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The rumors were true: Microsoft has confirmed that it’s buying GitHub for a whopping $7.5 billion in an all-stock transaction. Reports first emerged last week that Microsoft was in advanced discussions to acquire the code-hosting repository, and these reports intensified over the weekend. Now, we know for sure. The GitHub transaction is expected to close by the end of 2018.

As I spend more and more time in terminal sessions, it feels like I'm continually finding new commands that make my daily tasks more efficient. The GNU history command is one that really changed my work day. read more

Micrsoft buying Github has been the talk of the town. I have never written any article on the story because I was not sure about it. Today when Microsft has confirmed that they're buying Github for $7.5 Billion, I think we should face it. Yes, people have started talking about Github alternatives and we'll soon cover that as well. Don't worry! There are plenty.

Bloomberg has confirmed the deal of Microsoft buying out GitHub. This is not the first time that Microsoft attempts to buy GitHub. Back in 2016 when GitHub was raising the second round of fundings, Microsoft saw an opportunity for itself. GitHub denied the ‘rumors’ and Microsoft declined to comment on it. Two years later, Microsoft has been successful in its attempt.

But he’s released a new kernel anyway and called it 4.17. Linus Torvalds has decided the world’s not ready for version 5.0 of the Linux Kernel, so he’s given us version 4.17 instead.…

One of the biggest problems facing digital music and audio creation is high latency. Unlike acoustic instruments (e.g., a drum), in which you hear a sound almost instantly after it's produced, digital audio has to be processed by a computer before a sound emerges from a speaker. This delay causes musicians to perceive digital music instruments as unnatural, inferior, and simply not as enjoyable, according to research from the Centre for Digital Music at Queen Mary University of London. To overcome this problem, in 2014, Andrew McPherson and Victor Zappi of Queen Mary's Augmented Instruments Laboratory developed Bela, an open source embedded computing platform for high-quality, ultra-low-latency audio.

Microsoft announced its acquisition of github for $7.5 billion in stock "subject to closing conditions and regulatory review".

Can a Chromebook really be worth $1,500? If it's Google's own Intel i7-powered Chromebook, the answer's heck yeah! This is the best Chromebook to date.

COPR is a collection of personal repositories for software that isn’t carried in Fedora. Some software doesn’t conform to standards that allow easy packaging. Or it may not meet other Fedora standards, despite being free and open source. COPR can offer these projects outside the Fedora set of packages.

Most likely your current Ubuntu system uses DHCP server to configure its networking settings. Hence, the configuration of your IP address is dynamic. In many scenarios, simply configuring your router or local DHCP server is a preferred way to set a static address to any host regardless of the operating system in use. Check your router manual and assign the static IP address to your host based on its MAC address using the DHCP service.

Avidemux, a popular free video editor, is now available on Flathub, making the latest version easy to install on most Linux distributions.

I know many of us have heard of VirtualBox but always been shy of trying it just because we think it is a messy task and it might harm our whole computer system. But it is the misconception and it won’t affect your computer system if you set it up correctly. We will find how to do that in this article.

How to install Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver) persistently to a USB.

Ubuntu is one of the most popular and user friendly distributions of Linux, sporting a tweaked version of Gnome Shell as the default desktop environment

Craig Williams, director of Talos outreach, a leading member of the Cisco Talos research team that discovered the malware, says most SOHO users simply need to reboot their routers and do a firmware upgrade. “The good news based on our research is that VPNFilter used common hacking techniques on common vulnerabilities,” Williams says. “This was not a zero-day attack.

Viruses on Linux aren't all that common, but they do still exist. So, it's a good idea to set up an antivirus on your Linux desktop, and perform a scan every so often. It's also a good idea to scan any new files you bring on to your computer to ensure that they're safe.

Microsoft Corp. has agreed to acquire GitHub Inc., the code repository company popular with many software developers, and could announce the deal as soon as Monday, according to people familiar with the matter.

There are several great object systems for Perl, and Moose is one of them. But Moose comes with a compile-time penalty that smaller applications may not be willing to pay, particularly for certain CGI or command-line scripts. Moose is incredibly feature-rich, and you may not need all of those features all the time.

The open-source Helm project is now its own standalone project in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, providing organization with package management system of deploying applications into a Kubernetes cluster.

This tutorial will guide you through the process of changing a hostname on a Ubuntu 18.04 system.

US authorities have provided more details of two pieces of malware which, they said, are used by North Korean hackers to infiltrate computer systems and steal passwords and other data.