Open Source is more than just some cost-free software, where you can read the code. This category is about Open Source in general, tools, software, news, movements and Open Source projects.
CentOS
In November 2021, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Beta was released and CentOS Stream 9 images were available. CentOS Stream 9 is officially released and the CentOS project announced this step in a small Blog article in December 2021. Let's see what's new and what has changed.
Home
Just a few days ago, somebody reached out to me and asked: Daniel, how do you do your home server? Since this question is not really easy to answer, I will provide a series of articles, that will enable you to set up your own home server.
Conference
Here we go with "OpenSource in education", a full day with talks about Moodle, LibreOffice, MetaGer, Geogebra and Open Educational Resources. We are thrilled, excited and a bit nervous to present our first Dresden OpenSource UserGroup conference to you.
Linux
GNU Bash can be considered the standard shell in GNU/Linux systems. But, do you know that you tune your Bash to allow case-insensitive completion or create your own commands? In this article, I will show some ways to make Bash "your Bash" and more useful.
Fedora
The new Fedora release is available, and I have already updated. There are impressive things around and also the usual updates. In this article, I will give an overview of the new release and describe what's new.
Spotlight
Cirrus CLI is a tool for running containerized tasks reproducibly in any environment. Most commonly, Cirrus tasks are used as part of continuous integration workflows but can also be used as part of local development process as a hermetic replacement of helper scripts/Makefiles.
Podman
You want to use Podman, but you are on a Mac? Podman Machine may be something you are interested in. It is the built-in way to run Podman in a virtual machine on your Workstation.
Ansible
You have done your automation in Ansible? Cool! But do you test, if the deployment really works? Do you check if your server is really listening to the correct port and delivers the correct content? This guide will dig into functional testing with Ansible...
Linux
Linux is about "using the terminal", right? Maybe not. Cockpit provides an option, so you can operate your GN/Linux based operating system, even if you don't know the correct commands for many tools.
GNOME
GNOME 41 is finally here. After the amazing launch of GNOME 40, half a year ago, many were surprised by the quite drastic changes. We are now seeing the first improvements for the re-designed GNOME desktop environment.
Conference
The DecompileD conference aims at engineers, developers, tech founders and product owners alike. Everybody who is interested in a deep technical exchange and real user reports is happily welcome.
Fedora
Before digging into Kubernetes, you will need a minimal Kubernetes Setup. Such a setup should spin up fast, should work like a real cluster, and hopefully integrate well in other tools. For me, Minikube fulfills these needs, and you can run it on Fedora, too.
Fedora
The Fedora project provides many flavors of Linux based Desktop operating systems. With Fedora Silverblue, you are getting the option to dip your tows into immutable desktop distributions. But what are the differences? Why have I chosen to use Fedora Workstation after two years of Fedora Silverblue?
Podman
Running your own Git server for your project, private work or your company is very common. With Podman and Gitea, you can get things going in minutes. In this guide, I will demonstrate how you can set up your own Gitea instance on Podman, including auto-start and auto-updates.
Development
Some time ago, I published the article "Git - Getting Started" to get you started with Git and Source Code Management. Now, let's have a look how to enhance your workflow with branching, rebasing, squashing and merging.
Gaming
On July the 16th, Valve announced a new console, which will be powered by Steam. The console comes in a handheld format and will be named "Steam Deck". The operating system (Steam OS) will be based on Arch Linux. Let's see what you can expect.