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Ubuntu snatches top spot in 2020 OpenStack User Survey Canonical is cock-a-hoop after Ubuntu snatched first place for OpenStack deployment from the CentOS Linux distribution – but according to some the victory might ring hollow.…

In his article How different programming languages do the same thing, Jim Hall demonstrates how 13 different languages accomplish the same exact task with different syntax. The lesson is that programming languages tend to have many similarities, and once you know one programming language, you can learn another by figuring its syntax and structure. read more

Podman is a daemonless container engine for developing, managing, and running OCI Containers on your Linux System. In this article, we will introduce podman and how to use it with a small application build using nodejs. The app will be very simple and clean. Install Podman Podman command is the same as docker just type […]

The Linux vulnerability landscape is becoming increasingly complex, in part due to a seemingly never-ending number of new vulnerabilities that are constantly surfacing.

If you need to get your head around the concept of configuration-as-code, start here. Systems Approach It’s not hard to form the impression that building and deploying cloud native systems is rapidly becoming a solved problem, with GitOps providing the roadmap.…

WordPress is a free, open-source, and the world's most popular CMS. In this guide, we will show you how to install WordPress with Apache and Let's Encrypt SSL on AlmaLinux 8.

Firefly has launched a $79-and-up “Station M2” mini-PC that runs Linux or Android on the NPU-equipped Rockchip RK3566 with up to 8GB RAM and 128GB eMMC plus M.2 storage, WiFi/BT, 3x USB, GbE, and HDMI. When T-Chip Technology’s Firefly community project launched its ROC-RK3566-PC SBC based on the quad-core, Cortex-A55 Rockchip RK3566, it teased an […]

Vagrant is a powerful tool for building and managing virtual machines in a development environment. In this guide, we will see how to install Vagrant on Fedora 34. Let us get started with this tutorial.

Coding and testing inconsistencies are a risk when you have multiple developers with different development environments working on a project. Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is an integrated development environment (IDE) that can help minimize these issues. It can be combined with containers to provide separate development environments for each application alongside a consistent development environment.

Learning to parse XML is often considered a complex venture, but it doesn't have to be. XML is highly and strictly structured, so it's relatively predictable. There are also lots of tools out there to help make the job manageable.

Open source made it into a lot of news headlines last month. Read on to learn about some of the major advances.

Linux user dips toe in Microsoft OS. I have been a Linux user for decades. Last week, I bought a Windows computer.…

New release also brings a few refreshed apps and refinements. Version 20.2 of Linux Mint has attempted to address the sticky subject of system update notifications and automation.…

Win Enterprises’ rugged, IP66-protected “PL-50240” computer runs Linux or Win 10 on Intel’s Apollo Lake and offers 2x GbE, 2x USB, 2x COM, 2x CAN, HDMI, M.2, and 2x mini-PCIe with SIM. Win Enterprises has announced an Apollo Lake computer designed for rugged –- and very wet — outdoor applications including IoT gateways, traffic management […]

The Biden Administration issued today an Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy. “Reinstating net neutrality is a crucial down payment on the much broader internet reform that we need and we’re glad to see the Biden Administration make this a priority in its new Executive Order today. Net neutrality preserves the environment […]

XML is a hierarchical markup language. It uses opening and closing tags to define data. It's used to store and exchange data, and because of its extreme flexibility, it's used for everything from documentation to graphics. Here's a sample XML document: read more

MediaWiki is an open-source wiki software written in PHP. It allows you to create your own self-hosted wiki website on the server. In this post, we will show you how to install MediaWiki with Nginx and Let's Encrypt SSL on Ubuntu 20.04.

Some data is meant to be temporary, stored in RAM while an application is running, and then forgotten. Some data, however, is meant to be persistent. It's stored on a hard drive for later use, and it's often the stuff that a user cares about the most. For programmers, it's very common to write code to read and write files, but every language handles this task a little differently. This article demonstrates how to handle data files with Python. read more

Please ignore pesky AMD GPU hardware description header files, says Linus Torvalds Linus Torvalds has loosed the first release candidate for version 5.14 of the Linux kernel,…

It's HOT! I suppose I can't complain too much about living in paradise, but when my wife and I moved to Hawaii last fall, I didn't really think too much about the weather. Don't get me wrong, the weather is lovely pretty much all the time, and we keep our windows open 24/7, but that means it is pretty warm in the house right now in the middle of summer. read more