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The OpenStack Foundation kicks off its inaugural Open Infrastructure Summit, confirming a pair of top level projects as it expands its open-source cloud effo

Some people may think OpenStack is getting tired, but Canonical and Ubuntu Linux founder Mark Shuttleworth is doubling down on the open-source IaaS cloud and shares his thoughts on "dueling" open-source foundations.

?Welcome to the first part of our series Hacking with Kali Linux. In this article, we'll learn to install Kali on various devices including, Virtual machine and Android.

Just like we have pointers to variables, there can also be pointers to functions. Following is an example of a function pointer declaration.

Running Kubernetes clusters in production is a big undertaking with lots of moving parts. Keeping an eye on all those various parts is no easy task. To make the problem worse, Kubernetes is very distributed and oftentimes self-healing. If something is going wrong in your cluster, it may be intermittent enough (or specific enough) that you won't see the breakage for quite a while. During that time, of course, your customers or developers may have a degraded or completely broken experience. read more

The widely used container application repository is the victim of a data breach, though Docker Inc. reports the impact is restricted to a small subset of users.

Designed for kiosk and “fat client” applications, Giada’s VESA mountable “BQ67” mini-tower runs Linux or Windows on 6th or 7th Gen Core CPUs with up to 3x HDMI and 12x USB ports. Giada, which manufactures a variety of signage, mini-PC, and thin client systems, such as the Giada i200 thin client, has launched a “fat […]

In August 2018, Opensource.com posted a poll with seven options asking readers: What was the most important moment in the history of Linux? I thought I would expand on the list and present 10 moments that I think have played an important part in shaping the history of Linux. 1. Linus releases Linux Linus Torvalds initially released Linux to the world in 1991 as a hobby. It didn't remain a hobby for long! read more

In this article, I will describe three ways to create an ISO file in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS trough command line and on the Desktop.

A couple of decades ago Gael Duval was a household name in Linux circles, even if he wasn’t quite as well known as Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman, Eric Raymond, or Bruce Perens. Duval was the founder of what many consider to be the first user-friendly Linux distro, Mandrake, and as one of three co-founders of the French company MandrakeSoft, around the turn of the century brought the distro to something akin to rock star status among Linux users.

Recently, I wrote about how we solved the problem of Java 11 removing the Java Network Launching Protocol (JNLP), which was how an organization I work with distributed a critical business app. read more

Bludit is a simple, fast, secure, flat-file CMS that allows you to create your own website or blog in seconds. In this tutorial, we will go through the Bludit CMS installation and setup on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS system by using NGINX as a web server.

The software featured in this article offer more than displaying PDF files; many are versatile document viewers.

Fedora provides awk as part of its default installation, including all its editions, including the immutable ones like Silverblue. But you may be asking, what is awk and why would you need it? Awk is a data driven programming language that acts when it matches a pattern. On Fedora, and most other distributions, GNU awk […]

2DayGeek: Lean how to install listed packages from a file in Linux.

TensorFlow is a free and open source platform for machine learning built by Google.

In a previous article we talked about the various type of JOIN we can use in a MariaDB/MySQL database. This time, instead, we take a look at the UNION statement: how it works, how we can use it to combine the result of queries run on different tables, and what are its peculiarities.

2DayGeek: jwhois command is the advanced technology of whois, which is very fast and highly configurable compared with whois command.

A retrospective is the act of dealing with past events and activities. The word comes from Latin, and it literally means "to look back." In the business world, a retrospective is a practice agile teams commonly use to reflect on how their work is done to improve how they do it so they continuously become better at it. read more

Elasticsearch is an open source distributed full-text search and analytics engine. It supports RESTful operations and allows you to store, search, and analyze big volumes of data in real time.