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In this edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at Linux for developers coming to Chrome OS, a tool that uses AR to assist surgeons, and more.

It has been more than a decade since the ifconfig command has been deprecated on Linux in favor of the iproute2 project, which contains the magical tool ip. Many online tutorial resources still refer to old command-line tools like ifconfig, route, and netstat. The goal of this tutorial is to share some of the simple networking-related things you can do easily using the ip tool instead. read more

This week in our news roundup, Microsoft demonstrates it's "open source love" with a Linux-friendly update to the Windows Notepad feature, KubeCon size tripled this year & attendees learned about the direction of Kubernetes & container orchestration & more!

News briefs for May 11, 2018.

Gateworks has launched a rugged, headless “Newport GW6400” SBC that runs Linux on a dual- or quad-core Cavium OcteonTX with 3x mini-PCIe, 2x USB 3.0, 5x GbE ports (2x with PoE) and optional SFP. Last November, Gateworks announced a new product family of rugged Newport SBCs that run OpenWrt or Ubuntu ......

Subsonic is a web-based media server written in Java language, so it can run on any operating system with Java support. It comes with a user-friendly web interface and allow us to share music and video with multiple users. You can stream your music from home and listen to your music from anywhere.

I want to walk you through the process of installing MidnightBSD, how to add a graphical desktop environment, and then how to install applications.

At the Supercomputing Conference in Denver last year, I discovered an interesting project as I walked the expo floor. A PhD student from Louisiana State University, Shayan Shams, had set up a large monitor displaying a webcam image. Overlaid on the image were colored boxes with labels. As I looked closer, I realized the labels identified objects on a table. read more

"Every person's piece of individual information put together gives you a cloud of real knowledge." Eymund Diegel, a research coordinator for Gowanus Canal Conservancy, shares this tidbit during the first clip of the new Open Source Stories documentary, "The Science of Collective Discovery." He's setting out in a canoe on an inner-city canal that is polluted and struggling to get the help it needs.  read more

GNOME Photos is an application for browsing, editing and organizing photos. Organizing photos just became a lot faster now that Photos supports importing directly from SD cards and connected cameras. First, install Photos  with either GNOME Software, or by using dnf along with sudo: sudo dnf install gnome-photos However, as of Fedora 28 Workstation, Photos is already […]

Ansible is a versatile platform that has become popular for managing servers and server configurations. Today, Ansible is used heavily to deploy and test through continuous integration (CI). In the world of automated continuous integration, it’s not uncommon to have hundreds, if not thousands, of jobs running every day for testing, building, compiling, deploying, and more.

Netdata is an open source monitoring system for Linux servers. It provides real-time performance and health monitoring with beautiful dashboard and analytics. In this tutorial, I will show you how to monitor Nginx using Netdata on CentOS 7.

Do you ever get the funny feeling that your computer isn't quite as fast as it should be? I used to feel that way, and then I found GNU Parallel. GNU Parallel is a shell utility for executing jobs in parallel. It can parse multiple inputs, thereby running your script or command against sets of data at the same time. You can use all your CPU at last! If you've ever used xargs, you already know how to use Parallel. If you don't, then this article teaches you, along with many other use cases. read more

Buying CoreOS was a great move for Red Hat as it tries to become a cloud and container power using Kubernetes. But what does that mean for CoreOS? Here's the plan going forward.

A few weeks back in Dublin, Ireland, OpenStack engineers gathered from dozens of countries and companies to discuss the next release of OpenStack. This is always my favorite OpenStack event, because I get to do interviews with the various teams, to talk about what they did in the just-released version (Queens, in this case) and what they have planned for the next one (Rocky).

After following the first four blogs in this series previewing the Cloud Foundry for Developers training course, you should have a Cloud Foundry instance to use, have the cf CLI installed, and know how to connect to your instance and run commands. Now it's time to push an app to your Cloud Foundry instance.

News briefs for May 10, 2018.

Toradex has opened an early access program for sampling its Linux powered, wireless enabled Apalis iMX8 module, which offers NXP’s i.MX8 QuadMax SoC with 2x Cortex-A72, 4x -A53, 2x -M4F, and 2x GPU cores, supported with up to 4GB LPDDR4. Toradex may have jumped the gun a bit when it announced the world’s first embedded....

Regardless of whether you are a system admin, software developer, or a normal Linux user, you may find yourself in a situation where you need some system information like kernel release or version. Well, there exists a built-in command line utility - dubbed uname - that lets you do this.

When people talk about open source, they generally think about open source technology and its myriad uses. However, as open source has moved from the fringe to mainstream acceptance, it has become about more than just the technology. We've seen a wider adoption of the open source way and its underlying principles—meritocracy, transparency, participation, communication, and collaboration—by more companies and organizations. read more