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COPENHAGEN, Denmark — The Kubecon + CloudNativeCon EU conference kicked off here today with speakers all heralding the success of the expanding efforts of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

Is Fedora Linux for everyone? No. I recommend Mint or Ubuntu for most users. But, if you're a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) or CentOS user, or an open-source programmer, it's another story. Then, Fedora should be your first choice. Red Hat's latest edition of Fedora Linux brings open-source programmers more choices than ever for projects with its new modular repository.

Almost all developers around the world use a version controlling software for managing & sharing their codes. SVN has always been a good choice but now Git is in demand.

Let’s Encrypt is a free and open certificate authority developed by the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG). Certificates issued by Let’s Encrypt are trusted by almost all browsers today. In this tutorial, we’ll provide a step by step instructions about how to secure your Nginx with Let’s Encrypt using the certbot tool on Ubuntu 18.04.

Fedora 28 was just officially released. You’ll likely want to upgrade your system to the latest version of Fedora. Fedora offers a command-line method for upgrading Fedora 27 to Fedora 28. The Fedora 28 Workstation also has a graphical upgrade method.

In this post we will explain how to install Joomla on Ubuntu 16.04, with MariaDB 10.2, PHP-FPM 7.1 and Nginx. Joomla is an open-source content management system (CMS) for publishing web content written in PHP. Joomla is one of the most popular CMSs and it is used all over the world to power millions of websites of all shapes and sizes.

Versalogic unveiled a 95 x 95mm “Zebra” SBC that runs Linux on an i.MX6 Solo or DualLite SoC, and offers up to 4GB RAM, MikroBUS, CAN, -40 to 85°C support, and MIL-STD-202G shock/vibration resistance. VersaLogic’s Zebra is its second rugged Arm-based SBC after the Tetra model launched in February.

Fedora 28 Workstation is the latest release of our free, leading-edge operating system. You can download it from the official website here right now. There are several new and noteworthy changes in Fedora Workstation. An exciting feature of Fedora 28 is the inclusion of some popular third-party software repositories.

News briefs for May 1, 2018.

Sometimes, while working on the Linux command line, you might want to execute a command repeatedly so as to track any change in output. Well, you'll be happy to know there exists a command line utility that lets you do this. The tool in question is Watch, and in this tutorial, we will discuss some of its basic features using some easy to understand examples.

Adlink’s Linux-ready “MXE-1500” industrial computer offers a choice of Intel Braswell SoCs, as well as 3x GbE, triple display support, vibration and shock resistance, and an extended temperature model. Adlink’s MXE-1500 updates the rugged design of its “best-selling,” but now end of life MXE-1300, which had an old school Intel “Cedar Trail” Atom N2550 or ....

Kubernetes is the top dog of cloud container orchestration, and that means everyone is jumping on its bandwagon, including networking giant Cisco. If you want to manage containers on the cloud, chances are you're using Kubernetes, the most popular container orchestration program. And, networking powerhouse Cisco wants to help your enterprise make the most of it.

May 2018 Issue: Privacy.

Cloud computing concepts can seem as nebulous as clouds themselves, but in April, we published several cloud-related articles to help clarify a few underlying ideas and look at some specific implementations.

Feral Interactive have today announced that the Linux version of Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia should be on Linux "one to two months" after the Windows release.

Python is rapidly growing in popularity and drawing more attention in tech news, including reports about Python being used involve more high school girls in computer engineering and a recommendation that intro-level college computing classes teach the programming language. (This article was co-written with Dmitry Filippov.)

The open-source Kubernetes project is not just a container orchestration system, it can also be a platform for deploying and managing applications as well. That's the goal of the Kubernetes Operator Framework project, which was officially announced by Red Hat on May 1 at the Kubecon EU conference.

Docker has revolutionized how web applications are hosted and servers are run. Docker containers allow server administrators to compartmentalize their applications like virtual machines, but containers are much lighter weight, are easier to manager, and add less overhead. Installing Docker on Ubuntu is very simple. Because Ubuntu is a popular choice for the cloud, the entire process has been streamlined to a science.

The appearance of Hadoop and its related ecosystem was like a Cambrian explosion of open source tools and frameworks to process big amounts of data. But companies who invested early in big data found some challenges. For example, they needed engineers with expert knowledge not only on distributed systems and data processing but also on Java and the related JVM-based languages and tools.

While many schools invest in Chromebooks and iPads, a growing flock of Linux-forward institutions is mapping an alternate route. I recently caught up with one innovative educator and IT leader from my home state. Aaron Prisk is the network administrator at West Branch Area School District, a small rural school an hour north of State College, Pennsylvania. read more