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VIDEO: Sometimes you want the real thing with no adornments. If that's you and Kubernetes, VMware is now offering Kubernetes, plain and simple.

Software news from Embedded World includes an open source Google Cloud IoT Device SDK, the LF’s safety-first ELISA project, a binary Debian version of Mentor Linux, and new distros from Wind River and MontaVista. This week we’ve been neck deep in embedded Linux hardware news from the Embedded World show in Nuremberg. There are plenty […]

LibreOffice Writer can be used to create fillable PDF forms, being a great free, open source alternative to Adobe's Acrobat for this use case. LibreOffice is cross-platform too, so you can use it not only on Windows and macOS, but also on Linux.

The project is called Elisa, for "Enabling Linux in Safety Applications," and its aim is to create a shared set of tools and processes for building Linux-based systems that will operate without surprises in situations where failure could cause injury, loss of life, or result in significant property or environmental damage.

For the next phase of the series, we’ll take a closer look at brackets, curly, curvy, or straight, how to use them, and what they do depending on where you use them. We will also tackle other ways of enclosing things, like when to use quotes, double-quotes, and backquotes.

Imagine you are working for a company that will be starting a new open source community project. Great! You have taken a positive first step to give back and enable a virtuous cycle of innovation that the open source community-based development model provides. read more

In my day job at LinuxGizmos, I’ve been neck deep recently in embedded Linux hardware news from the Embedded World show in Nuremberg.

“For true, lasting privacy, we must shift from the ‘privacy policies’ of companies, which spring from data protection laws, to the ‘privacy’ of individual persons, as contemplated by human rights laws.” How do we accomplish this shift?

In this article, we will explain the following three ways to install software through .deb packages on your Ubuntu system. We will be using Google Chrome .deb package as an example to explain all three of these methods.

In this article of MySQL series, we'll learn importing & exporting DBs. When you work with SQL, you will often be taking backup of your databases. You will also be importing previously taken backups. All of this is an integral part of learning MySQL.

An important kernel security update has been released for the CentOS 6 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 operating system series to address a recently discovered vulnerability and other bugs.

Running applications with containers and orchestrating their lifecycles with Kubernetes has transformed how teams manage large-scale deployments. Containers are typically used to perform a short-lived task, such as sending a message, or running an application that does not need to store information, such as a web server. A new container can be created that's unaware of any work that previously occurred—in other words, be "stateless"—and this is completely fine for most applications. read more

2DayGeek: Use the following commands to make sure you are using the strong password.

The KDE Community is happy to announce that we have been selected to participate in Google Summer of Code. This will be our our 14th year of mentoring students!

Monica is a free, open source web-based Personal Relationship Management software written in the Laravel framework. It is used to keep track of all the important details about your friends and family.

Translate Shell is a command-line translator. It’s powered by Google Translate, Bing Translator, Yandex.Translate, and Apertium.

Data science, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and deep neural nets are all hot topics these days (and key terms that might help this post with some SEO, unless the AI sees through my attempts). Below I've shared several of the resources I use regularly while working on data science projects over the last few years. I don't read many books, so that I've shared even one is evidence of how important it is. read more

The ls command is one of the basic commands that any Linux user should know. It is used to list information about files and directories within the file system. The ls utility is a part of the GNU core utilities which are installed on all Linux distributions.

Homebrew is a handy tool for Mac users, and now it is available for Linux and Windows under the name Linuxbrew. Here is how Homebrew for Linux works.