Top 10 and editor's picks: November review

Opensource.com brought in 646,540 unique visitors, an all-time record, who generated 1,044,509 page views in November. We published 94 articles, including a DIY series. We also started our annual Open Source Yearbook series.

We welcomed 13 new authors, 59% of our content was contributed by members of the open source community, and our community moderators contributed 26 articles.

We also rounded up 10 holiday gift ideas for open source enthusiasts.

November highlights

Editor's Pick 6

Here are six of our many favorite articles from November:

1. 7 tech advent calendars for the holiday season—by VM (Vicky) Brasseur
2. LinuxQuestions.org celebrates sweet 16—by Jeremy Garcia
3. Managing devices in Linux—by David Both
4. Learn Perl with this temperature-conversion script—by Greg Pittman
5. Free and open sewing patterns gain popularity—by Joost De Cock
6. How to share a mouse and keyboard across multiple computers—by Marcus Hanwell

Top 10 articles published in November

1. 5 open source dashboard tools for visualizing dataLE—by Jason Baker
2. Python versus R for machine learning and data analysis—by Tom Radcliffe
3. The iconic text editor Vim celebrates 25 years—by D Ruth Bavousett
4. Introduction to Eclipse Che, a next-generation, web-based IDE—by Joshua Allen Holm
5. How to run commands at shutdown on Linux—by Ben Cotton
6. Which 'ancient' programming language do you use the most?—by Jason Baker
7. Open source' is not 'free software'—by John Mark Walker
8. Raspberry Pi continues to blaze new trails—by Ben Nuttall
9. Build a VR web application in 15 minutes—by Craig Oda
10. 25 years of Linux in 5 minutes—lightning talk by Jeremy Garcia

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