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It has been more than a decade since the ifconfig command has been deprecated on Linux in favor of the iproute2 project, which contains the magical tool ip. Many online tutorial resources still refer to old command-line tools like ifconfig, route, and netstat. The goal of this tutorial is to share some of the simple networking-related things you can do easily using the ip tool instead. read more

Mozilla released today the Firefox 60 "Quantum" web browser for supported desktop platforms, including GNU/Linux, macOS, and Microsoft Windows, as well as for Google's Android mobile operating system.

This week in our news roundup, Microsoft demonstrates it's "open source love" with a Linux-friendly update to the Windows Notepad feature, KubeCon size tripled this year & attendees learned about the direction of Kubernetes & container orchestration & more!

News briefs for May 11, 2018.

Gateworks has launched a rugged, headless “Newport GW6400” SBC that runs Linux on a dual- or quad-core Cavium OcteonTX with 3x mini-PCIe, 2x USB 3.0, 5x GbE ports (2x with PoE) and optional SFP. Last November, Gateworks announced a new product family of rugged Newport SBCs that run OpenWrt or Ubuntu ......

Subsonic is a web-based media server written in Java language, so it can run on any operating system with Java support. It comes with a user-friendly web interface and allow us to share music and video with multiple users. You can stream your music from home and listen to your music from anywhere.

Whether it's autonomous cars, connected factories, or shipboard data centers, Mesosphere seeks to make multi-cloud hybrid connectivity easy.

Red Hat announced new products and expanded partnerships at its Red Hat Summit conference in San Francisco.

I want to walk you through the process of installing MidnightBSD, how to add a graphical desktop environment, and then how to install applications.

At the Supercomputing Conference in Denver last year, I discovered an interesting project as I walked the expo floor. A PhD student from Louisiana State University, Shayan Shams, had set up a large monitor displaying a webcam image. Overlaid on the image were colored boxes with labels. As I looked closer, I realized the labels identified objects on a table. read more

The default functionality of the Import module in digiKam can be extended by linking a Bash shell script to the import operation. This way, you can perform a wide range of actions on the imported files.

AWK is named after the last names of its authors: Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger and Brian Kernighan. AWK is a very useful scripting language for text processing. In this tutorial, we will show you some practical examples on how to use AWK on a Linux based VPS.

Red Hat is increasingly focusing on its OpenShift container platform for enabling organization to deploy and deliver applications. OpenShift was a dominant topic at the 2018 Red Hat Summit, with a multiple announcements and pronouncements about the Kubernetes platform's future. The next major release of OpenShift is version 3.10 which is set for July. OpenShift 3.11 is currently scheduled for September, with OpenShift 3.12, which will integrate all the CoreOS components set for December.

"Every person's piece of individual information put together gives you a cloud of real knowledge." Eymund Diegel, a research coordinator for Gowanus Canal Conservancy, shares this tidbit during the first clip of the new Open Source Stories documentary, "The Science of Collective Discovery." He's setting out in a canoe on an inner-city canal that is polluted and struggling to get the help it needs.  read more

GNOME Project's Matthias Clasen announced a few moments ago the general availability of the second and last scheduled point release of the GNOME 3.28 desktop environment.

So you’ve successfully installed Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Now what? You probably want to feel more at home with your new operating system. Here our list of things to do after installing Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

GNOME Photos is an application for browsing, editing and organizing photos. Organizing photos just became a lot faster now that Photos supports importing directly from SD cards and connected cameras. First, install Photos  with either GNOME Software, or by using dnf along with sudo: sudo dnf install gnome-photos However, as of Fedora 28 Workstation, Photos is already […]

The twenty-five countries participating in a global standards effort to create security standards for the blockchain were surprised to find some unusual national representatives from Russia involved: employees of the FSB, the state security service that took over from the KGB.

Noting that the issue seems to have died down in recent years, and mindful of Shakespeare's observation on roses, names and smells, I wondered if anyone really cares anymore what Linux is called. So, I put the issue to a number of movers and shakers in Linux and open-source circles by asking the simple question, "Is it GNU/Linux or just plain Linux?"

Ansible is a versatile platform that has become popular for managing servers and server configurations. Today, Ansible is used heavily to deploy and test through continuous integration (CI). In the world of automated continuous integration, it’s not uncommon to have hundreds, if not thousands, of jobs running every day for testing, building, compiling, deploying, and more.