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Data visualization is an important method of exploring data and sharing results with others. When it comes to this field, Python is rubbing shoulders with R as the language of choice. Unfortunately, Python’s visualization landscape is pretty difficult to fathom without some serious digging. In part, this is because there are so many good open source Python visualization libraries available. Some of the packages are suitable for any field, others excel at a specific task.

The Librem 13—"the first 13-inch ultraportable designed to protect your digital life"—ticks all the boxes, but is it as good in real life as it is on paper? This computer is lightning fast, and it's easily the best laptop I've ever owned. More than anything, I'm glad this is a system I purchased and not a "review copy", so I don't have to send it back!

We're using containers now. But securing them? Well, that's another matter. And Google has an answer with its newly open-sourced gVisor, which runs containers in a secured sandbox.

News briefs for May 3, 2018.

Now that Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) was released, it's time for the Ubuntu development team to concentrate their efforts on the next release of the Linux-based operating system.

More than 25 AWK command examples that will help you master the basics of AWK.

There are times when multiple users are logged in to a server computer, and you - the system/network admin - need to, say, restart the server to perform some maintenance task. Of course, the correct way is to inform all those who are logged in about the maintenance activity. Thankfully, Linux offers a built in command line utility for this purpose, the wall command.

Ten years ago, essentially the only people thinking hard about distributed tracing were academics and a handful of large internet companies. Today, it’s turned into table stakes for any organization adopting microservices. The rationale is well-established: microservices fail in surprising and often spectacular ways, and distributed tracing is the best way to describe and diagnose those failures. read more

2DayGeek: List of commands to check server uptime in Linux.

Samsung announced on Wednesday the availability of the Galaxy A6 and A6+ Android-powered mobile phones with everyday features, stylish design, and advanced camera systems.

The concept of machine learning, which is a subset of artificial intelligence, has been around for some time. Ali Ghodsi, an adjunct professor at UC Berkeley, describes it as “an advanced statistical technique to make predictions on a massive amount of data.” Here, he shares insight on these projects, various use-cases, and the future of machine learning.

Developer focused cloud company DigitalOcean is bringing Kubernetes to its platform and upping its CNCF membership from silver to gold. If you're keeping a scorecard, you can add another company to your list of tech firms that have jumped on the Kubernetes bandwagon. DigitalOcean, which has built a niche for itself as a cloud provider for developers, announced today that users will soon be able to spin-up Kubernetes on its cloud.

It happened again. Another major web service lost control of its database, and now you're scrambling to stay ahead of the bad guys.

Bassam Tabbara, CEO of Upbound discusses the CNCF's Rook cloud storage orchestration project and the multi-cloud future his company is hoping to enable.

Let's say you want to run a games server, a server that runs Minetest, a very cool and open source mining and crafting sandbox game. You want to set it up for your school or friends and have it running on a server in your living room. Because, you know, if that’s good enough for the kernel mailing list admins, then it's good enough for you.

IT-mandated password policies seem like a good idea—after all, what are the chances that an attacker will guess your exact passcode out of the 782 million potential combinations in an eight-character string with at least one upper-case letter, one lower-case letter, two numerals, and one symbol? 

The developers of the KDE neon GNU/Linux distribution announced today that they are currently working on rebasing all four editions on Canonical's recently released Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) operating system.

Oculus has launched an untethered, 3DOF head tracking “Oculus Go” VR headset for $199. The Go runs Android on a Snapdragon 821 and offers a 5.5-inch 2560 x 1440 display and two-hour plus battery life.

I’m a huge fan of Grails. For me, the only real downside to building something in Grails is that the documentation tends to move quite a bit more slowly than the code. This is especially true for the learning materials that exist outside the reference documentation.

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