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Python is one of the most popular programming languages in use today—and for good reasons: it's open source, it has a wide range of uses (such as web programming, business applications, games, scientific programming, and much more), and it has a vibrant and dedicated community supporting it.

Open source use continues to skyrocket, not just in use cases and scenarios but also in volume. It is trivial for a developer to depend on a 1,000 JavaScript packages from a single run of npm install or have thousands of packages in a Docker image. At the same time, there is increased interest in ensuring license compliance. 

NVMe drives have paved the way for computing at stellar speeds, but the technology didn't suddenly appear overnight. It was through an evolutionary process that we now rely on the very performant SSD for our primary storage tier.

Three kernel developers describe what it's really like to work on the kernel, how they interact with developers from other companies, some pet peeves and how to get started.

Doc Searls talks to Zhen, Devon and Melora Lofretto of KidOYO and Doctor Michael Nagler, superintendent of the Mineola Public School system in Mineola Long Island.

At DockerCon 19, the CEO of Docker provides some clarity on a breach that impacted his company, as it prepares to move forward with new application development and cloud native technology efforts.

Copying files and directories is one of the most common tasks you’ll perform when working on the command line. In Linux, there are several commands for copying files with cp and rsync being the most popular.

For this article, let's take a look at the KmPlot plotting program. KmPlot is part of the EDU suite of programs from the KDE project, and it was designed to plot functions and interact with them to learn about their behavior...

Perhaps the most famous Linux/open-source logo after Tux the Linux Penguin, Red Hat's Shadowman is being replaced by -- naturally -- a Red Hat.

MEN Micro’s Linux-friendly “MC50I“ is a highly rugged DIN-rail industrial computer with an Intel Apollo Lake SoC, 3x GbE ports, M.2 NVMe storage, and modular I/O extensions. The fanless MC50I industrial computer is primarily intended as a 35mm DIN-rail computer, but it also ships with optional wall- and 19-inch rack mounting. The 144 x 132 […]

Video: Containers may be red hot, and Kubernetes is white-hot, but you still need virtualization. And Red Hat delivers, with its latest KVM-based virtualization platform.

I've been dipping my toe back into Python development as I get ready to head to PyCon US. (If you're headed there as well and want to share your Python story, let me know!) When I installed a module to tinker around with, I got a reminder that I needed to install Python 3 soon. read more

Are you familiar with development sprints, coding events held immediately after Python and Django conferences? They encourage attendees at the annual PyCon (or DjangoCon) or one of the many regional PyCons to stay and use the venue space, decked out with power and network, to work on open source projects with other Python developers and practitioners. read more

Python is one of the most popular programming languages in use today—and for good reasons: it's open source, it has a wide range of uses (such as web programming, business applications, games, scientific programming, and much more), and it has a vibrant and dedicated community supporting it. read more

2DayGeek: This shell script will trigger an email when the system hits a given threshold limit.

The Fedora Project announced the final release of the long-anticipated Fedora 30 Linux-based operating system for personal computers.

There are numerous services available on the web for managing your personal finances. Although they may be convenient, they also often mean leaving your most valuable personal data with a company you can’t monitor. Some people are comfortable with this level of trust. Whether you are or not, you might be interested in an app […]

Memcached is a free and open-source high-performance in-memory key-value data store. It is most commonly used to speed up applications by caching various objects from results of database calls.

Today the beta version of Docker Enterprise 3.0 was unveiled at DockerCon during the morning keynote from Docker CEO Steve Singh.

One of the best parts of working in computer science is that our jobs center on solving problems. While many of us joke that continually struggling to figure things out is frustrating, we do it because there is nothing quite like that feeling of finding a solution. Then, of course, the momentary euphoria ends, and we move onto the next problem. read more