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In this week's Top 5, we highlight Linux filesystems, your favorite "old" programming language, running commands at shutdown on Linux, and Perl's new school users and old school history.

After a long break, the developer of the GeckoLinux operating system proudly announced today, November 4, 2016, the general availability of a new set of updated editions of his GeckoLinux Rolling distribution.

The building and nurturing of community is more important to software development than you might think.

The Inforce 6301 COM expands upon the Snapdragon 410 and new 410E, and offers 1GB RAM, 8GB eMMC, WiFi, BT, and GPS for $85, plus $100 for the carrier. Inforce Computing announced its most affordable “Micro SOM” computer-on-module yet with an $85 Inforce 6301 that runs Android or Linaro’s version of Ubuntu Linux on Qualcomm’s […]

Turn back the dial of time a bit. No, keep turning... a little more... there! Over 25 years ago, when some of your professional colleagues were still toddlers, Bram Moolenaar started working on a text editor for his Amiga. He was a user of vi on Unix, but the Amiga didn't have anything quite like it. On November 2, 1991, after three years in development, he released the first version of the "Vi IMitation" editor, or Vim. read more

LibreOffice already offers a galore of fonts, and users can always download and add more. However, if you want to create your own custom font, you can do it easily by using Glyphr. Glyphr is a new open source vector font designer with an intuitive and easy to use graphical interface and a rich set of features that will take care every aspect of the font design. Although the application is still in early development, it is already pretty good. Here’s a quick guide showing how to design your own custom fonts on Glyphr, and how to add them on LibreOffice once you’re done.

Linux and open source has a friend in the "Great White North," and we don't mean one of the McKenzie brothers. As an MP, this friend works to bring awareness of open source to Ottawa as he serves the interests of the people of his district in Quebec.

In my previous article, Learn Perl with this temperature conversion script, I walked readers through a Perl script. When I first began using Scribus—a desktop publishing (DTP) application used to create PDFs for publishing in print or online—Perl was the scripting language I was most familiar with, and I even tried using it with Scribus. read more

There are many differences between open source operating system and closed source operating system. Here we have written few of them.

In our previous two Inkscape articles, we have covered the basics of using Inkscape, creating objects, and doing some basic manipulations and color changes. In this next installment, we are going to put all these new skills together, and create... Continue Reading →

aria2 is a Free, open source, lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source command-line download utility. It supports HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, SFTP, BitTorrent and Metalink.

If you enabled the location tracking feature on your Android device, you don’t even need a dedicated app to generate GPX files for geocorrelating photos.

Containers and microservices have revolutionized application development and infrastructure management. They have also introduced new security challenges without solving the old ones. What are some of the new security challenges, and what can you do about them? read more

CentOS is a Gnu/Linux distribution and derived from RHEL a Red hat distro which is for enterprise. RHEL is a enterprise based while CentOS is totally a community based distribution. Its focus is to provide a free enterprise and community supported computing platform to the users. So how to install CentOS Linux. This tutorial will explain the installation of CentOS.

In 1937, Ronald Coase gave economics something new: a theory for why companies should exist. Oddly, this hadn't come up before.

On May 12, 1996, like a benevolent mad scientist, Brewster Kahle brought the Internet Archive to life. The World Wide Web was in its infancy and the Archive was there to capture its growing pains. Inspired by and emulating the Library at Alexandria, the Internet Archive began its mission to preserve and provide universal access to all knowledge. read more

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 includes new features and enhancements built around performance, security, and reliability. The release also introduces new capabilities around Linux containers and the Internet of Things.

Where do your witty Tweets end up? What about the rest of the content you create inside walled platforms like Facebook, Swarm, and Instagram*? Those posts and images are part of your identity yet they are "lost" in a sense when posted to platforms that aren't open. That's where the IndieWeb comes in; it's based around the idea that you have a personal domain and web space where you post everything first, then you can copy it to third party services, like Twitter. read more

Barr notes that the Linux config is designed for security: there's no remote root access; SSH only runs using key pairs, not passwords; and it's built with a very small number of "non-critical packages.

I sure have been kept busy this year! Here’s my take on Deus Ex: Mankind Divided now that it’s out for Linux.