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IBM agreed to acquire software maker Red Hat Inc. in a $33.4 billion bet on jump-starting its efforts to catch up in the cloud. International Business Machines Corp. will pay $190 a share in cash for Raleigh, North Carolina-based Red Hat, according to a statement from the companies Sunday, confirming an earlier Bloomberg News report. That’s a 63 percent premium over Red Hat’s closing price of $116.68 per share on Friday.

It seems EA are doing some rather interesting things with their experimental Halcyon game engine which includes Vulkan and Linux support.

Now that we have seen how you can use a GUI or IDE to interact with a repository, let's look at the many features that git offers to make life easier. I will demonstrate how to amend the previous commit message, how to see what files were changed in a commit, rebasing, and tools to help with troubleshooting.

VIDEO: This deal is the biggest Linux and open-source acquisition ever.

IBM has struck a deal to acquire Red Hat for $34 billion. IBM will pay $190 per share for the software company, a more than 60% premium to Red Hat's closing stock price on Friday. IBM will remain committed to Red Hat's open governance, open source contributions, participation in the open source community and development model, and fostering its widespread developer ecosystem.

A security bug in Systemd can be exploited over the network to, at best, potentially crash a vulnerable Linux machine, or, at worst, execute malicious code on the box... Systemd creator Leonard Poettering has already published a security fix for the vulnerable component – this should be weaving its way into distros as we type.

The grep command is used to find patterns in files. This tutorial shows some of the most common grep command examples that would be specifically beneficial for software developers.

Google Chrome is the most widely used web browser in the world. It is fast, easy to use and secure browser built for the modern web.

Earlier this week the Opensource.com editorial team had the pleasure of spending time with our community moderators at our annual meeting prior to All Things Open in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Linux and BSD variants that employ the popular X.Org Server package --almost all do-- are vulnerable to a new vulnerability disclosed on Thursday.

VirtualBox is an open source cross-platform virtualization software which allows you to run multiple guest operating systems (virtual machines) simultaneously.

In this edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at GitHub and its efforts to protect open source in the EU, a novel idea for sustainable open source, the next FIDO2 security key being open source, and more.

Welcome back to this series of articles on designing faster web pages. Part 1 and part 2 of this series covered how to lose browser fat through optimizing and replacing images. This part looks at how to lose additional fat in CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and fonts. Tweaking CSS First things first: let’s look at where […]

cPanel is the most popular and most widely-used control panel for managing and automating web hosting tasks. It is the world’s most intuitive and user-friendly control panel, with a very simple and straight-to-the-point graphical interface. cPanel is a Linux-based web hosting control panel, that utilizes a 3 tier structure for system administrators, resellers and end-user website owners, all via a web-browser. Other than the beautiful user interface, cPanel has command line access and API-based access for third-party software integration, for web hosting providers or developers and administrators to automate their system administration processes. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install WHM and cPanel on CentOS 7.

These five developments hold promise for personal productivity and enterprise mobile strategy

Europe was at the center of a milestone for women in tech today as nonprofit Women Who Tech and tech giant Mozilla announced the winners of the Women Startup Challenge....

Man pages are one of the most useful resources when it comes to understanding command line utilities. A man page, however, contains a lot of details about the command. IIf you are looking for a short help text, the command whatis becomes handy.

In September 2017, Microsoft boasted that it had just released the "best version of Windows 10 ever." A year later, as Windows engineers struggle with the most recent release of the company's flagship operating system, there's a compelling case that the October 2018 Update is the worst version of Windows 10 ever.

In July, IEEE Spectrum released their fifth annual interactive ranking of the top programming languages. They have a pretty cool and complex process for ranking 47 chosen programming languages because it's complicated to say really which is the most popular. As they put it: "Different programmers have different needs and domains of interest." read more

Let’s talk about Android for a moment. Yes, I know it’s only Linux by way of a modified kernel, but what isn’t these days? And seeing as how the developers of Android have released what many (including yours truly) believe to be the most significant evolution of the platform to date, there’s plenty to talk about.