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Clock's ticking on Ellison's smack talk. re:Invent AWS boss Andy Jassy has doubled down on claims Amazon will "be done" with Oracle databases by 2019, and used his Re:Invent keynote to throw shade at Big Red.…

As we sit here, in the year Two Thousand and Eighteen (better known as "the future, where the robots live"), our beloved Linux is the undisputed king of supercomputing. Of the top 500 supercomputers in the world, approximately zero of them don't run Linux (give or take...zero).

News briefs for November 29, 2018.

Podcast: nostalgia, two factor security, app subscriptions...

This week Amazon announced their new A1 arm64 EC2 Instances powered by their arm64 based Graviton Processors and, with a minor delay, the shiny new Fedora 29 for aarch64 (arm64) is now available to run there too! Details on getting running on AWS is in this good article on using AWS tools on Fedora article […]

Arm’s open source EBBR (Embedded Base Boot Requirements) specification is heading for its v1.0 release in December. Within a year or two, the loosely defined EBBR standard should make it easier for Linux distros to support standardized bootup on major embedded hardware platforms.

News briefs for November 28, 2018.

Searx is a free and open source metasearch engine with the aim of protecting the privacy of its users. Searx can fetch search results from about 70 different engines, like Bing and Google.

Do you regularly use a single-page web application, but miss some of the benefits of a full-fledged desktop application? The GNOME Web browser, simply named Web (aka Epiphany)  has an awesome feature that allows you to ‘install’ a web application. By doing this, the web application is then presented in the applications menus, GNOME shell […]

In the final part of this series, I explore the method most people use to create, deploy and manage containers. The concept is typically referred to as container orchestration. If I were to focus on Docker, on its own, the technology is extremely simple to use, and running a few images simultaneously is also just as easy...

At Embedded Linux Conference Europe, Arm’s Grant Likely explains how an emerging, UEFI-based EBBR spec could standardize embedded Linux firmware bootup behavior using standard bootloaders like U-Boot. Arm’s open source EBBR (Embedded Base Boot Requirements) specification is heading for its v1.0 release in December. Within a year or two, the loosely defined EBBR standard should […]

Sphinx is a popular application for creating documentation, similar to JavaDoc or Jekyll. However, Sphinx's reStructured Text input allows for a higher degree of customization than those other tools. This tutorial will explain how to customize Sphinx to suit your workflow. You can follow along using sample code on GitHub. read more

In this article, we will perform following scripts to interact with Lemur using the terminal: Creation of Authority using CFSSL in the Lemur GUI. This CFSSL Authority will be used in our scripts to generate the certificate.

My first attempt to set up an "entertainment PC" was back in the late 1990s, using a plain old desktop computer with a Trident ProVidia 9685 PCI graphics card. I used what was known as a "TV-out" card, which had an extra output to connect to a standard television set. The onscreen result didn't look very nice and there was no audio output. And it was ugly: I had an S-Video cable running across my living room floor to my 19" Sony Trinitron CRT TV set.

PerfSONAR is a network measurement toolkit collection for testing and sharing data on end-to-end network perfomance. The overall benefit of using network measurement tools like PerfSONAR is they can find issues before they become a large elephant in the room that nobody wants to talk about. Specifically, with the right answers from the right tools, patching can become more stringent, network traffic can be shaped to speed connections across the board, and the network infrastructure design can be improved.

"Linux Sucks" Not

Funny, entertaining, and accurate. Worth the 50 minutes it takes to watch this video.

Thanks to 'dark patterns' and 'nudging', no doesn't mean no. Seven European consumer organisations have filed a blockbuster complaint arguing that Google's location tracking in Android lacks a valid legal basis in the European Union.…

The State of Mozilla annual report for 2017 is now available here. The new report outlines how Mozilla operates, provides key information on the ways in which we’ve made an impact, and includes details from our financial reports for 2017.

In the aftermath of being purchased by IBM, Red Hat keeps making hybrid-cloud moves.

Every time I tell my friends about my hobby—which became my career as the executive director at The Document Foundation—I face lots of questions. A worldwide community? Contributors around the globe? An open source community? Can you eat that?! read more