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Remember 1981? You should... original author Tim Paterson found the source for MS-DOS 1.25 (along with a six-inch stack of assembly print-outs)... Turner has now uploaded the code to GitHub to make it easier to find, although he'd really like it if you didn't suggest modifications to the hand-crafted assembly.

This is the first in a series of articles highlighting essential system tools. These are small utilities, useful for system administrators as well as regular users of Linux based systems. The series will examine both graphical and text based open source utilities.

Pandoc is a command-line tool for converting files from one markup language to another. In my introduction to Pandoc, I explained how to convert text written in Markdown into a website, a slideshow, and a PDF.

The llnode plugin lets you inspect Node.js processes and core dumps; it adds the ability to inspect JavaScript stack frames, objects, source code and more. At Node+JS Interactive, Matheus Marchini, Node.js Collaborator and Lead Software Engineer at Sthima, will host a workshop on how to use llnode to find and fix issues quickly and reliably

We discovered an integer overflow in the Linux kernel’s create_elf_tables() function: on a 64-bit system, a local attacker can exploit this vulnerability via a SUID-root binary and obtain full root privileges.

Audiobooks are a great way to consume literature. Many people who don’t have time to read, choose to listen. Most people, myself included, just use a regular media player like VLC or MPV for listening to audiobooks on Linux. Today, we will look at a Linux application built solely for listening to audiobooks. We review Cozy, an audiobook player for Linux.

FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is a standard network protocol used to transfer files to and from a remote network. In this tutorial, we will show you how to use the linux ftp command through practical examples.

If you’re using Linux for quite a while and it is your daily task to install and test new Linux distributions, then you might have seen at times all the installed operating systems are not listed in the GRUB menu. It may be due to GRUB not being installed correctly, or GRUB not able scan the hard drives correctly. If it ever happened to you, do not freak out! It is really very easy to solve.

And they'll keep winning while everyone still wants Gmail and YouTube. Google has received massive fines for its recent stewardship of Android, but there was no conspiracy or underhand tactics about how it got there: Google won this monopoly on merit.…

The Document Foundation announced today the availability of the second point release in the latest LibreOffice 6.1 open-source and cross-platform office suite series, LibreOffice 6.1.2.

The new release 0.133 of the Culmus fonts is now available for download.

Eight IT leaders look back at the IT roles that kicked off their careers

Third major release of the open-source Kubernetes container orchestration system in 2018 is now out, providing users with a stable release of a key security feature that has been in development for two years, while previewing a new sandboxing isolation capability.

With an ambitious decentralized platform, the father of the web hopes it’s game on for corporate tech giants like Facebook and Google.

According to a recent user survey by Mesosphere, forecasts of the demise of on-premises data centers don't appear to be coming true . While companies do continue to move to the cloud, many are taking the hybrid approach, keeping much of their data and workloads within the four walls of their own data centers.

In this edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look France's new secure operating system, IBM's bias-hunting toolkit, using open source AI to diagnose cancer, and more. French security agency releases CLIP OS The National Cybersecurity Agency of France takes digital protection very seriously — so seriously, in fact, that the organization has its own secure operating system, which it's open sourced. read more

Disagreements between fields in a database can be tricky to diagnose and even harder to detect.

R is a fast growing open source programming language and environment that specializes in statistical computing and graphics representation. It is supported by the R Foundation for Statistical Computing and mainly used by statisticians and data miners for developing statistical software and performing data analysis.

Remember remember the first of November Skype 7 (aka Classic) has finally run out of lives. Microsoft yesterday announced plans to kill it off once and for all in an update to a two-month-old blog-post.…

One can argue that containers and DevOps were made for one another. Certainly, the container ecosystem benefits from the skyrocketing popularity of DevOps practices, both in design choices and in DevOps’ use by teams developing container technologies. Because of this parallel evolution, the use of containers in production can teach teams the fundamentals of DevOps and its three pillars: The Three Ways. Principles of flow Container flow read more