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In this guide, we will explain how to install Magento 2 on an Ubuntu 14.04 VPS with MariaDB, PHP-FPM and Nginx. This guide should work on other Linux VPS systems as well but was tested and written for an Ubuntu 14.04 VPS.

Birthdays mark time. They ask us to look back—at our accomplishments and stumbles, our histories and their invaluable lessons. They also encourage us to look forward—to our dreams and goals, our futures and the promise they hold.

WordPress.com is fully open source and on GitHub as the result of a revamp of the popular blogging website by Automaticc, which has rewritten WordPress.com to work like a mobile app rather than a traditional website.

We've created the following tutorial at the request of our readers who asked as to post some easy-to-follow instructions on how to install the next-generation Unity 8 user interface on the Ubuntu Linux operating system.

ownCloud is a self-hosted open source file sync and share server. Like "big boys" Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, and others, ownCloud lets you access your files, calendar, contacts, and other data. You can synchronize everything (or part of it) between your devices and share files with others.

Today, December 1, 2015, Google announced that they will no longer provide 32-bit DEB packages of the Google Chrome web browser for select GNU/Linux operating systems.

We're happy to announce the general availability of Oracle Linux 7 Update 2, the second update release for Oracle Linux 7. You can find the individual RPM packages on the Unbreakable Linux Network (ULN) and the Oracle Linux Yum Server and ISO installation images are available for download from the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud.

The developers behind the Enlightenment open-source desktop environment had the great pleasure of announcing the release and immediate availability for download of the final release of Enlightenment 0.20.0.

In today's open source roundup: How Netflix checks Linux performance issues. Plus: How to install Unity 8 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 15.10. And Google ends support for Chrome on 32-bit Linux, Ubuntu 12.04 and Debian 7

In this tutorial, I will show you how to use the Linux ftp command on the shell. I will show you how to connect to an FTP server, up- and download files and create directories. While there are many nice desktops FTP clients available, the ftp command is still useful when you work remotely on a server over an SSH session and e.g. want to fetch a backup file from your FTP storage.

Rocks and a stick? That’s a curious way to express Linux, the kernel that is the center of the majority of supercomputers around the world. I’ve heard it expressed or compared a lot of ways, but I don’t think “rocks and a stick” was one of them — up until then at least. But he’s not alone in his way of thinking. I remember a conversation I had with a colleague in 2005 who held the same view and went so far as to stop working with our newly-formed organization. He stated that he would not put his efforts into a losing cause.

iWave has announced an industrial temperature Qseven form-factor module that runs Linux on the new, dual-core, Cortex-A15 Renesas RZ/G1-M SoC. Bangalore, India based iWave Systems is typically associated here with SODIMM-style computer-on-modules based on Freescale SoCs, such as the iW-RainboW-G18M-SODIMM i.MX6UL. For its new iW-RainboW-G20M-Q7 module, iWave is branching out with a Qseven form factor […]

Mutt is an open-source email client written for Linux/UNIX terminal environment. Together with Alpine, Mutt has the most devoted followers among Linux command-line enthusiasts, and for good reasons. Think of anything you expect from an email client, and Mutt has it: multi-protocol support (e.g., POP3, IMAP and SMTP), S/MIME and PGP/GPG integration, threaded conversation, color […]Continue reading... The post How to use Mutt email client with encrypted passwords appeared first on Xmodulo. Related FAQs: How to PGP encrypt, decrypt or digitally sign files via GnuPG GUI How to enable user authentication for a Postfix SMTP server with SASL How to set up Clam Antivirus, SpamAssassin and MailScanner on Ubuntu mail server How to set up HTTPS in Apache web Server on CentOS How to set up a secure FTP service with vsftpd on Linux

When I was 13, our school was hooked up to the Internet—a 28.8 kbps U.S. Robotics modem was all that stood between us and the vast expanses of the Web. As I grew to understand more and more about the fundamentals of HTML and websites over the next couple of years, it seemed to me that you needed to use special tools like FrontPage or the legend that was DreamWeaver to make anything of any real merit. read more

Last week was thanksgiving in the United States, so it feels like an appropriate time to talk about some of the open source projects that I am thankful for this year that I am likely to contribute to.

Chakra does really fall into the pool of distros that is suitable for the Everyday User but I decided to give it a go anyway after receiving a request. As well as being my first review of Chakra this is also my first review of KDE Plasma.

The slimmer, completely air-cooled Black Lab Briq Gen 5 mini-PC has Mac Mini-like specs and runs Black Lab Linux on a Core i3 or i5 CPU. PC/OpenSystems has offered a commercial version of the Black Lab Linux distribution since 2007, and sponsors Black Lab Software, which sells the community version. The company has now released […]

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Going from from 'pah' to 'hang on, a minute'. Review When Mozilla released the first Firefox Developer Edition there wasn't much difference from the regular Firefox release, but all that changed recently.

Getting started with the new open-source code editor. Visual Studio Code is a new, lightweight, and open-source code editor that can be installed on Windows, Linux or Mac OS X. The first of this short series of articles, published in association with Microsoft, Sergii Baidachnyi, a Tech Evangelist at Microsoft Canada, will take us through the following features of Visual Studio Code…