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Some of its features include, course management, user and authentication, and enrollment allowing students to easily post to the site, use hashtags, view and edit posts from any device, and many more. It also supports WYSIWYG with strong privacy settings to create space for individuals to share personal thoughts with groups or other users. For more about Chamilo LMS, please check its Homepage This brief tutorial shows students and new users how to install Chamilo LMP on Ubuntu 16....

Foswiki is a free, open-source, wiki platform that provides enterprise-grade collaboration features that your team can use to share and collaborate directly in their web browser. It helps you create personal or business websites in minutes and comes with a world-class text editor built-in, dynamic to-do lists, inventory systems, a status board, and more. Foswiki software offers features that may not be available to other CMS, like WordPress Joomla, or Drupal....

If your Ubuntu computer has an NVIDIA GPU, you can choose between the open-source driver Nouveau and NVIDIA’s proprietary drivers. By default, Ubuntu will use the Nouveau drivers. However, if you want serious performance with your Nvidia GPU card, then you may want to get fresh drivers from upstream, currently shipping with Nvidia cards. You can use the Nvidia official PPA repository to always get the latest drivers for your Nvidia graphics cards....

We’re now ready to install phpMyAdmin to help us connect and manage our MySQL or MariaDB databases from our browsers. phpMyAdmin is a free and open-source administration tool for MySQL and MariaDB. Written in PHP, it comes with all the features you need to create, manage and perform all database functions, and can be paired with a MySQL or MariaDB database. This is the seventh post in this series which can be used as a beginner’s guide to learn how to create a website domain, set up a Google Cloud server with Ubuntu Linux, and install software and packages to build and run a website online....

If you want a project management platform that has enterprise-class features, is scalable and performs at a high level, then Redmine is a good place to start. Redmine is built on an open-source core with support for open standards, which might be very useful in helping you run your projects. Redmine platform is designed for ease of use to allow enterprises and business owners to collaborate and automate engaging experiences with users across multiple devices, including mobile....

RustDesk is a free, open-source, and secure remote desktop software that works out of the box, with no configuration required. RustDesk client provides end-to-end encryption, tracks logs, and manages permissions from its UI, and can be installed on Windows with no administrative privileges. This open-source remote desktop support tool allows you to easily access and control Desktop PC and Android devices from anywhere at any time. How to install RustDesk remote desktop support tool on Ubuntu Linux As described above, RustDesk is a free, open-source, and secure remote desktop software that works out of the box, with no configuration required....

WildFly (formally JBoss) is a lightweight, fast, and highly optimized Java-based application runtime that allows you to develop great applications from a single IDE. WildFly is cross-platform with a robust dashboard which makes changing a setting in the application server, and configuration very simple and quick. No need to browse unnecessary pages to customize your environment to fit your needs. For more about WildFly and other related documentation, please visit its homepage....

The Command Prompt is a useful command-line interface app that executes commands in Windows. It is not an app that new users use regularly. Is a very handy tool mostly used by advanced users and those that know how it works. Windows 11 also has a command-line interface app called Windows Terminal. Now Windows Terminal is the default console to open installed shells like the Command Prompt and PowerShell. Below are some steps that one can use to open and use the Command Prompt in Windows 11....

The just released preview of Windows 11 comes many new features and enhancements that may confuse some students and new users. These changes include, a redesigned user desktop, centered Start menu and taskbar, rounded corners windows, themes and colors and many more. If you’re used to using multiple speakers of headphones in Windows, you may often have to switch between these different output devices for sounds. While it’s easy to set the default speakers for every apps across the system, some apps allow you to choose your preferred speakers which overrides the systems’ default....

Anchor is a super simple, open-source, content management system (CMS) with a slick admin interface. its lightweight codebase is designed with performance in mind. This platform is for bloggers who just want to write and offers features that may not be available to other PHP-based CMS, like WordPress Joomla, or Drupal. It also provides native markdown WYSIWYG support, Drag-n-drop, SEO-friendly, flexible CSS framework, and easy installation and management. For more about Anchor CMS, check out its homepage....

The proxy server takes and directs client requests to the appropriate backend servers. A proxy server can also perform additional tasks such as SSL encryption, caching, compression, and load balancing to take the load off the backend servers. A reverse proxy server is typically used in front of Node.js, Python, Java and other popular applications that do not have web server features enabled. In this case, Apache is usually the proxy server used to handle requests for clients....

Our previous tutorial showed you how to install ChurchCRM on Ubuntu with Apache2 (LAMP ). You can find that tutorial here. For the uninitiated, ChurchCRM is an open-source CRM software built for churches that can serve as a strong alternative to the popular CRM systems in use today. This free CRM is built on the LAMP / LEMP stack and offers features that will help you run your business and collaborate with your customers, employees, and church members....

clearFusion is a content management system (CMS) that is easy is both developer and user-friendly and gives you powerful sets of tools to help you easily build and manage high-quality websites. This cm is robust and mobile-friendly and responsive out-of-the-box so your users can enjoy reading and interact with your website from any device. This CMS platform is designed for ease of use to allow webmasters to collaborate and automate engaging experiences with users across multiple devices, including mobile....

Our previous tutorial showed you how to install CuteNews CMS on Ubuntu with Apache2. This one shows you how to run it with Nginx instead. CuteNews is a flat-file content management system (CMS) based on PHP that is easy to install and set up. No database, just PHP — plain and simple! It also comes with a search function, file upload management, backup & restore, IP banning, permission levels support, flood protection, and many more....

LimeSurvey is an open-source, lightweight, online survey platform based on PHP. It uses the LAMP or LEMP stack to operate and allows anyone to create great online surveys for one’s audience. Whether you are conducting simple questionnaires with few questions or advanced assessments with conditionals for any groups, LimeSurvey is the tool you want to use and can be self-hosted in your environment. LimeSurvey lets you focus on building great surveys by leveraging its easy management portal designs and technical quality without the bloats....

By default when you install the MariaDB server, it will allow connections from any system for users with the correct credentials. If you want to add another layer of security, you can enable SSL/TLS settings and force all users to connect securely. For this tutorial, we’re going to be creating a self-signed certificate to configure with MariaDB. To get started with configuring MariaDB with SSL/TLS certificates, follow the steps below:...

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 configure Microsoft Defender SmartScreen, and help protect your computer, the steps below should show you how to do it. Microsoft Defender SmartScreen provides warning messages to help protect you from potentially untrusted and phishing websites and malicious software....

Moodle, a free and open-source course management system (CMS) works great out of the box after installation. However, to give your students and users the best experience, you may want to consider using Cloudflare CDN, SSL, and protection. Cloudflare provides free and paid features that help speed up websites, offers free CDN and SSL services that protect millions of websites and domains online, and many more. This setup might take a while to complete, and the process below should work on other websites as well....

When using VirtualBox you can share folders from the host computer with guest machines. Guest machines can be Windows, Linux, or macOS. This is made possible by the VirtualBox host folder-sharing feature. Folder sharing exposes the host computer files and folders to virtual machines. For this to work, you must be running the latest version of VirtualBox virtualization software with the current version of guest addition tools. You’ll have to enable bidirectional sharing from the host software, and the steps below show you how to do that....

The lock screen is the screen or curtain you see when you turn on your computer before the sign-in screen. It is also displayed once your computer is locked after you stepped away or press the Windows key + L. The lock screen comes with a background picture that one can change and customize. The sign-in screen is hidden just behind the lock screen. To view the sign-n screen, you must dismiss the lock screen by either pressing a key on your keyboard, clicking the mouse or swiping up on the lock screen (curtain)....