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If you plan to set up a web application like Drupal, WordPress, Bugzilla, or something similar, you're probably going to also need a database so that the app can save the data your users generate. One of the most popular databases is MySQL, which is prominently implemented as an open source project called MariaDB.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to install VNC on your Linux server and use Guacamole to create a VNC connection. We will cover all common distributions and specify differences wherever needed.

Cron is a daemon used to execute scheduled commands automatically. Learning how to use cron required some reading and experimenting, but soon I was using cron to shut down our email server, back up the data in a compressed tar file, then restart the email service at 3AM.

Disassembling and analyzing malware to see how it works, what it's designed to do and how to protect against it, is mostly a long, manual task that requires a strong understanding of assembly code and programming, techniques and exploits used by miscreants, and other skills that are hard to come by.

Chatwoot is a free, open-source, and real-time messaging platform. It provides a simple and live chat for your website and integrates it with other apps. In this tutorial, I will show you how to install Chatwoot on Debian 11.

Openness and transparency are required for an open community, although the degree to which one can be fully transparent varies from one company to another.

BigScience – a team made up of roughly a thousand developers around the world – has started training its 176-billion-parameter open-source AI language model in a bid to advance research into natural language processing (NLP).

Various engineers that work on the Fedora Linux product line are brewing up a storm again. To find out more about their plans for world domination, check out this video!

OpenLDAP is a free and open-source software suite implementation of LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol). In this article, we will show you how to install and configure OpenLDAP on the Debian 11 Bullseye.

DevSecOps adoption offers your enterprise improved security, compliance, and even competitive advantages as it faces new threat vectors, a new world of work, and demanding customers. It's only a matter of time before DevSecOps subsumes DevOps because it offers the same core practices but adds a security focus to each phase of the development lifecycle.

Is "open" the future of human progress, as this recent book argues? Maybe. To know for sure, we'll need to clearly define it—and the purposes it serves.

If you're building multi-architecture solutions, you need to know how container image architectures work, how to pull them, and how to run containers on different systems using Podman.

Never mind what enterprise programmers are trained to do, a self-defined set of hackers has its own programming language zeitgeist, one that apparently changes with the wind, at least according to the relatively small set surveyed.

Two related commands that every system administrator runs frequently are df and du. While du reports files' and directories' disk usage, df reports how much disk space your filesystem is using. The df command displays the amount of disk space available on the filesystem with each file name's argument.

From ethical concerns, a desire for more money, and simple obnoxiousness, a handful of developers are ruining open-source for everyone.

Joomla is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) written in PHP, it is one of the most popular CMS after WordPress. In this article, You will learn how to install Joomla with Nginx on Rocky Linux 8.

When Backdrop CMS needed to upgrade our real-time chat platform, we had to balance ease of use with our preference for open source. Those criteria led us to Zulip, an open source chat and collaboration platform with many features we were looking for.

OTRS Community Edition is an open-source helpdesk software written in Perl. In this article, you will learn how to install OTRS Community Edition on the Rocky Linux system. You will be installing OTRS with the MariaDB database and Apache webserver.

Aria Beingessner, a member of the teams that implemented both Rust and Swift, has an interesting new take on some of those (and other) language's problems – that C isn't a programming language anymore.

A software bill of materials (SBOM) is a way of summarizing key facts about the software on a system. At the heart of it, it describes the set of software components and the dependency relationships between these components that are connected together to make up a system.