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No one aside from Linus Torvalds has more influence or name recognition in the Linux Kernel project than Greg Kroah-Hartman. More commonly known as GKH, the ex SUSE kernel developer and USB driver maintainer is now a Linux Foundation Fellow and the full-time maintainer of the -stable Linux branch and staging subsystem, among other roles.

Git is an open-source distributed version control system used by the software developers for small and large projects. It comes with very useful features and it is very easy to learn. In this tutorial we are going to show you how to install Git on a Linux VPS and explain the basics of Git so you can start using it.

Linux and Unix systems have long made it pretty easy to run a command on boot. Just add your command to /etc/rc.local and away you go. But as it turns out, running a command on shutdown is a little more complicated. read more

Aaeon’s “Up Squared” hacker SBC offers dual- or quad-core Intel Apollo Lake SoCs, plus up to 8GB RAM, SATA, dual HDMI, 4K video, dual GbE, miniPCIe, and more. Aaeon Europe has launched a Kickstarter project for a follow-up to its x86-based “Up” hacker board. If it shipped today instead of its May 2017 due date, […]

As coordinator for the Minnesota State Digital Curricula Initiative, Charles Bentz faces a unique challenge: How to teach DevOps (agile, relentless, fast) in an academic context (inflexible, deliberate, slow)? But Bentz has found a way—and it's been successful enough that he's ready to share it. He'll do just that at this year's DevOps Enterprise Summit during his presentation, "Influencing Higher Education to Create the Future DevOps Workforce." read more

HTTPS is a small island of security in this insecure world, and in this day and age, there is absolutely no reason not to have it on every Web site you host. Up until last year, there was just a single last excuse: purchasing certificates was kind of pricey.

The release of the Debian GNU/Linux 9 "Stretch" operating system is upon us, and Debian developer Jonathan Wiltshire informs us today about the supported hardware architectures for the upcoming release.

In every way that matters, OpenStack is getting bigger.

So Linux is 25 years old now. The Linux kernel was created by a Finnish student named Linus Torvalds in 1991 who at the time was a 21-year-old computer science student at the University of Helsinki, Finland .

A day early than expected, the final release of the Linux Lite 3.2 Ubuntu-based GNU/Linux distribution has been officially announced today by developer Jerry Bezencon.

With the final major capability for BPF tracing (timed sampling) merging in Linux 4.9-rc1, the Linux kernel now has raw capabilities similar to those provided by DTrace, the advanced tracer from Solaris... In this post I'll describe how you can use these tools, the front-ends available, and discuss where the technology is going next.

How can a Linux geek have a fun Halloween? It's not as hard as you might imagine. Before you put away your costume and all those decorations that you put up to scare your neighbors' kids, make a stab at turning your office into a scary place for a day. Here are some tips that might help you enjoy your spooky day and bring a little cheer into your office.

Lenovo recently caved in to criticism over many of its Yoga 900 laptops that incorporated Windows 10 Signature Edition by releasing a BIOS update that allows owners to install Linux-based operating systems. The company was the target of scrutiny last month when customers accused it of conspiring with Microsoft by blocking the installation of non-Windows platforms at the firmware level.

How Walmart leveraged open source to build the infrastructure for the world's second largest online e-commerce site.

"There is no shortage of truly terrible ideas in OpenStack; it's a truly open forum, with very little leadership and a lot of governance," Shuttleworth said. "OpenStack needs to focus on stuff that matters."

Imagine a universe in which Linus Torvalds was never bitten by a penguin and never invented Linux.

This week, we take a look back at the OpenStack Summit in Barcelona and some of the news, announcements, and observations from the event.

Attackers are aggressively attacking Joomla-based websites by exploiting two critical vulnerabilities patched last week. The flaws allow the creation of accounts with elevated privileges on websites built with the popular Joomla content management system, even if account registration is disabled.

The state of Georgia was nationally recognized last month by the National Association of State CIOs for its Accessible Platform Initiative. The initiative is the first step in Georgia's drive to improve access to all its digital properties. read more

The US government has updated and published a new list of exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a move perhaps long-overdue which will protect cybersecurity professionals from prosecution when reverse-engineering products for research purposes.