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Sysadmins, site reliability engineers (SREs), and cloud operators all too often struggle to feel confident in their infrastructure as it scales up. Also too often, they think the only way to solve their challenges is to write a tool for in-house use. Fortunately, there are options. There are many open source tools available to test an infrastructure's performance. Here are my favorites.

Canonical released a new Linux kernel live patch for the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) operating system series to address the recently disclosed TCP Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerabilities.

All Things Open is a polyglot technology conference focusing on the tools, processes and people making open source possible. Target audience includes designers, developers, decision makers, entrepreneurs and technologists of all types and skill levels.

This relatively unknown, but useful, sysadmin tool is getting a new chance for glory via The Linux Foundation.

What does it take to make a Linux distribution like Fedora 30? As you might expect, it’s not a simple process. Changes in Fedora 30 Although Fedora 29 released on October 30, 2018, work on Fedora 30 began long before that. The first change proposal was submitted in late August. By my count, contributors made […]

Vorta, a GUI for BorgBackup (or Borg for short), is now easier to install on Linux. The backup tool was added to Flathub the other day, a service for hosting and distributing applications as Flatpak packages.

The top command is one of the frequently used command by many of the Linux administrator to understand and view the resource utilization by processes on the server. In this tutorial, we will teach you, how to understand the top command output so, that you can easily troubleshoot when you are facing any performance issue in system..

In this article, we will see how to enable the Firefox client-side decoration feature on Ubuntu. We will use Ubuntu 18.04 LTS for describing the procedure mentioned in this article; however, you can follow the same procedure for other distributions and releases.

Only the Chinese now to sign off $34.5bn slurp. With the EU tipped to approve IBM's $34bn slurp of Red Hat next week, the open-source software house started Q1 of fiscal '20 with double-digit hikes in sales and profit, though its top line fell short of analyst estimates.…

In this article, we will cover why increasing productivity on your Linux machine is important, along with the Top 10 apps to do so.

This article demonstrates how to perform basic file and file I/O operations in Rust, and also introduces Rust's ownership concept and the Cargo tool. If you are seeing Rust code for the first time, this article should provide a pretty good idea of how Rust deals with files and file I/O, and if you've used Rust before, you still will appreciate the code examples in this article.

With the months ticking down to IBM's acquisition of Red Hat, the Linux and cloud power, business continues to perform at a high level.

MySQL Workbench is a cross-platform graphical application for MySQL database administrators and architects. It includes tools for managing databases and users, creating and running SQL queries, configuring servers, taking backups, performing migrations and much more. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and use MySQL Workbench on Ubuntu 18.04. The same instructions apply for Ubuntu 16.04 and any Ubuntu-based distribution, including Linux Mint, Kubuntu and Elementary OS.

Ibase has launched a 3.5-inch “IB822” SBC with an Intel Gemini Lake SoC with 16GB DDR4, 2x SATA, 2x GbE, triple displays, and 2x M2 expansion slots. Ibase’s IB822, which is not to be confused with its similarly 3.5-inch, circa-2008 IB882 SBC running the Atom Z500 or the more recent, Apollo Lake based IB818 3.5-inch […]

The Linux Foundation today is announcing its new Board Chair Nithya Ruff and Vice Chair Wim Coekaerts, both of whom bring a long history of contribution, collaboration and developer advocacy to their new positions. Both existing board members, these new roles will allow them to deepen their stewardship and support for Linux and open source projects across industries.

'Why use a copy when the original is free, proven and battle-tested?' Google is planning to reimplement parts of libcurl, a widely used open-source file transfer library, as a wrapper for Chromium's networking API – but curl's lead developer does not welcome the "competition".…

Magisk is an excellent way to root your Android phone, but it can do a lot more. Learn how you can install useful Android add-ons with Magisk Manager.

In the world of free software, many people speak English: It is the one language. English helps us cross borders to meet others. However, this language is also a barrier for the majority of people. Some master it while others don't. Complex English terms are, in general, a barrier to the understanding and propagation of knowledge. Whenever you use an uncommon English word, ask yourself about your real mastery of what you are explaining, and the unintentional barriers you build in the process.

This brief guide explains the three easiest ways to find the port number of a service in Linux operating system.

Natanael Copa's security-oriented Alpine Linux operating system has been updated to version 3.10.0, a major release that brings several new features, various improvements and bug fixes, as well as lots of updated components.