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Mender is an open-source (Apache 2.0) project to address over-the-air (OTA) software update management for Linux-based IoT devices. When we researched this five years ago, there were no open-source end-to-end (device-to-server) options to manage the lifecycle of OTA updates for connected devices. Some open-source options were available, but they either had a proprietary management server, or they were client-only and required integration with another back-end server.

Privacy. While it’s the buzzword for 2019, it has always been a core part of the Mozilla mission, and continues to be a driving force in how we create features …

Mozilla officially released today the Firefox 65 web browser for all supported platforms, including Linux, Android, macOS, and Windows, adding yet another layer of enhancements and optimizations to make your browsing experience better.

What is quantum computing, and what do enterprise IT leaders need to know about the implications for security?

News briefs for January 29, 2019.

With the release of the Firefox 65 web browser today, Mozilla begin the rollout of its latest and most advanced web browser to all supported platforms, including Android, Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Let’s turn some common DevOps wisdom on its head – per the advice of DevOps practitioners and experts. It might just be the catalyst your team needs to get to the next phase of your DevOps journey.. Common wisdom sometimes falls flat for DevOps teams. Consider these DevOps tips learned the hard way

Windows Server 2012 admins should crank it up to 11. Microsoft has warned that it isn't only Windows 7 for the chop in 2020. Unloved Internet Explorer 10 will be joining it. Finally.…

Do you know what's in your pacemaker's source code? Your defibrillator? Your insulin pump? No one does -- except its maker. And that's worrying.

In the previous article, we introduced the subject of angle brackets (< >) and demonstrated some of their uses. Here, we'll look at the topic from a few more angles. Let's dive right in.

The awesome folks over at The Document Foundation have informed us today about the worldwide availability of their highly anticipated LibreOffice 6.2 release of the popular open-source and cross-platform office suite.

Adlink has launched a rugged, Linux-ready “DMI-1210” touch-panel PC for train drivers with an Atom x5-E3930, a 12.1-inch touchscreen, EN 50155 compilance, MVB and CAN interfaces, and wireless options including 4G and GNSS. Adlink’s DMI-1210 touch-panel computer is primarily designed as an HMI unit for train drivers but can also be used as a control […]

After announcing the release of Chrome 72 for Android, Google promoted today the Chrome 72 web browser to the stable channel for Linux, Windows, and Mac computers too.

Several commands for adding and modifying users in a mysql database.

Did you ever try to configure a printer on a GNU/Linux desktop distribution at the end of the '90s? Or even before? To make a long story short: That was fine if you worked at a large organization with an IT team to handle it and dedicated hardware or a printing server. There were many different standards and protocols to handle printers. And only a few big vendors (usually Unix vendors) provided specific support and drivers for their entire range of products. read more

2DayGeeK: UUID stands for Universally Unique Identifier is used to identify a hard drives partition in Linux.

Brotli is a generic-purpose lossless compression algorithm that compresses data using a combination of a modern variant of the LZ77 algorithm, Huffman coding, and 2nd order context modeling, with a compression ratio comparable to the best currently available general-purpose compression methods.

In 2018, I surpassed a few personal milestones. In February, I celebrated 15 years of working at Red Hat. Then, in May, I turned the big 40—so you can imagine why I might be feeling more reflective of life in general these days. read more

Teamviewer is a popular way for remote teams to collaborate, share screens and provide tech support. Learn how to install and use Teamviewer on Linux!

This tutorial explains how to install Samba on Ubuntu 18.04 and configure it as a standalone server to provide file sharing across different operating systems over a network.