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While there are a ton of tutorials, blog posts, documentation, and other content available to learn about Python and containers, there's something special about learning a new skill from a conference talk. Speakers usually give a more personal perspective and use interesting or quirky metaphors to make their points memorable. read more

One of the saddest stories of vendor lock-in is the story of messaging. What makes this story sad is that the tech industry has continued to repeat the same mistakes and build the same proprietary systems over the last two decades, and we as end users continue to use them. In this article, I look at some of the history of those mistakes, the lessons we should have learned and didn't, and the modern messaging world we find ourselves in now.

Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.3 is the latest version of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol, published as an IETF standard in RFC 8446 in August 2018. TLS 1.3 protocol provides privacy and performance enhancements compared to the previous versions of TLS and non-secure HTTP. This tutorial shows how to enable TLS 1.3 in a Nginx web server.

Welcome back to another installment in our 24-day-long Linux command-line toys advent calendar. If this is your first visit to the series, you might be asking yourself what a command-line toy even is. We’re figuring that out as we go, but generally, it could be a game, or any simple diversion that helps you have fun at the terminal. Some of you will have seen various selections from our calendar before, but we hope there’s at least one new thing for everyone. read more

VirtualBox 6.0 was released yesterday with improved HiDPI and scaling support, reworked user interface (which includes a new built-in file manager), support for Linux 4.20, VMSVGA 3D graphics device emulation on Linux and Solaris guests, and much more.

This article describes how you can use the for loop in bash to extract multiple archive files through the Ubuntu command line.

Fedora isn’t just a hugely popular desktop Linux OS. Like most Linux systems it features a powerful command line interface. That lets interested users tinker under the hood to an astounding level. Over the course of the year the Magazine has shown lots of fascinating ways to get into the command line. As part of […]

Here's our recommended GNOME shell extensions. Most of the extensions are not officially supported by GNOME. But they all take the desktop to the next level, either by adding useful functionality, improving your workflow, or simply offering a touch of panache to the desktop. All the extensions all compatible with the latest release of GNOME. Naturally there's only open source goodness on offer.

Installing the latest Linux kernel used to mean a reboot, until the development of ‘rebootless kernel updating’, a method that patches servers without restarting them. With the technique now just over 10 years old, this article takes a brief look at its origins and current state.

You wrote a Python library. I'm sure it's amazing! Wouldn't it be neat if it was easy for people to use it? Here is a checklist of things to think about and concrete steps to take when open sourcing your Python library. 1. Source Put the code up on GitHub, where most open source projects happen and where it is easiest for people to submit pull requests. read more

Oracle released today VirtualBox 6.0, the next-generation series of the open-source and cross-platform virtualization software for Linux, Windows, and Mac systems.

Multiple emerging IT concepts combine at the fast food restaurant chain, with an edge networking Kubernetes container orchestration deployment that is managed with a GitOps approach.

Just in time for the Christmas holidays, Purism announced today that they have finally managed to prepare the Librem 5 Linux phone dev kit hardware for shipping to their backers.

Kodi (formerly XBMC) is a free and open source cross-platform media player and entertainment hub that lets you organize and play streaming media, such as videos, podcasts, music, from the Internet and local and network storage.

Hello again for another installment in our 24-day-long Linux command-line toys advent calendar. If this is your first visit to the series, you might be asking yourself what a command-line toy even is. We’re figuring that out as we go, but generally, it could be a game, or any simple diversion that helps you have fun at the terminal. Some of you will have seen various selections from our calendar before, but we hope there’s at least one new thing for everyone. Today's toy if figlet, a utility for printing text in banner form across your Linux terminal.

In this article, I describe how Docker containers flow through the DevOps pipeline. I also cover some advanced DevOps concepts (borrowed from object-oriented programming) on how to use dependency injection and encapsulation to improve the DevOps process. And finally, I show how containerization can be useful for the development and testing process itself, rather than just as a place to serve up an application after it's written.

After promoting the Chrome 71 web browser to the stable channel earlier this month, Google has updated the Chrome OS operating system for Chromebook devices to version 71.

News briefs for December 18, 2018.

The launch of the game-changing System76 Thelio only solidifies this open source dream. CEO Carl Richell oozes the open source ethos, and that ideology comes through, to perfection, in their latest offering, the Thelio desktop, a machine as beautiful in design as it is in execution.

Wave Computing will follow in RISC-V’s path by offering its MIPS ISA as “open source” code without royalties or proprietary licensing. The MIPS Open initiative will focus on the development of SoCs for emerging IoT edge applications. The RISC-V Foundation, which promotes the development of processors built on a standardized, open source instruction set architecture […]