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It would be difficult for anyone who follows Linux and open source to have missed the 20th birthday of open source in early February. This was a dual celebration, actually, noting the passing of 20 years since the term "open source" was first coined and since the formation of the Open Source Initiative (OSI), the organization that decides whether software licenses qualify to wear that label.

Currently, there are more than 300 different Linux operating system distributions available. Each distro serves a slightly different purpose with slightly different bundles of programs for different communities of users. Even though there are hundreds of different versions of Linux, it hasn't been very easy for individual customizers to share them with the community. DistroTweaks, a process that allows users to customize and share Linux, is a better option than what's come before. read more

Video: Ubuntu 18.04 Beta has been released ahead of the final release on 26th April. Here's a video showcasing the new features of Ubuntu 18.04.

Hyperledger Fabric is an open source blockchain framework implementation and one of the Hyperledger projects hosted by The Linux Foundation. It is a platform for distributed ledger solutions. This article aims to simplify Fabric operations by use of Kubernetes. This tool is ideal for the following reasons: read more

Rocket.Chat is a complete team communication platform, a self-hosted Slack alternative. It is built with Meteor and provides various features including helpdesk chat, video conferencing, file sharing, voice messages, API, and more. In this tutorial, we will show you how to deploy Rocket.Chat on a CentOS 7 server and configure Nginx as a SSL reverse proxy.

A new PPA repository that allows easily installing and updating Oracle Java 10 (JDK) in Ubuntu or Linux Mint. Oracle provides Java (JDK) 10 for 64bit only. As a result, using the Oracle Java 10 package in our PPA will only work on 64bit, so don't try to install it on 32bit or ARM because it won't work!

It's a common misconception that contributing to open source is difficult. You might think, "Sometimes I can't even understand my own code; how am I supposed to understand someone else's?" Relax. Until last year, I thought the same thing. Reading and understanding someone else's code and writing your own on top of that can be a daunting task, but with the right resources, it isn't as hard as you might think. The first step is to choose a project. This decision can be instrumental in turning a newbie programmer into a seasoned open sourcer. read more

Learn how to create a LEMP stack, where LEMP is synonym for combination of Linux, Nginx, Mariadb/mysql & php (php-fpm) is known as LEMP.

We will show you how to install MariaDB on CentOS 7. MariaDB is a community-developed fork of MySQL. MariaDB is a free and open source database software, widely used ranging from websites to banking software. It is an improved, drop-in replacement for MySQL. It is one of the most popular database servers in the world, developed after the acquisition of MySQL by Oracle Inc. to sta free and open source. Installing MariaDB on CentOS 7, is an easy task, just carefully follow the steps of this tutorial and should have MariaDB installed on CentOS 7, in less then 10 minutes. Let’s get started!

Hello World is a simple way to start exploring a new programming language, and it's almost always the first program people create. If you're reading this, you're probably new to Redis or Python and want to learn. To help you do that, let's build a "Hello Redis" program. read more

Dave Merritt explains his experience with Linux Mint and how he finds it excellent in doing some basic stuff like customization, updates and system settings.

Luxoft has released an open source version of its Linux- and GENIVI-based PELUX automotive development platform, which runs on an RPi 3 and Intel’s ARP platform, based on an Atom-driven Conga-SA5 COM and a Cyclone V SoC FPGA. The automotive division of Luxoft Holding launched an open source version of its PELUX software suite for […]

Jenkins is a well-known automation server often used for automating tasks involving building, testing, and deploying applications in a continuous integration/continuous development (CI/CD) format. In this tutorial, I will explain how to install and configure Jenkins and create a job that installs PackStack (a proof of concept OpenStack cloud). read more

Solarized turns your Linux terminals and applications into works of art with a simple 16-color palette. It can reduce eye strain associated with staring at a computer monitor for extended periods of time.

News briefs for April 10, 2018.

Red Hat announced today the general availability of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 operating system with new features and security enhancements needed for hybrid cloud environments and the enterprise world.

I've written about simple server-hardening techniques in the past. Those articles were inspired in part by the Linux Hardening in Hostile Networks book I was writing at the time, and the idea was to distill the many different hardening steps you might want to perform on a server into a few simple steps that everyone should do.

Google and Netflix have released Kayenta, an open-source automated canary analysis tool, which promises to make the final step of deploying by using CI/CD more reliable.

DOSBox is a great piece of software that allows users to run a huge collection of very old PC software dating back to the 1980s and 1990s on your Linux system. Versions for Windows, MacOS, and others exist as well.

Abcde makes it easy to rip a CD. It grabs the raw data from your disk and encodes, tags, and makes comments on each track, all according to your preferences.