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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 […]

In August 2018, Opensource.com posted a poll with seven options asking readers: What was the most important moment in the history of Linux? I thought I would expand on the list and present 10 moments that I think have played an important part in shaping the history of Linux. 1. Linus releases Linux Linus Torvalds initially released Linux to the world in 1991 as a hobby. It didn't remain a hobby for long! read more

Recently, I wrote about how we solved the problem of Java 11 removing the Java Network Launching Protocol (JNLP), which was how an organization I work with distributed a critical business app. read more

Bludit is a simple, fast, secure, flat-file CMS that allows you to create your own website or blog in seconds. In this tutorial, we will go through the Bludit CMS installation and setup on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS system by using NGINX as a web server.

Fedora provides awk as part of its default installation, including all its editions, including the immutable ones like Silverblue. But you may be asking, what is awk and why would you need it? Awk is a data driven programming language that acts when it matches a pattern. On Fedora, and most other distributions, GNU awk […]

A retrospective is the act of dealing with past events and activities. The word comes from Latin, and it literally means "to look back." In the business world, a retrospective is a practice agile teams commonly use to reflect on how their work is done to improve how they do it so they continuously become better at it. read more

On National Superhero Day, how would some of our favorite open source tools and mascots look if they were superheroes? Granted, open source tools are already kind of like superpowers in their own right. My take on this challenge is Open Force: Heroes of the Code! (with accompanying illustrations, of course). Download the original Krita art files and desktop wallpaper images for 4k, HD, and mobile devices from my GitLab repo. read more

In this edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look open source projects from Mozilla, a tool for analyzing Flash files, an open source alternative to GPS, and more!

After Intel rolled out 26 new 9th Gen Core models, a leaked Intel roadmap revealed a 2Q launch for its 10nm Ice Lake chips and a low-power Lakefield processor that combines an Ice Lake core with 4x Atom Tremont cores. It was a busy two weeks for Intel watchers. After unveiling 26 new 14nm 9th […]