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The Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri) operating system release has reached end-of-life on July 14th, 2022, and users are urged to upgrade their installations to the Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) release.

Last month, Kontron unveiled their 3.5” Single Board Computer powered by a variety of Intel processors. The 3.5”- SBC-EKL can accommodate processors from the Atom X6000E series, the Celeron J6000/N6000 series and the Pentium J6000/N6000 series.

Here learn how to check ports in use in Linux. To list listening ports you can use ss, netstat, and lsof commands.

The Rapid7-powered Metasploit Framework is the world’s leading penetration testing framework. The Project is a collaboration between the open-source community and Rapid7 to provide a tool for developing and executing exploit code against a target machine.

There are many theories about why the C programming language has endured for as long as it has. Maybe it's the austerity of its syntax or the simplicity of its vocabulary. Or maybe it's that C is often seen as a utilitarian language, something that's rugged and ready to be used as a building material for something that needs no platform because it's going to be its own foundation.

Ubuntu maker Canonical informs 9to5linux.com today that they’ve partnered with Google Cloud to offer the popular Ubuntu Linux operating system on ARM-based T2A virtual machines.

Jamie Thomas is the General Manager, Systems Strategy and Development at IBM and is also the OpenSSF Board chair. She sat down with Alan Shimel of TechStrong TV during OpenSSF Day in Austin to share about OpenSSF and how the open source community is rallying together to increase the resilience of open source software.

In a move many will find surprising, Red Hat announced that Paul Cormier, the company's CEO and president since 2020, is stepping over to become chairman of the board. Matt Hicks, a Red Hat veteran and the company's head of products and technologies, will replace Cormier as president and CEO.

Lubuntu developer Simon Quigley exclusively informs 9to5linux.com today about the launch of the Lubuntu Backports PPA to provide Lubuntu users with the latest and greatest LXQt desktop environment releases.

Rm command in Linux is used to permanently remove files and directories from the terminal without moving them to Trash or Recycle Bin.

This brief guide explains what is nested virtualization and how to enable nested virtualization in Proxmox VE.

The Open Mainframe Project, an open source initiative that enables collaboration across the mainframe community to develop shared tool sets and resources, announces the schedule for the 3rd annual Open Mainframe Summit, which will be in-person in Philadelphia, PA, and streaming online for global attendees. This year’s theme focuses on security, which is top of mind for every company that uses mainframes.

The DXVK open-source Vulkan-based implementation of D3D9, D3D10, and D3D11 on Linux systems through Wine has been updated today to version 1.10.2, a release that adds numerous bug fixes and performance improvements for your favorite games.

The Flatline extension makes the Flatpak installation file recognizable to your browser so that when you click the “Install” button on the flathub.org website, you are automatically prompted to open the file within the Software Center you are currently using.

Open source is one of the most important technology trends of our time. It’s the lifeblood of the digital economy and the preeminent way that software-based innovation happens today. In fact, it’s estimated that over 90% of software released today contains open source libraries. There's no doubt the open source model is effective and impactful. But is there still room for improvement?

n this article, we're going to look at the echo command, which is useful for showing text on the terminal, as well as the contents of variables. Let's get started!

In the beginning, Microsoft was The Evil Empire. In 2001 then CEO Steve Ballmer declared: "Linux is a cancer." Later, Microsoft sponsored SCO's copyright attack on Linux; claimed that Linux violated unnamed Microsoft patents; and forced Linux-based Android vendors to pay for dubious patent claims. Bill Gates and Ballmer's Microsoft wanted to see Linux and open-source software (OSS) dead and buried.

CRYPTO-GRAM is a free monthly newsletter providing summaries, analyses, insights, and commentaries on computer security and cryptography. In this issue, Random Notes on the SQL Slammer. . .

Less than two-and-a-half years after becoming Red Hat CEO, Paul Cormier has resigned from the role. Cormier will remain onboard as the company’s Chairman.

I recently wrote a C program in Linux to create a smaller random selection of MP3 files from my extensive MP3 library... You can download my application from its Git repository. I wrote it for Linux specifically in part because it's easy to find well-tested file I/O routines on Linux...