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Six years after the release of GIMP 2.8 (yes, time flies when you're having fun), the GIMP 2.10 open-source and cross-platform image editor and viewer application was officially announced on Friday.

Fedora now features a curated set of third-party software repositories, containing software not traditionally available Fedora, like Google Chrome and Steam. By default, Fedora only includes free and open source software. However, with the introduction of these curated third-party repositories, users can opt-in to enabling selected extra sources. Some software in these optional sources is […]

Canonical has officially announced the release of Ubuntu 18.04, codenamed Bionic Beaver. This is a LTS (Long-Term Support) release that will be supported for 5 years, until April 2023.

A big problem with supervised machine learning is the need for huge amounts of labeled data. It's a big problem especially if you don't have the labeled data—and even in a world awash with big data, most of us don't.

One of the types of software that’s important for a web developer is the web framework. A framework “is a code library that makes a developer’s life easier when building reliable, scalable, and maintainable web applications” by providing reusable code or extensions for common operations. This article examines the best Python microframeworks. Micro means the framework is small, with little or no tools and libraries. Microframeworks provide an essential set of features and rely on extensions to do the rest.

The Kubuntu 18.04 LTS operating system has been released today as part of the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) launch, and it's a major release that brings several new features and numerous enhancements.

In this Guide we will see on How to Install the Oracle Database 12c Release 2 in Redhat Enterprise Linux 7.5 Server.

New Linux users may not understand what is meant by Ubuntu-based distros. This article will explain the significance of Ubuntu-based distros compared to Ubuntu itself and what “Ubuntu-based” means.

In a recent Opensource.com article, Lewis Cowles introduced the find command. find is one of the more powerful and flexible command-line programs in the daily toolbox, so it's worth spending a little more time on it. At a minimum, find takes a path to find things.

Depending on who you ask, serverless is either the same thing as, or conceptually related to, Function-as-a-service.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (RHEL) has had a good run and continues to be used by organizations around the world. On April 26, Red Hat announced the RHEL 6.10 beta, providing stability and security updates. RHEL 6 was first released in November 2010 and was superseded as the leading edge of RHEL development when RHEL 7 was released in June 2014.

Red Hat announced today the release and immediate availability of the beta version of its upcoming Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.10 enterprise-ready operating system.

News briefs for April 26, 2018.

An example-driven post featuring fzf, a flexible command-line fuzzy finder. fzf is an interactive fuzzy finder, it reads a list of items from STDIN, and writes the selected item to STDOUT. If no input is provided via STDIN, fzf by default will use the find command to fetch the list of files excluding hidden ones.

Ubuntu will still live on as a desktop operating system, but that's not where Canonical sees it as having its greatest potential. Even in 2018, if you ask most people what they know about Ubuntu, they'll tell you it's a desktop Linux. Oh, but there's so, so much more to Canonical's Ubuntu than that, and in its latest long-term support (LTS) release, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, that really shows up.

Kontron’s “COMe-bCL6” COM Express Basic Type 6 module features Intel’s 8th Gen Core and Xeon CPUs with 4x SATA III, 4x USB 3.1, 8x PCIe, and options including a 1TB NVMe SSD, -40 to 85°C, and up to 64GB DDR4. Kontron has unveiled its first product based on Intel’s 8th Gen “Coffee Lake” processors. The […]

Ruby on Rails is a useful framework for quickly building line-of-business applications. But as our applications grow, we face scaling challenges. There are a variety of tools we can use—but adding different technologies to our applications increases complexity. This article explores how to use the Redis in-memory data structure store as a multi-purpose tool to solve different problems. read more

Working with its hardware partners, Red Hat launches a line of non-appliances to bring plug-and-play to its open source storage solutions.

R is the de facto statistical package in the Open Source world. It's also quickly becoming the default data-analysis tool in many scientific disciplines. In this article, I look at one of the available GUIs: RStudio. RStudio is a commercial program, with a free community version, available for Linux...

Kata Containers is a new open source project licensed under Apache 2.0 and governed by the OpenStack Foundation that combines the speed of containers with the security of virtual machines. Kata Containers will be featured in a number of upcoming sessions at OpenStack Summit and KubeCon EU. Can't make it to either of those events? We've brought you answers to three of the top questions we hear from users. read more