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Video: Containers may be red hot, and Kubernetes is white-hot, but you still need virtualization. And Red Hat delivers, with its latest KVM-based virtualization platform.

I've been dipping my toe back into Python development as I get ready to head to PyCon US. (If you're headed there as well and want to share your Python story, let me know!) When I installed a module to tinker around with, I got a reminder that I needed to install Python 3 soon. read more

Are you familiar with development sprints, coding events held immediately after Python and Django conferences? They encourage attendees at the annual PyCon (or DjangoCon) or one of the many regional PyCons to stay and use the venue space, decked out with power and network, to work on open source projects with other Python developers and practitioners. read more

Python is one of the most popular programming languages in use today—and for good reasons: it's open source, it has a wide range of uses (such as web programming, business applications, games, scientific programming, and much more), and it has a vibrant and dedicated community supporting it. read more

There are numerous services available on the web for managing your personal finances. Although they may be convenient, they also often mean leaving your most valuable personal data with a company you can’t monitor. Some people are comfortable with this level of trust. Whether you are or not, you might be interested in an app […]

One of the best parts of working in computer science is that our jobs center on solving problems. While many of us joke that continually struggling to figure things out is frustrating, we do it because there is nothing quite like that feeling of finding a solution. Then, of course, the momentary euphoria ends, and we move onto the next problem. read more

Canonical's real money comes from the cloud and Internet of Things, but AI and machine learning developers are demanding -- and getting -- Ubuntu Linux desktop with enterprise support.

Fedora 30 is available now. You’ll likely want to upgrade your system to the latest version of Fedora. Fedora Workstation has a graphical upgrade method. Alternatively, Fedora offers a command-line method for upgrading Fedora 29 to Fedora 30.

In the race to digitization, development teams have become the backbone of many organizations; they and the operations teams are required to do more than ever before. Often these teams drive innovation and change at the same time they are maintaining legacy code and ensuring products or services always perform. Organizations that allow dev and ops teams to be flexible, fast-moving, and opportunistic are businesses that win, which is why so many organizations are prioritizing building a DevOps culture. read more

As scholars in the digital humanities continue to transform scholarship, they're increasingly noting a "black-box" problem with the tools they're using—not to mention the resources and artifacts they're creating as a result. As Tara Andrews describes it: read more

'It was easy, for some definition of easy,' solver tells El Reg A cryptographic puzzle proposed two decades ago that involves roughly 80 trillion squarings has been cracked much earlier than expected – in just three and a half years.…

Fedora 30 Workstation is the latest groundbreaking release of our free, leading-edge operating system. You can download it from?the official website here?right now.?There are several new and noteworthy changes in Fedora Workstation. Read more details below. GNOME 3.32 Fedora 30 Workstation includes the latest release of this simple, beautiful desktop environment for users of all […]

The success of open source continues to grow; surveys show that the majority of companies use some form of open source, 99% of enterprises see open source as important, and almost half of developers are contributing back. read more

The Ad-Hoc command is the one-liner ansible command that performs one task on the target host. It allows you to execute simple one-line task against one or group of hosts defined in the inventory file configuration.

It seems like it was just six months ago that we announced Fedora 29, and here we are again. Today, we announce our next operating system release. Even though it went so quickly, a lot has happened in the last half year, and you’ll see the results in Fedora 30. If you’re impatient, go to […]

The Apache Software Foundation has completed its Infrastructure support expansion by migrating its Git service to GitHub.

Some people may think OpenStack is getting tired, but Canonical and Ubuntu Linux founder Mark Shuttleworth is doubling down on the open-source IaaS cloud and shares his thoughts on "dueling" open-source foundations.

Just like we have pointers to variables, there can also be pointers to functions. Following is an example of a function pointer declaration.

Running Kubernetes clusters in production is a big undertaking with lots of moving parts. Keeping an eye on all those various parts is no easy task. To make the problem worse, Kubernetes is very distributed and oftentimes self-healing. If something is going wrong in your cluster, it may be intermittent enough (or specific enough) that you won't see the breakage for quite a while. During that time, of course, your customers or developers may have a degraded or completely broken experience. read more

Designed for kiosk and “fat client” applications, Giada’s VESA mountable “BQ67” mini-tower runs Linux or Windows on 6th or 7th Gen Core CPUs with up to 3x HDMI and 12x USB ports. Giada, which manufactures a variety of signage, mini-PC, and thin client systems, such as the Giada i200 thin client, has launched a “fat […]