Rocky Linux is a free, open-source enterprise operating system that serves as a community-driven successor to CentOS, particularly CentOS 8, after its shift to CentOS Stream. Founded by Gregory Kurtzer, the original co-founder of CentOS, Rocky Linux is designed to be a stable, production-ready platform compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). It offers a … Read more
Gitea is a lightweight, open-source and self-hosted code hosting solution, similar to GitHub, Gitlab and BitBucket. It is mainly written in Go and can run on Windows, Linux, macOS, ARM, etc. Gitea was developed as a fork of Gogs and published under the MIT license. Gitea is easy to install and offers several options for … Read more
Cockpit is a free, open-source web-based admin GUI. It’s modular and extensible to meet your specific needs, with many customization options. Cockpit is released under the MIT license and is free to use on any project. There are no limitations to how many projects you can host, but note that your ISP may limit the … Read more
Maven is the name of an automated build engine used primarily for Java projects. It is a free, open-source tool that greatly eases building and managing of other libraries or applications that are to be bundled as part of the project. Maven takes care of details such as downloading dependencies, parsing information about those dependencies … Read more
Apache Cassandra is an open-source NoSQL database management system. It is designed to handle large amounts of data across many servers and to survive the loss of any server. Cassandra’s architectural model is quite different from relational database systems. Cassandra stores non-relational data in row key-value pairs in a distributed set of nodes so that … Read more
LEMP is a popular web hosting stack used by developers and web hosting companies to test and host web applications. It comprises 3 components: the Nginx ( pronounced as Engine-X) webserver, MariaDB, and PHP which is a server-side scripting language. In this walkthrough, you will learn how to install the LEMP stack on AlmaLinux and … Read more
MariaDB is an open-source RDBMS that is mostly used for web development. It uses MySQL as its primary storage engine, but it is also lightweight, secure, and features in-memory ACID transactions. MariaDB was originally created by Michael Howard, a former engineer from Oracle Corporation and the Vice President of Engineering at Sun Microsystems. While it … Read more
Podman is a free and open-source daemonless container engine that was developed by RedHat. It exists to help developers manage and deploy their applications in a Linux environment. Similar to the Kubernetes platform, Podman works with pods. Podman seeks to be the alternative to the Docker engine which is also a containerization platform. Podman improves … Read more
Rust is often called rust-lang. Rust is a general-purpose programming language that aims to be safe, concurrent, and practical. Rust was created by Graydon Hoare in 2010, and the first stable version (1.0.0) was released in May 2015. Graydon Hoare has been the principal architect of Rust, with contributions from Dave Herman, Brendan Eich, and … Read more
Java is a popular programming language used to build a variety of apps and websites. But what is the real story of Java, and who uses it? Java has been around since 1995. It was released by Sun Microsystems as a programming language for “smart” consumer devices, particularly those with multimedia capabilities. This included interactive … Read more