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The new release shows a degree of stability and feature parity that wasn't always part of the open source container orchestration platform.

on TWinL39: Auryo, OpenShot, YubiKey 5, System76's Thelio, & a Linux Gaming roundup with Mark of the Ninja & Blade Symphony

Over a dozen events taking place alongside Open Source Summit and ELC+OpenIoT Summit Europe offer attendees even more ways to increase skills and connections - all in one trip. 300 conference sessions, 2000 attendees, 13 co-located events and dozens of event experiences; if you're not registered yet, now is the time.

Here's what we were reading last week. More than 3,000 readers took our poll last week: How many programming languages have you used?. And more than two-thousand respondents say they've used 5 or more programming languages. Read on to see what else was popular on Opensource.com in the past week.

Avalue announced a Linux-friendly 3.5-inch “ECM-CFS” SBC with a choice of Intel’s 8th Gen “Coffee Lake” S-series processors plus triple display support, 2x GbE, 4x USB 3.1, 2x SATA, and mSATA. Avalue’s ECM-CFS is the first 3.5-inch board we’ve seen to feature Intel’s 8th Gen “Coffee Lake” processors, although Seco offers a 3.5-inch CCOMe-C30 carrier […]

Open source operating system HAIKU is a lightweight, fast, and relatively simple operating system that picks up where the discontinued BeOS left off when its development ceased in 2001. This weekend the HAIKU team released HAIKU R1 Beta 1, which is kind of a big deal when you consider that the last major release of the operating system came in November, 2012.

The GNOME Foundation announced the official dates and host city for next year's GUADEC (GNOME Users And Developers European Conference) event for the GNOME desktop environment.

Sockets are used for two different processes to share data or for shuttling information from one machine to another and the network. They are extremely useful and the basis of things like FTP, real-time network chat systems, secure shells, and so on.

News briefs for October 1, 2018.

UK-based video games publisher Feral Interactive just teased today the upcoming port of the recently released Life Is Strange 2 episodic graphic adventure video game for the Linux and macOS platforms.

PyCharm is available in two editions, Community and Professional. In this tutorial we’ll cover how to install PyCharm Community Edition on Ubuntu 18.04.

Community managers care about growth in their community, but growing development communities is hard work. It's rare for developers to start contributing code to projects they've never worked with before—it's far more likely that your developers were (or still are) users of the project, too. read more

This tutorial shows how to delete data safely on Linux by using the shred command. All examples in this article have been tested on an Ubuntu 18.04 LTS machine.

Using Apache httpd as a proxy to an Apache Tomcat application container is a common setup. It comes with many use cases, the most trivial is serving static content from httpd, while providing services implementing heavy business logic from an application written in Java that resides in the Tomcat container.

Modern Linux kernels come with a packet-filtering framework named Netfilter. Netfilter enables you to allow, drop, and modify traffic coming in and going out of a system. The iptables userspace command-line tool builds upon this functionality to provide a powerful firewall, which you can configure by adding rules to form a firewall policy. iptables can be very daunting with its rich set of capabilities and baroque command syntax.

Time and again, we need to format a USB drive in order to change the file system, to completely wipe off the data, or to get rid of a virus infecting it. There are various ways to format a USB drive, and we have listed a few in this article so that you can see which one works for you.

Remember 1981? You should... original author Tim Paterson found the source for MS-DOS 1.25 (along with a six-inch stack of assembly print-outs)... Turner has now uploaded the code to GitHub to make it easier to find, although he'd really like it if you didn't suggest modifications to the hand-crafted assembly.

This is the first in a series of articles highlighting essential system tools. These are small utilities, useful for system administrators as well as regular users of Linux based systems. The series will examine both graphical and text based open source utilities.

Pandoc is a command-line tool for converting files from one markup language to another. In my introduction to Pandoc, I explained how to convert text written in Markdown into a website, a slideshow, and a PDF.

The llnode plugin lets you inspect Node.js processes and core dumps; it adds the ability to inspect JavaScript stack frames, objects, source code and more. At Node+JS Interactive, Matheus Marchini, Node.js Collaborator and Lead Software Engineer at Sthima, will host a workshop on how to use llnode to find and fix issues quickly and reliably