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Back in the stone age of the Internet when I first created my first business website, life was good. I installed Apache and created a few simple HTML pages that stated a few important things about my business and gave important information like an overview of my product and how to contact me. It was a static website because the content seldom changed. Maintenance was simple because of the unchanging nature of my site. read more

GNOME/Red Hat developer Bastien Nocera reports on the latest Bluetooth improvements that he and his team managed to implement for GNU/Linux distributions lately.

Some applications don’t show up in your Application menu. This article shows you how to create a .desktop file in Linux so you can launch your favorite apps from the Application menu.

VIDEO: This week we address the FCC rolling back Net Neutrality rules. App News for GIMP, Firejail, mutt and more. Distro News from MX Linux, Kubuntu & Q4OS. Linux Gaming news including Rocket League bugs.

IETF RFC writes-out weak Diffie-Hellman A recent Request for Comment at the Internet Engineering Task Force calls for SSH developers to deprecate 1,024-bit moduli.…

When I first discovered open source, the idea of building a business around it seemed counterintuitive. However, as I grew more familiar with the movement, I realized that open source software companies were not an anomaly, rather a result of the freedoms open source offers. As GNU project founder Richard Stallman said of free software, it's "a matter of liberty, not price." Open source is, above all, about the unhindered liberty to create. read more

Kubernetes, the open-source, production-grade container orchestration system for automating scaling, deployment, and management of containerized apps, has been updated to version 1.9.

Unless, of course, you like killing your machines. Here are infamous commands that enable anyone with root access to wreak havoc. A word of caution: Never, ever run any of these on a production system. They will harm your system. Don’t try this at home! Don’t try it at the office, either.

If you use Firefox instead of Chrome, do you do so because you prefer Mozilla's stance on privacy? Some loyal Firefox users and even employees were up in arms after Mozilla surreptitiously installed the add-on Looking Glass last week. It didn't happen to all Firefox users, but the ones affected did not give the browser permission to install it.

If you don’t posses the right knowledge & the experience, then finding the best Linux laptop can be a daunting task. And thus you can easily end-up with something that looks great, features great performance, but struggles to cope with ‘Linux’, shame!

Kubernetes, the cloud container orchestration program, expands even further and has grown more stable. Earlier this year, Kubernetes knocked off the last of its rivals and became the cloud container orchestration program. And, since Amazon Web Services (AWS) has adopted Kubernetes, the container management program is available on all serious cloud platforms. So, it couldn't be a better time for Kubernetes 1.9 to arrive.

As 2017 draws to a close, we look at some of the reasons why the use of open source software is growing and will continue to grow in the year ahead.

MKVToolNix, the open-source and cross-platform collection of tools developed by Moritz Bunkus for manipulating the MKV (Matroska) media container format, received its last release in 2017.

What are containers? Do you need them? Why? In this article, we aim to answer some of these basic questions.

Axiomtek’s Linux-friendly “CEM510” is a COM Express Type 6 module with Kaby Lake-H CPUs, -40 to 85ºC and triple display support, and an optional carrier. The CEM510 updates Axiomtek’s Intel Skylake based CEM500, offering the same 125 x 95mm COM Express Type 6 form factor and almost identical features. It ships with a new “CEB94011” […]

-New release of popular desktop Linux operating system, improves commonly used utilities to enhance the overall experience.

Discourse is a free and open source software for creating Internet forum community and mailing list. In this tutorial, we will show you step-by-step, how to install and configure Discourse Forum with Nginx Web server under the CentOS 7 server.

In the first article in this series, I explained how to use Python to create a simple, text-based dice game. In the second part, we began building a game from scratch, starting with creating the game's environment. And, in the third installment, we created a player sprite and made it spawn in your (rather empty) game world.

Earlier we have learned about how we can configure apache as reverse proxy. As discussed earlier, Reverse proxy is a kind of a proxy that takes http or https request & transfers/distributes them to one or more backend servers.

Here are best video editors for Linux, their feature, pros and cons and how to install them on your Linux distributions.