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Raspberry PI is rated as one of the best computing devices for the dynamic world of prototype experimentation and Do-It-Yourself projects. The PI is a very versatile computer praised for its ability to enhance computing activities in any niche from astronomy, computer science to environmental science.

The Neo-Babylonian regent Belshazzar did not heed the writing on the wall that magically appeared during his great feast. However, if he had had a laptop and a good internet connection in 539 BC, he might have staved off those pesky Persians by reading the SVG on the browser. read more

This year, the first-ever Fedora Appreciation Week will run from Monday, November 5th to Sunday, November 11th. Fedora Appreciation Week is an annual event organized by the Fedora Community Operations (CommOps) team. It’s a week-long event to celebrate efforts of Fedora Project contributors and to say “thank you” to each other. This year, the Appreciation […]

In this article, we will describe how to make a user an Administrator through the Graphical User Interface and also explain what commands to use in the command line in order to add a user to the sudo (authorized) user group.

Log files are most important for Linux system security. the logrotate tool is specially designed to simplify the administration of log files on a Linux system that allows automatic rotation, compression, removal, and mailing of log files. In this tutorial, I will explain how to use logrotate to manage logs on Ubuntu 18.04 server.

It's never been easier to get started with machine learning. In addition to structured massive open online courses (MOOCs), there are a huge number of incredible, free resources available around the web. Here are a few that have helped me. read more

It’s been a long time since we covered news aggregators, and there’s been notable entrants and leavers to the scene. With regard to the leavers, Google Reader was discontinued in July 2013. And software like Newsbeuter, RSSOwl, Blogbridge, and Bloglines have been abandoned by their respective developers. Fortunately, there’s a number of great replacements that have filled the void.

Many in the open source community have been anticipating Microsoft making an "embrace, extend, extinguish" move on Linux and open source ever since CEO Satya Nadella made his famous "Microsoft loves Linux" proclamation a few years back. If that was in Redmond's playbook, IBM just beat them to the punch.

Video: Linux, open-source, and cloud power Red Hat's executives love the IBM deal, but the company's workers are nervious.

Gradle is a general-purpose build tool used primarily for Java projects. It combines the best features of Ant and Maven. Unlike its predecessors which use XML for scripting, Gradle uses Groovy, a dynamic, object-oriented programming language for the Java platform to define the project and build scripts.

IBM agreed to acquire software maker Red Hat Inc. in a $33.4 billion bet on jump-starting its efforts to catch up in the cloud. International Business Machines Corp. will pay $190 a share in cash for Raleigh, North Carolina-based Red Hat, according to a statement from the companies Sunday, confirming an earlier Bloomberg News report. That’s a 63 percent premium over Red Hat’s closing price of $116.68 per share on Friday.

It seems EA are doing some rather interesting things with their experimental Halcyon game engine which includes Vulkan and Linux support.

Now that we have seen how you can use a GUI or IDE to interact with a repository, let's look at the many features that git offers to make life easier. I will demonstrate how to amend the previous commit message, how to see what files were changed in a commit, rebasing, and tools to help with troubleshooting.

VIDEO: This deal is the biggest Linux and open-source acquisition ever.

IBM has struck a deal to acquire Red Hat for $34 billion. IBM will pay $190 per share for the software company, a more than 60% premium to Red Hat's closing stock price on Friday. IBM will remain committed to Red Hat's open governance, open source contributions, participation in the open source community and development model, and fostering its widespread developer ecosystem.

A security bug in Systemd can be exploited over the network to, at best, potentially crash a vulnerable Linux machine, or, at worst, execute malicious code on the box... Systemd creator Leonard Poettering has already published a security fix for the vulnerable component – this should be weaving its way into distros as we type.

The grep command is used to find patterns in files. This tutorial shows some of the most common grep command examples that would be specifically beneficial for software developers.

Google Chrome is the most widely used web browser in the world. It is fast, easy to use and secure browser built for the modern web.

Earlier this week the Opensource.com editorial team had the pleasure of spending time with our community moderators at our annual meeting prior to All Things Open in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Linux and BSD variants that employ the popular X.Org Server package --almost all do-- are vulnerable to a new vulnerability disclosed on Thursday.