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Software development can be a very complex process. As the code you write increases in size and complexity, it is important to keep it readable and easy to understand. In open source software development, many people collaborate on code with several interconnected and, quite often, frequently moving parts. This can make it hard for potential contributors to understand the codebases. read more

While payments for Firefox search results have brought Mozilla hundreds of millions of dollars annually in the past, a declining number of users has brought those days to an end.

Nextcloud GmbH announces today the general availability of version 3.0 of the Nextcloud Desktop Client as an important milestone that finally implements enterprise-grade E2EE (end-to-end encryption) technology.

Red Hat agrees that edge computing is the future and it's getting ready for this next stage in cloud computing with its latest OpenShift release.

When the Linux 5.8 Release Candidate opened for testing recently, the big news wasn’t so much what was in it, but its size. As Linus Torvalds himself noted, “despite not really having any single thing that stands out … 5.8 looks to be one of our biggest releases of all time.” True enough, RC 5.8 […] The post Why Linux’s biggest ever kernel release is really no big deal appeared first on Linux.com.

In the past few years, developers have used RESTful web services over HTTP(s) to expose business functions using an API. The REST API uses server-driven fixed data responses, which means a developer (client) can't determine the result of a response. Instead, the server sends all the data back to the client, which is called over-fetching. The developer (client) needs to invoke multiple REST APIs after the first call until the client gets the required data, which results in under-fetching.

Canonical published today a new Linux kernel security update for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS systems running the Linux 4.4 kernel packages to address two security vulnerabilities.

In this article, I will talk about some of the very common security threats for websites and how to secure our websites using cloud-based firewalls for WordPress.

The latest version of BunsenLabs was released just this this month, codenamed Lithium. We downloaded the latest version in order to try it and see how the distribution will perform.

Despite rumors to the contrary, Mozilla's Thunderbird e-mail client will live.

Nvidia released today a new version of its proprietary graphics driver for UNIX platforms, Nvidia 450.66, which adds support for some recent Nvidia GPUs and some bug fixes.

Cannot infer an appropriate lifetime, indeed. Following Mozilla's announcement last week that it would restructure and cut 250 jobs, the Rust Project, which oversees the Rust programming language, on Tuesday said it plans to work with Mozilla to create a Rust foundation by the end of the year.…

A routine check I do on data tables is to see if paired fields are either both filled or both empty in each record. By "paired fields" I mean, for example, a latitude field and a longitude field. It doesn't make much sense to have a latitude without a longitude, or vice versa! The command described here will tally up the "both filled", "both empty", "only the first filled" and "only the second filled" entries.

WordPress has released a major update yesterday with some big changes. One of the features is the ability to apply all the plugins and themes updates automatically. Earlier plugins updates could be automatically applied with the help of additional plugins. One popular plugin is Jetpack that can apply available updates automatically. Now WordPress 5.5 core supports auto-updates out of the box.

Offensive Security announced today the general availability of Kali Linux 2020.3 as a major update to their ethical hacking and penetration testing GNU/Linux distribution based on Debian.

Fedora test days are events where anyone can help make sure changes in Fedora work well in an upcoming release. Fedora community members often participate, and the public is welcome at these events. If you’ve never contributed to Fedora before, this is a perfect way to get started. There are two upcoming test days in […]

Angular is an open-source web application framework for building mobile and desktop web applications. It is written in TypeScript/JavaScript. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Angular on Ubuntu 20.04.

Not Too Fast Sparky! 'How exactly do you expect someone to review this monstrosity? Paragon Software is trying to get its NTFS code into the Linux kernel, but has submitted it as a single dump of 27,000 lines of code, sparking complaints that it is too large to review.…

Bicom Systems’ PBXware 6.1 Linux distribution and turnkey telephony platform based on Gentoo Linux has been released with new features and several improvements.

My wife tutors students throughout the year, and recently she wanted to assign homework by scanning some workbook pages into a file and emailing them to her students. She asked for my help, so I used Simple Scan, a document scanning application for GNOME. read more