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As Linux users, we sometimes need to change the MAC address of our network adapters. This process is also called spoofing or faking a MAC address. This article explains how to change a MAC address through a Ubuntu 18.04 LTS system.

Steam Play aims to revolutionize gaming on Linux by officially bringing Wine into Steam. Now you can play many of your favorite Windows games seamlessly on Linux.

In this two-part series, I will discuss how to import ideas from the functional programming methodology into Python in order to have the best of both worlds. This first post will explore how immutable data structures can help. The second part will explore higher-level functional programming concepts in Python using the toolz library. Why functional programming? Because mutation is hard to reason about. If you are already convinced that mutation is problematic, great. If you're not convinced, you will be by the end of this post. read more

As it turns out, the Linux market share reported in the hardware survey for September was higher than initially reported. We're finally seeing some progress.

Richard Lloyd shows that Intellectual Ventures continues to distribute its patents, sometimes to patent trolls from Texas (e.g. Dominion Harbor) and sometimes to others; Finjan, another Microsoft-funded troll, is fighting to salvage its software patents while suing Microsoft’s rivals in the security space

The Debian Project released a new Linux kernel update for the Debian GNU/Linux 9 "Stretch" operating system series that addresses several security vulnerabilities discovered by various security researchers recently.

Previously I wrote an article on how to install PHP 7.2 on Debian 8, since 7.2 is now available here is how to install 7.2. If you're looking to install 7.1 instead please look at the link I have supplied.

AT&T will deploy 60,000 5G routers compliant with a newly released white box spec hosted by the Open Compute Project. The routers will run Vyatta NOS Linux which will morph into an open source DANOS platform. This week AT&T will release detailed specs to the Open Compute Project for building white box cell site gateway […]

Although there are a vast number of considerations (some common to traditional human-computer interfaces and some unique to spatial environments) that should be taken into account when designing for virtual reality (VR), there's one aspect of user interaction that particularly interests me as a developer: How should VR designers enable users to move within a virtual environment? VR is a spatial computer interface, and interacting with a spatial world means moving within it, which brings unique design challenges and opportunities. read more

Keep track of your system's uptime and downtime with the tuptime tool. tuptime reports the historical and statistical running and stopped time of your system, keeping track between restarts.

Yarn is a JavaScript package manager compatible with npm. It was created to solve a set of problems with the npm such as speeding up the packages installation process by parallelizing operations and reducing errors related to network connectivity. In this tutorial we will guide you on how to install Yarn on a CentOS 7 system from the Yarn RPM package repository. The official Yarn repository is consistently maintained and provides the most up-to-date version.

News briefs for October 3, 2018.

The new IBM Secure Service Container brings a new layer of security to IBM LinuxONE and Z mainframes. Within Cloud Private, IBM claims SSC takes advantage of today's mainframes hardware embedded capabilities to help protect your data, guard against internal and external threats and simplify your data compliance initiatives.

VIA unveiled a “VIA ALTA DS 3 Edge AI” mini-PC that runs Android 8.0 on a Snapdragon 820E. VIA previously announced it is bringing FogHorn’s Lightning IoT edge intelligence platform to its Edge AI systems. VIA Technologies, which earlier this year released a VIA Smart Recognition Platform board powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 has […]

Divided into 2 parts, in the first part I introduced the concept that everything is a file and I introduced special devices/dev/ null, / dev / zero, / dev / random and / dev / full. In this part 2, I will present interesting didactic features about this, for example, how to transform a file into a partition! Reading this post requires prior knowledge of Part 1!

One of the first commands I learned in Linux was ls. Knowing what’s in a directory where a file on your system resides is important. Being able to see and modify not just some but all of the files is also important. read more

OMD or Open Monitoring Distribution is one of the best things that will make every System Admin’s day. OMD is an open source server, network monitoring tool that comes bundled with a number of...

RabbitMQ is an open source message-broker software written in Erlang programming language with client support for all major programming languages. In this tutorial, I will show you how to set up a RabbitMQ Cluster consisting of 3 servers on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

Katherine Druckman talks to Doc Searls about digital privacy, wizards and muggles, and boiled frogs.

Alicia Gibb is the face of open hardware right now. She went to library school where they taught her that freedom of information and access to it is the most important thing. She's been in love with "open source" ever since and eventually got into open hardware through hackerspace meetups. Her favorite thing is when an LED lights up. "It's the 'Hello World' of hardware. You know something is working." read more