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- Nick Congleton
- Ubuntu
Intro
Many people rely on proprietary chat solutions like Skype, but those solutions pose serious concerns for both privacy and security. Additionally, development of the Skype Linux client has been unpredictable at best, even stalling for a number of years, only to resume just recently.
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- Nick Congleton
- Ubuntu
Installing Virtualenv
It’s best to use a Python virtual environment when developing in a complex framework like Django, especially if you intend to work on multiple projects at once. It’s also probably a good idea to make sure that you have both versions of Python up to date.$ sudo apt-get install virtualenv python python3
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- Lubos Rendek
- Ubuntu
Gitlab is an open source Git repository service written in Ruby on Rails that can either be self-hosted, or purchased as a service. Hosting Gitlab is fairly easy, especially since it comes in a per-configured "Omnibus" package.
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- Lubos Rendek
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by Rares Aioanei
Introduction
What are snaps and why you should use them? The Linux ecosystem has suffered from an old problem since the dawn of the concept of 'distribution', and that problem is fragmentation. One of the biggest issues that cause this fragmentation is different package formats; I can't run my .debs on my Fedora system or my .rpms on my Ubuntu machine. Yes, we do have alien, which should allow the transition between the two formats, but there are two problems with this approach : there are other package formats besides rpm and deb and besides, alien doesn't always work as expected. So the issue is still there, or I should say, was there. Enter snap, the universal Linux package format, which strives to offer users and developers a single packaging format and easiness when it comes to creating new packages with the applications and libraries that are needed, ensuring that said packages are easily shareable between distributions. Dell, Samsung and the Linux Foundation are quoted as contributors, while among supported distributions are Fedora, Ubuntu, Arch or OpenSUSE.This article will detail how to use snaps as a simple user, as well as instructions for developers/packagers on how to create snaps for others to use. The OS we're gonna use is Ubuntu 16.04, but the instructions below shouldn't be hard to adapt to other distributions.
Snaps as a simple user
This part will give you a tour of snap from a user perspective : how to install the necessary tools and how to use them for basic, day-to-day usage. First, you need to install snapcraft, a package that provide snap, the go-to tool for aforementioned day-to-day operations :$ sudo apt install snapcraft
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- Nick Congleton
- Ubuntu
The best aspect of MPD is, by far, its flexibility. Not only does MPD allow music to be shared and played over the network, but it also allows for numerous different front end clients. These clients range from full graphical music players to minimal command line options.
