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No, but here comes the Functional Source License to further muddy the open-source licensing waters. Opinion Way back when we loaded software with punch cards and magnetic tape, all programs were "free software" and "open source." Then along came proprietary software, and everything changed. But programmers rebelled and developed the first formal definitions of free and open source software.…

Mkosi is a lightweight tool to build images from distribution packages. This article describes how to use mkosi to build images with packages from RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) and RHEL UBI. RHEL Universal Base Image is a subset of RHEL that is freely available without a subscription. Mkosi features Mkosi supports a few output […]

When is a spreadsheet not a spreadsheet? On Call Fridays can often feel like purgatory to prepare for the heavenly weekend, which is why The Register marks the day with a new installment of On Call, our weekly reader-contributed tale of tech support torture.…

Grafana is an open-source and multi-platform data visualization platform developed by Grafana Labs. Grafana provides an interactive data visualization web application, which includes charts, graphs, and alerts. In this tutorial, I will install Grafana open-source analytics and visualization web application with Nginx as a reverse proxy. Then, I will install and configure the Prometheus open-source system monitoring with Node Exporter to gather system metrics.

Restoration project headed up by Steve Kaisler is gathering steam ANTIQUE CODE SHOW Xerox's pioneering graphical Lisp workstation operating system is not only alive, well, and MIT-licensed, but running in the cloud as well as on modern OSes.…

Remember when the holidays meant waking up early and going down and opening up presents? When the only gift list you had to worry about was the gifts you were asking for. Last year, it was estimated that adults bought an average of nine presents and spent about $1500 on holiday gifts. Buying gifts doesn’t […]

Other big names among the RHELatives catch up with Big Purple Hat ... but the future is unclear The main players among the RHEL rebuilders have caught up… but it's possibly too soon to tell if this market is going to survive Red Hat's moves.…

It's doomed to sink... but the how and why is interesting. Analysis No sooner than Intel IA64 support is removed from the Linux kernel, complaining about it begins… but the discussions are fascinating.…

Version 4.18 brings first ports to RISC-V and PowerPC, support for next-gen datacenter CPUs The Xen Project has quietly debuted version 4.18 of its eponymous hypervisor – the year's only release of the virtualization tool.…

It's official - the next long-term support version of Linux is October 2023's Linux 6.6.

The other big Chinese distro, after Kylin, seems to be thriving Leading Chinese Linux vendor UnionTech says it's reached an impressive milestone: it says it has three million users of its desktop edition, Tongxin UOS. Yep, million.…

Elementary OS going full speed ahead, but Parachutist Parakeet considers a new, post-Enlightenment glide path Exclusive While Elementary OS commits to Wayland, the development team of the Budgie desktop is changing course and will work with the Xfce developers toward Budgie's Wayland future.…

Pineberry Pi’s HatDrive Top and Bottom are two new expansion boards compatible with the Raspberry Pi 5 SBC, designed to increase its storage capacity and performance using NVMe technology. The HatDrive Top is designed to integrate with Raspberry Pi 5, offering support for NVMe M-key drives in M.2 sizes 2230 and 2242. This device adheres […]

Linux, the cornerstone of open source operating systems, has always been synonymous with flexibility and choice, particularly through its diverse range of desktop environments (DEs). These DEs are more than just user interfaces; they are gateways that define user interaction with the vast world of Linux. This article delves into the future trajectory of Linux DEs, exploring upcoming trends and innovations that are poised to redefine the Linux user experience.

If you are a KDE poweruser, you may already know and use one of KDE's most useful widgets: the configurable button. If you have never used these you will soon know how and if you apply all of what I am about to present, your experience of KDE will be smoother and more refined than it has ever been -- especially if your system (like mine) uses multiple displays.

Lockheed Martin uses Red Hat OpenStack and Red Hat Enterprise Linux to host NASA's Artemis mission simulations.

As Ubuntu approaches its 20th anniversary, some more of its pieces may be Snapping together. Canonical hosted an amusingly failure-filled demo of its new easy-to-install, Ubuntu-powered tool for building small-to-medium scale, on-premises high-availability clusters, Microcloud, at an event in London yesterday.…

Cloud programmers, in particular, will want to use RHEL 9.3 as their enterprise Linux operating system of choice.

The Hat adds tool to facilitate migration from various free RHEL-a-like distros. The latest version of Red Hat's flagship distro appeared last week, closely followed by Alma Linux 9.3. RHEL 8.9 is coming soon – and presumably, so is Rocky Linux 9.3.…

File sharing is a fundamental aspect of networked computing, and in Linux environments, two of the most prevalent protocols facilitating this are NFS (Network File System) and Samba. This article aims to offer a comprehensive guide on using these systems, outlining their setup, configuration, and best practices.