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A Red Hat- and Google-centric aggregator of software patents adds Microsoft as a member even though Microsoft continues to arm and fund patent trolls; the main/net effect of this move appears to be promotion of "Azure IP Advantage" (protection from Microsoft's trolls as long as one pays Microsoft monthly fees)

Contributing to open source projects such as OpenStack traditionally involves individuals and companies providing code contributions that add new features and fix bugs. For nearly two years, I’ve been running one-off OpenStack clouds for demonstrations and labs at user group meetings across the US, using hardware donated from bare-metal service provider Packet. read more

Autonomous cars and smart clothes look like a dud, though Huawei last year denied reports that it's developing its own mobile OS to lessen its dependence on US giants like Google.…

Enea has launched a real-time “Accelerated Linux” version of its Enea Linux distro that targets the Zynq UltraScale+. The dual-OS hypervisor solution combines Enea Linux with an SMP micro-kernel executive. In 2012, Swedish telecom-focused enterprise software vendor Enea, which is known for its Enea OSEck RTOS, launched a carrier-grade Enea Linux distribution, which combined its […]

Last month, the GNOME project announced the release of GNOME 3.30. The good news is that this new version of GNOME is default in the forthcoming release of Fedora 29 Workstation. GNOME 3.30 includes a range of new features and enhancements, including improvements to Files (nautilus), and the new Podcasts application. The great news is […]

It's odd that printk() would pose so many problems for kernel development, given that it's essentially just a replacement for printf() that doesn't require linking the standard C library into the kernel.

Driver snafu thrashes CPUs and guzzles batteries Barely a day into release and Microsoft has admitted there is a problem with its shiny new OS and chips from Intel.…

This tutorial describes how to install and configure VNC server on a Debian 9 system. We will also show you how to create an SSH tunnel and securely connect to the VNC server.

How to check for format and content errors in YYYY-MM-DD fields with AWK.

I know you are thinking, "Not another Agile 101 article!" We were, too. There are many resources that describe what agile is, talk about the history of the concept, and go into depth about why it is important. read more

We all know that CentOS comes with root access disabled for the outside world by default.

The Linux command line offers many tools that are helpful for software developers. One among them is strace. The strace command in Linux lets you trace system calls and signals.

The physical ports on your computer allow communicate with peripheral devices such as your keyboard and mouse and to connect with internet devices via Ethernet cables. read more

The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the October 2018 issue.

As Linux users, we sometimes need to change the MAC address of our network adapters. This process is also called spoofing or faking a MAC address. This article explains how to change a MAC address through a Ubuntu 18.04 LTS system.

Steam Play aims to revolutionize gaming on Linux by officially bringing Wine into Steam. Now you can play many of your favorite Windows games seamlessly on Linux.

In this two-part series, I will discuss how to import ideas from the functional programming methodology into Python in order to have the best of both worlds. This first post will explore how immutable data structures can help. The second part will explore higher-level functional programming concepts in Python using the toolz library. Why functional programming? Because mutation is hard to reason about. If you are already convinced that mutation is problematic, great. If you're not convinced, you will be by the end of this post. read more

As it turns out, the Linux market share reported in the hardware survey for September was higher than initially reported. We're finally seeing some progress.

Richard Lloyd shows that Intellectual Ventures continues to distribute its patents, sometimes to patent trolls from Texas (e.g. Dominion Harbor) and sometimes to others; Finjan, another Microsoft-funded troll, is fighting to salvage its software patents while suing Microsoft’s rivals in the security space

The Debian Project released a new Linux kernel update for the Debian GNU/Linux 9 "Stretch" operating system series that addresses several security vulnerabilities discovered by various security researchers recently.