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News briefs for June 10, 2019.

Kubernetes has two types of objects that can inject configuration data into a container when it starts up: Secrets and ConfigMaps. Secrets and ConfigMaps behave similarly in Kubernetes, both in how they are created and because they can be exposed inside a container as mounted files or volumes or environment variables.

Kubernetes is the de facto open source container orchestration tool for enterprises. It provides application deployment, scaling, container management, and other capabilities, and it enables enterprises to optimize hardware resource utilization and increase production uptime through fault-tolerant functionality at speed. The project was initially developed by Google, which donated the project to the Cloud-Native Computing Foundation.

SolidRun opened $550 pre-sales on a “HoneyComb LX2K” Mini-ITX board with a “CEx7 LX2160A” COM Express module that runs Linux on NXP’s 2.0GHz, 16-core -A72 LX2160A with up to 64GB DDR4 and dual 10GbE SFP+ ports. SolidRun announced pre-sales of $550 for a developer-oriented “early access” version of a high-end networking board that showcases NXP’s […]

The KDE Community welcomes our Google Summer of Code students for 2019! These students will be working with our development teams throughout the summer, and many of them will join us this September at Akademy, our annual community meeting...

That feel when 'beating heart' of your project returns a 404 Game designer Jason Rohrer has had a bad week, discovering that his 23 code repositories representing 15 years of development and community contributions were wiped from GitHub.…

The Linux Foundation’s LF Edge project announced the first release of the Akraino Edge Stack with 10 “blueprints” for different edge computing scenarios. Also: LF Edge recently announced new members and the transfer of seed code from Zededa to Project EVE. The Akraino Edge Stack project, which earlier this year was folded into the Linux […]

In this edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at an open source bionic leg, a new open source medical imaging organization, McKinsey's first open source release, and more!

Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Don Marti, of Mozilla and formerly of Linux Journal, about ad technology, privacy, and the Linux community.

In the third article in this series, Kubernetes basics: Learn how to drive first, I emphasized that you should learn to drive Kubernetes, not build it. I also explained that there is a minimum set of primitives that you have to learn to model an application in Kubernetes.

EFCO’s Linux-friendly “EGL8350” gaming computer runs on an AMD R-Series SoC with Radeon R5 or R7 GPUs and offers 3x DisplayPorts, 2x GbE, 4x each of USB and serial, 72x JAMMA GPIO, and a SATA-enabled “SmartBay.” After announcing an EGL6087 casino gaming logic box with an AMD G-Series GX218 LX earlier this year, EFCO has […]

Digital assets are becoming as important as physical assets, so how you do manage them after you die?

Mod_pagespeed is an Apache module that can be used to improve the speed of Apache web server on Linux. Mod_pagespeed has several filters that automatically optimize Web Pages to improve better performance. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install Mod_pagespeed with Apache on Ubuntu 18.04 server.

News briefs for June 7, 2019.

It's time to embrace 5G, starting with the Edge in our homes and hands.

Still no official Linux version? GitHub Desktop 2.0 is here and brings with it new features including stashing and rebasing.…

Lanner announced an NCR-1510 networking appliance with an Atom C3000 SoC and either 6x GbE ports or 4x GbE with 2x SFP. The mini-PCIe and M.2-equipped system is notable for offering -40 to 70°C support. Lanner’s 6-port NCR-1510 is its first networking computer with -40 to 70°C support. Although networking appliances are increasingly being deployed […]

Fit and finish, spit and polish, and Zorin Connect make the leap from 12 to 15. While Microsoft may be shoehorning the Linux kernel into Windows 10, veteran Linux flinger Zorin has applied some buffing to its Windows-like distro with a version 15 release.…

Axiomtek’s fanless, Linux-ready “eBOX671-517-FL” industrial NVR computer provides 6th or 7th Gen Core CPUs, 8x PoE-enabled GbE ports, 2x SATA slots, and 4x mini-PCIe slots. Axiomtek has launched a rugged industrial computer for network video recorder (NVR) applications including security surveillance, optical inspection, and edge computing. The eBOX671-517-FL can connect up to 8x IP cameras […]

Collectl is a free, open source and light-weight performance monitoring tool that can be used to gather information of system resources such as, cpu, disk, memory, network, Infiniband, lustre, memory, nfs, slabs and many more. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install and use Collectl on Ubuntu 18.04 server.