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VIDEO: Linus Torvalds thinks Intel has gotten better about keeping the Linux open-source community in the loop with CPU security problems, but it started out really badly. And it's still not fair that Linux has to fix hardware problems.

Linux and the open source ecosystem that surrounds it continue to do well. So well in fact that at the Open Source Summit here in Vancouver, BC, Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin proclaimed 2018 would be the best year ever for his organization. "Open source continues to have an amazing impact on the world," Zemlin said during his opening keynote.

Most people find it difficult to differentiate between a pi and an Arduino. What most people do not understand is that an Arduino is a microcomputer while the Arduino is a micro-controller. This article is about laying out those differences and simplifying each bit by bit. Most probably some of you might have used a Pi and never used an Arduino.

Most of us surf the internet, make online purchases, and even pay bills using our mobile devices because they are handy and easily accessible. According to a Forrester study, The Digital Business Imperative, 43% of banking customers in the US used mobile phones to complete banking transactions in a three-month period.

At the Open Source Summit North America, one of the world's leading Linux kernel developers took issue with Intel's initial disclosure of the Meltdown and Spectre CPU vulnerabilities.

Browser will stop asking nicely for privacy protections. Mozilla says it will soon be modifying its Firefox browser to block all user tracking on websites by default.…

For the last 50 years, mainframe have literally been the big iron systems that have helped to power critical elements of IT infrastructure. Yet despite the core role that mainframes have held, the primary interface to the mainframe throughout its history has been the 'green screen' command line. At the Open Source Summit, the Linux Foundation's Open Mainframe project announced the new Zowe effort which for the first time brings a real graphical user interface to the mainframe.

MyWebSQL is a powerful web interface designed to help handle all aspects of your MySQL server through a web browser. Made to be fast, easy-to-use, and readily accessible from anywhere, MyWebSQL allows you to keep track on your databases from any location, through any device. And with support for various MySQL servers, you also don’t need to worry about it supporting the one you currently use. If you’re looking for a web management tool, but you need something other than phpMyAdmin, then this is a solid choice to go with. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install MyWebSQL on your CentOS 7 machine or VPS. The installation process is fairly simple, and will not take long.

In this tutorial, we will show you how to unzip files in Linux systems thought the command line using the unzip command.

In this edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at Redis Labs' licensing woes, open source profiting from the cloud, making Windows games easier to run on Linux, and more.

Both the Linux kernel and the macOS kernel are UNIX-based. Some people say that macOS is "linux", some say that both are compatible due to similarities between commands and file system hierarchy. Today I want to show a little of both, showing the differences and similarities between Linux Kernel & Mac kernel like I mentioned in previous Linux kernel articles.

In previous installments of this series, you learned about directories and how permissions to access directories work. Most of what you learned in those articles can be applied to files, except how to make a file executable. So let's deal with that before moving on.

If you want to see an in-depth media information directly from your file manager, be it Nautilus, Nemo, or Caja, there's an extension for each of these file managers that implements this functionality.

It's been a few years since I last attended the annual SIGGRAPH Conference. If you're not familiar with SIGGRAPH, it's a special interest group within the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) that focuses on computer graphics. It holds a North American conference every year, usually on the western side of the continent. This year it was in Vancouver, Canada. read more

Omeka Classic is a free and open source web publishing platform for sharing digital collections and creating media-rich online exhibits. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install Omeka Classic CMS on Ubuntu 18.04 server.

At the Open Source Summit, Linus Torvalds the creator of Linux talks about the Linux development process, security challenges and why hardware performance declines are a good thing for software development.

There are plenty of reasons to like Markdown, a simple language with an easy-to-learn syntax that can be used with any text editor. Using tools like Pandoc, you can convert Markdown text to a variety of popular formats, including HTML. You can also automate that conversion process in a web server. read more

Sublime Text is one of the most widely used text and source code editors for web and software development. It is very fast and it comes with lots of powerful features out of the box. You can enhance its functionality by installing new plugins and creating custom settings.

Puppet, the company that makes automation software for managing systems and delivering software, has introduced Puppet Bolt, an open-source, agentless multiplatform tool for running commands, scripts, tasks and orchestrated workflows on remote Linux and Windows systems.

News briefs for August 31, 2018.