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The hidden cost of multi-cloud, and how full open source reduces lock-in The X.Org Foundation has successfully completed a migration from Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) to Packet, which it reckoned "should save us around $30 per day."…

Plus other improvements to the Linux service manager Version 248 of systemd, a widely used system and service manager for Linux, adds a feature called system extension images, designed to allow system files to be added, or appear to be added, even on read-only file systems.…

Learn how to use VCV Rack to make music with virtual modular synthesizers.

Click on the image above for TFiR coverage of the LF Energy Spring Summit To avert the worst of the climate crisis, the decarbonization of our power systems leads the way. We have ten years. With a greener grid, we can wholly embark on the electrification of automobiles, decarbonization of our built environments, and the […]

Varnish Cache is a powerful reverse HTTP proxy used to speed up web applications that is available as Open-Source software. In this post, we will show you how to install Varnish cache with Apache and Nginx on CentOS 8.

Rare diseases kill millions, but because they don't make the headlines that coronavirus does, they're often ignored. Now, the Linux Foundation and the OpenTreatment Foundation are joining forces to create open-source gene therapies for rare genetic diseases.

Big Blue and its claret-capped subsidiary accused of nicking UnixWare blueprints, lying, and conspiring. Xinuos, formed around SCO Group assets a decade ago under the name UnXis and at the time disavowing any interest in continuing SCO's long-running Linux litigation, on Wednesday sued IBM and Red Hat for alleged copyright and antitrust law violations.…

New CloudLinux-sponsored distribution hits GA ahead of Rocky Linux. The AlmaLinux project, sponsored by CloudLinux, has issued its first stable release along with details of a new open-source foundation set up to manage the project.…

It’s been less than a year since we launched Mozilla VPN, our fast and easy-to-use Virtual Private Network service brought to you by a trusted name in online consumer security …

CEO reckons this tech will be used in 300 billion chips. Arm has set out its stall for the first major new version of its instruction set architecture – Armv9 – in about a decade, and promised compatible chips will have improved machine-learning and security capabilities.…

Spiderfoot is a free and open-source vulnerability testing tool that helps you to reduce attacks by hackers. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Spiderfoot on Ubuntu 20.04 server.

Staff quit as board refuses to budge on controversial decision. Three key staff members of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) have resigned in protest at the organization’s decision to reinstall Richard Stallman as a board member.…

The first of the next generation of the Red Hat CentOS Linux clones, CloudLinux's AlmaLinux, is here.

PyPI, the Python package index, provides a JSON API for information about its packages. This is essentially a machine-readable source of the same kind of data you can access while browsing the website. For example, as a human, I can head to the NumPy project page in my browser, click around, and see which versions there are, what files are available, and things like release dates and which Python versions are supported: read more

Major corporate supporters abandon the FSF, while board members and leaders resign from the organization, as the outrage over Richard M. Stallman being allowed back on the board continues to grow.

The Jupyter project started out as IPython and the IPython Notebook. It was originally a Python-specific interactive shell and notebook environment, which later branched out to become language-agnostic, supporting Julia, Python, and R—and potentially anything else.

This tutorial will take you through installing your own ISPConfig 3 multiserver setup with dedicated servers for the panel, web, DNS, mail, and webmail using the new ISPConfig auto-installer. This tutorial is compatible with Debian 10 and Ubuntu 20.04.

Some data is ephemeral, stored in RAM, and only significant while an application is running. But some data is meant to be persistent, stored on a hard drive for later use. When you program, whether you're working on a simple script or a complex suite of tools, it's common to need to read and write files. Sometimes a file may contain configuration options, and other times the file is the data that your user is creating with your application. Every language handles this task a little differently, and this article demonstrates how to handle data files with Lua. read more

There are many reasons people want to create computer clusters using the Raspberry Pi, including that they have full control over their platform, they're able to use an inexpensive, highly usable platform, and get the opportunity to learn about cluster computing in general. read more

Many servers use one or more virtual machines (VMs), e.g. to isolate a public service in the best possible way and to protect the host server from compromise. This article explores the possibilities of deploying Fedora Cloud Base images as a VM in an autonomous Fedora 33 Server Edition using version 3 of virt-install. This […]