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Coming almost a month after GNOME 3.29.2, the GNOME 3.29.3 development milestone appears to be the first where all components are buildable.

softpedia: As biometric authentication mechanisms like fingerprint scanning and face unlocking are becoming more and more popular among Android users, Google has to make them more secure and improve them to offer users better privacy.

Big data is coming to human resources. What can your open organization expect?

Remmina's minimal UI makes it easy to remotely access Linux PCs and Windows 10.

opensource.com: The source of a problem is often where you least expect to find it.

2DayGeek: Zstandard is a lossless and super faster data compression algorithm developed by Yann Collet at Facebook.

XAMPP is a development tool for web developers specially targeted towards back-end web development i.e., server-side scripting, managing databases, etc.

 MakeTechEasier: Some prior facts about Chromebook and Chrome OS are no longer true today.

 opensource.com: What does a good pull request look like?

Here are the tools you need to overcome performance challenges when implementing React Native animations.

LinuxConfig: With the use of modern Gnu/Linux distributions package managers, package dependencies are no more a problem

Linuxize: Learn how to install and secure MySQL on a Ubuntu 18.04 machine.

Learn how to set up Nginx with HTTP/2 Support on Debian 9.

CentOS Atomic Host 7.5 (7.1805) is built from standard CentOS Linux 7 RPMs and the upstream packages included in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host 7.5 operating system.

LinuxUprising: Random Wallpaper is an extension for Gnome Shell that can automatically fetch wallpapers from a multitude of online sources and set it as your desktop background.

HowToForge: If you are new to Linux command line, and are interested in learning networking stuff, there are many command line utilities that you should be aware of.

tecmint: Docker is an open-source, powerful, secure, reliable and efficient container platform that enables realistic independence between applications and infrastructure.

 ostechnix: This guide describes how to record everything you do in Terminal using the 'script' command.

itsFOSS: Google just launched a VR180 Creator tool to let people edit VR content and convert it to a standardized format which can be later edited using Adobe Premier or Final Cut Pro or using Linux video editors.

elementary OS is an open source Ubuntu-based distro and one of the most awesome GNU/Linux distros ever.

In this article we will explain how to install Docker on CentOS 7 and Ubuntu 16.04, and spin up an Apache 2.4 container from Docker Hub.

MakeTechEasier: Despite high transmission speed and powerful hardware, your Linux computer is still running slow these days.

Learn how to disable iptables firewall in Linux temporarily for troubleshooting purpose.

Linuxconfig: There probably aren't two Linux distributions more closely related than Ubuntu and Linux Mint.

softpedia: Android-x86 just received its first public release candidate build based on Android 8.1 Oreo.

Vimwiki and GitLab make a powerful combination for your notes.

Undo changes in a repository with the simplicity and elegance of Git commands.

Users can update their KDE Plasma 5.13 installations to the first point release, KDE Plasma 5.13.1, which brings more than 20 bug fixes across various components

2DayGeek: Five ways to check which groups a user belongs to on Linux.

Tecmint: A PPA, or Personal Package Archive is a software packaging and distribution system for Ubuntu users.

 HowToForge: Working on the Linux command line requires to learn how to quickly perform some repetitive tasks.

 osradar: Icinga was originally created as a fork of the Nagios system monitoring application in 2009.

linoxide: umonitor is a dynamic monitor management written in C and distributed as a single binary package

A process refers to a program in execution; it's a running instance of a program.

Looking to get away from Github? Gitlab is a great self-hosted alternative.

eWEEK: John Morello, CTO of Twistlock discusses why security controls are needed for serverless functions

ServerWatch: Lew Tucker, VP and CTO for Cloud Computing at Cisco, explains where the two open-source infrastructure efforts intersect.

 ZDnet: Red Hat-initiated open-source projects, which use GPLv2 or LGPLv2.1, will be expected to add GPLv3's cure commitment language to their licenses.

An alternative to Akka and RxJava, Pronghorn offers a scalable open source approach to creating secure, garbage-free apps.

LinuxUprising: Brackets is a free, open source editor focused on web development / design, created by Adobe.