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The Open Mainframe Project, an open source initiative that enables collaboration across the mainframe community to develop shared tool sets and resources, announces the schedule for the 3rd annual Open Mainframe Summit, which will be in-person in Philadelphia, PA, and streaming online for global attendees. This year’s theme focuses on security, which is top of mind for every company that uses mainframes.

The DXVK open-source Vulkan-based implementation of D3D9, D3D10, and D3D11 on Linux systems through Wine has been updated today to version 1.10.2, a release that adds numerous bug fixes and performance improvements for your favorite games.

The Flatline extension makes the Flatpak installation file recognizable to your browser so that when you click the “Install” button on the flathub.org website, you are automatically prompted to open the file within the Software Center you are currently using.

Open source is one of the most important technology trends of our time. It’s the lifeblood of the digital economy and the preeminent way that software-based innovation happens today. In fact, it’s estimated that over 90% of software released today contains open source libraries. There's no doubt the open source model is effective and impactful. But is there still room for improvement?

n this article, we're going to look at the echo command, which is useful for showing text on the terminal, as well as the contents of variables. Let's get started!

In the beginning, Microsoft was The Evil Empire. In 2001 then CEO Steve Ballmer declared: "Linux is a cancer." Later, Microsoft sponsored SCO's copyright attack on Linux; claimed that Linux violated unnamed Microsoft patents; and forced Linux-based Android vendors to pay for dubious patent claims. Bill Gates and Ballmer's Microsoft wanted to see Linux and open-source software (OSS) dead and buried.

CRYPTO-GRAM is a free monthly newsletter providing summaries, analyses, insights, and commentaries on computer security and cryptography. In this issue, Random Notes on the SQL Slammer. . .

Less than two-and-a-half years after becoming Red Hat CEO, Paul Cormier has resigned from the role. Cormier will remain onboard as the company’s Chairman.

I recently wrote a C program in Linux to create a smaller random selection of MP3 files from my extensive MP3 library... You can download my application from its Git repository. I wrote it for Linux specifically in part because it's easy to find well-tested file I/O routines on Linux...

Just as the Banana Pi Leaf-S3 and XIAO ESP32C3 covered a few days ago, the FireBeetle 2 shares a similar form factor, I/O peripherals including Wi-Fi/BLE, external battery support and an onboard charging circuit. The FireBeetle 2 was designed around the ESP-WROOM-32E from Expressif Systems and contains a dual core Tensilica LX6 with maximum frequency […]

Here learn about chain operators in Linux with examples. Linux command chaining is very useful if you want to execute multiple commands at one goal.

As you know, the Ubuntu Desktop variant ships with the default GNOME desktop environment for users, so why do we need to install a graphical desktop environment on Ubuntu?

Yes, it is shipped with the GNOME desktop environment to use, but it is not always like that. If you have installed the Ubuntu server or Debian minimal, then you won’t find the regular desktop setup to use your favourite application graphically.

Apple Maps is a web mapping service that’s available in over 200 regions around the world offering curated guides.

HAProxy also stands for High Availability Proxy is a free, open-source Load Balancer and proxying solution designed to simplify and secure modern application architectures. It allows a web server to distribute incoming requests across multiple endpoints. In this post, we will explain how to install HAProxy on Ubuntu 22.04.

When IBM acquired Linux vendor Red Hat for $34 billion in 2019, Paul Cormier took the reins as Red Hat CEO. After three years, Cormier is now handing those reins over to a new leader.“When IBM acquired us three years ago, I thought for me personally, I’ve been here 21 years, maybe that was the right time, but there was a lot of unfinished business for me to complete,” Cormier said.

Linux hardware vendor System76 took to social media today to tease us with a new variant of their configurable mechanical keyboard called Launch Lite, which will be available to pre-order on July 14th.

This guide shows you how to use the rsync command in Linux to synchronize files and directories using simple examples.

NFS or Network File System is a protocol that allows local users to access remote data from multiple disks and directories in the same way as local access. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install the NFS Server and Client on the Ubuntu 22.04 Server. You will also learn how to mount the NFS shared directory automatically at system boot on the client machine.

The beta version of the upcoming Linux Mint 21 operating system series is now available for public testing ahead of the final release later this summer.

The article contains details about the features of LibreOffice 7.4 RC1 (release candidate 1) which brings a vast amount of changes across modules.