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Here's what we were reading last week. More than 3,000 readers took our poll last week: How many programming languages have you used?. And more than two-thousand respondents say they've used 5 or more programming languages. Read on to see what else was popular on Opensource.com in the past week.

Avalue announced a Linux-friendly 3.5-inch “ECM-CFS” SBC with a choice of Intel’s 8th Gen “Coffee Lake” S-series processors plus triple display support, 2x GbE, 4x USB 3.1, 2x SATA, and mSATA. Avalue’s ECM-CFS is the first 3.5-inch board we’ve seen to feature Intel’s 8th Gen “Coffee Lake” processors, although Seco offers a 3.5-inch CCOMe-C30 carrier […]

Sockets are used for two different processes to share data or for shuttling information from one machine to another and the network. They are extremely useful and the basis of things like FTP, real-time network chat systems, secure shells, and so on.

News briefs for October 1, 2018.

Community managers care about growth in their community, but growing development communities is hard work. It's rare for developers to start contributing code to projects they've never worked with before—it's far more likely that your developers were (or still are) users of the project, too. read more

This tutorial shows how to delete data safely on Linux by using the shred command. All examples in this article have been tested on an Ubuntu 18.04 LTS machine.

Modern Linux kernels come with a packet-filtering framework named Netfilter. Netfilter enables you to allow, drop, and modify traffic coming in and going out of a system. The iptables userspace command-line tool builds upon this functionality to provide a powerful firewall, which you can configure by adding rules to form a firewall policy. iptables can be very daunting with its rich set of capabilities and baroque command syntax.

Remember 1981? You should... original author Tim Paterson found the source for MS-DOS 1.25 (along with a six-inch stack of assembly print-outs)... Turner has now uploaded the code to GitHub to make it easier to find, although he'd really like it if you didn't suggest modifications to the hand-crafted assembly.

Pandoc is a command-line tool for converting files from one markup language to another. In my introduction to Pandoc, I explained how to convert text written in Markdown into a website, a slideshow, and a PDF.

The llnode plugin lets you inspect Node.js processes and core dumps; it adds the ability to inspect JavaScript stack frames, objects, source code and more. At Node+JS Interactive, Matheus Marchini, Node.js Collaborator and Lead Software Engineer at Sthima, will host a workshop on how to use llnode to find and fix issues quickly and reliably

We discovered an integer overflow in the Linux kernel’s create_elf_tables() function: on a 64-bit system, a local attacker can exploit this vulnerability via a SUID-root binary and obtain full root privileges.

And they'll keep winning while everyone still wants Gmail and YouTube. Google has received massive fines for its recent stewardship of Android, but there was no conspiracy or underhand tactics about how it got there: Google won this monopoly on merit.…

With an ambitious decentralized platform, the father of the web hopes it’s game on for corporate tech giants like Facebook and Google.

In this edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look France's new secure operating system, IBM's bias-hunting toolkit, using open source AI to diagnose cancer, and more. French security agency releases CLIP OS The National Cybersecurity Agency of France takes digital protection very seriously — so seriously, in fact, that the organization has its own secure operating system, which it's open sourced. read more

Remember remember the first of November Skype 7 (aka Classic) has finally run out of lives. Microsoft yesterday announced plans to kill it off once and for all in an update to a two-month-old blog-post.…

One can argue that containers and DevOps were made for one another. Certainly, the container ecosystem benefits from the skyrocketing popularity of DevOps practices, both in design choices and in DevOps’ use by teams developing container technologies. Because of this parallel evolution, the use of containers in production can teach teams the fundamentals of DevOps and its three pillars: The Three Ways. Principles of flow Container flow read more

The software enabling this technology comes in many forms, with Docker as the most popular. The recent rise in popularity of container technology within the data center is a direct result of its portability and ability to isolate working environments, thus limiting its impact and overall footprint to the underlying computing system. To understand the technology completely, you first need to understand the many pieces that make it all possible. Join us this weekend as we learn about Containers.

Hackers share general public's love of popular programming language Python, either the world's most popular programming language or a close runner up, turns out to be the most widely used language for hacking tools.…

Video: In an e-mail to the BBC, Torvalds comes over as a voice of reason in the heated Linux Code of Conduct fights.

Encrypted sync and faster – up next is Mail and a phone version, CEO promises Interview. This week the Vivaldi browser received its biggest update, adding secure sync across devices and making many operations speedier.…