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WhiteSource review of programming language security errors reveal which languages have the most security holes. The winner? C. But that's only the start of the story.

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. Elasticsearch is one of the most popular search engines powering applications that have complex search requirements such as big e-commerce stores and analytic applications. This tutorial explains how to install Elasticsearch on CentOS 7.

In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at a 3D-print system for optical cardiography, Carnegie Mellon's Digital Learning Tools, Apache Software Foundation's 20th anniversary, and more.

I spend a lot of time doing research for my books and Opensource.com articles. Sometimes this leads me to discover bugs in the software I use, including Fedora and the Linux kernel. As a long-time Linux user and sysadmin, I have benefited greatly from GNU/Linux, and I like to give back. I am not a C language programmer, so I don't create fixes and submit them with bug reports, as some people do. But a way I can return some value to the Linux community is by reporting bugs. read more

The Apache Software Foundation is celebrating its 20th anniversary, as it continues to help develop and promote open-source software that underpins much of the internet.

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LUKS is the native encryption option on Linux systems, and unlike many other encryption solutions, you can change your LUKS encryption passprase. Learn how.

The Australian government's open data portal has a surprisingly large amount of data on dogs and cats. In this post I look at five of the datasets with command-line tools.

Concatenating Strings in Bash Script is one of the easiest operations. Concatenating string means appending one string to another and creating a new string. This string joining operation used more often in Bash Script.

The abject amorality/immorality and the loss of direction at the Linux Foundation — a subject which attracted several media responses earlier this month — can be traced back to personal interests; like in rogue charities, those who nowadays manage the Linux Foundation become millionaires by compromising the integrity of the entities they’re entrusted to maintain

Another serious security hole in the Magneto e-commerce platform

News briefs for March 29, 2019.

Having the right access control in place for authorized systems and individuals is a critical part of any modern computing platform. When Cruise Automation didn't quite get the all the capabilities it needed from within the open-source Kubernetes project, it went out and built its' own open-source project to fill the gap.

Using applications is the main purpose of a Linux server. Whether your newly installed application runs from a desktop or the command line, this article helps you use your Microsoft Windows experience to quickly understand how to run applications on Linux.

Open Web Analytics (OWA) is an open-source analytic platform, written in PHP. The main purpose of this application is to analyze and monitor how people use your web pages or applications, which then provides you with analytics data for your website.

Linux has been described as one of the most secure operating systems available, but the National Security Agency (NSA) has taken Linux to the next level with the introduction of Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux). SELinux takes the existing GNU/Linux operating system and extends it with kernel and user-space modifications to make it bullet-proof. If you're running a 2.6 kernel today, you might be surprised to know that you're using SELinux right now! This article explores the ideas behind SELinux and how it's implemented.

Linux dominates the smart TV market, which continues to grow despite concerns over privacy. A Strategy Analytics report pegs Samsung’s Tizen as the leading platform at 21 percent followed by LG’s WebOS at 12 percent. Despite some evidence last year that smart TVs were losing ground to streaming boxes, Strategy Analytics has released a Global […]

While load testing has become more accessible, configuring load tests that faithfully re-create production conditions can be difficult. A good load test must use a set of URLs that are representative of production traffic and achieve request rates that mimic real users. Even performing distributed load tests requires the upkeep of a fleet of servers. read more

This article is a gentle introduction to the Clojure Functional Programming language that is based on LISP, uses the Java JVM and has a handy REPL. And, as Clojure is based on LISP, be prepared to see lots of parentheses!

R is a programming language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. It provides a wide variety of statistical (linear and nonlinear modeling, classical statistical tests, time-series analysis, classification, clustering) and graphical techniques.