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Culture is an important part of DevOps, so many organizations have put an enormous amount of effort into trying to figure out what makes a great team. Google formed an entire initiative, called Project Aristotle, to study this question. The answer wasn't free lunches, great benefits, or wonderful salaries. Rather, Google's research determined that culture played a significant role in effective teams, particularly culture around creating physiological safety. read more

The thing about Linux is that anyone can model it to their choice, this has led to many users/teams creating their own customized distributions. Since there is no fully fledged organization behind them, some of them are not able to sustain development. This may lead to the discontinuation of the project. So here in this article, let us have a look at some Linux distributions that discontinued unexpectedly.

In this tutorial, we will guide you step by step on how to create a High Availability Cluster Nginx Web Server with Pacemaker, Corosync, and Pcsd. We will create the Active-Passive Cluster or Failover-cluster Nginx web server using Pacemaker on a CentOS 7 system.

Canonical announced today that it has managed to port the proprietary Spotify for Linux desktop client to its Snap universal binary format for all supported Ubuntu Linux releases and other Snappy-enabled GNU/Linux distros.

Choosing the "best of" anything is always challenging, and choosing Opensource.com's best sysadmin articles from 2017 is no exception. We had a lot of great articles this year, and it was fun and interesting to go back and read them. Eventually, I was able to narrow down the many choices to the five listed here.

As many of us prepare to be with families and close friends for the holidays, I’m excited to announce that Mozilla is bringing the speed of Firefox and the power of the web onto the TV with an established family of streaming media devices, just in time for the holidays.

Lubuntu developer Simon Quigley informs us that many users are reporting corrupt BIOS on their Lenovo laptops when attempting to install the latest Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark) operating system.

Marie Drottar, 62, of the United States, is one of two recipients of the 2017 Linux Foundation Training (LiFT) Scholarships in the Women in Open Source category. The LiFT scholarships provide advanced training in open source to existing and aspiring IT professionals globally.

SolidRun’s “ClearCloud 8K” IoT gateway runs Linux on its quad -A72 MacchiatoBIN SBC with 1-, 2.5-, and 10GbE ports, and links to Google Cloud IoT Core. SolidRun has launched a MacchiatoBIN ClearCloud 8K IoT gateway appliance with built-in software for connecting to Google’s beta-level Cloud IoT Core analytics service (see farther below).

There is little doubt that LibreOffice is the best open source office product out there. While you might use it from writing documents, creating spreadsheets or making presentations, there are a few tricks you can use to get more out of it.

Canonical engineer Josh Powers posted a message today on the ubuntu-server mailing list to confirm the removal of the 32-bit (i386) daily ISO images of Ubuntu Server starting with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

How to easily extract content from compressed Linux files — without having to memorize a suite of syntactical options. The easiest way to extract the content of compressed files (and compressed archives) on Linux is to prepare a script that both recognizes files by type and uses the proper commands for extracting their contents.

Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst is very optimistic about the future of containers, as organizations of all sizes move to the new approach for application deployment and delivery. Whitehurst was repeatedly asked by financial analysts during Red Hat's third quarter fiscal 2018 earnings call about the opportunity for containers and he was consistently bullish.

In this tutorial we will learn to use an important Linux utility named ‘Crontab’. With the help of Crontab or cron, we can execute a command or a script to run at...

PerlMagick is a Perl module that allows users to create scripts using various ImageMagick commands. Most users might do this for batch processing, maybe even some serial batch processing. In this article, I’ll show a project I did for my own purposes while I was working as a neurologist. read more

The Linux Mint team continues to release fresh versions of their operating system approximately every 6 month, following the updates in Ubuntu LTS versions. You could read the quick screenshot overview of Linux Mint 18.2 Cinnamon back in July 2017. It is now turn of Linux Mint 18.3 Cinnamon. Let's have a whistle-stop tour through it.

When CPU bound jobs are run in bash, such as gzipping log files, they will get compressed sequentially on a single CPU core. This guide explores how to use parallel to utilize every CPU core.

GNOME Builder 3.26 ships a number of new features, including improved symbol searching, inline documentation and integrated debugging. Prior to this, developers could code and compile their program in Builder, but would need to switch to a separate debugger (either... Continue Reading →

Intel’s 14nm “Gemini Lake” Pentium Silver and Celeron SoCs are similar to Apollo Lake, but offer support for HDMI 2.0, VP9, and a speedy Gigabit WiFi. Intel’s “Gemini Lake” follow-on to its Apollo Lake family of Atom, Pentium, and Celeron system-on-chips was first tipped in the third quarter, with more details emerging in early November. […]

Alex Larsson released at the end of last week a new stable update of the Flatpak 0.10 Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework (formerly XDG-App) for GNU/Linux distributions.