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Gibbon is a free and open source web-based Educational Management system that can be used to solve teachers and students daily problems.

Announcing the release over on the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML) Linus Torvalds says: “Things were quite calm this week, so I really didn’t have any real reason to delay the 4.12 release.”

A couple of weeks back we spotlighted Folder Color, a simple app that makes it easy to change folder color on Ubuntu.

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Docker Compose is a tool for running multi-container Docker applications. To configure an application’s services with Compose we use a configuration file, and then, executing a single command, it is possible to create and start all the services specified in the configuration.

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If you are new to Linux, it‘s worth knowing that command line is a very powerful tool, capable of doing almost all those tasks that you can do through the graphical interface.

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Cacti is a free and open source network graphing solution. It uses RRDTool for data gathering and graphing.

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Let’s Encrypt is a free certificate authority brought by the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG). It provides an easy and automated way to obtain free SSL/TLS certificates – a required step for enabling encryption and HTTPS traffic on web servers.

If you’re sick of Skype for Linux’s lack of progress, or rankled by the imminent retirement of the older (but superior) Qt Skype client, there’s a GNU alternative in town called Ring.

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Restyaboard is a free and open-source Kanban board application. It is the best self-hosted alternative to Trello. It is written in PHP and uses PostgreSQL to store its database.

The plainly named ‘ISO Image Writer‘ is a new app by Jonathan Riddell, a prominent KDE developer and project lead of the KDE Neon software stack.

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In our previous article, we had a good overview of SDN as a technology, why it’s needed, and how IT industry is adopting it. Now, let’s get a layer deeper, and understand SDN’s architecture and the role of the Openflow protocol in the implementation of the technology.

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After 26 months of development the Debian project released its new stable version, Debian 9, code name ‘Stretch’. Thanks to the work of the Debian Security team and the Debian Long Term Support this new version will be supported for 5 years.

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There are times when we download a file (say an ISO image) hosted somewhere on the Internet only to find that it‘s not working as expected (or, at all).

Shotwell 0.27 introduces a small set of new features and improvements, as well fixes for a number of bugs.

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Elasticsearch is an open-source, highly scalable, full-text search and analytics engine. It is part of a full stack called Elastic Stack.

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This tutorial shows how to install a Debian 9 (Stretch) minimal server.

During the recording of the Ubuntu Podcast this week Ubuntu MATE’s Martin Wimpress mentioned a tool he used to create a bootable Windows 10 USB on Ubuntu.

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This short article explains how you can block the most common exploits, SQL injections, file injections, spam and user agents used by hackers and bandwidth hoggers from your nginx vhosts with some simple configuration directives.

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Graylog is an open source logs management system which parses and enriches log messages, wire and event data from any source, thus providing a centralized configuration management system for third-party collectors, like fluentd, beats and nxlog.