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Oracle has created an additional version of the Solaris operating system it acquired in 2009, when it bought Sun Microsystems. The new cut of the OS is called a Common Build Environment (CBE). As explained by Oracle senior software engineer Darren Moffat this week, a CBE is akin to a beta because it includes prerelease builds of a forthcoming Solaris release.

Keep your Linux desktop clean and tidy by installing these five system cleaning apps today.

Open source empowers learners of all ages to gain the foundational knowledge and skills necessary to create a career in computer science.

Browser makers Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla, along with software consultancies Bocoup and Igalia, have agreed to work together to make web design technologies perform in a more consistent way across different platforms.

Are you ready to advance your open source journey? Here are tips and tutorials for how to contribute to open source now. Take the poll to share how long you've been using open source.

AWS CloudFormation is a service that enables system administrators to set up and manage an entire collection of AWS resources - including their configurations, dependencies, and inter-relationships between them - in a single statement.

The latest update to Armbian brings a mainline-kernel based Ubuntu- and Debian-compatible environment to dozens of small single-board computers. This includes both Arm and x86-based hardware UEFI booting – and 64-bit builds for Raspberry Pi hardware.

Banana Pi previewed a “Core” module with an octa-core -A76 and -A55 Rockchip RK3588 with up to 8GB LPDDR4 and 128GB eMMC. A carrier board adds 2x GbE, 2x SATA, 3x HDMI, 4x USB, and PCIe Gen3 x4.

The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) on Tuesday announced that 19 more organizations have joined the initiative, showing commitment towards identifying and addressing vulnerabilities in open source software. OpenSSF now has a total of 60 members.

In this article, you will learn how to install the Prometheus monitoring tool and Node Exporter on a Rocky Linux 8 system. Prometheus collects data and metrics through HTTP endpoints from target servers. Node exporter exposes hardware and kernel-related matrics from Linux machines.

Redundancy with automated failover is good. But making the wrong decisions can make a high-availability solution worse than no redundancy at all.

Carbonio empowers teams to work efficiently and closely together, regardless of distance, timezone, or work preferences.

The use of proprietary software in enterprise organizations is expected to decline eight percentage points over the next two years, while the use of enterprise open-source software is expected to increase five percentage points.

Aaeon announced a 3.5-inch “GENE-EHL5” SBC with Intel’s Atom x6000 that features 4x M.2 slots. The company also launched a $599 “UP Squared 6000 Edge Computing Kit” with the same Atom SoC, 3x GbE, 2.5GbE, and 3x M.2 slots.

The httpx package for Python is a sophisticated web client. Once you install it, you can use it to get data from websites. As usual, the easiest way to install it is with the pip utility:

Start tinkering with the open hybrid cloud by using DevStack to create a local OpenStack installation on a spare server or laptop.

Suricata is a Network Monitoring tool that examines and processes every packet of internet traffic that flows through your server. It can generate log events, trigger alerts and drop traffic upon detecting any suspicious activity.

StreetComplete, a free Android program designed to help people to contribute to OpenStreetMap, was blocked from Google's Play Store, merely for urging users to donate – to someone else.

SAN FRANCISCO, March 1, 2022, The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) a cross-industry organization hosted at the Linux Foundation that brings together the world’s most important open source security initiatives, today announced 20 new organizations have joined OpenSSF to help identify and fix security vulnerabilities in open source software and develop improved tooling, training, research, best practices, and vulnerability disclosure practices.

Virtually impenetrable BLOBs (Binary Large Objects) in firmware mean it's difficult to be sure exactly what the computer is doing. Assuming the BLOBs are unencrypted, and they usually are, you'll have to break out a disassembler to figure out what the code does, which requires skills and knowledge, and is tedious – especially if the binary is obfuscated.