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Kernel development is always strange. Andrea Parri recently posted a patch to change the order of memory reads during multithreaded operation, such that if one read depended upon the next, the second could not actually occur before the first.

Even though the AMD drivers are open source, they still depend on closed binary firmware. Therefore, AMD drivers won't work by default on a Debian system. Installing them is fairly simple, though, and so is installing key software like Vulkan.

At a recent Ansible London Meetup, I got chatting with somebody about automated hardware builds. "It's all cloud now!" I hear you say. Ah, but for many large organisations it's not—they still have massive data centres full of hardware. Almost regularly somebody pops up on our internal mail list and asks, "can Ansible do hardware provisioning?" Well yes, you can provision hardware with Ansible… read more

Explainable AI means humans can understand the path an IT system took to make a decision. Let’s break down this concept in plain English – and explore why it matters so much.

As per your organization standard policy, you may need to allow only the list of users that are allowed to access the Linux system. Or you may need to allow only few groups, which are allowed to access the Linux system. How to achieve this? What is the best way? How to achieve this in a simple way?

The recently released Mozilla Firefox 67 web browser is now available for download from the official software repositories of all supported Ubuntu Linux operating systems.

Onion’s $99, sandwich-style Omega2 LTE SBC for remote sensor applications with a MIPS-based, WiFi-enabled Omega2S+ compute module, a Quectel EC25 chipset with LTE Cat 4 and GNSS, plus USB Type-C, microSD, and battery support. Last December, Onion updated its MIPS-based, WiFi-enabled Omega2 board with a similarly OpenWrt-driven Omega2 Pro SBC that increased RAM to 512MB […]

In the first two articles in this series, we explored the general requirements of a Source To Image (S2I) system and prepared an environment specifically for a Go (Golang) application. Now let's give it a spin.

NASA has deployed three free-flying “Astrobee” robots on the ISS for house-keeping tasks. The bots run Ubuntu/ROS and Android 7.1 on Snapdragon-based Inforce modules and a Wandboard and feature 3x payload bays, 6x cameras, and a touchscreen. We haven’t heard a news from the IBM Watson connected CIMON social robot since it debuted with a […]

VLC is a popular open source multimedia player and streaming media server.

TWinL67: Zombieload, Nextcloud, Peppermint 10, KDE Plasma, IPFire, ArcoLinux, LuneOS, SouthEast LinuxFest, Superpaper, Pinephone, Valve: SteamOS, Steam Client Beta, Proton, id Software Going Vulkan

Linux container technology was introduced more than a decade ago and has recently jumped in adoption in IT environments....

The openSUSE Project announced today the release and general availability of the openSUSE Leap 15.1 operating system, the first minor point release to the openSUSE Leap 15 series.

Kubernetes security experts share the tips that will help you avoid trouble – and maybe even build support for security across your organization.

In this tutorial we will describe the steps of installing NodeBB, along with all of its prerequisites on a Debian 9 VPS. NodeBB is a free and open-source discussion platform that utilizes web sockets for instant interactions and real-time notifications.

Vokoscreen is a screen recording tool that can be used to record educational videos, live recordings of the browser, installation, videoconferences, etc. In this article, we will explain how you can install and use Vokoscreen on Ubuntu.

Offensive Security have released the second maintenance update to the Kali Linux 2019 operating system, adding all the latest software releases, GNU/Linux technologies, and other enhancements.

In this tutorial, I will show you how to set up a development environment for Ruby on Rails applications using Docker and Docker compose. We will be using Ubuntu 18.04 as the hosts operating system.

This guide will show how to install and configure a DNS Server in RHEL-8 in caching mode only or as single DNS Server, no master-slave configuration. A reverse and forward zone example is provided.

Kali Linux is a Debian-derived Linux distribution designed for digital forensics and penetration testing. Kali Linux is an open source project that is maintained and funded by Offensive Security, a provider of world-class information security training and penetration testing services.