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Smart card support was introduced around 2010 with OpenSSH 5.4. The inital scope was restricted to the RSA keys — the only supported key type at that time in OpenSSH — other than legacy DSA keys. Previously, users needed to specify the PKCS#11 driver for the smart card. Additionally, the OpenSSH client had to query […]

Conventional wisdom indicates that writers, photographers, artists, and other creators who share their content for free, under Creative Commons and other open licenses, won't get paid. That means most independent creators don't make any money by publishing their work on the internet. Enter LikeCoin: a new, open source project that intends to make this convention, where artists often have to compromise or sacrifice in order to contribute, a thing of the past. read more

Mozilla is continuing to fight for net neutrality — in the courts, alongside Americans, and, today, by joining the Red Alert protest. The Red Alert protest raises awareness about net neutrality. In mid-May, the Senate will vote on a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to overturn the FCC’s net neutrality repeal. We’re partnering with organizations like Consumer Reports, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Reddit to encourage Americans to call Congress in support of net neutrality.

More desktops. More boards. More ‘init freedom’ and a long-ish roadmap Devuan Linux, the Debian fork that offers “init freedom” has announced the first release candidate for its second version.…

Right now everybody’s talking about the right way to make the products that we love meet our individual needs AND respect our privacy. At Mozilla, striking this balance has been.....

Some programming languages (e.g., C) have named functions only, whereas others (e.g., Lisp, Java, and Perl) have both named and unnamed functions. A lambda is an unnamed function, with Lisp as the language that popularized the term. Lambdas have various uses, but they are particularly well-suited for data-rich applications. Consider this depiction of a data pipeline, with two processing stages shown: read more

Cloud infrastructure is quickly becoming an integral business component for nearly every company.

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