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We are big fans of pytest and use it as our default Python testing tool for work and open source projects. For this month's Python column, we're sharing why we love pytest and some of the plugins that make testing with pytest so much fun. What is pytest? As the tool's website says, "The pytest framework makes it easy to write small tests, yet scales to support complex functional testing for applications and libraries." read more

VIDEO: SUSE will soon release the next version of SLES, SUSE Manager 3.2, and SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15.

With any new openSUSE release, I am interested in the improvements that the big applications have made. One of these big applications is LibreOffice. Ever since LibreOffice has forked from OpenOffice.org, there has been a constant delivery of new features and new fixes every 6 months. openSUSE Leap 15 brought us the upgrade from LibreOffice 5.3.3 to LibreOffice 6.0.4. In this post, I will highlight the improvements that I found most newsworthy.

When DeVeDe first starts up, it'll ask you which type of project you want to create. In this instance, the first option, "Video DVD," is the right choice. DeVeDe will open up a new window for your project. The top half of the window is dominated by a huge white field where you can add video files to your project. Below it are controls that allow you to control format and give you an idea as to how large the resulting image will be.

News briefs for June 25, 2018.

Rose-tinted spectacles ON. Nope, not doing anything. Windows 98 turns 20 today. However, rose-tinted spectacles still don't make a hybrid 16 and 32 bit OS tottering on top of MS-DOS any more appealing.…

Libre Computer unveiled a “ROC-RK3399 (Renegade Elite)” SBC that runs Android Oreo or mainline Linux 4.19+ and offers GbE with PoE, HDMI 2.0, 2x USB Type-C with DP, 3x USB 2.0, and dual 60-pin headers.

Here's what Opensource.com readers were most interested in the week of June 18-24. Our articles covered topics ranging from Dropbox to Portable Apps, with an IoT electronics kit giveaway from SparkFun thrown into the mix.

SUSE is updating its flagship enterprise Linux distribution with a common codebase that will now serve as the foundation for the company's Linux products.

VIDEO: Microsoft may own GitHub soon, but GitLab is moving further away from Microsoft.

Jenkins is an automation server running in a Java servlet container, it supports many SCM (Source Control Management) software systems including Git, SVN, and Mercurial and provides hundreds of plugins to automate your project. In this tutorial, I will show you how to install the latest stable Jenkins version on Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver).

In 1947, the first computer bug was found—a moth trapped in a computer relay. If only all bugs were as simple to uncover. As software has become more complex, so too has the process of testing and debugging. Today, the life cycle of a software bug can be lengthy—though the right technology and business processes can help. For open source software, developers use rigorous ticketing services and collaboration to find and mitigate bugs. read more

Highlights from the Open Source Jobs Report, conducted by The Linux Foundation and Dice.

Ubuntu-based lightweight distribution, Peppermint has just released its version 9. Here’s a quick look at the changes in the new release.

Network management work includes a lot of stuff, and precisely for this reason, there are several Linux command line utilities that help you with different kind of network-related tasks. In this tutorial, we will discuss one such utility dubbed ifconfig.

This article is part of a Go series by Mihalis Tsoukalos. Read part 1: Creating random, secure passwords in Go, and part 2: Build a concurrent TCP server in Go. read more

Apple, Google and Amazon are taking voice control to the next level. But can voice control be a DIY project? Turns out, it can. And, it isn't as hard as you might think.

If you're wondering about versions 13 and 14, ask superstitious folk SUSE today announced the impending release of SUSE Linux Enterprise 15, featuring a boatload of new toys and a leap in version numbering.…

For several reasons (including curiosity), a few weeks ago I started using Xfce as my Linux desktop. One reason was trouble with background daemons eating up all the CPU and I/O bandwidth on my very powerful main workstation. Of course, some of the instability may be due to my removal of some of the RPM packages that provide those background daemons. However, even before I removed the RPMs, the fact is KDE was unstable and causing performance and stability issues. I needed to use a different desktop to avoid these problems. read more

Early data reveals most users run a single CPU, 4GB of RAM, one 1080P monitor Ubuntu has reported on data collected using the new user-profiling “feature” in version 18.04 of its GNU/Linux distribution.…