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I recently received an email from Jonas Kvinge who forked the Clementine open source music player. Jonas writes: read more

Valve has released today a new stable version of its Steam Client for Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms with just two changes, one of which might signal that a native 64-bit version of its Steam for Linux client is in the pipe.

VIDEO: Prometheus, the six-year-old cloud microservices monitoring program, has grown up almost as fast as Kubernetes container management.

SolidRun’s “ClearFog GT 8K” networking SBC runs Ubuntu on a network virtualization enabled quad -A72 Armada A8040 SoC and offers up to 16GB DDR4, 4x GbE ports, a WAN port, a 10GbE SFP+ port, and 3x mini-PCIe slots. SolidRun has updated its ClearFog line of Linux-driven router SBCs with a ClearFog GT 8K model designed […]

This tutorial will show you how to install and configure Git on Debian 9.

Git is the world's most popular distributed version control system, used by many open source and commercial projects.

The openSUSE Project announced this week that they'd extended support for the openSUSE Leap 42.3 operating system with six more months to allow more users to upgrade to the latest openSUSE Leap 15 release.

Ibase announced three open-frame panel PCs with Linux support. The 15-inch, 1024 x 768 OFP-151-PC and 21-inch, 1920 x 1080 OFP-2100-PC run on the Pentium N4200 while the 21-inch OFP-2101-PC offers a choice of 7th Gen Core-U CPUs. Ibase, which last year launched an SE-102-N signage player, has now returned with a pair of fanless, open-frame touch-panel PCs that similarly run Linux 4.x or Windows 10 on an Intel Apollo Lake SoC.

News briefs for August 9, 2018.

The Binary Times Podcast is a fortnightly show targeted at beginner to intermediate Linux users. Shows typically start with the hosts chatting about their Linux and non-Linux adventures since the last show.

Fork CMS is a free and open source content management CMS that comes with an intuitive and user-friendly web interface. In this tutorial, we will explain how to install Fork CMS on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) server.

Opera Software announced that it plans to bring its famous crypto wallet used on the Opera for Android mobile web browser to the desktop on Linux, Mac, and Windows platforms, in an upcoming Opera for PC stable release.

Most of the DevOps community talks about how tools don’t matter much. The culture has to change first, the argument goes, which might modify how the tools are used. I agree and disagree with that concept. I believe the relationship between tools and culture is more symbiotic and bidirectional than unidirectional. I have discovered this through real-world transformations across several companies now. I admit it’s hard to determine whether the tools changed the culture or whether the culture changed how the tools were used. read more

I recently switched to KDE and Plasma as my main desktop environment, so I thought I'd start digging into some of the scientific software available on KDE. First up is KStars, the desktop astronomy program.

Multiple vulnerabilities in a popular healthcare software provider’s products may have put at risk the data of over 90 million patients.

We will show you how to install PostgreSQL on Debian 9. PostgreSQL is an object-relational database management system written in C. It is free and open-source database system which main features are to store the data securely and to return the data as response to other applications requests. Installing PostgreSQL on Debian 9 is fairly easy task, and it shouldn’t take more then 10 minutes to finish installing PostgreSQL on Debian 9.

Postfix is a great program that routes and delivers email to accounts that are external to the system. It is currently used by approximately 33% of internet mail servers. In this article, I'll explain how you can use Postfix to send mail using Gmail with two-factor authentication enabled. read more

While the bzip2 command line utility can be used to compress files, there are many other tools that let you perform basic tasks - like comparing such files - without the need to uncompress them. Here, in this tutorial, we will discuss the basics of bzcmp, bzdiff, bzmore, bzless, and bzgrep commands using some easy to understand examples.

A Linux Administrator should be able to read and understand the various types of messages that are generated by all Linux systems in their log files in order to troubleshoot an issue. This tutorial shows how to view system logs on Ubuntu Linux via desktop applications and on the shell.

At the base of the testing pyramid are unit tests. Unit tests test one unit of code at a time—usually one function or method. Often, a single unit test is designed to test one particular flow through a function, or a specific branch choice. This enables easy mapping of a unit test that fails and the bug that made it fail. Ideally, unit tests use few or no external resources, isolating them and making them faster. read more

As you build a DevSecOps culture, use these priorities to close the gap between developers and security pros