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In 1935, Austrian physicist, Erwin Schrödinger, still flying high after his Nobel Prize win from two years earlier, created a simple thought experiment. It ran something like this: If you have a file server, you cannot know if that server is up or down...until you check on it. Thus, until you use it, a file server is—in a sense—both up and down. At the same time.

With the development cycle of the Ubuntu 19.04 operating system series kicked off by Canonical earlier this week, the daily build ISO images are now available to download for early adopters.

Five observations about why your your server monitoring still stinks by a monitoring specialist-turned-consultant.

phpMyAdmin is an open source PHP based tool for managing MySQL and MariaDB servers over a web-based interface. phpMyAdmin allows you to interact with MySQL databases, manage user accounts and privileges, execute SQL-statements, import and export data in a variety of data formats and much more.

News briefs for November 1, 2018.

This spring System76 completed the first leg of their journey towards producing an open desktop computer when they opened the first Linux hardware manufacturing plant in the US. Now, they're working feverishly on Thelio to create a computer that is open from the hardware to the OS.  read more

Early in 2017—nearly two years ago—System76 invited me, and a handful of others, out to its Denver headquarters for a sneak peek at something new they'd been working on...

The most recent release of Apache is version 2.4.37 which became generally available on Oct. 23, provides a series of updates that will help the open source project to continue to hold its top spot.

Esri has launched an Arm Linux version of its ArcGIS Runtime SDK for Qt aimed at GIS mapping and analytics applications such as in-vehicle fleet management. Esri has crafted a version of its cross-platform ArcGIS GIS (Global Information Systems) mapping and analytics package to run on Arm-based Linux IoT devices.

This tutorial shows how to install Nextcloud integrated with ONLYOFFICE using Univention Virtual Appliance. The ONLYOFFICE-Nextcloud VM is available as VMware Image, VMware ESX Image, VirtualBox Image and as KVM Image.

This article explains how to embed Google Calendar on your Linux desktop background. It also includes some customization hints.

Recently I was in New York giving a talk at O'Reilly Velocity on the topic of troubleshooting Kubernetes apps and, motivated by the positive feedback and great discussions on the topic, I decided to revisit tooling in the space.

Creating a text file is one task for which you can depend only on your keyboard on an Ubuntu system. This tutorial explains three commands which can be used to quickly create a text file.

Apache OpenWhisk is a serverless, open source cloud platform that allows you to execute code in response to events at any scale. Apache OpenWhisk offers developers a straightforward programming model based on four concepts: actions, packages, triggers, and rules.

Code to help those managing lots of servers unleashed, designated by jumbles of letters After years of making the world more open and connected – to everyone's delight – Facebook recently moved on to bringing the world closer together.…

OKD is the open source upstream community edition of Red Hat's OpenShift container platform. OKD is a container management and orchestration platform based on Docker and Kubernetes. OKD is a complete solution to manage, deploy, and operate containerized applications that (in addition to the features provided by Kubernetes) includes an easy-to-use web interface, automated build tools, routing capabilities, and monitoring and logging aggregation features. read more

Django is a free and open source high-level Python web framework designed to help developers build secure, scalable and maintainable web applications. In this tutorial, we will be installing and configuring the latest stable version of Django on a CentOS 7 machine inside a Python virtual environment.

Drawing arrows in GIMP is very easy. You just need the right plugins to do the job. We show here where to grab the arrow plugin and start drawing arrows in GIMP.

The Fedora Project announced the final release of the Fedora 29 Linux operating system, a major update that comes six months after the previous version.