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With the technology advancements that keep on evolving, locating a home-based Linux job is a lot of Linux engineers dream. Therefore, since it is of great interest to find this work arrangement for many engineers, how does one find such a position? The goal of this article is to hit on some high points that will hopefully help one locate this type of role.

CentOS maintainer Johnny Hughes has informed the community about the availability of yet another important kernel security update, this time for users of the CentOS Linux 7 operating system series.

Christian Schaller is a long time free software contributor and advocate. He’s also a manager of emerging platform development at Red Hat. The groups in this area include desktop engineering, where developers work on many GNOME features seen in Fedora.

A long-fixed bug in how Android and Linux handles UDP network connections has caused a lot of unnecessary worry.

For those who are looking for a self-hosted alternative to Slack, Rocket Chat is one of the best. Here’s how to install and set up Rocket Chat on your server.

With all the changes happening at Canonical, you might wonder what this means for the future of desktop Ubuntu, besides the return to the GNOME desktop.

Arc-OSX-Icons has been released its a icon theme to integrate seamlessly with the OSX-Arc theme collection it comes in two variants for the light & dark variants of the OSX-Arc theme collection, see my Github page for more details.

In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at Ubuntu going back to GNOME, universities in Maryland getting open textbook grants, and more. Open source news roundup for April 2-14, 2017 read more

It's been a wild and crazy couple of weeks on the Isle of Man. As the dust settles, the brouhaha can probably best be summed up with words that ended a classic rock album: "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss."

The NanoPi K2 is like an Odroid-C2 with WiFi and BT 4.0. The $40, open spec SBC offers a quad- A53, 1.5GHz Amlogic S905, 4x USB, GbE, and a 40-pin bus. Rampant imitation is making it easier to write up these new hacker board releases. Just cut and paste an existing feature table, add and […]

The Wine 2.6 development release was announced today bringing another set of bug fixes for various Windows games and applications, along with some much-needed optimizations and features.

Aetina’s Nano-ITX “ACE-N620” carrier board for Nvidia’s Linux-driven Jetson TX2 and TX1 modules offers optional mini-PCIe expansion cards from Innodisk. Aetina’s Nano-ITX form-factor ACE-N620 carrier board offers some more development options for Nvidia’s Jetson TX2 COM, as well as its earlier, pin-compatible Jetson TX1.

GitHub's Andrea Liliana Griffiths is pleased to announce the release of Atom 1.16 as the latest stable version of the popular, multi-platform, and open-source hackable text editor, along with the Beta of Atom 1.17.

Swift is a powerful and intuitive general-purpose programming language for the OS X, iOS, watchOS, and Linux operating systems. It is developed by Apple Inc. Swift is intended to be more resilient to erroneous code (“safer”) than Objective-C, and more concise.

Launch a Linux box with two clicks from termbox.

In the olden days, creating a website from scratch was easy. With a basic understanding of HTML, and maybe a little CSS, you could put together a pretty functional web page with very little effort. Throw it onto your web server, and you were good to go. read more

I recently wrote an article talking about where the Ubuntu 17.04 is heading. Now Ubuntu 17.04 'Zesty Zapus' is released. You can download and install it to taste things newly presented. Though, there are not major changes but there are. So let's get started and see what's new in Ubuntu 17.04 'Zesty Zapus'.

The sudo command allows normal users to run programs which are only available to the root user. In this tutorial, we will show you how to create a system user and manage its sudo privileges on a Linux VPS running Ubuntu 16.04 as an operating system.

This article describes how to quickly and easily install and configure EnterpriseDB Postgres Advanced Server with Linux on Power architecture, namely RHEL 7.2 LE. Although it is targeted towards customers who have eligible dark core resources on IBM Power Enterprise Servers, the installation instructions are valid for most IBM Power servers.

The Raspberry Pi computer can be used in all kinds of settings and for a variety of purposes. It obviously has a place in education for helping students with learning programming and maker skills in the classroom and the hackspace, and it has plenty of industrial applications in the workplace and in factories. I'm going to introduce five projects you might want to build in your own home.