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Dirk Hohndel, VMWare's chief open source officer, talked about the “symbiotic relationship” between open source and the enterprise.

Microsoft's server-based Linux protection program is now offering a public preview of improved endpoint detection and response features.

SUSE, the major European Linux company, may soon be spun out in a $6 billion IPO.

The ugliest function in my data-auditing toolkit is "chkday". It checks to see whether an ISO 8601 date (YYYY-MM-DD) and its day number are in agreement, where both are present in a data table. I tried two other ways to get the same result but the code is still ugly.

In fact, companies can be one of the most benefiting entities from open source, due to many reasons and factors which we’ll be explaining today.

who is a command-line utility that prints a list of currently logged in users. It can also show the current run level, time of the last system boot, and more.

Seco’s “SM-218” and Adlink’s “LEC-IMX8MP” SMARC 2.1 modules run Linux or Android on NXP’s AI-enabled i.MX8M Plus with up to 8GB RAM, 64GB eMMC, dual GbE, PCIe Gen3, and optional -40 to 85°C. The first two SMARC 2.1 form-factor modules with NXP’s i.MX8M Plus SoC have appeared, joining a handful of other i.MX8M Plus modules […]

While some of you are still discovering the new features and improvements in Firefox 83, Mozilla is already working on the next major version of the popular and open-source web browser, Firefox 84, which promises to finally enable the WebRender feature by default on Linux.

I recently participated in a discussion in a CentOS group I belong to about the suitability of CentOS for ordinary laptops. Is CentOS really good for laptops? Like so many things it depends on what you intend to do and what software you're going to use.

In getting started with Terraform, I used Terraform version 0.11. As some readers pointed out, this version lacks some significant features, so in this article, I'll explain how to update Terraform to the more feature-rich version 0.12. read more

The Tails community released today Tails 4.13, a new version of their anonymous Linux distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux and powered by the latest Tor anonymous communication technologies.

Renesas and RelySys have launched a “SMARC 2.0 SoM” module that runs Linux on a Renesas RZ/G2N (2x -A57), RZ/G2M (2x -A57, 4x -A53), or RZ/G2H (4x -A57, 4x -A53). It offers 2GB to 4GB LPDDR4, 32GB eMMC, and optional WiFi/BT. Japanese chipmaker Renesas and Bangalore, India based manufacturing partner RelySys have launched a SMARC […]

I've been using Rust for a little over six months now. I'm far from an expert, but I have stumbled across many, many gotchas and learned many, many things along the way; things that I hope will be of use to those who are learning what is easily my favourite programming language. This is the third article in my miniseries for Rust newbs like me. You can find my other excursions into Rust in: read more

Btrfs has been available for Linux for several years, so you may already be familiar with it. If not, you may have questions about it, especially if you use Fedora Workstation (Btrfs is now its default filesystem). This article aims to help you get familiar with it and its advanced features, such as copy-on-write and checksums. read more

The dream of a purely Linux-powered smartphone lives on in the new PinePhone - KDE Community edition.

UNetbootin, a tool to create bootable live Linux USB drives, has been updated to version 700. With this release, the application finally uses Qt5 (5.12; previously it used Qt4).

The Mozilla Firefox 83 web browser is now available for download on Linux, macOS, and Windows systems ahead of its official launch tomorrow, November 17th, 2020.

A collaboration aimed at improving diversity in the open-source world, covering things like why diversity is good for business, how bias manifests itself, and what people can do to fight it.

In my Terraform for Kubernetes beginners article, I used Terraform 11, and in an upcoming article, I'll cover upgrading from Terraform 11 to 12. To prepare for that, in this article, I'll show you how to use tfenv, a tool that makes it much easier to convert from one version to another, as well as to manage multiple Terraform versions in your work environment.

The seventh installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here, for the week ending on November 15th, keeping you guys up to date with the most important things that have happened in the Linux world.