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The xargs utility allows you to build and execute commands from standard input.

MicroSys is sampling a new “miriac” module and SBC that run Linux on NXP’s Cortex-A72 based LS1028A with 5x TSN-ready GbE ports and support for up to 2x 10GbE SerDes lanes. Germany-based MicroSys Electronics has begun limited sampling of a miriac MPX-LS1028A compute module and a sandwich-style miriac SBC-LS1028A-TSN SBC that run Linux or the […]

Google published today the Android Security Patch for May 2019, addressing the latest critical security vulnerabilities and other issues discovered in various of Android's components.

Mozillans scramble over the weekend to undo damage On Friday, Mozilla detected a great disturbance in its Firefox browser, as if millions of voices had cried out on social media in annoyance.…

A new Windows Terminal is here and on GitHub. Build The biggest news of Microsoft's annual developer get-together, Build, this year was the arrival of the Linux kernel as part of Windows Subsystem for Linux 2. Oh, and a new tab-happy Windows Terminal? It's in GitHub.…

Canonical announced today that its popular Ubuntu Linux operating system is now fully supported on Microsoft's second generation of the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).

MariaDB is the fork of MySQL and backward compatible replacement for MySQL. In Fedora 29 main repository by default contains repository for MariaDB. Here in this tutorial, we are going to show you how to install MariaDB 10 on Fedora 29.

The second major Linux kernel milestone release for 2019 is now available, bringing with it support for using persistent storage as regular system memory, as well as a new Linux Security Module (LSM).

A weekly video and audio podcast, going over a week over interesting news in the Linux gaming work, episode 11.

Creative Commons (CC) licenses are built on copyright and designed to give more options to creators who want to share their content; for example, Opensource.com's content has a CC license. In July 2018, Creative Commons launched a CC Certificate program—an in-depth course about CC licenses, open practices, and the ethos of the Commons. It is composed of readings, quizzes, discussions, and practical exercises to develop learners' open skills. read more

2DayGeek: Multiple ways to check whether the given package is installed or not on Debian based system.

In this article, we will first describe how to install the Qt Creator through the command line. Then, we will explain how to write a simple Qt Hello World program and run it through the Command line and the Qt Compiler GUI. We have run the commands and procedures mentioned in this article on a Ubuntu 18.04 LTS system.

When I started working at Microsoft a few years ago, one of the first things I did was create a OneNote file to keep track of everything. I had to learn about internal procedures and tooling, partners, projects, and so many other things. The hierarchical nature of OneNote files made it easy to arrange this loosely related information into a well-organized set of documentation that I could quickly refer to. When I left Microsoft to take a job at Red Hat, I wanted to keep using the concept, but with an open source tool. read more

In this ongoing C programming tutorial series, we have been discussing lately about structures. Now, expanding further on the concept of structures, we'll discuss how to create an array of structures using easy to understand examples.

News briefs for May 6, 2019.

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. This community is the reason we have such a large, diverse range of software packages available in the Python Package Index (PyPI) to extend and improve Python and solve the read more

Have you ever wanted to know what devices were on your network, but didn't want to launch an overly complicated piece of software? When you need that information, and you need it quickly, why not turn to the command line?

Clojure is a dynamic functional general purpose programming language that runs on the Java platform. There’s lots of good reasons to learn Clojure. It offers a modern take on Lisp. There’s an excellent parser library, and a fully featured logic engine. In Clojure, immutability is the default. Once an object or data structure is created, it cannot be changed.

While modern IT environments move towards Linux containers, the need to secure these environments is as relevant as ever. Containers are a process isolation technology. While containers can be a defense mechanism, they only excel when combined with SELinux. Fedora SELinux engineering built a new standalone tool, udica, to generate SELinux policy profiles for containers […]

Mozilla released today the fourth maintenance update to the latest Firefox 66.0 "Quantum" web browser series to address a major issue preventing all types of extensions from running or being installed.