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So you're ready to make the jump to Linux, but you've still got a handful of programs you're just not quite ready to part with. Can you still run your Windows software on Linux? The answer might be yes, but, with some caveats. I want to draw an important distinction before we move on. It might seem obvious, but it bears repeating: Running a program on Linux does not magically make it open source, any more than running the program on Windows makes it closed source.

Today Mozilla is announcing the launch of “Global Mission Partners: India”, an award program specifically focused on supporting open source and free software.  The new initiative builds on the existing “Mission Partners” program.

MesosCon Europe, taking place Oct. 25-27 in Prague, Czech Republic, is an annual conference organized by the Apache Mesos community that brings together users and developers to share and learn about the project and its growing ecosystem.

This article describes how to set up an environment where SAP HANA accesses and analyzes data stored in Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) using the SAP HANA Spark Controller. The environment is running entirely on IBM POWER8 processor-based servers. This article describes two deployment options that use either scale-up or scale-out POWER8 servers.

Securing your Docker containers and the hosts upon which they run is key to sustaining reliable and available services. From my professional DevSecOps perspective, securing the containers and the orchestrators (e.g., OpenShift, Docker Swarm, and Kubernetes) is usually far from easy. This is primarily because the goal posts change frequently thanks to the technology evolving at such a rapid pace.

Advantech’s Linux-ready “DPX-S445” is a casino gaming SBC with 7th Gen Core CPUs, triple displays, and a PCIe x16 connector for 8x additional displays. Advantech’s Advantech-Innocore gaming technology business unit has announced a DPX-S445 casino gaming SBC that offers a claimed 20-30 percent processing improvement over previous DPX-S boards, with which it’s backward compatible. The […]

This guide will show how to install and configure the most popular open source CMS used on the internet, Wordpress, on top of FAMP in FreeBSD 11.x latest release. FAMP is an acronym which describes the following software bundle: FreeBSD 11.1 Unix-like operating system, Apache HTTP server, one of the most popular open-source web server on the internet, MariaDB RDBMS (relational database management system), which is a fork of MySQL database engine, and PHP programming server-side language.

I have no idea what you did at your job last week. I couldn't find out if I wanted to. But if you were curious enough about it, you could find out exactly what I did, Monday through Friday. read more

Actually, this is a good time for the platform's developers to step away from any mad rush to add new features and concentrate on improving the basics. Back in April, when we reported on Open Stack's ninth User Survey, we noted that although use of the platform was on the rise, in some cases user satisfaction was declining, most likely over usability issues.

hwinfo stands for hardware information tool is another great utility that used to probe for the hardware present in the system.

AMD's Ryzen CPUs were designed to be overclocked. They're excellent at it, and they benefit greatly from it. Most Ryzen CPUs can even overclock a few hundred MHz using a stock cooler. That's impressive no matter how you look at it.

I recently installed the latest release of Fedora 26 from scratch on a brand new laptop. If you've been using Linux for a while, you may opt to do upgrades instead of fresh installs to keep your preferences and configurations intact. After all, who wants to go searching for customizations every time a new version of your favorite distribution (in my case, Fedora) comes out? read more

Some tiny but useful Linux commands, terminal tricks and shortcuts that will save you a lot of time while working with Linux command line.

Having open-source programming chops or Linux sysadmin skills is only the start.

This Week in Linux covered new releases from GIMP, Fail2Ban, Audacious, Voyager Linux, and many more. Ubuntu has reached Feature Freeze, we'll talk about the latest changes before the freeze. QupZilla has chosen the new name of the browser. Updates from System76 on Pop!_OS as well as some news on some Linux Hardware. Then we'll check out this week's Linux Gaming news which there is a surprising amount that may require a Rapid Fire approach. All that and more on today's episode of This Week in Linux.

Bumblebee allows you to use the dedicated nVidia GPU for rendering when needed and to power it down when not in use. Learn how to use Bumblebee in Ubuntu.

Neofetch is a cross-platform and easy-to-use command line (CLI) script that collects your Linux system information and display it on the terminal next to an image.

Instead of relying on servers concentrated in one large data center, the new Kubermesh is designed to simplify data-center architectures for smart factories by elegantly and cost effectively leveraging a distributed network of computing nodes spread across the enterprise.

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks continue to be a weapon of choice among threat actors seeking to extort money from victims, disrupt operations, conceal data-exfiltration activities, further hacktivist causes, or even to carry out cyberwar.

Configuring login messages on Linux servers has gotten more complex and dynamic. But those types of messages, such as 'message of the day,' still have value. In this article, we look at the message of the day setup on an Ubuntu server to decipher how the process works.