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Google's Chromium evangelist François Beaufort shares today with us a new feature for Chromebooks, the ability to take Android-like screenshots in Chrome OS.

This tutorial covers using templates, how to import images and use and insert text, in-depth instructions on using spreadsheets and mailmerge and more.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) made a long list of announcements on the first day of its re:Invent conference in Las Vegas on Nov. 29, including the long-awaited news that it will offer its own managed Kubernetes service.

Video: The next stage of the cloud revolution. Today, Red Hat dominates enterprise Linux. Tomorrow, it wants to rule the cloud. Don't bet against it.

Universal Serial Bus, more commonly known as the USB has been around for quite some time now with almost every device following the standard. From our I/O devices to storage drives and even mobile phones can be connected using the USB standard.

Letting go of old installation media can be hard. No, chances are you're never going to install an old distribution with a 2.2 series kernel ever again (or maybe you are, who knows?). But there's a certain nostalgia attached to the physical relics of your early days with computing, particularly if you managed to save your first Linux boot disk. read more

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and configure Grafana on Linux servers (Ubuntu 16.04 and CentOS 7). Grafana is an open source data visualization and monitoring suite. It offers support for Graphite, Elasticsearch, Included, Prometheus, and many more databases.

Learn how to configure the syslog daemon on your Linux system and how to send log output to a central log server or accept log output as a central log server. Learn about the systemd journal subsystem and rsyslog and syslog-ng as alternative logging systems. Use the material in this tutorial to study for the LPI 102 exam for Linux system administrator certification or to learn for fun.

Technology is always evolving. New developments, such as OpenStack, Progressive Web Apps, Rust, R, the cognitive cloud, artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things, and more are putting our usual paradigms on the back burner. Here is a rundown of the top open source trends expected to soar in popularity in 2018. read more

Sed is a powerful command akin to the find and replace feature in most text editors. Find out what sed is and how you can use it to improve your efficiency in the terminal.

Not everyone loves systemd, and for those that don't, there really aren't many options. That's especially true if you want something like a stable server. Fear not, SysV Init is actually still supported under Debian, and it's not hard to switch.

The kernel team is working on final integration for kernel 4.14. This version was just recently released, and will arrive soon in Fedora. As a result, the Fedora kernel and QA teams have organized a test day for this Thursday,... Continue Reading →

Linux Mint 18.3 "Sylvia" has been released and is available to download from the official website. The release is based on Ubuntu 16.04, contains many improvements and new applications. Some important software were rewritten making them work much faster and look cleaner. Some less useful applications have also been removed to clean the system installation. So let's look at the major improvements in Linux Mint 18.3 "Sylvia".

Helping to usher in the Industry 4.0 era, NXP Semiconductors announced OpenIL, a Linux distribution meant for smart factory automation.

NXP unveiled an “Open Industrial Linux” (OpenIL) distribution with real-time Xenomai extensions, crypto security, and support for OpenTSN networking. NXP announced a Buildroot-based, Xenomai-hardened “Open Industrial Linux” (OpenIL) distribution designed for industrial, networking, and secure connectivity applications that require real-time, determinist performance. OpenIL is billed as being open source, community backed, and hardware agnostic. One […]

The KDE Project announced a few moments ago the general availability of the forth maintenance update to the latest stable KDE Plasma 5.11 desktop environment for GNU/Linux distributions.

I've spent most of my professional life helping organizations be more open to their stakeholders. I'm a partner in a consulting company in Chile, whose typical customer is a for-profit organization wishing to develop some kind of public works project (for example, an electricity generation station, a transmission line, a mine, a road, an airport, or something similar). Projects like these typically aim to fill a social need—but they're often intended for locations where development and operation can have negative impacts (or, in economic terms, "externalities").

Facebook, Google, IBM, and Red Hat today announced they're going to provide greater legal protection for some of the open source code they license. The companies committed to extend more rights to cure open source license compliance errors.

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon gathers all Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) projects under one roof to further the advancement of cloud native computing. At the upcoming event in Austin, Animesh Singh and Tommy Li of IBM will discuss how to build, deploy, and connect Java microservices with Istio service mesh. In this article, Singh offers a preview of their presentation..

GNU/Linux developer Arne Exton released a new custom kernel based on the latest Linux 4.14.2 upstream kernel release for Slackware and Slackware-based GNU/Linux distributions.