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Here’s something you can do for International Women’s Day: Get all the software engineers in your life to download and use a new Firefox extension called Blind Reviews Experiment. It gives programmers a way to combat bias by anonymizing pull requests. Read more The post Eliminate bias in code reviews with free browser add-on appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

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Caddy or Caddy web server is an open source HTTP/2 enabled web server written in Go. In this tutorial, I will show you step by step how to install and configure the Caddy web server with PHP-FPM 7.x on Ubuntu 16.04.

At the simplest level, open source programming is merely writing code that other people can freely use and modify. But you've heard the old chestnut about playing Go, right? "So simple it only takes a minute to learn the rules, but so complex it requires a lifetime to master." Writing open source code is a pretty similar experience. It's easy to chuck a few lines of code up on GitHub, Bitbucket, SourceForge, or your own blog or site. But doing it right requires some personal investment, effort, and forethought. read more

News briefs for March 6, 2018.

InnoComm announced a 50 x 50mm “WB10” module with an NXP i.MX8M Quad SoC, 8GB eMMC, WiFi-ac, BT 4.2, GbE, HDMI 2.0 with 4K HDR, and audio I/O including SAI, SPDIF, and DSD512.

In February, we announced the release of the 2017 Open Source Yearbook. We also celebrated 20 years of open source with an article by Christine Peterson, the person who coined the term "open source software."

In just one week, you could be in good company, joining 900+ developers, architects, practitioners, and Embedded Linux and Industrial IoT technologists.

Google has released Chrome 65 for Android, Linux, Mac, and Windows, bringing security enhancements and 45 fixes for security flaws.

News briefs for March 7, 2018.

In this tutorial series, we're providing practical guidelines for using PGP: Part 1: Basic Concepts and Tools; Part 2: Generating Your Master Key; Part 3: Generating PGP Subkeys. Here in part 4, we continue the series with a look at how and why to move your master key from your home directory to offline storage.

China SDN/NFV Conference is the official annual gathering of the China SDN/NFV Industry Alliance.  It is co-organized by China Institute of Communications (CIC) and China Communications Standards Association (CCSA).

Congatec announced a 5?5-inch Mini-STX form factor micro-server carrier board with 4x 10GbE ports, 2x GbE ports, and a COM Express Type 7 interface for its Atom C3000-based Conga-B7AC module. High-end edge servers were a hot topic last week at Embedded World. Joining the conversation was Congatec, which announced a “deployment ready design study” for […]

One industry that lags behind others in the adoption of digital or open source tools is the competitive and lucrative world of scientific publishing. Worth over £19B ($26B) annually, according to figures published by Stephen Buranyi in The Guardian last year, the system for selecting, publishing, and sharing even the most important scientific research today still bears many of the constraints of print media. read more

Jim Hall takes his March Madness script to the next level.

Linux offers a lot of text formatting command line tools, with each of them having a different purpose. One such utility is nl, which lets you number lines in files. In this tutorial, we will discuss the basics of this command using some easy to understand examples.

Containers and Kubernetes have been widely promoted as "disruptive" technologies that will replace everything that preceded them, most notably virtual machine (VM) management platforms such as vSphere and OpenStack. Instead, as with most platform innovations, Kubernetes is more often used to add a layer to (or complement) VMs. read more

There are plenty of reasons not to want to hand off the tasks of storing your data and running your services to third-party companies; privacy, ownership, and avoiding abusive "monetization" are some of the top ones. But for most people, the task of running a server is just too time-consuming and requires too much-specialized knowledge. Instead, we compromise. We put aside our worries and just use cloud-hosted corporate services, with all the advertising, data mining and selling, and everything else that comes with them. read more

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Flathub is a third party repository of applications that are packaged in the Flatpak format. Many Flathub apps are also in the main Fedora repositories, but in some cases it ships newer and in-development versions of these apps. Additionally, Flathub... Continue Reading →