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AbanteCart is a free and popular open-source eCommerce platform based on PHP. It has comprehensive product features ideal for small, medium, and large businesses to create and manage their online stores online. If you’re looking for a highly functional eCommerce platform to manage your online stores, you’ll find AbanteCart to be useful. To get started with installing AbanteCart, follow the steps below: How to install AbanteCart on Ubuntu Linux with Apache support As mentioned above, AbanteCart is a free and popular open-source eCommerce platform based on PHP....

Anaconda is the world’s most popular Python/R data science and machine learning platform on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS. With 1,500+ Python/R data science packages, it has become an industry-standard platform for developing and testing Python/R applications. If you’re a student or new user looking for a Linux system to start learning on, the easiest place to start is Ubuntu Linux OS. It’s a great Linux operating system for beginners and folks looking for easier Linux distribution to use....

OFBiz is very flexible and comes with a wide range of modules, including Accounting, Order Management & E-Commerce, Warehousing and Inventory, and many more right out of the box. When looking for an enterprise ERP, CRM, and Product & Catalog Management platform for your business, OFBiz is a good place to start. This open source is built on the Java framework and offers features that help you run your business and collaborate with your customers....

As a system administrator, you want to know the health status of your infrastructure. You want to be aware of disk failure, memory issues, and other server-related problems before your users know. For that, you’ll need robust system health monitoring and maintenance software. If you need a robust, yet simple install and manage monitoring platform, then Checkmark is a great place to start. Checkmk is a self-contained software suite that combines Nagios with add-ons for gathering, and monitoring and comes with a web portal interface for simple management....

Crafter CMS is a truly modern open-source content management platform written and based on Java. It allows anyone to build enterprise-class websites for any purpose. The Community edition is free and licensed under the GPLv3 open-source license. Whether you’re creating a personal or business website, Crafter CMS can help you create and manage your content on every device with its intuitive and powerful admin dashboard… For more about Crafter CMS, please visit its homepage....

This brief tutorial is going to show students and new users how to install Jamroom social networking software on Ubuntu 16.04 / 17.10 and 18.04 LTS. For more on Jamroom, please visit its home page When you’re ready to get Jamroom working on Ubuntu, please continue with the steps below: Install Apache2 HTTP Server on Ubuntu Apache2 HTTP Server is the most popular web server in use. so install it, since Jamroom needs it....

For those who don’t know, Go, also known as Golang is a cross-platform programming language developed by Google which makes it easy to build simple and reliable software. Go is used to build some of the popular software and apps in use today, like Kubernetes, Docker, Grafana, and a few others. It comes with support for Linux distributions, macOS, Windows, and more. For students and new users looking for a Linux system to start learning on, the easiest place to start is Ubuntu Linux OS…....

When you want to take full control of your website analytics and data without using third-party solutions, like Google Analytics, then Matomo is a great place to start. Matomo is the only analytics platform that gives you full control over your data and more: Free open-source software 100% data ownership User privacy protection User-centric insights Customizable and extensible Easy to use No data limits This brief tutorial is going to show students and new users how to install Matomo on Ubuntu 16....

For those who don’t know, Metabase is a free, open-source platform that helps companies and businesses easily summarize and visualize large data sets without ever writing a line of SQL. It allows users to search through tables, then filter things down to find just what is needed without learning how to run SQL queries. Simply use its flexible GUI to look up data sets. If you’re looking for a free, high-performance database lookup platform for your business, Metabase may just want you to want at your company....

You can uninstall MySQL and install MariaDB, and your applications may not even know the difference. Since these two databases are identical, we’re going to write a single post detailing how to install both on Ubuntu Linux. MariaDB is maintained and developed by the MariaDB Foundation while MySQL is owned by Oracle. If you’re a student or new user learning Linux, the easiest place to start learning is on Ubuntu Linux....

Nextcloud is a truly open source, self-hosted file sync and file share platform similar to Dropbox, OneDrive, and other proprietary online storage services. It is a fork of Nextcloud and 100% open source. With the Nextcloud app which can be installed on mobile and desktops, you can access & sync your files, contacts, and data across all devices and platforms. If you’re looking for a true self-hosted file share and sync platform, then Nextcloud should be a good place to start....

OpenCMS is an open-source content management framework based on Java. It helps content managers to create and maintain beautiful websites fast and efficiently. Developed by Alkacon Software, it supports multi-language, multi-site on an enterprise scale. Whether you’re creating a personal or business website, OpenCMS can help you create and manage your content on every device with its intuitive and powerful admin dashboard. OpenCMS is a Java-based CMS, so you must have Java installed to use it....

For those who don’t know, Postal Mail Server is a complete and full-featured mail server for websites and servers that provides similar services like Sendgrid, Mailgun, and Postmark, that you can run on your server in your environment. Postal provides an HTTP API that allows you to integrate it with your services and send emails from your sites and web apps, with strong spam and virus checking. For more about Postal Mail Server, please check its homepage....

However, when running WSL, mounting removable drives inside the WSL environment isn’t that easy. Windows Subsystem for Linux allows you to manually mount drives using the mount command. WSL will automatically mount all fixed NTFS drives. So, if you have internal fixed C: and E: drives, you’ll see them mounted at /mnt/c and /mnt/e in your WSL environment. For external, removable drives, you’ll have to manually mount those in WSL....

The new Microsoft Edge browser has adopted the Chromium open-source project code base and offers better web compatibility and performance over the legacy edge. Microsoft Edge browser is cross-platform and supports all Windows, macOS, and Linux systems. If you’re currently using Edge and want to learn how to disable the internal PDF viewer in Microsoft Edge, the steps below should show you how to do it. By default, Microsoft Edge tries to use its internal PDF viewer when dealing with PDF files in the browser....

If you’re a webmaster and you want to remove the Apache web server from your host, the steps below will show you. There are two ways to uninstall or remove programs from Ubuntu and Linux systems. You can either run the apt remove or apt purge. When you use the remove option with apt, the command will delete the software package from the system, but leave the configuration files behind....

This brief post shows users how to change forgotten passwords in WordPress. If one forgets his or her password, there are many ways to recover or reset it. However, some hosts prevent the use of mail() function or users with forgotten passwords may not have access to the email address associated with his/her account. If you find yourself in similar situations, follow the steps below to learn how to easily reset forgotten WordPress passwords....

In some school environments, you’ll see examples where teachers are given their website to publish materials for students to access. Instead of having to create multiple server blocks, the system administrator can use the UserDir feature to accomplish this. The URL to reach the teacher’s page is usually the domain name followed by /~teacher_name. User Directory or UserDir for short is a feature for Apache web servers that allows user-specific directories to be accessed via Nginx....

It’s easy to set up and install. Just download, and install with two clicks and you’re done! WebsiteBaker CMS is built on an open-source core with support for open standards, which might be very useful in helping you run your digital content. For more about WebsiteBaker CMS, please check their Homepage To get started with installing WebsiteBaker, follow the steps below: Install Nginx HTTP Server WebsiteBaker CMS requires a web server and the Nginx HTTP server is the most popular open-source web server available today....

The On-screen keyboard is a very useful accessibility feature that turns Windows in tablet mode into a device with a full keyboard. The one downside of the keyboard is the noise and haptic feedback that it makes. This can be annoying for some users, and for those who want to disable it, the steps below will show them how to do that. There’s also a Windows Touch keyboard that is used for PCs with touch screens....