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A year and a half after Google announced that its stripped down, IoT-oriented Brillo version of Android was being recast as Android Things, the platform has emerged from Developer Preview as Android Things 1.0. The good news is that Google is offering customers free automated updates for three years, which should save money while improving security and reliability. The bad news is that Android Things is more proprietary than the mostly open source Android.

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An in-depth breakdown of the technologies involved in making up the cloud and a survey of cloud-service providers. The cloud has become synonymous with all things data storage. It additionally equates to the many web-centric services accessing that same back-end data storage. But the term also has evolved to mean so much more.

Kubernetes Operators will help ISVs deliver Red Hat OpenShift-tested and validated cloud-native applications and services across hybrid and multi-cloud footprints.

Google unveiled four ARM-based production boards for Android Things 1.0: Innocomm’s i.MX8M based WB10-AT, Intrinsyc’s Open-Q 212A and Open-Q 624A, based on the Snapdragon 212 and 634, respectively, and the MediaTek MT8516. Earlier this week, Google released Android Things 1.0 and announced several consumer products that will ship in the coming months......

So happy for you, Microsoft, rn Windows Notepad users, rejoice! Microsoft's text editing app, which has been shipping with Windows since version 1.0 in 1985, has finally been taught how to handle line endings in text files created on Linux, Unix, Mac OS, and macOS devices.…

When a process misbehaves, you might sometimes want to terminate or kill it. In this post, we'll explore a few ways to terminate a process or an application from the command line as well as from a graphical interface, using gedit as a sample application.

Sometimes, while working on the Linux command line, you might want to quickly check which all users are currently logged in to the system. Well, there's a built-in Linux command line utility that lets you do this easily. The tool in question is 'users', and in this tutorial, we will discuss the basics of it using some easy to understand examples.

Microsoft and Red Hat expand their partnership around hybrid cloud, Kubernetes container management, and developer productivity.

Beagleboard.org has announced a free BeagleBone webinar series from May 10 through July 26, with different episodes targeting Linux users, embedded developers, web developers, robotics hackers, and educators. Beagleboard.org co-founder Jason Kridner will teach a six-part webinar series on the BeagleBone hosted by Beagleboard.org and distributor Element14, starting on May 10.

Fedora 28 Atomic Host is available now, as part of the Fedora 28 release! This release brings various exciting features to enhance your experience with Atomic Host. Highlighted features include: automatic update check, Podman, unified OSTree repo, system container using SELinux policy from the host, official AMIs available in more AWS EC2 regions, and continued........

B[he]R’s “Edge Controller” is built on its “Automation PC 910” embedded computer with modular PCIe expansion. It features a hardened Linux stack on a Xeon E3 with a hypervisor for enabling an RTOS to run fieldbus controller applications.

From humble beginnings, Linux has been adopted for everything from low-power electronics to supercomputers running in space. It is able to do this because of its versatility and the openness of the Linux community to entertain new use-cases. The multiplier effect of community software development allows companies and individuals in different industries to work together on the same software and do the things that are important to them. Let's look deeper into four interesting places you'll find Linux. read more

CodeIgniter is a free, open source and powerful PHP framework with a very small footprint. It is specially built for developers who need a simple and elegant toolkit to create full-featured web applications. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install CodeIgniter in Ubuntu 18.04 server.

I am very fond of combining both VPN and Firejail on my travel laptop (where I cannot use QubesOS), but I have recently discovered that I was leaving myself exposed to online tracking via so-called “WebRTC leaks.”

I want to start a series of articles where I discuss my road to the RHCA. I plan to discuss my challenges (right now, sometimes saying on target and focused can be difficult with all the other stuff life brings, but I have set my goals, which I plan to cover in my next article), and I also hopefully will highlight others who are particularly unrepresented but who have taken the plunge to become Red Hat-certified as well.

Red Hat Summit is the annual conference where Red Hat comes together with its customers, partners, and key communities. It all starts tomorrow, and the Fedora Community will be out in force. Fedora & CentOS booth One of the main features of the Partner Pavilion at summit is the gigantic Community Central area. Anchoring that […]

Zui Dighe has the type of resume that makes you question what you’ve been doing with your life. It’s only her third undergraduate year at Duke University, and she has already worked with numerous startups, helped create an open source medical device that won an international award, and succeeded in multiple internships with companies large and small. read more

Dana Lewis is the 2018 Women in Open Source Community Award winner! Here is her story about how open source improved her health in a big way.  Dana has Type 1 diabetes and commercially available medical devices were failing her. The continuous glucose monitor (CGM) alarm she was using to manage her blood sugar was not loud enough to wake her up. The product design put her in danger every time she went to sleep. read more

News briefs for May 7, 2018.