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What's new in PHP8
A year in the making, PHP 8.0 has been released, sporting new functionality that offers more power with less code.
PHP 8 Released!
PHP 8.0 is a major update and it contains many new features and optimizations including named arguments, union types, attributes, constructor property promotion, match expression, nullsafe operator, JIT, and improvements in the type system, error handling, and consistency.
GitHub CLI 1.0 is now available
GitHub CLI brings GitHub to your terminal. It reduces context switching, helps you focus, and enables you to more easily script and create your own workflows.
Laravel 8 is Now Released!
Laravel 8 is now released and includes many new features including Laravel Jetstream, a models directory, model factory classes, migration squashing, rate-limiting improvements, time testing helpers, dynamic blade components, and many more features.
WordPress 5.5 “Eckstine”
Here it is! Named “Eckstine” in honor of Billy Eckstine, this latest and greatest version of WordPress is available for download or update in your dashboard.
Open source champion Microsoft brings Procmon to Linux
Historically, Microsoft was an enemy of the open source community. In more recent years, however, the Windows-maker has become an ally. In fact, under the leadership of Satya Nadella, it can be said that Microsoft is now an open source champion!
PHP 8 Alpha available
The PHP team is pleased to announce the first testing release of PHP 8.0.0, Alpha 1.
Laravel 7.15 Released
The Laravel team released v7.15.0 with a withToken() test helper, a new model method to define relationships between models outside of a class definition
PHP is 25 years old today!
Rasmus Lerdorf Announcing the Personal Home Page Tools (PHP Tools) version 1.0.
Fedora 32 is officially here!
It’s here! We’re proud to announce the release of Fedora 32. Thanks to the hard work of thousands of Fedora community members and contributors, we’re celebrating yet another on-time release.
Everything You Need to Know about Ubuntu 20.04
Ubuntu 20.04 codenamed Focal Fossa will be released on April 23, 2020.
Celebrating 15 years of Git
An interview with Git maintainer Junio Hamano
CodeIgniter 4.0 is here!
I have been waiting for this release, and today Codeigniter 4.0.0 is Released.
Laravel 7 is now released!
Laravel 7 is now released and includes many new features including Laravel Airlock, better routing speed, custom Eloquent casts, Blade component tags, fluent string operations, a new HTTP client, CORS support, and many more features.
What’s Coming to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS?
Ubuntu 20.04 codenamed Focal Fossa will be released on April 23, 2020. Here’s the release schedule for Ubuntu 20.04 with important milestones.
Why Use Linux?
Tthese days, you don’t need to be a computer genius to use Linux.
What's new in PHP 7.4
What's new in PHP 7.4? Check out right now!
What's new in Ubuntu 19.10
Ubuntu 19.10 is the fastest release yet with significant performance improvements delivering a more responsive and smooth experience with GNOME 3.34.
Ubuntu 19.10 is Out in Two Weeks
As a short-term release hopper I (naturally) plan to upgrade to Ubuntu 19.10 as soon as it arrives — but what about you: do you plan to upgrade?
New Features Coming to Debian 10 Buster
The release date of Debian 10 Buster has been set to 6th of July, 2019
Disco Dingo
Ubuntu 19.04 "Disco Dingo" will be officially released tomorrow
Linus Torvalds is back in charge of Linux
After a few weeks off to reconsider his role in the Linux community, Linus Torvalds is back in the saddle.
Free Open Source Control Panels For Your VPS
Server control panel is a software with specialized graphical interface for administrating your server. A GUI control panel takes away much of the complexity of server administration and makes it a straightforward task.
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver — Release Date And 9 Biggest Features
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver is on its way!
Ubuntu Wants to Collect Data About Your System
Canonical chose today, the international day of romance and overpriced heart-shaped key-rings, to tell the Ubuntu community of its plans to include a data collection tool in the Ubuntu 18.04 installer.
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Is Named ‘Bionic Beaver’
The Ubuntu 18.04 LTS release is named Bionic Beaver.
Ubuntu 17.10 New Features
Ubuntu 17.10 has been released. I have already been using it for some time and have created a video of Ubuntu 17.10 features.
Top 10 Linux Alternatives to Adobe Premiere
Whilst Adobe products dominate the commercial market, for those on a smaller budget or wanting something a little different there are numerous high quality products available for Linux, many of which operate through the GNU open license system and thus come at the wonderful price of free!
Linux 4.13 Released, This Is What’s New
Linux Kernel 4.13 is officially out!
Linux - Regular Expressions
Regular expressions are special characters which help search data, matching complex patterns. Regular expressions are shortened as 'regexp' or 'regex'.
GIMP 2.9.6 Released with Experimental Multi-Threading Support
A new development release of graphics editor The GIMP is available to download — the first in over a year — and boy is it packing some big changes.
Happy Birthday Linux
It was on this day 26 years ago that a plucky Fin named Linus Torvalds punched out a small announcement about his ‘hobby’ operating system and shared it with the Minix newsgroup.
Microsoft brings Linux even to Windows Server
Microsoft has released its second Insider preview build for Windows Server 2016. The new version, debuted as Windows Server Insider Build 16257, enables Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) to offer distributions such as Ubuntu and OpenSUSE to the proprietary server platform.
5 Networking Commands for the Linux Terminal
Here are some of the Linux networking commands you can use and apply immediately. Some commands may require administrative privileges — so make sure you have sudo access!
Ubuntu is now available on the Windows Store
Microsoft announced that it was bringing several popular Linux distributions were coming to the Windows Store, Ubuntu included, back in May, during its annual Build conference.
How to Set Up Command Aliases in Linux/Ubuntu/Debian
If you don’t know how to set up aliases in Linux, you should be very happy you have reached this page! Aliases are one of the most time-saving devices known to man. An alias is a way to make a complicated command or set of commands simple.
Linux Kernel 4.12 Is Out! These Are The Most Important Features
Linux Kernel 4.12 is released with initial support for AMD’s new Radeon RX Vega graphics card and NVidia’s GTX 1000 Pascal. Linus Torvalds believes that 4.12 is one of the bigger releases historically because it has over a million lines of new code.
WHY MICROSOFT JOINED LINUX FOUNDATION?
The Linux Foundation is the most reputable non-profit open source organization. On last of 2016, they announced that Microsoft had joined the team at a Platinum member at the Microsoft’s Connect(); developer ceremony in New York.
BEST LINUX GREP COMMAND EXAMPLES
In this article we are going to learn how to use Linux grep command in Linux. GREP stands for Global Regular Expression Print. Linux grep command is used to search in Linux and Unix. Here we are going to learn some very important and useful Linux Grep command examples.
20 Must-Have Ubuntu Apps in 2017
Most of these apps will run on any Linux distro so this list isn’t restricted to Ubuntu OS and it includes applications for the most important tasks a typical user will run during the course of his day. So without further ado, let’s get to it.
Difference Between Linux And BSD | Open Source Operating Systems
Linux and BSD are two open source operating system families inspired by the 20th-century operating system Unix. Several things set the two apart like hardware support, development philosophy, etc. Also, Linux is more popular than BSD.
Ubuntu GNOME Is Becoming Default Flavor, Unity 7 Will Be Installable from Repos
A lot is happening in the Ubuntu world these days after Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth shocked the entire Linux community when he announced that the Unity 8 user interface would no longer be developed.
How to have a Linux home server on the cheap
Your options range from totally free to a few hundred dollars.
Lesser known but still handy Linux commands
Some Linux commands that might not be sitting in your top favorites list can still come in very handy in a number of ways. In today's post, we're going to examine some interesting though somewhat unusual command options.
10 Reasons To Switch Over To Linux OS Right Now
The Linux project was announced by the Linux creator Linus Torvalds on August 25, 1991. With time, Linux has managed to earn a respectable place in the open source world. With other OS still struggling to provide security and reliability at the first place, here are 10 reasons to switch over to Linux.
2017's best Linux laptop: The latest Dell XPS 13
Dell continues to build the best out-of-the-box Linux and open-source laptops. Check out the latest Dell XPS 13 developer edition and you'll see what I mean.
Why Do Hackers use LINUX?
Linux use is growing at an amazing rate. This operating system, which has no public relations department, advertising, or government lobby, is being used widely in homes and server rooms alike.
Regex Tutorial For Linux
In order to successfully working with the Linux sed editor and the awk command in your shell scripts you has to understand regular expressions or in short regex and to be accurate in our case it is bash regex, since there are many engines for regex you can use and we here in this regex tutorial will use the shell regex and see the bash power in working with regex.
Linux Kernel 4.10 – Comes Loaded With Exciting New Features Every Linux User Needs
2016 ended up witnessing the release of Linux Kernel 4.9. Which is packed up with several lines of code Linux kernel 4.9 is talked to be the biggest kernel release on terms of commits.
LINUX 5 Lies Linux-Haters Like To Tell
Linux is the Voldemort of computers. You speak its name and everyone cowers in the corner, fearful of the pain and suffering it might bring. The thing is, Linux may have been a scary operating system before, but all of that has changed in recent years. These myths, which are more accurately called lies, are now dead.
“My First Line of Code”: Linux Creator Linus Torvalds
Linus Torvalds is the creator of Linux and he still decides what will happen in the world of Linux. Read more and watch an amazing video in which Linux talks to Bloomberg about his first line of code.
16 Things To Do After Installing Ubuntu 16.10
Whether you plan to upgrade to Ubuntu 16.10 today, tomorrow or you already have: take a look over our list of handy things to do after installing Ubuntu.
10 Reasons To Use Ubuntu Linux
Ubuntu Linux is the most popular open source operating system. There are many reasons to use Ubuntu Linux that make it a worthy Linux distro. Apart from being free and open source, it’s highly customizable and has a Software Center full of apps.
Linux is better than Windows
Are you wondering if Linux is better than Windows? Don’t wonder. Linux is better than Windows and in this article, we’ll see the advantages of Linux over Windows.
Python 3.6 Released - Here Are The New Features
Python 3.6 has just been released by the Python Software Foundation. This release brings many new syntax features, including formatted string literals and underscores in numeric variables. Significant improvements in CPython implementation and standard library have also been made.
Microsoft embraces open source in the cloud and on-premises
Microsoft is positioning itself as the software vendor of choice for enterprises that maintain hybrid cloud environments, and it's opening its arms to Linux and open source software to do it.
How to contribute to an open source project on GitHub
GitHub is the home of many popular open source projects like Ruby on Rails, jQuery, Docker, Go and many others. The way people (usually) contribute to an open source project on GitHub is using pull requests. A pull request is basically a patch which includes more information and allows members to discuss it on the website. This tutorial will guide you through the whole process to generate a pull request for a project.
10 Best Operating Systems For Ethical Hacking And Penetration Testing
Wondering which is the best operating system for ethical hacking and pen testing purposes? Trying to solve this problem, fossBytes has prepared a list of the most efficient Linux distros for hacking purposes that you need to check out in 2016.
10 Reasons : Why should we use Linux?
Why Linux is better than windows? What makes linux a best and powerful Operating System? Why should we use Linux?
Why Open Source is Now Open for Business
The growth of open source has prompted companies to look over the wall and, in many cases, jump over it. They’ve realized that there’s a new game in town: hybrid source.
25 Years of Linux: What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been
When Linux was born on Aug. 25, 1991, it was little more than a hobby for then 21-year old Linus Torvald. Today the Linux community is estimated to be upwards of 86 million users strong. It has become the backbone of large enterprises, and it is installed in government systems and embedded in devices worldwide.