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China has told its finance sector to embrace free and open source software (FOSS). An opinion from the People's Bank of China and the nation's Central Cyberspace Administration essentially boils down to "go for it". The document instructs China's financial sector players to use FOSS whenever they feel it is apposite, to contribute to FOSS projects, and to respect the licences under which such software is published. Financial institutions are also encouraged to collaborate with tech companies, universities and other institutions on FOSS efforts.

What's really in that program? Codenotary can show your customers what's inside your software.

Python is a widely used multi-purpose programming language. Today’s tutorial will show you how to install Python 3.9 on a Rocky Linux 8 system.

Mozilla’s Firefox is thrilled to be named one of the nearly 100 brands within Fast Company Magazine’s inaugural and high-profile, Brands That Matter 2021 ranking and recognition program for companies and nonprofits that have had an undeniable impact on business and culture. Mozilla’s Firefox was recognized by Fast Company specifically for “continuing to do what […]

Managing authentication and authorization in a large-scale network is a challenge: the passwords need to be set and rotated every now and then, access to certain configuration settings needs to be controlled and, finally, users’ actions need to be logged somewhere.

An Application Load Balancer works at the seventh layer of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model, the application layer. We can add and remove targets from our load balancer as per our needs without affecting the flow of requests to the application. In this article, we will see how to create an Application Load Balancer, register instances, and access the Load Balancer using its DNS.

GitHub Actions have new security based on OpenID, along with the ability to create reusable workflows, while usage has nearly doubled year on year, according to presentations at the Universe event.

Ruby on Rails is a free, open-source, and one of the most popular application stacks used for creating sites and web apps. It is written in Ruby programming language and follows the MVC concept.

Escuelas Linux team informs 9to5Linux today about the general availability of the Escuelas Linux 7.2 educational distribution for schools and other education related projects.

Zenity is a rewrite of gdialog, the GNOME port of dialog which allows you to create GUI dialog boxes in Bash scripts in Linux, BSD and Windows.

This video showing step by step how to customize your KDE plasma desktop a minimal And elegant look with Orchis Theme.This setup using Manjaro Linux with KDE plasma 5.20 series. You can apply this setup on most popular Linux Distributions with KDE Plasma Desktop as default desktop such as Kubuntu, KDE Neon, OpenSUSE, KaOS, Netrunner, Chakra, Debian KDE flavor, Fedora KDE Spin, Arch with KDE plasma. I hope you enjoy the video

Version 21.1.0 of the X.Org Server has been fully rolled out, with just one fix since the release candidate, but it is still notable as the first major version for three and a half years for a project that was thought to be near-abandoned.

The Raspberry Pi Foundation announced today the availability of a new Raspberry Pi single-board computer, the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W, now on sale at $15 USD.

Kubernetes is a complex framework for a complex job. Managing several containers can be complicated, and managing hundreds and thousands of them is essentially just not humanly possible. Kubernetes makes highly available and highly scaled cloud applications a reality, and it usually does its job remarkably well. However, people don't tend to notice the days and months of success. Months and years of smooth operation aren't the things that result in phone calls at 2 AM. In IT, it's the failures that count. And unfortunately, failures don't run on a schedule.

Elasticsearch is distributed, free, open-source, and real-time search engine written in Java used to search analyze, and explore your data with an HTTP web interface.

Linux evangelists (like myself) are quick to point out the many benefits of switching over from Windows and macOS. But no operating system is perfect, and many have gone Linux and gone back. So what’s the catch?

Due to a lack of interest from upstream developers in developing a new version, X.Org Server 21.1 has taken more than three years to emerge. However, as of today we have a brand new version, so let’s take a quick look at what’s new.

A September 2021 study on the economic impact of open source software and hardware concluded that open source technologies injected EUR 65-95 billion into the European economy. This study is timely given the current rollout of the European Union's EUR 750 billion recovery investment, which has allotted 20% for digital transformation.

Vercel boss Guillermo Rauch speaks to The Reg about Rust, WebAssembly, Node TypeScript, and more. Interview Next.js 12 is out with a range of new features including built-in middleware and support for ECMAScript (ES) modules.…

The Linux Foundation announced the 9th annual Open-Source Jobs report that offers great insights into the supply and demand of critical skills needed by companies embracing cloud native technologies. To deep dive into this report, we hosted Clyde Seepersad, SVP & General Manager, Training & Certification, The Linux Foundation.