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OpenStack Foundation showcases its strategy to go beyond it core open-source cloud roots.

Apache Tomcat is an open source Java Servlet implementation developed by the Apache Software Foundation. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and configure the Apache Tomcat 9.0.8 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver). We will also learn how to install Java on Ubuntu 18.04, configure a user for apache tomcat, and run the apache tomcat as a systemd service.

Matrix is a protocol for decentralized instant messaging that has recently grown in popularity. Matrix can be used for a wide range of communication tasks, such as group chats, video chats, sharing files, and bridging to existing IRC rooms. One of the easiest ways to use Matrix is the RiotIM web client or desktop application.

This tutorial will guide you through installing Python 3 on a CentOS 7 system using the Software Collections (SCL) along side the distribution default Python version 2.7. We will also show you how to create a Python virtual environment.

Claudia Garad is the Executive Director of Wikimedia Österreich, Wikipedia's Austrian chapter. Claudia will deliver Akademy's second keynote on Sunday, 12th of August. Claudia graciously met up with us (Ivana and Paul) to tell us all about her job, how the Wikipedia community works and the challenges it faces. This is what she told us.

RaspAnd developer Arne Exton announced today the release and immediate availability of an updated version of his Android-based operating system for the Raspberry Pi single-board computer.

News briefs for May 29, 2018.

Today on "Cooking with Linux without a Net", I cover (and install) @RocketChat , show you another Linux distribution you've never heard of (Nitrux Linux), and hunt rootkits and perform security audits. Oh, and I crash and burn too. Much fun was had, so watch and enjoy.

Last week, an article on Linux vs. Unix was our most popular read. See what else Opensource.com readers were into.

As we reported on the hints of this happening recently, the SEGA Mega Drive and Genesis Classics is now officially available on Linux.

Shenzhen Xunlong’s open-spec, $25 “Orange Pi 3G-IOT” SBC runs Android 4.4 on a dual Cortex-A7 MediaTek MT6572, and supplies WiFi, BT, GPS, FM, and 3G, along with 40-pin GPIO. If you want a cellular connected hacker board, but don’t have access to or want 2G service and don’t have or can’t afford 4G LTE, Shenzhen Xunlong’s new Orange Pi 3G-IOT may be the “just right” compromise........

Google has promoted today the Chrome 67 web browser for Linux, Mac, and Windows platforms to the stable channel, a release that will be available to users in coming days or weeks.

Looking inside a binary/executable file to grab human-readable strings isn't the kind of work that everybody does, but what if you are asked to do this? Opening the file in an editor, and manually looking for stuff isn't an elegant solution. So, what to do? Yes, you guessed it right - there exists a command line utility that does this for you.

?This article helps you learn about some key features of Linux operating systems so that you are able to choose Linux for your environment. The year 2018 is a crucial year for Linux especially in the high-level segment of the company and consumers/home users. As a Linux user, I can see that operating systems have come a long way. We can certainly expect more exciting times with new flavors.

This article is part of a Go series by Mihalis Tsoukalos. Read part 1: Creating random, secure passwords in Go. read more

If you're a Gnome Shell user and you're missing having a Show Desktop icon on your dock to quickly show / hide all open windows, here's a script to achieve this with the Ubuntu Dock, Dash to Dock, or any dock you may be using.

In this tutorial, we'll learn how to protect your ONLYOFFICE portal with HTTPS using Let's Encrypt, and with two-factor authentication using Twilio service. ONLYOFFICE is an open-source solution that combines powerful online document editors for text documents, spreadsheets and presentations, as well as broad productivity features.

In the first article of this series on using Ansible to configure a workstation, we set up a repository and configured a few basic things. In the second part, we automated Ansible to apply settings automatically when changes are made to our repository. In the third (and final) article in this series, learn how to automate GNOME configuration changes with Ansible.

The tremendous growth of the machine learning field has been driven by the availability of open source tools that allow developers to build applications easily. (For example, AndreyBu, who is from Germany and has more than five years of experience in machine learning, has been utilizing various open source frameworks to build captivating machine learning projects.)

If you want to display different wallpapers on multiple monitors on Ubuntu 18.04 or any other Linux distribution with GNOME, MATE or Budgie desktop environment, this nifty tool will help you achieve this.