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In his Lightning Talk, "How to jump-start a career in open source," at All Things Open 2018, October 23 in Raleigh, NC, Eric D. Schabell says the most important thing in advancing your career is a lesson most people learn in preschool: "Sharing is caring." read more

Exe 20181226 has been released. Exe GNU/Linux is a Debian-based desktop Linux distribution. Its primary goal is to provide a Debian variant that ships with a slightly re-themed Trinity desktop environment (a fork of KDE 3), as well as several useful scripts and utilities. It offers LXDE as an alternative desktop. It uses the official Debian repositories, as well as the Trinity mirror for updating the desktop environment. In late 2017, the distribution re-based itself on Devuan, using the official Devuan repositories.

In this guide we will show you how to install Tomcat on an Ubuntu 18.04 VPS. Tomcat is an open source web server and servlet container developed by the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) that executes Java servlets and renders Web pages that include Java server page coding.

Swap is a space on a disk that is used when the amount of physical RAM memory is full. When a Linux system runs out of RAM, inactive pages are moved from the RAM to the swap space. Swap space can take the form of either a dedicated swap partition or a swap file. Usually when running Debian virtual machine a swap partition is not present so the only option is to create a swap file.

Apache Tomcat is an opensource web server used to server Java Applications. It is an opensource implementation of Java Servlet, Java Server Pages and Java Expression Language.

In the following article, we will see how we can provide data on the use of our .deb packages to the Debian team through popularity-contest. Obviously, the fact of providing the data of the packages that we use the most will be optional and totally anonymous.

It's not that simple to install the latest Ubuntu on a Raspberry Pi, not unless you install RaspEX, an Ubuntu 18.04+ image built specifically for the Pi.

I have made a new version of ExTiX - The Ultimate Linux System. I call it ExTiX 19.1 KDE/Kodi Live DVD. (The previous KDE version was 18.6 from 180602). The best thing with ExTiX 19.1 is that while running the system live (from DVD/USB) or from hard drive you can use Refracta Tools (pre-installed) to create your own live installable Ubuntu system...

Anaconda is the opensource package manager and distribution of Python and R Programming language. Anaconda is mainly designed for Data Science and Machine Learning and used for large-scale data processing, predictive analysis, and scientific computing.

One year later, the Freescale and NXP PowerPC microprocessors are now protected against the variant 2 of the Spectre vulnerability.

This is the ninth article in a series about migrating code from Perl 5 to Perl 6. This article examines the subtle differences in visibility of subroutines between Perl 5 and Perl 6 and the (gradual) typing core feature of Perl 6. read more

When dealing with large amounts of large data, treating them as objects is the way to do it. It's also much easier to manage. In fact, this is how the cloud functions—with objects. This object-drive model enables Ceph for simplified scalability to meet consumer demand easily. These objects are replicated across an entire cluster of nodes, giving Ceph its fault-tolerance and further reducing single points of failure.

In this article, we will explain how you can use the stat command to view when a specific file was last accessed. We have run the commands and procedures mentioned in this article on a Ubuntu 18.04 LTS system.

Sophia Armstrong, a computer science major at East Carolina University, provided an overview of BigchainDB in her Lightning Talk, "Blockchain database for a cybersecurity learning environment," at All Things Open 2018, October 23 in Raleigh, NC. read more

Minecraft is one of the most popular games of all time. It is a sandbox video game about placing blocks and going on adventures. This tutorial covers the installation and configuration of the Minecraft Server on Ubuntu 18.04.

On DL101, we discuss some distro news for Peppermint Linux, GParted Live & Ubuntu. We cover app news for Firefox, VirtualBox and discuss Photography on Linux and pros/cons of Headerbars & much more!

BookStack is a free and open source knowledge management platform that can be used for creating documentation and wikis content for your users. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install Bookstack with Apache in Ubuntu 18.04 server.

Building custom apps in Python on Fedora — using either a Python IDE that helps you learn understand the language, or a popular editor that also works with many other languages. And what about Rust — a very fast and safe programming language. Yes, it’s been a whole year again! What a great time to […]

Valve released some interesting lists today which show off some top games, these lists show some interesting details about Linux games.

Headset is a music player for the desktop that connects with the huge catalogue of music available from YouTube. Users can search through this collection of music, play what they find and save tracks/playlists. Headset can also read popular music subreddits and play the tracks in sequence.