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IT teams need to adapt as voice rewrites development rules. Keep these five fundamental changes top of mind

If you're wary of the Microsoft takeover of GitHub, or if you've been looking for a way to ween yourself off free public repositories, or if you want to ramp up your DevOps efforts, now's a good time to look at installing and running GitLab yourself. It's not as difficult as you might think, and the free, open-source GitLab CE version provides a lot of flexibility to start from scratch, migrate or graduate to more full-fledged versions.

Because Julia is a new language there are relatively limited resources to help you get started with it besides the official documentation. But we’ve researched the finest open source resources to help you master the language.

At the Linux Security Summit, Microsoft’s Ryan Fairfax revealed the inner workings of Azure Sphere OS and its security model, including modifications to the Linux kernel that let it run in 4MB. It’s still a bit unsettling to see a Microsoft speaker at a Linux Foundation conference. Yet, at the recent Linux Security Summit, Ryan […]

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Red Hat and the Fedora Project announced the availability of the beta release of the upcoming Fedora 29 Linux operating system, a major version expected to arrive later this fall.

Johan Hovold posted patches to add a GNSS subsystem (Global Navigation Satellite System), used by GPS devices. His idea was that commercial GPS devices might use any input/output ports and protocols—serial, USB and whatnot—forcing user code to perform difficult probes in order to determine which hardware it was dealing with. Johan's code would unify the user interface under a /dev/gnss0 file that would hide the various hardware differences.

Apache GUI is a free and open source Java-based tool that can be used to manage and configure Apache web server through the web browser. It is specially designed for those who are looking for a comfortable graphical interface (GUI) to configure Apache servers.

Video: Linux-savvy legal experts from the past and present weigh in on this knotty, open-source licensing matter.

In life, there are many reasons for a person to embrace a new idea or way of life. Most of the time because it does him good. And there are always no reasons why such an idea should be flaunted, in order to bring this good to more and more people, as a cascade effect.

Bodhi Linux 5.0 the latest release of Bodhi Linux has been released by Jeff Hoogland. This release ships with a latest Moksha Desktop 0.3, Powered by Linux kernel 4.15 series and Based on Canonical’s long-term supported Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver).

Distributed tracing systems enable users to track a request through a software system that is distributed across multiple applications, services, and databases as well as intermediaries like proxies. This allows for a deeper understanding of what is happening within the software system. These systems produce graphical representations that show how much time the request took on each step and list each known step.

Composer is a dependency manager for PHP. Composer will pull in all the required PHP packages your project depends on and manage them for you.

Today's short-lived software applications and cloud services open up possibilities for more specialized processor designs

Our programming language is still number one, insists database goliath Oracle on Tuesday delivered Java 11, in keeping with the six-month release cadence adopted a year ago with Java 9. It is the first "Long Term Support" (LTS) release, intended for Java users who prioritize stability over Zuckerbergian fast movement and breakage.…

The Scikit-learn Python library, initially released in 2007, is commonly used in solving machine learning and data science problems—from the beginning to the end. The versatile library offers an uncluttered, consistent, and efficient API and thorough online documentation. read more

This tutorial shows how to install ISPConfig 3.1 by using the automated install script from Servisys on an Ubuntu 18.04 LTS server. ISPConfig is a free open source hosting control panel to manage Linux hosting servers in single and multi-server environments.

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and configure the latest version of MongoDB Community Edition on a Debian 9 systems from the official MongoDB repositories.

Partitions management is one of the most essentials and dangerous task to perform when working with operating systems. In this tutorial we will focus on the use of GNU parted and see how we can use it to create, resize and delete partitions from the command line interface.

Swap space is a common aspect of computing today, regardless of operating system. Linux uses swap space to increase the amount of virtual memory available to a host. It can use one or more dedicated swap partitions or a swap file on a regular filesystem or logical volume. read more