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At DockerCon 19, Docker Inc announces the latest release of its flagship commercial platform in a bid to help make container development, deployment and management easier for enterprises.

The Ad-Hoc command is the one-liner ansible command that performs one task on the target host. It allows you to execute simple one-line task against one or group of hosts defined in the inventory file configuration.

It seems like it was just six months ago that we announced Fedora 29, and here we are again. Today, we announce our next operating system release. Even though it went so quickly, a lot has happened in the last half year, and you’ll see the results in Fedora 30. If you’re impatient, go to […]

GNU/Linux developer Arne Exton released a new version of his RaspAnd Pie operating system, which lets you run Android 9 Pie on your Raspberry Pi computer, to add a few much-needed improvements.

ZFS is one of the most feature-rich filesystems that guarantees you will never lose a single bit of data. Here is what ZFS snapshots and clones can do.

Flask is a free and open source micro web framework for Python designed to help developers build secure, scalable and maintainable web applications.

Docker security took a hit last week -- right before its annual developer and customer event -- with the news that a database in its Docker Hub repository for container images had been hacked.

The Apache Software Foundation has completed its Infrastructure support expansion by migrating its Git service to GitHub.

The security community debates the value of some IT certifications – and sniffs out pretenders quickly. Which certifications are worthwhile?

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