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The Linux Foundation Networking effort moves forward with Open Network Automation Platform efforts

In the beginning, there were conferences. Over time, as those conferences grew, attendees needed ways to identify each other. This need gave us the conference badge. No one knows what the first conference badges looked like, but we can be confident that they were relatively simple affairs. Over time, paper was put into plastic sleeves, which eventually became information printed on hard plastic. Sometimes that plastic wasn’t even rectangular. read more

Whether you are troubleshooting network connectivity issues or configuring a firewall one of the first things to check is what ports are actually opened on your system. This article describes several approaches to find out what ports are opened to the outside on your system.

$34B deal is now done and with it comes renewed questions about how IBM will influence and control Red Hat's enterprise software portfolio.

While Ubuntu is based on Debian, they are two different distros. Here we compare Debian and Ubuntu, and the similarities and differences between them.

If you're a developer creating binary packages, like an RPM, DEB, Flatpak, or Snap, you have to compile code for a variety of different target platforms. Typical targets include 32-bit and 64-bit x86 and ARM. You could do your builds on different physical or virtual machines, but that means maintaining several systems. Instead, you can use the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) to cross-compile, producing binaries for several different architectures from a single build machine. read more

Linux 5.2, Debian 10, Pinebook Pro, Mageia 7, Whonix 15, GRUB 2.04, Valve wants Testers, Linux Mint, NVidia, AMD, Rocket League, GNOME, 10 Years of Zorin & GamingOnLinux.com on TWinL73

System76, the US-based maker of powerful Linux computers, announced on Twitter that its Thelio desktop line-up can now be configured with 3rd-generation AMD Ryzen processors.

The deal is done. Here's where the open-source powers see their path moving forward.

The GNU Linux-libre project has released the GNU Linux-libre 5.2 kernel, a 100% free version of the Linux kernel that doesn't include any proprietary drivers, firmware, or code.

Mageia 7 redefines the concept of traditional Linux. It is a solid operating system well suited to both newcomers and seasoned Linux users alike. The Mageia distro is a powerhouse Linux OS filled with features and options unmatched in other Linux versions. Mageia Linux is a fork of the now-defunct Mandriva Linux. It was developed by a team of former employees of the France-based commercial software company that folded Mandriva. The first Mageia version was released in September 2010.

Pipx is a free and open source utility that allows you to install and run Python applications in an isolated virtual environments in Linux.

Recently, Kali Linux tweeted the news of releasing the pentesting distro for RPi and got a good response from its followers.

Foliate Linux EPUB eBook reader version 1.4.0 was released with a new sidebar, option to lookup words on Wikipedia and offline dictionaries, translate entire passages with Google Translate, and more.

If you're keen to learn Elasticsearch, the famous open source search engine based on the open source Lucene library, then there's no better way than to install it locally. The process is outlined in detail on the Elasticsearch website, but the official instructions have a lot more detail than necessary if you're a beginner. This article takes a simplified approach. read more

News briefs for July 9, 2019.

In the IT world, there has always been a pull between generalist and specialist. The stereotypical sysadmin falls in the generalist category 99 times out of 100. The site reliability engineer (SRE) role is specialized, however, and grew out of the needs of one of the first companies to know real scale: Google. Ultimately, these two roles have the same goal for the applications whose infrastructure they operate: providing a good experience for the applications’ consumers. read more

Learn how to use the Mastodon social network platform from the comfort of your regular IRC client.

Choosing the right programming language or framework often involves a bit of guesswork, which is what Tara AI is aiming to replace with machine learning.

Since our last Firefox release, we’ve been working on features to make the Firefox Quantum browser work better for you. We added by default Enhanced Tracking Protection which blocks known …