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Kernel live-patching and a full decade of software updates. Canonical has opened up its previously paid-for Ubuntu Pro update service. Now it's free of charge for up to five physical boxes.…

Open Jam is a "game jam," which is a casual way to inspire programmers of all skill levels to focus on a just-for-fun project for a concentrated period of time. It promotes open source games as well as open source game creation tools.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to install and configure Squid Proxy on a Rocky / Alma Linux 9 server. Squid is used as a distributed caching mechanism, by saving data obtained from different requests, increasing the traffic speed when similar requests are done.

Have you ever wanted to run Windows programs on your Linux system, without having to dual boot? If so, then you'll be happy to know that it's possible, thanks to Wine. In this tutorial, we'll show you how to install and use Wine on Debian 11.

There may never be a "Year of the Linux desktop," but Canonical thinks there's room for a Ubuntu Linux business desktop.

In production environments, all servers run securely, but server certificates may expire after some period. It is then the server's responsibility to validate, regenerate, and reuse newly generated certificates without any downtime. In this article, I demonstrate how TLS certificates are updated dynamically using an HTTPS server in Go.

Redmine is free and open-source project management and issue-tracking tool. It's web-based application software, mainly written in Ruby on Rails. It's cross-platform and supports multiple databases and multiple languages.

The WHLE-LS1 is a Single Board Computer (SBC) powered by QorIQ Layerscape processors targeting networking and industrial applications. This high-performing board offer four GbE LAN ports, up to 64 GB of eMMC storage and M.2 sockets for additional expansion. Conclusive Engineering is offering this board with the following NXP’s processors: WHLE-LS1026A – NXP LS1026A SoC […]

As version ‘Zed’ debuts, project slows down a little. OpenStack has completed an alphabet’s worthy of releases, with the project on Wednesday issuing “Zed” – the 26th version of the open-source cloud stack and also adding an optional slower upgrade cadence.…

sysPass is a free, open-source, and PHP-based password management tool used to save your passwords in a safe location. It is web-based, secure, reliable, and designed for multi-user environments.

New language will be official, probably within a couple of months. The first big change for the forthcoming Linux kernel 6.1 is in… and it's a big one.…

And it's not the only venerable window manager still in development. A new version of a quarter-century-old window manager shows that there's still room for improvement and innovation, even in established, mature tools.…

This article is part of a series of articles that takes a closer look at Btrfs. This is the default filesystem for Fedora Workstation and Fedora Silverblue since Fedora Linux 33. Introduction Filesystems are one of the foundations of modern computers. They are an essential part of every operating system and they usually work unnoticed. […]

WebAssembly (also referred to as Wasm) has gained popularity as a portable binary instruction format with an embeddable and isolated execution environment for client and server applications. Think of WebAssembly as a small, fast, efficient, and very secure stack-based virtual machine designed to execute portable bytecode that doesn't care what CPU or operating system it runs on.

Local activists help pen letter to government requesting - in very stern language - reasons why it's been targeted. Developers of the open source VideoLAN media player have challenged India’s government to explain why the project’s web site has been blocked.…

Adaptable Linux Platform v0.01 shows that the future of SLE is containerized. As we reported back in July, the future direction of SUSE Linux Enterprise is starting to take shape, and it's containers all the way down.…

NVM, also called "Node Version Manager" used for installing and managing multiple Node.js versions in Linux. It provides a command line utility that helps developers to install multiple Node versions and switch between multiple versions as per their project requirements.

Apache ShardingSphere, a powerful distributed database, recently released a major update to optimize and enhance its features, performance, testing, documentation, and examples. In short, the project continues to work hard at development to make it easier for you to manage your organization's data.

Matrix is a free, open-source, and web-based solution used for messaging and VoIP services. It is an open standard VOIP protocol that allows you to communicate with other users on a different service provider via voice-over-IP and chat.

The Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model is a standard for how computers, servers, and people communicate within a system. It was the first standard model for network communications and was adopted in the early 1980s by all major computer and telecommunications companies. The OSI model provides a universal language for describing networks and thinking about them in discrete chunks, or layers.