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We are only a few days away from May 25th, when the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will go into full effect. GDPR has implications for many different parts of Mozilla. Rather than give you a laundry list of GDPR stuff, in this post, we want to focus specifically on Firefox and drill down specifically into how we think about privacy-by-design and data protection impact assessments within our browser product.

News briefs for May 23, 2018.

It’s been nearly a year since we launched Firefox Focus for Android, and it has become one of the most popular privacy browsers for mobile around the world.

FriendlyElec has launched a 100 x 64mm, $129 “NanoPC-T4” SBC that runs Android or Linux on a Rockchip RK3399 with 4G DDR4, native GbE, WiFi-ac, DP, HDMI 2.0, 0 to 80? support, and M.2 and 40-pin expansion. FriendlyElec has released its most powerful and priciest hacker board to date, which it promotes as being the smallest RK3399-based SBC on the market.

Hidden behind the OpenStack cloud was its outstanding CI/CD system. Now, with the release of Zuul 3.0, Zuul is coming into its own.

For some people, the terminal can be scary. But a terminal is more than just a black screen to type in. It usually runs a shell, so called because it wraps around the kernel. The shell is a text-based interface that lets you run commands on the system. It’s also sometimes called a command line.....

Aaeon unveiled two Linux-friendly embedded systems: an “AIOT-IP6801” gateway equipped with an Apollo Lake-based UP Squared SBC with WiFi and LoRa, and a “Boxer-8120AI” mini-PC with an Nvidia Jetson TX2 module and 4x GbE ports. Aaeon announced that three of its Linux-ready embedded systems have won Computex d[he]j awards........

While the widespread adoption of open source continues at a healthy rate, the recent 2018 Open Source Security and Risk Analysis Report from Black Duck and Synopsys reveals some common concerns and highlights the need for sound security practices.

A roundup of recent news.

Canonical CEO and Ubuntu Linux founder Mark Shuttleworth claims Canonical OpenStack is a better deal than either Red Hat or VMware's OpenStack offerings.

NumPy is designed to be fast, but it's also a bit low level for some people. To get more functionality and a more flexible interface, many people use Pandas, a Python package that provides two basic wrappers around NumPy arrays: one-dimensional Series objects and two-dimensional Data Frame objects.

when you want more control, the best path is to run Git on your own server. Not only do you save costs, you also have more control over your server. In most cases a majority of advanced Linux users already have their own servers and pushing Git on those servers is like ‘free as in beer’.

We've already discussed the Linux cat command in one of our earlier tutorials. As you may be aware, the cat command is mainly used for displaying file contents in output. However, what you may not be aware of is that there exists a command that does exactly opposite of what cat does. The tool in question is tac, and in this tutorial, we will discuss its basics using some easy to understand examples.

Ariadne is a free, open source, feature rich cross-platform and security-focused Content Management System written in PHP language. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install Ariadne in Ubuntu 18.04 server.

As discussed in Part 1 and Part 2 of this series, Stratis is a volume-managing filesystem with functionality similar to that of ZFS and Btrfs. In this article, we'll walk through how to use Stratis on the command line.

The title of this post may seem strange, but if you look a bit into Java EE's recent history, it will make sense.

I recently read Scott Nesbitt's article "Using less to view text files at the Linux command line" and was inspired to share additional tips and tricks I use with less. LESS env var If you have an environment variable LESS defined (e.g., in your .bashrc), less treats it as a list of options, as if passed on the command line.

Nextcloud could be the first step toward replacing proprietary services like Dropbox and Skype. In its simplest form, the Nextcloud server is "just" a personal, free software alternative to services like Dropbox or iCloud. You can set it up so your files are always accessible via the internet, from wherever you are, and share them with your friends. However, Nextcloud can do so much more.

News briefs for May 21, 2018.

How well does the certification prepare you for the real world? To help illustrate that, this series features some of those who have recently passed the certification examinations. These testimonials should serve to help you decide if either Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator (LFCS) or Linux Foundation Certified Engineer (LFCE) certification is right for you. In this article, we talk with recently certified LFCE Hugues Clouâtre.