain, real estate, and healthcare

Ansible is  an extremely popular open-source configuration management and software automation project. While IT professionals almost certainly use Ansible on a daily basis, its influence outside the IT industry is not as wide. Ansible is a powerful and flexible tool. It is easily applied to a task common to nearly every desktop computer user: the […]

In this tutorial, I will show you step-by-step how to create a docker image for an existing Django application project in Ubuntu 16.04. We will learn about dockerizing a python Django application, and then deploy the application as a container to the docker environment using a docker-compose script.

Have you ever wondered whether Linux is strong enough to secure your system? This is a frequently asked question especially for those starting out with Linux. The answer is yes. But the second consideration here narrows down to, what is your experience level with Linux if you can configure some of its firewalls or just the capability to use these firewalls which sometimes can be a nut to crack.

Mozilla released the first minor maintenance update to the recently launched Firefox 61 "Quantum" web browser series to address a few annoyances reported by users lately and also add some enhancements.

In this article, we award 42 medals to superb open source educational software. We identify free software ideally suited for young people, parents, teachers, academics, and administrators – basically anyone involved in education.

When an app misbehaves, it is best to kill it before it crashes the system. Check out the various ways you can use to kill a process in Linux.

Writing code for every function in a software can be time consuming and expensive, so many C++ developers prefer to use libraries which contain modules for different applications to increase productivity. While there are already some libraries integrated with the standard C++ programming language, one of the most popular sources of C++ portable libraries is Boost, https://www.boost.org .

Canonical's Adam Conrad announced that the Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark) operating system is about to reach end of life next week on July 19, 2018.

Reading the source is an important part of open source software. It means users have the ability to look at the code and see what it does. But "read the source" doesn't apply only to code. Understanding the standards the code implements can be just as important. These standards are codified in documents called "Requests for Comments" (RFCs) published by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Thousands of RFCs have been published over the years, so we collected a few that our contributors consider must-reads.

Back in 2014, I wrote about wallabag, an open source alternative to read-it-later applications like Instapaper and Pocket. Go take a look at that article if you want to. Don't worry, I'll wait for you. Done? Great! In the four years since I wrote that article, a lot about wallabag has changed. It's time to take a peek to see how wallabag has matured.