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After launching in 2017, the OpenDev Conference is now an annual event. At the inaugural event last September, the conference focus was on edge computing. This year's event, taking place May 22-23, will be focused on Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) and will be co-located with the OpenStack Summit in Vancouver.

This article enables you to discover numerous tools for porting and tuning applications for Linux on Power: an integrated development environment (IDE), compilers and toolchains, performance and utilization analysis, emulation, instruction timing, high-performance application programming interfaces, and libraries.

0 A.D. the free and open source RTS from Wildfire Games has a new alpha build available and it's a pretty huge release.

The objective of this article is to reset lost root or user password on Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver Linux. The first step is to reboot into the GRUB menu. If Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver is the only operating system installed you need to keep pressing SHIFT for the GRUB menu to show up.

Jekyll is Ruby based, free and easy to use site generator, designed for creating static blogs, but it can be also used for creating all types of static websites as well, without using a database. Jekyll works by processing plain text files in Markdown and Textfile or Liquid templates and generating static website.

Valve has released on Thursday the Android version of its Steam Link app in a beta flavor to let users stream their Steam games library to mobile devices powered by Google's Android operating system.

One of the most universally used Linux/Unix tools is now included by default in Windows 10: OpenSSH. Here's how to get started with it. Windows 10 is becoming a useful Unix/Linux sysadmin platform. First, it has incorporated Windows Subsystem for Linux in the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update. Now, in the Windows 10 April 2018 Update, Microsoft has finally brought a native Secure Shell (SSH) to Windows.

Ubuntu and Debian both use packages to add to the system’s capabilities, allowing users to do more with their machines. However, as great as this package system is, things can still break.

Sometimes you want to monitor what new information is being written to a file (think of log files), or for whatever reasons, want to access the last few lines of a file. Well, there's a command line utility that lets you do this in Linux, and it's call tail.

Though Debian stretch is the latest version, it lacks one thing i.e., Firefox Quantum. However, it comes pre-installed with Iceweasel which is an ESR version of Firefox. Today, I'll demonstrate through step by step instructions on how to download the latest version of Firefox from its official website (Mozilla) and then setting it up as the default web browser on your computer. And succeedingly remove the ESR version of Firefox; if it bothers you.

This tutorial explains how to use the command line to create and manage MySQL or MariaDB databases and users.

Topics such as licensing and governance are complex but nonetheless critical considerations for open source projects. The Linux Foundation’s Scott Nicholas will examine various approaches for structuring open source projects with these requirements in mind. This free, hour-long webinar (at 10:00 am Pacific, May 30, 2018) will address some of the differences that exist in community-driven governance and will explore various case studies

News briefs for May 16, 2018.

If you are new to this series (and to Linux), take a look at our first installment. In that article, we worked our way through the tree-like structure of the Linux filesystem, or more precisely, the File Hierarchy Standard. I recommend reading through it to make sure you understand what you can and cannot safely touch. Because this time around, I’ll show how to get all touchy-feely with your directories.

At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Copenhagen, Denmark recently, I met many users, technologists, and business leaders -- all aware of the dramatic pace of innovation and eager to learn about the new technologies that are coming out of open source space. With these rapid changes, many companies are now also worried about finding skilled developers who are well versed in the latest technologies.

Mozilla released on Wednesday the first point release to the Firefox 60.0 web browser, version 60.0.1, which brings several improvements and fixes some annoyances reported by users lately.

Estone Technology (AKA Habey) has launched a Linux-friendly “EMB-2610” Pico-ITX SBC built on an Atom x5-Z8350 with WiFi, BT, and optional PoE, and also introduced 7- and 10-inch touch-panel PCs built on it.

Honestly, I'm amazed games like Horizon Chase Turbo are still made. A retro-inspired racer that's not only super smooth, but damn fun too.

Remember the good old times when the internet was run by humans and used by humans. Well, it is still run by humans but we now have robots using it too.

Ubuntu Budgie is perhaps the most obscure Ubuntu flavor. In the review of Ubuntu Budgie 18.04, we take a look at the main highlights and user experience of the new release.