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A lot of years have passed since, back in 2001, Steve Ballmer declared Linux to be a cancer. These days, Microsoft loves Linux. It says so right on its website. Two years ago, Steve Ballmer also proclaimed his love for Linux... That didn’t stop some number of open-source developers from swearing off GitHub and looking for other places to host their projects. GitLab, a minor competitor to GitHub, seemed poised to be the natural beneficiary of this move. In a Twitter post dated June 3rd, it cited that its GitHub to GitLab conversion rate was running at ten times normal.

Gaming has traditionally been one of Linux's weak points. That has changed somewhat in recent years thanks to Steam, GOG, and other efforts to bring commercial games to multiple operating systems, but those games are often not open source. Sure, the games can be played on an open source operating system, but that is not good enough for an open source purist. read more

Splunk is a powerful log database that can be used for searching, monitoring, and analyzing machine-generated big data through a web-interface. It is a very useful tool for analyzing, exploring and searching data. In this tutorial, we will be going to learn how to install Splunk on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) server.

Since its development in the early 2000s, Arduino products like the Uno and Nano have revolutionized what people can make at home with inexpensive and easy-to-use components. Robotics and automation are no longer solely in the realm of engineers; anyone willing to spend the time to learn how these devices work can create their own inventions. read more

A cross-vendor framework for edge functionality is no small task If one thing stood out at OpenStack's Vancouver summit in May, it's that the open-source project isn't just about data centre-based cloud computing any more.…

Professional social networking—creating interpersonal connections between work colleagues or professionals—can take many forms and span organizations across industries. Establishing professional networks takes time and effort, and when someone either joins or departs an organization, that person's networks often need to be rebuilt in a new work environment. read more

We are big fans of pytest and use it as our default Python testing tool for work and open source projects. For this month's Python column, we're sharing why we love pytest and some of the plugins that make testing with pytest so much fun. What is pytest? As the tool's website says, "The pytest framework makes it easy to write small tests, yet scales to support complex functional testing for applications and libraries." read more

VIDEO: SUSE will soon release the next version of SLES, SUSE Manager 3.2, and SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15.

News briefs for June 25, 2018.

Rose-tinted spectacles ON. Nope, not doing anything. Windows 98 turns 20 today. However, rose-tinted spectacles still don't make a hybrid 16 and 32 bit OS tottering on top of MS-DOS any more appealing.…

Libre Computer unveiled a “ROC-RK3399 (Renegade Elite)” SBC that runs Android Oreo or mainline Linux 4.19+ and offers GbE with PoE, HDMI 2.0, 2x USB Type-C with DP, 3x USB 2.0, and dual 60-pin headers.

Here's what Opensource.com readers were most interested in the week of June 18-24. Our articles covered topics ranging from Dropbox to Portable Apps, with an IoT electronics kit giveaway from SparkFun thrown into the mix.

VIDEO: Microsoft may own GitHub soon, but GitLab is moving further away from Microsoft.

Jenkins is an automation server running in a Java servlet container, it supports many SCM (Source Control Management) software systems including Git, SVN, and Mercurial and provides hundreds of plugins to automate your project. In this tutorial, I will show you how to install the latest stable Jenkins version on Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver).

In 1947, the first computer bug was found—a moth trapped in a computer relay. If only all bugs were as simple to uncover. As software has become more complex, so too has the process of testing and debugging. Today, the life cycle of a software bug can be lengthy—though the right technology and business processes can help. For open source software, developers use rigorous ticketing services and collaboration to find and mitigate bugs. read more

Network management work includes a lot of stuff, and precisely for this reason, there are several Linux command line utilities that help you with different kind of network-related tasks. In this tutorial, we will discuss one such utility dubbed ifconfig.

This article is part of a Go series by Mihalis Tsoukalos. Read part 1: Creating random, secure passwords in Go, and part 2: Build a concurrent TCP server in Go. read more

Apple, Google and Amazon are taking voice control to the next level. But can voice control be a DIY project? Turns out, it can. And, it isn't as hard as you might think.

If you're wondering about versions 13 and 14, ask superstitious folk SUSE today announced the impending release of SUSE Linux Enterprise 15, featuring a boatload of new toys and a leap in version numbering.…

For several reasons (including curiosity), a few weeks ago I started using Xfce as my Linux desktop. One reason was trouble with background daemons eating up all the CPU and I/O bandwidth on my very powerful main workstation. Of course, some of the instability may be due to my removal of some of the RPM packages that provide those background daemons. However, even before I removed the RPMs, the fact is KDE was unstable and causing performance and stability issues. I needed to use a different desktop to avoid these problems. read more