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You have heard about a proxy sometimes but what is a proxy and how it works? The proxy provides many functions like anonymous navigation, access to geographically restricted content, or filter some content. Well basically a proxy server is a computer that acts like an intermediate between your PC and the internet and all the traffic looks like the Proxy server did it.

ApacheCon North America is only a few weeks away -- happening May 16-18  in Miami. This year, it’s particularly exciting because ApacheCon will be a little different in how it’s set up to showcase the wide variety of Apache topics, technologies, and communities.

On the second day of Red Hat Summit, CloudForms 4.5 and an update for Red Hat Insights debut, both benefitting from new integrations with Ansible's IT automation capabilities.

Over the last couple of years, I've been doing a lot of work with containers. Early on I saw a fascinating talk by Julien Friedman where he wrote a bare-bones container in a few lines of Go. It gave me that "a-ha" moment where I grasped that containers are nothing more than Linux processes with a restricted view of the machine they're running on. read more

Paying for a ride to get around town isn't new. The first gas-powered taxicabs date to the beginning of the 20th century, and the horse-drawn "hackney coaches" of London date to the 17th century. In the vehicle-for-hire business, it's all about efficiency and execution, not "invention." That long history notwithstanding, the US Patent and Trademark Office has granted patents that claim monopoly rights to, essentially, calling up a taxi—on a computer.

In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to install the Webmin control panel on an Ubuntu 16.04 server. You most likely already know what Webmin is, so we’ll skip the introductions.

It's probably a little unfair to label everyone who uses privileged containers as "lazy" but certainly from what I've seen some (even security) vendors deserve to be labelled as such.

Canonical's Simon Fels announced today that he's working on bringing the Snapd Snappy daemon to the Raspberry Pi Foundation's Raspbian operating system to allow the installation of Snaps.

For those who are starting to code and want to make open source software, sometimes starting is hard. The idea of contributing with that fancy and wonderful library that you love can sound a little bit scary. Lucky for us, many of those libraries have room for whoever is willing to start. They also give us the support that we need. Pretty sweet, right? read more

Nobody really writes their own code anymore, right? We go out to GitHub, download some libraries, avoid recreating unnecessary wheels, and package those wheels together along with our own glue to create new software. Then we download a half dozen front-end frameworks to make it all pretty and responsive and we're off the races. In my review of apps, both in my company and others, I've found that more than 90% of the code that makes up an app these days is something we borrowed, not wrote ourselves. read more

In this tutorial, we will discuss the basic usage of the Nano editor, as well as some of the features it provides.

If your company hasn't already chosen to utilize Slack, it's probably only a matter of time. For anyone who has been around IRC before, Slack might seem like a total ripoff. I'll be honest, when one of the companies I work for starting using it, I wasn't impressed, because I could do all the same things with IRC.

AT&T has shifted more than 30 percent of their network functions to Software Defined Networking (SDN) with the goal of reaching over 55 percent this year... What they're architecting today is an abstraction layer, Indigo, designed to evolve and accelerate over time as part of what they are calling Network 3.0, a data-powered network.

Raspberry Jam is the name for Raspberry Pi meetups—and they come in many different formats. Some are like traditional tech user groups, but many are family-friendly events that provide opportunities for kids to learn to code and make things. The Raspberry Pi Foundation supports the community of Raspberry Jams and has just released a Guidebook to help people get started. read more

Every new Fedora release ships with an awesome default wallpaper, and a set of supplementary wallpapers. This post lists all the past wallpapers, and shows you how to install the wallpapers from past releases on your current Fedora install.

Cockpit is a free and open source web-based system management tool where users can easily monitor and manage multiple remote Linux servers.

The University of Tennessee's royalty collection arm wants its pound of flesh The University of Tennessee Research Foundation (UTRF) and Saint Matthew Research (SMR) on Tuesday filed lawsuits against Microsoft and Oracle alleging the infringement of database patents.…

Nearly all Linux distros come with a graphical file manager tied to a particular desktop environment. KDE comes with Dolphin file manager, Gnome with Files, MATE with Caja, Cinnamon with Nemo, Xfce with Thunar, LXDE with PCManFM. [...] I now use a graphical file manager that's completely independent: not tied to any particular distro or DE. And I really like it.

he Red Hat Summit got underway today, highlighted by a new partnership with Amazon for OpenShift, that doesn't involve the Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and some bold pronouncements about competitors in the cloud market.

This week is the huge, annual conference where Red Hat comes together with its customers, partners, and key communities. One of the main features of the Partner Pavilion here is the gigantic Community Central area. Anchoring that space are the Fedora and CentOS booths, back to... Continue Reading →