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Aqua Security 3.0 provides new capabilities to help organization protect Kubernetes container workloads as well as new modes of container deployment including the AWS Fargate service.

In this tutorial series, we're providing practical guidelines for using PGP: Part 1: Basic Concepts and Tools; Part 2: Generating Your Master Key; Part 3: Generating PGP Subkeys. Here in part 4, we continue the series with a look at how and why to move your master key from your home directory to offline storage.

A lot sooner than expected, Google released today the first Developer Preview (DP) milestone of the upcoming Android 9 mobile operating system for application developers who want to prepare their apps for the next major Android version.

China SDN/NFV Conference is the official annual gathering of the China SDN/NFV Industry Alliance.  It is co-organized by China Institute of Communications (CIC) and China Communications Standards Association (CCSA).

Congatec announced a 5?5-inch Mini-STX form factor micro-server carrier board with 4x 10GbE ports, 2x GbE ports, and a COM Express Type 7 interface for its Atom C3000-based Conga-B7AC module. High-end edge servers were a hot topic last week at Embedded World. Joining the conversation was Congatec, which announced a “deployment ready design study” for […]

One industry that lags behind others in the adoption of digital or open source tools is the competitive and lucrative world of scientific publishing. Worth over £19B ($26B) annually, according to figures published by Stephen Buranyi in The Guardian last year, the system for selecting, publishing, and sharing even the most important scientific research today still bears many of the constraints of print media. read more

Jim Hall takes his March Madness script to the next level.

Linux offers a lot of text formatting command line tools, with each of them having a different purpose. One such utility is nl, which lets you number lines in files. In this tutorial, we will discuss the basics of this command using some easy to understand examples.

Containers and Kubernetes have been widely promoted as "disruptive" technologies that will replace everything that preceded them, most notably virtual machine (VM) management platforms such as vSphere and OpenStack. Instead, as with most platform innovations, Kubernetes is more often used to add a layer to (or complement) VMs. read more

SOGo v4 has been released with major enhancements such as full S/MIME support, new calendar view, better handling of repetitive events and SQL-based authentication sources. Moreover, SOGo v4 brings major improvements and fixes over previous versions regarding Enterprise ActiveSync support and regarding its web interface.

2DayGeek: sosreport allows admin to diagnose system issue.

There are plenty of reasons not to want to hand off the tasks of storing your data and running your services to third-party companies; privacy, ownership, and avoiding abusive "monetization" are some of the top ones. But for most people, the task of running a server is just too time-consuming and requires too much-specialized knowledge. Instead, we compromise. We put aside our worries and just use cloud-hosted corporate services, with all the advertising, data mining and selling, and everything else that comes with them. read more

VIDEO: How do you address handling open-source licensing for your program? By using an open-source program!

2DayGeek: How to check all running services through SysVinit & systemd system.

Flathub is a third party repository of applications that are packaged in the Flatpak format. Many Flathub apps are also in the main Fedora repositories, but in some cases it ships newer and in-development versions of these apps. Additionally, Flathub... Continue Reading →

KDE Plasma Desktop Environment is one of the cleanest, fastest, and polished desktop environments on Linux. KDE 5 desktop needs less memory to run. It is lightweight. It is also very responsive. KDE 5 is my favorite desktop environment. In this article, I will show you how to install KDE 5 Plasma desktop environment on Arch Linux. Let’s get started.

Kubernetes becomes the first project to graduate through the Cloud Native Computing Foundation's incubation process.

If you ever dreamed of running a Linux-based operating system on your Sony PlayStation 4 gaming console, it looks like it's now finally possible thanks to the hard work of a few skilled developers.

Last week, the code repository GitHub was taken off air in a 1.3Tbps denial of service attack. We predicted then that there would be more such attacks and it seems we were right.