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Mark Text is a fairly new free, open source Markdown editor for Linux, Windows and Mac. Aimed at improving your editing efficiency, the editor supports the CommonMark Spec and the GitHub Flavored Markdown Spec. The application tries not to get in your way, by using a clean interface that tries to focus on your writing and nothing more, with a seamless live preview, while still allowing you to easily access its menu or see the current file name.

After following the first four blogs in this series previewing the Cloud Foundry for Developers training course, you should have a Cloud Foundry instance to use, have the cf CLI installed, and know how to connect to your instance and run commands. Now it's time to push an app to your Cloud Foundry instance.

Some Qt5 applications don't use a Gtk+ style by default in Gnome (in Ubuntu 18.04 for example), which makes them look out of place. This includes applications like VirtualBox, VLC, qBittorrent, Simple Screen Recoder, the ownCloud desktop client, and so on. This article explains how to fix this and get Qt5 applications to use a Gtk+ 2 style in Ubuntu.

News briefs for May 10, 2018.

Docker is a containerization technology that allows you to quickly build test, and deploy applications as portable, self-sufficient containers that can run virtually everywhere. In this tutorial we’ll go through how to install Docker CE on a CentOS 7 and explore the basic Docker concepts and commands.

Toradex has opened an early access program for sampling its Linux powered, wireless enabled Apalis iMX8 module, which offers NXP’s i.MX8 QuadMax SoC with 2x Cortex-A72, 4x -A53, 2x -M4F, and 2x GPU cores, supported with up to 4GB LPDDR4. Toradex may have jumped the gun a bit when it announced the world’s first embedded....

Google released on Thursday a new stable version of its Chrome 66 web browser, version 66.0.3359.170, which is currently rolling out to Linux, Mac, and Windows users, to fix a few important security issues.

Regardless of whether you are a system admin, software developer, or a normal Linux user, you may find yourself in a situation where you need some system information like kernel release or version. Well, there exists a built-in command line utility - dubbed uname - that lets you do this.

Operating system vendors are pushing out updates to address a flaw in how a hardware debugging command has been implemented, that could potentially expose users to risk.

Now that we know the codename of the next Ubuntu release, Ubuntu 18.10, it's time to take a closer look at the release schedule, which suffered some changes for this cycle, and the proposed release date.

Learn to securely log on to Linux server via SSH using key-based authentication, configure SSH to login with SSH keys instead of a password.

EVERSPACE the absolutely gorgeous space combat game with roguelike elements is now officially available for Linux gamers.

The Gwenview photo viewer is a great application and one of the reasons why I never looked back when I switched from Windows (Vista) to openSUSE (11.1). This article covers all cool features of Gwenview. This application might be installed by default, but it is certainly not a basic photo viewer. It is a great application in its own right and a tool that I like to use time and time again.

When people talk about open source, they generally think about open source technology and its myriad uses. However, as open source has moved from the fringe to mainstream acceptance, it has become about more than just the technology. We've seen a wider adoption of the open source way and its underlying principles—meritocracy, transparency, participation, communication, and collaboration—by more companies and organizations. read more

A year and a half after Google announced that its stripped down, IoT-oriented Brillo version of Android was being recast as Android Things, the platform has emerged from Developer Preview as Android Things 1.0. The good news is that Google is offering customers free automated updates for three years, which should save money while improving security and reliability. The bad news is that Android Things is more proprietary than the mostly open source Android.

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An in-depth breakdown of the technologies involved in making up the cloud and a survey of cloud-service providers. The cloud has become synonymous with all things data storage. It additionally equates to the many web-centric services accessing that same back-end data storage. But the term also has evolved to mean so much more.

Blacklisting modules prevents them from being loaded and used, and it is sometimes an important step in keeping a system running properly. Here's how to do it.

Valve announced on Wednesday that it plans to release two new apps for the Android and iOS mobile operating systems that will let Steam users play their Steam games and watch Steam movies on mobile devices.

Kubernetes Operators will help ISVs deliver Red Hat OpenShift-tested and validated cloud-native applications and services across hybrid and multi-cloud footprints.