Linux commands: Drop these old utilities for modern alternatives
Linux commands: Drop these old utilities for modern alternatives Seth Kenlon Thu, 11/17/2022 – 03:00 Linux has a good track record for software support. There are about 60 commands in man section 1 of Unix 1st edition, and the majority still work today. Still, progress stops for no one. Thanks to vast global participation in open source, new commands are frequently developed. Sometimes a new command gains popularity, usually...
How open source powers innovation
How open source powers innovation Gordon Haff Wed, 11/16/2022 – 03:00 Where do people come together to make cutting-edge invention and innovation happen? The corporate lab One possible answer is the corporate research lab. More long-term focused than most company product development efforts, corporate labs have a long history, going back to Thomas Edison’s Menlo Park laboratory in New Jersey. Perhaps most famous is Bell...
How to address challenges with community metrics
How to address challenges with community metrics Georg Link Wed, 11/16/2022 – 03:00 The previous two articles in this series looked at open source community health and the metrics used to understand it. They showed examples of how open source communities have measured at their health through metrics. This final article brings those ideas together, discussing the challenges of implementing community health metrics for your own...
My favorite tricks for navigating the Linux terminal faster
My favorite tricks for navigating the Linux terminal faster Anamika Tue, 11/15/2022 – 03:00 One of the advantages of working in a terminal is that it’s faster than most other interfaces. Thanks to the GNU Readline library and the built-in syntax of shells like Bash and Zsh, there are several ways to make your interactions with the command line even faster. Here are five ways to make the most of your time in the terminal....
What do you do with community metrics?
What do you do with community metrics? Georg Link Tue, 11/15/2022 – 03:00 In my previous article, I provided an overview of possible community health metrics. I look at what you can do with those metrics in this article. You’ll see several examples from different communities, some of which you may be familiar with. Contribution metric I’ll start with the “new contributors and contributions” metric, which...
5 metrics to track in your open source community
5 metrics to track in your open source community Georg Link Mon, 11/14/2022 – 03:00 The core of open source is about using, sharing, and collaborating in software creation. With its roots in the free software movement and ensuring the rights of software users, open source has evolved from being solely the work of volunteers and hobbyists to also include the enterprise. Collaborative software development has taken on a new...
