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[This message comes directly from the desk of the Fedora Project Leader.  — Ed.]  In just one week, it will be fifteen years since we announced the release of Fedora Core 1. Now, we’re announcing the release of Fedora 29 — now not just “core”, but Workstation, Server, Atomic Host, a whole collection of desktop Spins […]

Podman uses a traditional fork/exec model (vs. a client/server model) for running containers.

IBM's purchase of Red Hat is a big bet on the hybrid and private cloud and the ability of Big Blue to manage multiple public cloud providers. Here are a few dynamics to ponder.

SSH remains the most common way by which we access our Linux servers. Most people don’t manually log into the server console itself. Through SSH, you can do almost everything except for certain low-level operations. However, this leaves us open to the possibility of disconnection. It might be unexpected but is a very real possibility. In this article, we’ll show you how to recover from an accidental disconnection on SSH.

With IBM and Microsoft having lots of commonalities when it comes to patent policy and exploitation of the law (both employed similar people too, notably Marshall Phelps and David Kappos, former Director of the USPTO), concerns should be raised in light of the latest lawsuit from the patent troll they support

The Flash Player is a plugin for web browsers that you need in order to watch videos and interactive content on some websites. In this article, we will tell you how to download and install the Flash Player through your Linux command line and then enable it through any of your available web browsers.

In this tutorial, I will show you how to install and configure the TIG Stack (Telegraf, InfluxDB, and Grafana) using a single Ubuntu 18.04 Server. We will be using the TIG Stack for monitoring the system loads such as Network, RAM Memory, Uptime etc.

DNSCrypt is a network protocol which authenticates and encrypts Domain Name System (DNS) traffic between the user's computer and recursive name servers. It turns regular DNS traffic into encrypted DNS traffic that's protected from spying, spoofing, or man-in-the-middle attacks, thus improving the user's online security and privacy. Compared to v1, the 2.0 series of DNSCrypt Proxy, which had its first stable release back in February, was rewritten in Go, has support for DNS-over-TLS and DNS-over-HTTP, and it supports DNS caching.

Who needs a custom NAS OS or a web-based GUI when command-line NAS software is so easy to configure?

Ibase’s fanless, Linux-ready “IPPC1x05-RE” industrial panel PCs are available in 15-, 17-, and 19-inch sizes with 6th Gen Core EQ/E CPUs, IP65 front-side protection, dual SATA bays, 2x GbE, and 2x PCIe. Ibase’s 15-inch (IPPC1505-RE), 17-inch (IPPC1705-RE), and 19-inch (IPPC1905-RE) industrial touch-panel PCs are designed for factory automation, machine automation and other harsh indoor applications. […]

Speed Dreams, a free and open source 3D racing game, is now available on Flathub, making it easier to install on Linux.

Video: Red Hat and IBM explain how Red Hat, its people and open-source technology, will work as part of IBM. Red Hat employees, up-stream developers, and customers have nothing to worry about.

Microsoft doesn't offer any syncing tool for their OneDrive service for Linux. Here we will show you how you can sync OneDrive with Linux, using OneDrive-d.

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RS Components has launched UrsaLeo’s “UrsaLeo Pi” kit, which combines a Raspberry Pi 3 and a 2.4GHz radio equipped Silicon Labs Thunderboard 2 sensor board that connects to Google Cloud. UK-based distributor RS Components announced the availability of San Francisco based UrsaLeo’s UrsaLeo Pi IoT development kit. UrsaLeo’s kit, which was recently introduced by Mouser […]

Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu Linux talks about the hidden gem in his Linux distribution's networking toolkit.

Even though members of the younger generations are trying to bury email as "communication for old people," the reality is email isn't anywhere near its deathbed. While collaboration tools, social media, and texting are important, they aren't ready to replace email as an essential business (and social) communications tool. read more

Redis is an open-source in-memory data structure store. It can be used as a database, cache and message broker and supports various data structures such as Strings, Hashes, Lists, Sets etc.

This tutorial describes how to install and configure Redis on an Ubuntu 18.04 server.

So IBM is buying Red Hat (home of the largest Enterprise Linux distribution) for $34 billion and readers want to know what I think of the deal. Well, if I made a list of acquisitions and things to do to save IBM, buying Red Hat would have been very close to the top of that list...

Wind River said the code was made open source at the insistence of potential customers. The platform offers a compute, storage, and networking solution for a wide variety of edge applications.