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Renowned Linux kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman announced the end of life of the Linux 4.18 kernel series, urging users to upgrade their distributions to a newer kernel as soon as possible.

OpenSnitch is an open source alternative to Little Snitch of macOS. It lets you control internet access per application basis. Read the full review of OpenSnitch.

Simply trusting that code taken from an upstream Github project repository is safe, is not a good practise for maintaining application security.

In this guide, we’ll show you how to install and configure the latest version of Joomla! Content Management System on Debian 9.

Amazon Web Services open-sources its new Firecracker lightweight hypervisor technology based on KVM, in an effort to help improve serverless security and performance.

Every time I tell my friends about my hobby—which became my career as the executive director at The Document Foundation—I face lots of questions. A worldwide community? Contributors around the globe? An open source community? Can you eat that?! read more

Firefox ESR (Extended Support Release) is an official version of Firefox that doesn't come with the latest features, but instead focuses on security and stability fixes. This article explains how to install Firefox ESR in Ubuntu or Linux Mint, using an official PPA or using Snap packages.

Garz & Fricke unveiled a compact “Nallino Core” SBC that runs Linux on an i.MX6 ULL SoC and offers LAN, USB, CAN, and serial I/O. G&F is also prepping a i.MX6 Solo based “SANTVEND Battery Core” SBC with a 4G modem. Braunschweig, Germany based embedded vendor Garz & Fricke has posted specs for a “coming […]

Transparency is key in an open organization. This isn't a controversial statement. But is too much transparency in an organization possible? read more

pytest turns out to be easy to use, easy to work with and easy to integrate into my work. Part of the reason for this is that pytest abandons the Python idea of "there's only one way to do it", giving developers a great degree of flexibility and freedom in choosing how to write tests.

If you are a Linux system admin, or your work involves managing users, there are many tools that you should be aware of. Once such command line utility is finger, basics of which we'll be discussing here in this tutorial.

Bio-Linux was introduced and detailed in a Nature Biotechnology paper in July 2006. The distribution was a group effort by the Natural Environment Research Council in the UK. As the creators and authors point out, the analysis demands of high-throughput “-omic” (genomic, proteomic, metabolomic) science has necessitated the development of integrated computing solutions to analyze the resultant mountains of experimental data. read more

The side effect of Debian's stability is that you are not running the latest version of any software. Learn how to install newer software in Debian.

FFmpeg is a free and open source command line tool for transcoding multimedia files. It contains a set of shared audio and video libraries such as libavcodec, libavformat, and libavutil. With FFmpeg you can convert between various video and audio formats, set sample rates and resize videos.

The non-profit technology consortium XBMC/Kodi Foundation proudly announced the limited availability of the second-generation "Kodi Edition" Raspberry Pi case.

Kontron’s “SMARC-sAL28” module runs Linux on a dual-core, Cortex-A72 LS1028 SoC with -40 to 85°C support and up to 5x GbE ports with Time Sensitive Networking. Kontron invented the ULP-COM standard that formed the basis of the SMARC form factor, and it has delivered numerous SMARC modules over the years, including Arm products such as […]

IPFire project's Michael Tremer announced today the general availability of IPFire 2.21 Core Update 125, an incremental update to the hardened open-source Linux firewall distribution targeted at routers and hardware firewalls.

There are unlimited videos available on the Internet on numerous video hosting websites but sometimes we need to download some videos for offline use. In this article, we are providing you with three tools that you can use to download videos not only from YouTube but numerous other supported websites.

The Zimbra Collaboration Server is a mail server, collaborative web application and a web-based mail server admin console in a single application. It provides LDAP, antivirus, antispam, collaboration features and an ajax webmail client. In this tutorial, we will see how to upgrade an installation of Zimbra 8.7.11 to Zimbra 8.8.10 (latest version available).

On Opensource.com, we have a lot of reasons to be thankful. Over the past 12 months, we've had the pleasure of working with writers from a range of open source communities, organizations, and projects. We've had ongoing relationships and friendships with many of them, plus we've enjoyed welcoming dozens of new contributors to the site and new moderators to our community moderator program.