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The deal will bring the technologies from two of the largest vendors in the Kubernetes container orchestration together and demand and interest in multi-cloud technologies continues to grow.

News updates for January 30, 2018.

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation announces its first new project for 2018, bringing in storage orchestration capabilities.

Did Google score a complete victory against Android malware last year? No. Did it win? Yes.

The Debian Project announced the winner city where next year's DebConf19 Debian conference for Debian Linux contributors, developers, and users will be hosted.

Shenzhen Xunlong has launched a $109, open source “Orange Pi RK3399” SBC that runs Android 6.0 or Debian 9 on Rockchip’s hexa-core RK3399 SoC, and offers HDMI 2.0 in and out ports, DP 1.2, eDP, MIPI DSI and CSI, SPDIF, GbE, mSATA, mini-PCIe, a 40-pin header, and more. One by one, ARM hacker board vendors […]

DomTerm is a modern terminal emulator that uses a browser engine as a "GUI toolkit." This enables some neat features, such as embeddable graphics and links, HTML rich text, and foldable (show/hide) commands. Otherwise it looks and feels like a feature-full, standalone terminal emulator, with excellent xterm compatibility (including mouse handling and 24-bit color), and appropriate "chrome" (menus). read more

In this tutorial, we will explain how to install ionCube Loader on Debian 9 server. IonCube is a PHP extension that can be used for decoding secured encrypted PHP files at runtime.

Linus Torvalds released version 4.15 of the Linux Kernel on Sunday, again, and for a second version in a row, a week later than scheduled. The culprits for the late release were the Meltdown and Spectre bugs, as these two vulnerabilities forced developers to submit major patches well into what should have been the last cycle. Torvalds was not comfortable rushing the release, so he gave it another week.

It's nearly impossible to enter a school these days without seeing an abundance of technology. Despite this influx of computers into education, funding inequity forces school systems to make difficult choices. Some educators see things as they are and wonder, "Why?" while others see problems as opportunities and think, "Why not?" Andrew Dobbie is one of those visionaries who saw his love of Linux and computer reimaging as a unique learning opportunity for his students. read more

du command (short for disk usage) is useful command which is used to find disk usage for files & directories. du command when used with various options provides results in many formats.

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Sometimes, while working on the command line, you need to create links between files. This can be achieved using a dedicated command, dubbed ln. In this tutorial, we will discuss the basics of this tool using some easy to understand examples.

This is an immediate follow up for http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/251608/index.html Syntax of deploy-config.yaml template was changed to handle three node PCS Controllers cluster deployment. Containerized Deployment finishes up with 1.2 GB in Swap area. So it's just a POC done on 32 GB VIRTHOST. At the time of writing you need UNDERCLOUD 12 GB and 6 VCPUS at least,e.g. 48(64) GB RAM on VIRTHOST. Each overcloud node should have 8 GB RAM and 2 VCPUS.

In early October, our club, Geeks and Gadgets from Marshall University, participated in the inaugural Open Jam, a game jam that celebrated the best of open source tools. Game jams are events where participants work as teams to develop computer games for fun. Jams tend to be very short—only three days long—and very exhausting. read more

System Admins are required to monitor IT infrastructure to make sure that everything is up & running. We have to monitor performance of hardware i.e memory, hdds & CPUs etc & so does we...

2DayGeek: tmux stands for terminal multiplexer, it allows users to create/enable multiple terminals (vertical & horizontal) in a single window.

Finally, an automation framework that thinks like a sysadmin. Ansible, you're hired.

It is no secret that American schools have struggled to prepare students for the jobs of today and tomorrow. Critics have blamed schools' shortcomings on a variety of factors: change-resistant bureaucracy, low standards, straying too far from the Three R's, inadequate teacher training, and more. One potential root cause of this fundamental issue is that the education system isn't built to be responsive to a rapidly changing environment. read more

Even though LG already pays Microsoft ‘protection’ money for alleged patent infringements in Linux (since 2007) the trolls that are connected to Microsoft carry on chasing it with lawsuits in East Texas, so Microsoft’s ‘protection’ is illusionary at best and Microsoft is a back-stabbing ‘ally’