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Google released on Thursday a new stable version of its Chrome 66 web browser, version 66.0.3359.170, which is currently rolling out to Linux, Mac, and Windows users, to fix a few important security issues.

Regardless of whether you are a system admin, software developer, or a normal Linux user, you may find yourself in a situation where you need some system information like kernel release or version. Well, there exists a built-in command line utility - dubbed uname - that lets you do this.

Operating system vendors are pushing out updates to address a flaw in how a hardware debugging command has been implemented, that could potentially expose users to risk.

Now that we know the codename of the next Ubuntu release, Ubuntu 18.10, it's time to take a closer look at the release schedule, which suffered some changes for this cycle, and the proposed release date.

Learn to securely log on to Linux server via SSH using key-based authentication, configure SSH to login with SSH keys instead of a password.

EVERSPACE the absolutely gorgeous space combat game with roguelike elements is now officially available for Linux gamers.

The Gwenview photo viewer is a great application and one of the reasons why I never looked back when I switched from Windows (Vista) to openSUSE (11.1). This article covers all cool features of Gwenview. This application might be installed by default, but it is certainly not a basic photo viewer. It is a great application in its own right and a tool that I like to use time and time again.

When people talk about open source, they generally think about open source technology and its myriad uses. However, as open source has moved from the fringe to mainstream acceptance, it has become about more than just the technology. We've seen a wider adoption of the open source way and its underlying principles—meritocracy, transparency, participation, communication, and collaboration—by more companies and organizations. read more

A year and a half after Google announced that its stripped down, IoT-oriented Brillo version of Android was being recast as Android Things, the platform has emerged from Developer Preview as Android Things 1.0. The good news is that Google is offering customers free automated updates for three years, which should save money while improving security and reliability. The bad news is that Android Things is more proprietary than the mostly open source Android.

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An in-depth breakdown of the technologies involved in making up the cloud and a survey of cloud-service providers. The cloud has become synonymous with all things data storage. It additionally equates to the many web-centric services accessing that same back-end data storage. But the term also has evolved to mean so much more.

Blacklisting modules prevents them from being loaded and used, and it is sometimes an important step in keeping a system running properly. Here's how to do it.

Valve announced on Wednesday that it plans to release two new apps for the Android and iOS mobile operating systems that will let Steam users play their Steam games and watch Steam movies on mobile devices.

Kubernetes Operators will help ISVs deliver Red Hat OpenShift-tested and validated cloud-native applications and services across hybrid and multi-cloud footprints.

Google unveiled four ARM-based production boards for Android Things 1.0: Innocomm’s i.MX8M based WB10-AT, Intrinsyc’s Open-Q 212A and Open-Q 624A, based on the Snapdragon 212 and 634, respectively, and the MediaTek MT8516. Earlier this week, Google released Android Things 1.0 and announced several consumer products that will ship in the coming months......

SSH is a famous way to connect to remote machines securely and easily. You can use SSH to connect to your cloud server/VM or a friend’s PC or almost anyone remotely to perform certain activities you want. For instance, I use SSH to connect to my Google Cloud Console so that I can manage my VM via my terminal rather than opening an ssh connection in the browser. Your reason can be different but in the end the goal is to connect to a remote machine locally.

2DayGeek: Third party repositories are helping us to install latest software packages on Enterprise Linux.

On the first day of the 2018 Red Hat Summit event in San Francisco, Red Hat reveals its future roadmap for CoreOS integration and details new partner efforts with IBM and MIcrosoft, as well as detailing the future direction of its OpenShift Kubernetes container orchestration platform.

So happy for you, Microsoft, rn Windows Notepad users, rejoice! Microsoft's text editing app, which has been shipping with Windows since version 1.0 in 1985, has finally been taught how to handle line endings in text files created on Linux, Unix, Mac OS, and macOS devices.…

During the Google I/O 2018 event today, Google made it official that it will soon allow Linux apps to run on Chromebooks alongside Chrome OS apps and Android apps.