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As part of my role as a senior product marketing manager at an enterprise software company with an open source development model, I publish a regular update about open source community, market, and industry trends for product marketers, managers, and other influencers. Here are five of my and their favorite articles from that update.

It's been almost two years since I switched from Mac to Linux. I used Apple for about 15 years before my move and was a complete Linux newbie when I installed my first distribution in summer 2018.

Language matters, yet replacing 'blacklist' with 'blocklist' creates problems when you're listing blocks. GitHub will scrub the term "master" from its services in response to protests about ingrained racism.…

Ralph is a free, open-source, simple and powerful Asset Management, DCIM and CMDB system for data center and back office. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Ralph Asset Management System with Docker on Ubuntu 20.04.

Growing up in Silicon Valley, Nuritzi Sanchez saw the powerful impact software can make on the world. Yet, unlike many others who were also steeped in the tech industry, her journey has taken her into the world of open source, where she is contributing to that impact.

Bash has a rich history. That is, it's an old shell with an even older ancestor (the Bourne shell), but it also has a great history command that surpasses all other shell history interfaces based on its number of features. The Bash version of history allows for reverse searches, quick recall, rewriting history, and more. read more

GitBucket is an open-source Git web platform powered by Scala. It provides a Github-like user interface features such as Git repository hosting via HTTP and SSH, issues, wiki, repository viewer, and pull requests.

'We have modified about 20 per cent of all the files'. Linus Torvalds has said that version 5.8 of the Linux kernel is "one of our biggest releases of all time".…

Cacti is a free and open-source, web-based network monitoring, and graphics tool. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Cacti on Debian Buster 10. We will install Cacti under the LAMP stack, the Apache web server, PHP 7.3, and the MariaDB server on the current Debian Buster 10.

Axiomtek’s rugged “AIE100-903-FL” embedded computer runs Ubuntu on Nvidia’s Jetson Nano with HDMI, mini-PCIe, NVMe-ready M.2, 2x USB, and 2x GbE ports, one of which offers PoE. Axiomtek has launched a compact, rugged edge AI system that runs Ubuntu 18.04 on Nvidia’s power-efficient, AI-enabled Jetson Nano module. The AIE100-903-FL is designed for intelligent edge AI […]

Advantech’s 3.5-inch “MIO-5393” SBC ships with Ubuntu 18.04 and Win 10 images and an 8th/9th Gen Coffee Lake-H CPU and offers triple display support, 2x GbE, 4x USB 3.1 Gen2, and 2x M.2 slots. Advantech has launched a semi-rugged 3.5-inch SBC that supports Intel’s 9th and 8th Gen Coffee Lake/Refresh processors. The Linux-ready MIO-5393 shares […]

LaTeX lists come in three types of lists – itemized, enumerated, and decription. Read on to find out more about how to style and nest the various types of lists that LaTeX can generate.

For the second article in this series on Managing with Open Values, I spoke with DeLisa Alexander, Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer at Red Hat, specifically about how managing with open values works in that organization.

Here's a test: how long do you think it would take for your organization to kickstart a brand new effort? A few days? A week? How ready would your teams be—do they already know how to roadmap, align, prioritize, and coordinate with each other?

Like its ancestors before it, the latest Dell 13 Linux Developer Edition is an exceptional programmers' laptop.

OBS is one of the staples of live streaming videos now. It is the preferred software for streaming to Twitch, one of the most popular live video sites around. There are some really nice add-ons to allow a streamer to control things from their phone or another screen without disrupting the running video. It turns out, it is really easy to build your own control panel using Node-RED and the obs-websockets plugin. read more

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Using machine learning to get rid of those awkward code breaks. Facebook researchers have applied recent advances they've made in the unsupervised machine translation of human languages to a source code conversion system.…

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When you log into a Linux shell, you inherit a specific working environment. An environment, in the context of a shell, means that there are certain variables already set for you, which ensures your commands work as intended. For instance, the PATH environment variable defines where your shell looks for commands. Without it, nearly everything you try to do in Bash would fail with a command not found error.