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It’s always a good idea to start a new year with renewed intentions to be even better users and administrators of our Linux systems. For auld lang syne (for the sake of old times), let's touch on some of the ways we might improve our system practices in 2018.

Dislike Apple's iPhone proprietary software with its battery malware? Tired of having Google look over your shoulder on Android? You're not alone. Gaël Duval, creator of the popular early Linux distribution, Mandrake Linux, is sick and tired of both, so he's building his own Android-based mobile operating system: eelo, an easy-to-use, Google-free, pro-privacy Android clone for your smartphone.

But is anyone actually using it? The Linux Foundation’s Hyperledger project was announced in December 2015. When Apache Web server daddy Brian Behlendorf took the helm five months later, the Foundation’s blockchain baby was still embryonic. He called it “day zero.”…

?For all the music lovers, what better way to enjoy music and relax than to stream your music online. Below are some of the best Linux music players out there you can use to stream music online and how you can get them running on your machine. It will be worth your while.

A well-written tutorial is a great supplement to any software's official documentation. It can also be an effective alternative if that official documentation is poorly written, incomplete, or non-existent. In 2017, Opensource.com published a number of excellent tutorials on a variety of topics. Those tutorials weren't just for experts. We aimed them at users of all levels of skill and experience. Let's take a look at the best of those tutorials. read more

One of the most performed functions during day to day activities of a system admin is data archiving or data compression/Decompression. And normally we use ‘tar’ command to do so but there are other...

The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the January 2018 issue.

If you have ever had the frustrating experience of failing to get a client application to connect to a server the telnet command provides a simple and fast method of debugging where the problem lies.

Talk about a Happy New Year. The reason: it turns out we're not dead. In fact, we're more alive than ever, thanks to a rescue by readers—specifically, by the hackers who run Private Internet Access (PIA) VPN, a London Trust Media company.

If your system dual boots both Windows and Linux, you might notice that it’s impossible to get the system clocks to sync. Fortunately, there’s a relatively easy fix for that.

In 2017, Opensource.com published more than 1,000 articles and welcomed more than 200 new writers. Let's look back at some reader-favorites from 2017. I've picked the top 22 articles and selected the top five resources we've added to the site this year.

The Debian-based siduction Linux operating system has been updated today to version 2018.1.0, the first ISO images for the new year, which bring quite a lot of new features and improvements.

Taking a look back to some of the biggest news stories of the year 2017.

Openness (from open source software, to open hardware, to open principles) is changing the paradigm of education. So, to celebrate all that's gone on this year, I collected 27 of the best articles published on Opensource.com in 2017 on the subject. I divided them into broad themes, rather than ordering them by popularity.

Arch Linux devs don't have time to rest either, so they're kicking off the new year with the first ISO snapshot for 2018, bringing up-to-date components and latest security fixes.

In this tutorial, we will explain how to install and configure OctoberCMS on Ubuntu 16.04 server. OctoberCMS is a free, open source and self hosted content management system written in PHP and based on the Laravel framework.

November rains have given way to December sunshine, Pacific Northwest-style—fog, that is. Fog so wet it drips, so a newcomer could be forgiven for thinking it’s raining. read more

Linus Torvalds Wishes Everyone a Happy New Year, Releases Linux Kernel 4.15 RC6

Do you translate blocks of text by copying them and pasting into Google Translate in a browser? If you do, the script explained here might save you a lot of work. The script relies on translate-shell, a wonderful command-line utility written by Mort Yao and available in the repositories of most distros.

Gaps in software systems are slowing down security teams who are estimated to spend 10 hours a week dealing with the inefficiencies.