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Today's Ubuntu 17.10 Alpha 1 release for opt-in flavors brought us previews of the upcoming Kubuntu 17.10, Lubuntu 17.10, and Ubuntu Kylin 17.10 operating systems.

A Puppet module might only be some 500 lines of code and a bunch of tests, but that doesn't mean it's effortless to maintain. Puppet modules should run on a range of operating systems and support a range of Puppet versions (and hence, Ruby versions)—and that in and of itself makes it quite challenging. So while a single person could easily write a Puppet module, what happens when that person gets sick? Changes jobs? Or simply loses interest?

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The patent assault on the market, funded directly and indirectly by Microsoft and Bill Gates, will target companies that typically use Android or other Linux-based operating systems

LinuxSecurity.com: Developers with Canonical pushed out a handful of patches for the Linux-based operating system Ubuntu this week, including one that resolves a bug that could have let an attacker cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code with a TCP payload.

As part of today's Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark) first Alpha release, the Kubuntu development team announced the availability of the Kubuntu 17.10 Alpha 1 images, which users can download and test drive on their personal computers.

Top 5 articles of the week. In this week's Top 5, we highlight Python, Javascript, how to turn a Raspberry Pi into an eBook server and more.

The FreeDOS Project has just reached its 23rd birthday! This is a major milestone for any free software or open-source software project.

Husarion unveiled an Arduino-ready “Core2” robotics board for web based prototyping, plus a Linux-ready “Core2-ROS” that adds an RPi 3 or Tinker Board. San Francisco based robotics firm Husarion, which has previously launched an industrial picker robot called the RoboCore, has gone to Crowd Supply to pitch a new Husarion Core2 prototyping platform for the robotics maker community.

A port is an addressable network location implemented in an operating system to help differentiate traffic destined for different services or applications. A port is always associated with an IP address of a host and the protocol type for the communication.

The leading cloud container-orchestration program adds new features to its appeal.

Because Petya only chased after Windows, in typical but understandable knee-jerk fashion, the media has been full of stories on how to secure Windows servers and workstations, not only against Petya but best security practices to protect against the next, as yet unknown, threat. Linux admins, meanwhile, are most likely breathing a sigh of relief and made content by the fact they're using the invincible other operating system.

Husarion unveiled an Arduino-ready “Core2” robotics board for web based prototyping, plus a Linux-ready “Core2-ROS” that adds an RPi 3 or Tinker Board. San Francisco based robotics firm Husarion, which has previously launched an industrial picker robot called the RoboCore, has gone to Crowd Supply to pitch a new Husarion Core2 prototyping platform for the […]

In this article, we are going to provide you with useful examples of Linux grep command including the two variant programs: egrep and fgrep. grep (global regular expression print) is used to search for text strings and regular expressions line by line which match a specified pattern within one or more files.

This article is part of a short series that introduces Kubernetes. This beginner-oriented series covers some higher level concepts and gives examples of using Kubernetes on Fedora. The information technology world changes daily, and the demands of building scalable infrastructure become more important. Containers... Continue Reading →

Are you using dual boot windows and linux? If you do, then you are probably familiar with the different file systems that both operating systems use and the difficulty in transferring files between the two. Although most modern Linux operating systems can read and write to Windows file systems (NTFS and FAT / FAT32), Windows can not read or write to Linux file systems (Ext2 and Ext3).

This week in open source and Linux news, GitHub takes their Friday enthusiasm beyond casual Friday in creating a weekly "Open Source Day", a new Linux Foundation Project was announced, and much more!

The leading cloud container-orchestration program adds new features to its appeal. If you're using containers in production, you know you need a DevOps tool to manage them. For many companies, Kubernetes is that program. The fast-developing, open-source, container-orchestration package has just released its newest version, Kubernetes 1.7, just over three months since the developers released Kubernetes 1.6.

Clonezilla Live and GParted Live developer Steven Shiau is pleased to announce the release and immediate availability for download of a new stable version of his widely-used Clonezilla Live project.

Late last year, my team announced LinchPin, a hybrid cloud orchestration tool using Ansible. Provisioning cloud resources has never been easier or faster. read more

The second major release of Kubernetes in 2017 debuts, providing new stable features to improve the extensibility and security of the open-source container orchestration platform.