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But warns it will bail if something better comes along. SAP has revealed its attitude to Oracle’s decision to let go of Java EE and have it tended by the Eclipse Foundation.…

Well, it's finally happened. Microsoft has released a product containing its own Linux kernel: Azure Sphere. It's not MS-Linux or Linux Windows, but it's still remarkable. For the first time, Microsoft has released its own Linux kernel in a new Linux-based product: Azure Sphere.

Do you hold a critical role in a free and open source software project? Would you like to make it easier for the next person to step into your shoes, while also giving yourself the freedom to take breaks and avoid burnout? Of course you would! But how do you get started?

Moxa announced a line of rugged, compact “UC 2100” IoT gateways that run 10-year available Moxa Industrial Linux and optional ThingsPro Gateway middleware on a Cortex-A8 SoC. Moxa announced the UC-2100 Series industrial IoT gateways along with its new UC 3100 and UC 5100 Series, but it offered details only on the UC-2100. All three […]

Many people, when they start to work with Python, are excited to hear that the language supports threading. Python does indeed support native-level threads with an easy-to-use and convenient interface.

The Linux command line may be a bit hard to learn, but it's worth it. Reason being, it's so powerful that you can do almost everything with it that you can otherwise do using UI. In this tutorial, we will discuss a utility which you can use to shut your system down using some easy to understand examples.

Lenovator has opened $299 pre-orders on LeMaker’s 96Boards CE Extended “HiKey 970” SBC, which offers an octa-core Kirin 970 SoC, 6GB LPDDR4, 64GB UFS storage, wireless, GbE, M.2, and CAN.

In this tutorial, we'll learn how to easily update ONLYOFFICE Document Server to the latest version separately from other solutions to get new features.

Running applications in containers has become a well-accepted practice in the enterprise sector, as Docker with Kubernetes (K8s) now provides a scalable, manageable application platform. The container-based approach also suits the microservices architecture that's gained significant momentum in the past few years. read more

Definitely hails amazing shrinking kernel in 4.17 rc1 Linus Torvalds has suggested that the next Linux kernel could earn the number “5.0”.…

COPR is a collection of personal repositories for software that isn’t carried in Fedora. Some software doesn’t conform to standards that allow easy packaging. Or it may not meet other Fedora standards, despite being free and open source. COPR can offer these projects outside the Fedora set of packages. Software in COPR isn’t supported by […]

The FSF was founded in 1985, Perl in 1987 (happy 30th birthday, Perl!), and Linux in 1991. The term open source and the Open Source Initiative both came into being in 1998 (and turn 20 years old in 2018). read more

If there's one thing you're sure to find on a Linux system, it's text files. A lot of them. Readme files, configuration files, documents, and more. Most of the time, you probably open text files using a text editor. But there is a faster and, I think, better way of reading text files. That's using a utility called less. Standard kit with all Linux distributions (at least the ones I've used), less is a command-line textfile viewer with some useful features. read more

we’re going to release the Mac and Linux versions as soon as we can. These two versions should come in the next two or three months maximum.

I’ve managed to cobble together a device that is not only dirt cheap for what it does, but is extremely capable in its own right. If you have any interest in building your own home router, I’ll demonstrate here that doing so is not only feasible, but relatively easy to do and offers a huge amount of utility - from traffic shaping, to netflow monitoring, to dynamic DNS.

First we need to create a VPS, which is the Linux virtual machine that our VPN server will run on. There are multiple VPS providers, but I personally...

Security researchers are warning that old Bitcoin addresses generated in the browser or through JavaScript-based wallet apps might be affected by a cryptographic flaw that allows attackers to brute-force private keys, take control of users' wallets, and steal funds... Wallet apps using those older versions of jsbn.js are still generating crackable Bitcoin address private keys. According to Gerard, cracking such a key would generally take around a week.

...ifconfig is long dead, and has since been replaced with the IP tool, although it will take users some time to make the total switch, as ip is considerably more powerful than ifconfig was. This tutorial is geared to users who are not quite absolute CLI beginners, but are ready to start getting their toes wet when dealing with networking and interfaces.

GNOME Maps is extremely simple to install, with most major distributions carrying the package ‘gnome-maps’ in their main repositories. Simply install with your package management tool of choice, and you’ll be all set to go.

Wolfgang Mauerer, a professor of theoretical computer science at the Technical University Regensburg, and a senior key expert at Siemens’ Corporate Research Competence Centre Embedded Linux, says that his company has “been actively supporting open source for quite a while now and actually there’s a fair amount of products that run Linux, based from Siemens.”