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In July, IEEE Spectrum released their fifth annual interactive ranking of the top programming languages. They have a pretty cool and complex process for ranking 47 chosen programming languages because it's complicated to say really which is the most popular. As they put it: "Different programmers have different needs and domains of interest." read more

Let’s talk about Android for a moment. Yes, I know it’s only Linux by way of a modified kernel, but what isn’t these days? And seeing as how the developers of Android have released what many (including yours truly) believe to be the most significant evolution of the platform to date, there’s plenty to talk about.

One of the most jarring moments when moving from a Windows-based environment to using the command line is the loss of easy multi-tasking. Even on Linux, if you use an X Window system, you can use the mouse to just click on a new program and open it. On the command line, however, you’re pretty much stuck with what’s on your screen at any given time. In this tutorial, we will show you how to multi-task in Linux with the command line.

The upstream version of Red Hat's Ansible Tower product is AWX. It's a containerized solution, which means you need a container orchestrator to run and look after it. read more

The Linux touch command can be used for much more than simply creating an empty file on Linux. You can use it to change the timestamp of existing files including their access as well as modification times. This article presents 8 scenarios where you can utilize the touch command through your Linux Terminal.

In recent years, Microsoft has been making a concerted effort to embrace open source and open-source technologies. The announcement did leave me with a few questions, so I took the opportunity to sit down with Will Cooke, the Engineering Director for Ubuntu Desktop at Canonical, and Sarah Cooley, Program Manager at Microsoft.

Large, multi-site, internet-facing systems, including content-delivery networks (CDNs) and cloud providers, have several options for balancing traffic coming onto their networks. In this article, we'll describe common traffic-balancing designs, including techniques and trade-offs. read more

Centralizing Logs TIPS & TRICKSOCTOBER 25, 2018 A brief on Popular Tools for Centralizing Logs Log files are a record of important events and transactions from all your IT equipment, applications, and networks that helps in identifying and troubleshooting problems that arise. Logging is something that application developers, system..

To make this process easier and optionally be notified when new kernels are available in the Mainline PPA, there are various tools you can use, and this article presents two such tools, one that uses a graphical user interface, and another one that can be used from the command line.

This is the sixth in a series of articles about migrating code from Perl 5 to Perl 6. This article looks at the special blocks in Perl 5, such as BEGIN and END, and the possibly subtle change in semantics with so-called phasers in Perl 6. read more

When a few months ago I decided to buy a NAS, my plan was to use it as a dumb storage device that makes it easier to access my files and keep them safe. Gradually, though, I found myself using my lowly QNAP T-231P NAS for various photography-related tasks.

This is the sixth in our series of articles highlighting essential system tools. These are small utilities, useful for system administrators as well as regular users of Linux based systems. The series examines both graphical and text based open source utilities.

By mistake, I put two identical data items in the same field as a tandem repeat. Here's how either sed or AWK could be used to split the repeat and put its parts into two different fields.

Microsoft insists there's a "truce" but it forbade its workers from speaking about it and patent “assertion” activities (extortion and litigation) carry on unabated through notorious Microsoft proxies, including one run by a close friend of Bill Gates — all this while Microsoft is selling so-called ‘protection’ from them

Linux vs. Windows, the age-old battle of the operating systems that caused many flame wars. Let's take an objective look at how both OSes perform against each other.

The KDE Project has finished the release schedule of the last update for its KDE Applications open-source software suite in 2018, version 18.12, which will be available later this year.

Black swans are a metaphor for outlier events that are severe in impact (like the 2008 financial crash). In production systems, these are the incidents that trigger problems that you didn't know you had, cause major visible impact, and can't be fixed quickly and easily by a rollback or some other standard response from your on-call playbook. They are the events you tell new engineers about years after the fact.

News briefs for October 25, 2018.

In the first part of this series, we looked at hard links and soft links and discussed some of the various ways that linking can be useful. Linking may seem straightforward, but there are some non-obvious quirks you have to be aware of. That’s what we’ll be looking at here.

The Mirantis Cloud Platform Edge is a new Kubernetes based effort to enable containers and virtual machines to run at the edge of the network.