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Top 8 Best, Free and Open-Source Project Management Software

This article covers the best open-source, and cross-platform compatible available project management tools (OpenProject, TaskJuggler, ProjectLibre, Redmine, Toggl Plan, Taiga, TargetProcess, and GitLab). Project management tools are a demand of every software house, business, and for individuals as well. They are all capable of seamlessly managing, handling, and responding to the everyday demand and needs of the users and people working in teams. 


Top 5 Best, Free and Open-Source School Management Software

This article covers the school management software tools that are free, open-source, and are compatible with the leading operating systems. School management software solutions are the demand and need of every education system, i.e., from schools, colleges, universities, or any other institute, all the platforms require a management tool capable of keeping track of different administration activities. Though there is a variety of some very efficient and capable school management systems, such as Fedena, OpenSIS, SchoolTime, and many others, however, none of these are free and open-source both at the same time. Currently, very few school management tools come under the free and open-source software license and provide competitive school management features as well. Gibbon, SchoolTool, RosarioSIS, and TS School, all ensure efficient and competitive school management features and at the same time provide free and open-source software services to its users.


Install Grafana on Ubuntu 20.04 - Step by Step Process ?

This article covers how to install Grafana on Ubuntu OS using two methods: using the APT repository and the .deb package. Grafana is multi-platform open-source analytics and interactive visualization web application that integrates with complex data from sources like Prometheus, InfluxDB, Graphite, and ElasticSearch. It provides charts, graphs, and alerts for the web when connected to supported data sources. It is expandable through a plug-in system.


Features of Grafana:

  • Data Visualization: Allows for fast and flexible visualization with many options and settings.
  • Dynamic Dashboards: Provides the ability to create dynamic and reusable panels with templated variables.
  • Metrics Exploration: Explore your data with ad-hoc queries and dynamic drill-down by splitting the view and comparing different time ranges and sources.
  • Data Logs: Provides tremendous opportunities to use data metrics in a log with labels and filters saved, which can be studied, viewed, and broadcasted.
  • Extensive Alert Capabilities: Visually define alert rules for your most important metrics. Grafana will continuously evaluate and send notifications to systems such as Slack, PagerDuty, VictorOps, and OpsGenie.
  • Mixed Data Sources: Mix different data sources on the same graph and for each query.


Usermod Linux Command with Examples

This article covers different use cases of using the usermod command. The usermod command in Linux is used to manage user properties at command line. The syntax of the usermod command is following:

$ usermod [option] [argument] username


Use pkill Command in Linux System - An overview ?

This article covers how to use the pkill command in Linux. pkill is basicity a wrapper around the pgrep program that only prints a list of matching processes.

The syntax for the pkill command is as follows:

$ pkill [OPTIONS] <PATTERN>

The matching <PATTERN> is specified using extended regular expressions.

For more information about pkill command, visit the pkill man page or type man pkill in your terminal.


Other Linux commands:

  • ps — Report the status of a process or processes.
  • killall — Kill processes by name.
  • kill — Send a signal to a process, affecting its behavior or killing it.


Rmmod Command in Linux - An Overview ?

This article covers the process of removing modules by using rmmod from the Linux kernel. In fact, rmmod is a simple program which removes (unloads) a module from the Linux kernel. In most cases, you will want to use modprobe with the -r option instead, as it is more robust and handles dependencies for you.


Important Linux System Commands:

  • depmod — Generate a list of kernel module dependencies and associated map files.
  • insmod — Insert a module into the Linux kernel.
  • lsmod — Show the status of Linux kernel modules.
  • modinfo — Show information about a Linux kernel module.
  • modprobe — Add and remove modules from the Linux kernel.