In 2017, Opensource.com published more than 1,000 articles and welcomed more than 200 new writers. Let's look back at some reader-favorites from 2017. I've picked the top 22 articles and selected the top five resources we've added to the site this year.
Top 22 open source stories in 2017
- 5 projects for Raspberry Pi at home by Ben Nuttall (community moderator)
- 20 Linux commands every sysadmin should know by Rosemary Wang
- Brewing beer with Linux, Python, and Raspberry Pi by Christopher Aedo
- Top 5 programming languages for DevOps by Chris Saunders (Red Hat)
- 3 cool machine learning projects using TensorFlow and the Raspberry Pi by Rikki Endsley (Red Hat)
- How to build a Raspberry Pi home dashboard by Conor O'Callaghan
- 10 reasons to use Cinnamon as your Linux desktop environment by David Both (community moderator)
- How to set up a personal web server with a Raspberry Pi by Mitchell McLaughlin
- 30 best practices for software development and testing by Michael Foord (Red Hat)
- 4 terminal applications with great command-line UIs by Amjith Ramanujam
- How to unzip a tar.gz file by Seth Kenlon (Red Hat)
- Get started with machine learning using Python by Dr. Michael J. Garbade
- 3 mistakes to avoid when learning to code in Python by Pete Savage (Red Hat)
- 4 Python libraries for building great command-line user interfaces by Amjith Ramanujam
- 4 open source tools for sharing files by Scott Nesbitt
- Don't hate COBOL until you've tried it by Walt Mankowski
- 5 Arduino projects to upgrade your car by Alex Sanchez (Red Hat)
- Build your own DNS name server on Linux by David Both (community moderator)
- Why Go is skyrocketing in popularity by Jeff Rouse
- An introduction to the Linux boot and startup processes by David Both (community moderator)
- Grok the GIL: How to write fast and thread-safe Python by A. Jesse
- Top 9 GNOME shell extensions to customize your desktop Linux experience by Jason Baker (Red Hat)
Top five open source resources of 2017
- 5 open source alternatives to Trello
- 3 open source Python GUI frameworks
- Top 3 open source Python IDEs
- 4 open source alternatives to Gmail
- 5 open source alternatives to Slack for team chat
(All resource pages were written by Jason Baker of Red Hat.)
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