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Despite the doom-and-gloom headlines about tech jobs, the Linux Foundation's latest survey says companies are still hiring savvy Linux and open source staffers.

Icinga2 is a free, open-source network monitoring software that can check the availability of resources from the network and notifies users of outages. In the following tutorial, you will learn to install Icinga2 on a Ubuntu 22.04 server and how to connect it to a client node.

Official Cinnamon, Edubuntu reborn, and an updated Kylin. The "Lunar Lobster" release of Ubuntu has welcomed two new official remixes, as well as the first updated Ubuntu Kylin in a year or so.…

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 is out, and RHEL 8.8 will follow shortly.

Java is a class-based and object-oriented programming language created by Sun Microsystem in 1995. In this guide, I will show you how to Install Java OpenJDK or/and Java Oracle JDK on the AlmaLinux 9 server.

A FIDO U2F security key is a small USB and/or NFC based device. It is a hardware security token with modules for many security related use-cases. There are several brands of FIDO compliant keys, including NitroKey, SoloKey v2, and YubiKey. FIDO, in contrast to proprietary protocols like Yubico OTP, is hardware token agnostic and the […]

ICP Germany just launched a high-performance Single Board Computer based on Intel Celeron processors. The HYPER-EHL board offers numerous serial ports and it can support up to two simultaneous displays via HDMI and iDPM. The datasheet describes that the HYPER-EHL comes with 4GB LPDDR4x memory by default, but it can be configured with up to […]

What's worse for humanity: The slow, cruel eradication of labor, or those square patties? Wendy's and Google have together built a chatbot for taking drive-thru orders, using large language models and generative AI.…

Here's hoping for fewer head-desk moments for devs. GitHub's reworked Rust-based code search engine entered general availability on Monday, promising faster, more comprehensive explorations of software repositories.…

One banned tool is already working on Android-to-Android meshes that survive internet outages India's government has reportedly banned 14 messaging apps on national security grounds, including some open source services.…

About five years ago Mozilla shipped Firefox Quantum, an upgrade that included significant performance improvements for most Firefox users. Unfortunately, Firefox Quantum didn’t improve performance for people who use screen readers and other assistive technology. In some ways, our screen reader performance actually regressed with the architecture changes that Quantum delivered...

One of the common tasks you'll encounter when scripting in Bash is performing arithmetic operations on variables, particularly division. This process might seem straightforward, but it requires careful attention due to the lack of floating-point support in Bash by default. In this article, we will dive into several methods for dividing variables in Bash, and you'll discover how to handle the lack of floating-point division in Bash.

Fedora Linux Workstation features a GNOME desktop environment which is an easy to use, intuitive, and efficient desktop environment. But this is not the only option if you would like to use Fedora Linux. There are other spins that provide alternative desktop environments like KDE, XFCE, Cinnamon, etc. This article describes how you can try […]

The Hadron Carrier is an ultra small, rugged carrier board compatible with multiple NVIDIA Jetson modules. This new product from Connect Tech comes with one GbE connector, camera support and various expansion headers. The top side of the board features a SODIMM 260-pin connector to accommodate NVIDIA modules such as the Jetson Orin NX, Orin […]

Fedora Linux now has a better performing default storage option at a lower cost on AWS.

ADLINK presented today a fanless embedded media player built around the 11th Gen Intel Core processors. The EMP-510 can handle up to four simultaneous displays, two 2.5 Gigabit ethernet interfaces and other serial ports. The product announcement reveals that the EMP-510 Series can be ordered with the following Intel processors with 10nm process. i5-1145G7E — […]

The Debian Project has unveiled the release and widespread availability of Debian 11.7, serving as the seventh ISO update to the current Debian GNU/Linux 11 "Bullseye" operating system series.

Today, the Raspberry Pi Foundation unveiled a fresh edition of their official Raspberry Pi OS distribution tailored for Raspberry Pi computers, featuring component updates, bug fixes, and several performance enhancements.

NFS, or Network File System, is a protocol that allows local users to access remote data from multiple disks and directories like local access. This tutorial will show you how to install NFS Server on AlmaLinux 9.

Today, The Document Foundation unveiled the release and widespread availability of LibreOffice 7.5.3, which serves as the third maintenance update to the current LibreOffice 7.5 open-source and complimentary office suite series.