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Conventional wisdom indicates that writers, photographers, artists, and other creators who share their content for free, under Creative Commons and other open licenses, won't get paid. That means most independent creators don't make any money by publishing their work on the internet. Enter LikeCoin: a new, open source project that intends to make this convention, where artists often have to compromise or sacrifice in order to contribute, a thing of the past. read more

Pillars of Eternity II released earlier this week and I was only able to share some basic thoughts about the experience. Now, with more time sunk into the game I have a more nuanced perspective I can talk about.

Project management app Zenkit is now available as a Snap application for Linux desktop. Zenkit – in case you did not know – is a collaboration tool for managing projects and tasks for work just like Trello. Both Trello and Zenkit are not open source projects.

Mozilla is continuing to fight for net neutrality — in the courts, alongside Americans, and, today, by joining the Red Alert protest. The Red Alert protest raises awareness about net neutrality. In mid-May, the Senate will vote on a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to overturn the FCC’s net neutrality repeal. We’re partnering with organizations like Consumer Reports, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Reddit to encourage Americans to call Congress in support of net neutrality.

The open-source Kubernetes container orchestration is an increasingly deployed platform that is now supported across all three major public cloud providers (Google, AWS and Azure) as well as enterprise private clouds. Container security is a big issue these days, and keeping Kubernetes secure involves multiple aspects. In a video, Brandon Philips, former CTO of CoreOS, talks about how the Kubernetes security team works and responds to vulnerability reports.

More desktops. More boards. More ‘init freedom’ and a long-ish roadmap Devuan Linux, the Debian fork that offers “init freedom” has announced the first release candidate for its second version.…

Right now everybody’s talking about the right way to make the products that we love meet our individual needs AND respect our privacy. At Mozilla, striking this balance has been.....

n this tutorial we will show you how to fix 503 service unavailable error in WordPress, on a Linux based virtual private server. If you encountered 503 service unavailable error in WordPress follow the steps below to investigate it and fix the problem. The 503 service unavailable error has a lot of potential causes. To be able to fix the 503 service unavailable error in WordPress, you will have to identify the root cause of the problem. First, make sure that you have SSH or FTP access to the server, and you are able to modify the WordPress files. Connect to your Linux server and follow the instructions.

Oh, snap! Just because some packages are available to install directly from the Ubuntu Software Center doesn't make them safe. This is proved by a recent discovery of malware in some snap packages from the Ubuntu Snaps Store.

Xenlism theme pack provides an aesthetically pleasing GTK theme, colorful icons, and minimalist wallpapers to transform your Linux desktop into an eye-catching setup.

File Management and Handling file objects are considered to be one of the most tricky tasks in all programming languages. Some programming languages provide us with some tools which abstract away the difficult parts of File Handling with easy to use functions and interfaces. This is exactly what Python‘s shutil module does as well.

Mozilla officially announced today the release of its Firefox 60 web browser as the next ESR (Extended Support Release) series for all supported platforms on the desktop, including Linux, Mac, and Windows.

In preparation for the upcoming Steam Link app release, the Steam Beta Client has been updated with support for the Steam Controller using a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) mode.

Some programming languages (e.g., C) have named functions only, whereas others (e.g., Lisp, Java, and Perl) have both named and unnamed functions. A lambda is an unnamed function, with Lisp as the language that popularized the term. Lambdas have various uses, but they are particularly well-suited for data-rich applications. Consider this depiction of a data pipeline, with two processing stages shown: read more

Think about this situation, you have a Ubuntu server and with your home videos or movies, books and other important files that are worth having a backup. You don’t have enough space on your laptop and also on your server the available space is almost gone. You go to a shop and buy a new HDD to make more space on your server but, when you connect it and you run lsbk you see two different discs on your system and you can’t have for examples home videos1 and home videos2 because you want to get them organized properly.

Google is working on making its Linux-based Android operating system more secure and privacy-aware, and the next major release could finally address a long-overdue privacy issue in the OS.

Cloud infrastructure is quickly becoming an integral business component for nearly every company.

In this edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at Linux for developers coming to Chrome OS, a tool that uses AR to assist surgeons, and more.

It has been more than a decade since the ifconfig command has been deprecated on Linux in favor of the iproute2 project, which contains the magical tool ip. Many online tutorial resources still refer to old command-line tools like ifconfig, route, and netstat. The goal of this tutorial is to share some of the simple networking-related things you can do easily using the ip tool instead. read more

Mozilla released today the Firefox 60 "Quantum" web browser for supported desktop platforms, including GNU/Linux, macOS, and Microsoft Windows, as well as for Google's Android mobile operating system.