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One ... quality Linux distro that isn't super popular is Mageia. It is a fork of the once wildly popular Mandriva operating system. Today, Mageia 6.1 becomes available for download. It features LTS Linux kernel 4.14 and updated Nvidia drivers.

CubieTech has posted specs for a “CubieBoard9” SBC with a quad -A53 Actions S900 SoC with 3GB LPDDR3, 16GB eMMC, WiFi/BT, and dual independent displays with HDMI, MIPI-DSI, LVDS, and eDP. A product page has appeared on the CubieTech website for an unpriced CubieBoard9 SBC that appears to be a replacement for the Cubieboard4.

Kuryr-Kubernetes is an OpenStack project, written in Python, that serves as a container network interface (CNI) plugin that provides networking for Kubernetes pods by using OpenStack Neutron and Octavia. read more

Nginx Server Blocks allows you to run more than one website on a single machine. With Server Blocks, you can specify the site document root (the directory which contains the website files), create a separate security policy for each site, use different SSL certificates for each site and much more.

Red Hat is adding Ansible DevOps capabilities to its Red Hat Satellite system management program.

Heard of Jenny Everywhere? Me neither, until I was looking for media to use for an open source character drawing contest I was involved in. As I Googled my way around the internet, I happened upon Jenny Everywhere. read more

Games for Linux are booming like never before. The revolution comes courtesy of cross-platform dev tools, passionate programmers and community support. Join us this weekend as we learn about Linux gaming.

This article focuses on CodeLobster, an innovative free to download PHP editor and environment for web development. This application has been available for Windows for a long time. But the developers have recently released versions for Linux and Mac OS. So CodeLobster is now a cross-platform IDE.

Security researchers have exposed a thriving underground market with hackers offering access to business email addresses to crooks who then attempt to carry out frauds.

Tthere are security best practices in the areas of DevOps, containers, and Kubernetes that companies can adopt so that everyone can sleep better at night.

If you’re a Linux systems administrator, one of the first tools you will turn to for troubleshooting are log files. These files hold crucial information that can go a long way to help you solve problems affecting your desktops and servers. For many sysadmins (especially those of an old-school sort), nothing beats the command line for checking log files. But for those who’d rather have a more efficient (and possibly modern) approach to troubleshooting, there are plenty of options.

Users report disappearing docs. What will day four bring? Folk keen as mustard to get their hands on the Windows 10 October 2018 Update have reported files being mysteriously deleted by the upgrade.…

Genius is a calculator program that has both a command-line version and a GNOME GUI version. It should available in your distribution's package management system... the syntax is almost C-like.

While the internet has thoroughly transformed the availability of educational content for much of the world, many people still live in places where online access is poor or even nonexistent. Kolibri is a great solution for these communities. It's an app that creates an offline server to deliver high-quality educational resources to learners. read more

News briefs for October 5, 2018.

Manually mounting and unmounting devices such as external USB drives or remote NFS or Samba shares can be tedious tasks to perform when administering a machine. The autofs daemon can help us automatically mounting a filesystem when needed and umounting it after a specified period of time. In this tutorial we will see the basic concept related to the automounter, and how to configure it.

As you become a regular and veteran Ubuntu user, you might notice a decline in the speed of your Ubuntu system over time. In this article, I will show several ways to speed up your Ubuntu system that have worked for me over years.

Ravenfield is a single-player 3D shooting game available on itch.io and steam. The game is still in beta so it looks like a "prototype" i.e., not complete, still yet it's completely playable and fun at the same time. I've tried the game and discovered it to be more enjoyable than Red Eclipse or Open Arena, mainly due to the reason that Ravenfield game physic is realistic and comes equipped with many interactable objects.

Maltrail is a malicious traffic detection system which utilizes the publicly available spam list/ blacklists of malicious and suspicious trails. This tutorial shows the installation of Maltrail on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

Fedora Classroom sessions continue next week with a session on Fedora Modularity. The general schedule for sessions appears on the wiki. You can also find resources and recordings from previous sessions there. Here are details about this week’s session on Tuesday, October 09 at 1400 UTC. That link allows you to convert the time to your timezone. Topic: Fedora […]