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Red Hat Summit is the annual conference where Red Hat comes together with its customers, partners, and key communities. It all starts tomorrow, and the Fedora Community will be out in force. Fedora & CentOS booth One of the main features of the Partner Pavilion at summit is the gigantic Community Central area. Anchoring that […]

4MLinux is a lightweight Linux distribution that can turn your old computer into a functional one with multimedia support, maintenance tools and classic games.

As Systemd timers begin to replace crons dominance, this article presents the basics of setting up your own systemd timer and making sure it’s running properly on your system.

Hello newbies, welcome to the world of Ubuntu [oh wait there...] Xubuntu! So what’s fancy about this distro. Well, I say lightweight, then, in turn, lights up this tiny bulb in your brain faster computing speed, resource saving and ... (you guess what’s more).

2DayGeek: UKTools allows users to install latest stable Linux kernel on Ubuntu and its derivatives.

Zui Dighe has the type of resume that makes you question what you’ve been doing with your life. It’s only her third undergraduate year at Duke University, and she has already worked with numerous startups, helped create an open source medical device that won an international award, and succeeded in multiple internships with companies large and small. read more

The results are in from the latest IoT Developer Survey and again this year, Linux is by far the most used operating system for Internet of Things devices. Surprised? You shouldn't be. Linux rules the roost in all areas of computing, so why should IoT be any different?

Development kicked off on the next Ubuntu release, the Ubuntu 18.10 (Cosmic Cuttlefish), and it looks like one of its major new features could be a next-generation Ubiquity graphical installer.

VIDEO: You can now make Alexa your default assistant on Android phones and tablets.

Dana Lewis is the 2018 Women in Open Source Community Award winner! Here is her story about how open source improved her health in a big way.  Dana has Type 1 diabetes and commercially available medical devices were failing her. The continuous glucose monitor (CGM) alarm she was using to manage her blood sugar was not loud enough to wake her up. The product design put her in danger every time she went to sleep. read more

News briefs for May 7, 2018.

Google has started rolling out a new version of its in-house developed Google Assistant virtual assistant for Android devices to the Wear OS (formerly Android Wear) operating system for wearables.

In this guide we will show you how to create a new user with sudo privileges on Ubuntu.

Opensource.com brought in 823,621 unique visitors, a new all-time record, who generated 1,323,446 page views in April, also a new all-time record. We published 96 articles this month, and welcomed 28 new authors. Almost 65% of our content was contributed by members of the open source community, and our community moderators contributed 26 articles.

Our hottest articles last week included contributions from PyCon and Red Hat Summit speakers. Read on to see what was most popular on Opensource.com the week of April 30-May 6.

For the better part of the last four months, Brandon Philips has been a Red Hat employee. Philips, the former CTO of CoreOS joined Red Hat earlier this year, after Red Hat acquired CoreOS in a $250 million deal. In a video interview, Philips provides insight into what has changed since CoreOS has become part of Red Hat and where he has been spending his time.

Beginning of the end for Win-only .NET Framework? Build At its Build developer event under way in Seattle, Microsoft announced .NET Core 3.0, coming in 2019, with support for Windows desktop applications.…

The openSUSE Project plans to host this year's openSUSE Conference event for users, collaborators, and developers at the end of the month in the beautiful city of Prague, Czech Republic.

As a novice software developer, the one thing I look for when choosing a programming language is this: is there a library that allows me to interface with the system to accomplish a task? If Python didn't have Flask, I might choose a different language to write a web application. For this same reason, I've begun to develop many, admittedly small, applications with Bash....

Where is Kubernetes headed next? Three insights from KubeCon