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I've said it before. I'll say it again: Red Hat, not content with being a Linux power, wants to be a cloud powerhouse. Need proof? Look no further than the newest beta for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.6. The latest version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux takes a big step forward into the cloud.

GNOME developer Carlos Soriano announced today that the forthcoming GNOME 3.30 desktop environment is bringing back the beloved GNOME Classic mode that allows users to use desktop icons.

This article is for those who prefer to install Ubuntu 18.04 with Unity instead of Gnome (Shell). It explains how to perform an Ubuntu 18.04 LTS installation which uses Unity by default with all its dependencies, but without the whole Gnome desktop packages that are available in a standard / default (with Gnome desktop) Ubuntu 18.04 installation.

If you have tried to dual boot Windows with Linux, there are chances you might overwrite the Master Boot Record. Here is how you can fix MBR from Ubuntu.

Bodhi Linux developer Jeff Hoogland announced today the release and general availability of the final Bodhi Linux 5.0 operating system series for 32-bit and 64-bit platforms.

Looking for a way to simulate keyboard and mouse input? The web is full of various guides and tutorials mentioning xdotool, a “command-line X11 automation tool”. xdotool simulates X11 input events; it can even move or resize the desktop windows. Unfortunately, as its name implies, xdotool only works with the X11 window system. This means it […]

bat is a drop-in replacement for the cat command adding advanced syntax highlighting and Git integration to show file modifications. It’s a really useful utility that is a massive leap up from cat. bat’s written in the Rust programming language.

A display or login manager is the component of your Operating system responsible for launching your display server and the login session. This tutorial compares several commonly used display manages and shows how to install them.

Apache Subversion or SVN is an open-source software versioning and revision control system developed by the Apache Software Foundation. In this article, I will show you how to set up the Apache Subversion using Ubuntu 18.04 LTS server.

Flowcharts are a great way to formalize the methodology for a new project. My team at work uses them as a tool in our brainstorming sessions and—once the ideation event wraps up—the flowchart becomes the project methodology (at least until someone changes it). My project methodology flowcharts are high-level and pretty straightforward—typically they contain just process, decision, and terminator objects—though they can be composed of many tens of these objects. read more

Open-source pixel botherer cranks it up to version 2.10.6 There appears to be no rest for Wilber as the GIMP team has updated the venerable image editor to version 2.10.6.…

Programmers may love hot newer languages like Kotlin and Rust, but according to a Cloud Foundry Foundation (CFF) recent survey of global enterprise developers and IT decision makers, Java and Javascript are the top dog enterprise languages. They may not be the coolest languages, but Java and JavaScript remain the top enterprise developer languages for the cloud.

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is expanding its roster, announcing that it has accepted the Open Metrics project as a Sandbox effort. New effort aims to help define a standard format for cloud native server application metrics.

Tranquil PC open pre-orders on a fanless, barebones “Mini Multi Display PC” mini-PC with AMD’s Ryzen Embedded V1000 SoC, 4x simultaneous 4K DisplayPort displays, 2x GbE, and up to 32GB DDR4 and 1TB storage. Manchester, UK based Tranquil PC has launched the first mini-PC based on the AMD Ryzen Embedded V1000.

News briefs for August 21, 2018.

Vagrant is an open source command line tool for building and managing virtual machine environments. By default Vagrant can provision machines on top of VirtualBox, Hyper-V and Docker but many other providers such as Libvirt (KVM), VMware and AWS can be installed via the Vagrant plugin system. In this tutorial we'll show you how to install Vagrant on a Ubuntu 18.04 machine. We'll be using the VirtualBox provider, which is the default provider for Vagrant.

As we speculated previously, Valve have now officially announced their new version of 'Steam Play' for Linux gaming using a modified distribution of Wine, called Proton.

In this tutorial we will show you how to install PHP 7.2 on Ubuntu 16.04. PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) is an open-source server-side scripting language designed primarily for creating dynamic interactive websites.

Murdock, of course, had no idea that Debian would end up becoming an institution in the Linux world. This distribution, mother of many others (Ubuntu included), has completed 25 splendid years that have confirmed it as a crucial development in the world of Linux and Open Source.

Today we are pleased to announce the release of Freespire 4.0. Freespire 4.0 is our newest release in the Freespire line. Freespire 4.0 is a free release in both terms of cost and code. Freespire 4.0 is a migration of our current 16.04 LTS codebase to the 18.04 LTS codebase which brings with it many improvements to usability and to hardware support. Freespire 4.0 is also the base for our commercial Linspire release