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In the first three articles in this series, we explored the general requirements of a Source-to-Image (S2I) system and prepared and tested an environment specifically for a Go (Golang) application. read more

Looking to do something meaningful this summer? How about helping a few young people take their first steps in an IT career? Such an opportunity fell into my lap a few years ago, and I don't see why it can't be reproduced on a much larger scale. read more

In the early days of computing, hardware was expensive and programmers were cheap. In fact, programmers were so cheap they weren't even called "programmers" and were in fact usually mathematicians or electrical engineers. Early computers were used to solve complex mathematical problems quickly, so mathematicians were a natural fit for the job of "programming." read more

Alan Davidson, Vice President of Global Policy, Trust and Security testified today on behalf of Mozilla before the International Grand Committee on Big Data, Privacy and Democracy. The International Grand

News briefs for May 29, 2019.

Nvidia’s “Nvidia EGX” solution for AI edge computing combines its Nvidia Edge Stack and Red Hat’s Kubernetes-based OpenShift platform running on Linux-driven Jetson modules and Tesla boards. Adlink unveiled four edge servers based on EGX using the Nano, TX2, Xavier, and Tesla. Announced at this week’s Computex show in Taiwan, Nvidia EGX is billed as […]

I'd like to introduce one of the more popular tools used for visualizing data within several scientific disciplines: ParaView. ParaView started as a joint project between Kitware, Inc., and Los Alamos National Laboratory back in 2000. The first public release was version 0.6, which came out in 2002. Since then, ParaView has become one of the most popular visualization packages for visualizing large data sets.

With the recent release of Fedora 30, Fedora 28 officially enters End Of Life (EOL) status effective May 28, 2019. This impacts any systems still on Fedora 28. If you’re not sure what that means to you, read more below. At this point, packages in the Fedora 28 repositories no longer receive security, bugfix, or enhancement updates. […]

Phorum is a PHP and MySQL based Open Source forum software. In this guide, we will guide you step-by-step through the Phorum installation process on the CentOS 7 operating system using Nginx as the web server, MariaDB as the database, and acme.sh and Let's Encrypt for HTTPS.

This tutorial focuses on the installation and configuration of the powerful utilities sar and ksar on CentOS, Debian and Ubuntu and shows how to automatically create PDF reports by using a simple shell script for easy daily monitoring of server resource usage.

'We're big fans,' says company's announcement Pivotal, developer of the open-source Spring Framework for Java, has confirmed official support for OpenJDK to address "questions in the community" about changes to the way Oracle Java SE is distributed and supported.…

What is packit Packit (https://packit.dev/) is a CLI tool that helps you auto-maintain your upstream projects into the Fedora operating system. But what does it really mean? As a developer, you might want to update your package in Fedora. If you’ve done it in the past, you know it’s no easy task. If you haven’t […]

Intrinsyc has re-released its Snapdragon 212-based Open-Q 212 module and 212A Home Hub Development Kit, switching from Android Things to Linux and adding a Qualcomm QCA4024 based option with BT 5.0, Thread, and ZigBee. Intrinsyc’s Open-Q 212A module and Development Kit, which were announced a year ago as along with several other Android Things production […]

What in the world is DevOps? I think this is a question everyone new to DevOps asks early in their journey. If you ask 10 people this question, you will most likely get 10 different answers. This speaks positively to the pervasive, open nature of DevOps but also to the lack of a clear definition or implementation. This is not necessarily a bad thing, but it can make it difficult for DevOps journeymen and journeywomen. read more

Intel launched its first 10nm, 10th Gen Ice Lake Core CPUs with Gen 11 graphics, Intel Deep Learning Boost technology, 9 to 15W TDPs, and support for WiFi 6 and Thunderbolt 3. After leaking a roadmap of new 10th Gen Ice Lake and other future CPUs in late April, Intel officially launched its first Ice […]

Pythonic is a graphical programming tool that makes it easy for users to create Python applications using ready-made function modules. The PyQt5-based application is aimed primarily at newcomers to programming, but experienced users can incorporate their own Python code into the application. read more

Aaeon’s BIOS-driven “HERO SDK” hardware monitoring stack supports Linux-driven Aaeon systems that use Intel’s Gemini, Whiskey, and Coffee Lake CPUs. The company has also posted specs for a Coffee Lake based “COM-CFHB6” COM Express. Aaeon announced a HERO SDK to “help developers with monitoring and controlling hardware on Aaeon platforms.” Available for modern Intel-based systems […]

iRedMail is a free, open source mail server solution that automatically installs and configure all necessary mail server components on your server. In this tutorial, we will learn how to set up a full-featured mail server with iRedMail on Ubuntu 18.04 server.

In my previous articles on user namespace and rootless containers, I talked about how you can run and build containers using Podman and Buildah without becoming root. I showed how you could do some awesome stuff, including running containers with lots of different user IDs (UIDs), installing software, setting up networking, and running containers at Quay.io, Docker.io, or pretty much any other container registry. read more

News briefs for May 28, 2019.