Certificates, it turns out, are important.  Expired certificates can cause you huge problems - that's what the stories in the news are telling us. But what is a certificate, why do they expire, and why would that have such a big impact? To answer these questions, let's step back a bit and look at why you need certificates in the first place.read more

On DL103, we discuss a new distro, Septor Linux. We check out some sneak peeks for GIMP, Thunderbird, Raspberry Pi and more. We talk about some Linux Gaming news and much more!

The VirtualBox Guest Additions are designed to be installed inside a virtual machine, after the guest operating system has been installed, and they include drivers and optimizations for better system performance and usability.

News briefs for January 11, 2019.

"Without data, you're just a person with an opinion."Those are the words of W. Edwards Deming, the champion of statistical process control, who was credited as one of the inspirations for what became known as the Japanese post-war economic miracle of 1950 to 1960. Ironically, Japanese manufacturers like Toyota were far more receptive to Deming’s ideas than General Motors and Ford were.read more

Linux Mint 19.1 cinnamon is the latest release of Linux Mint 19 series, this release brings all the goodies from the Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS (Bionic Beaver) release and brand-new Cinnamon 4.0 desktop environment with new features and updates.

MCC’s “MCC152” is a stackable Raspberry Pi voltage output and digital I/O HAT with dual 0-5 V analog outputs at up to 5 kS/s and 8x configurable DIO. An open source C++ and Python library is also available. In August, Measurement Computing Corp. (MCC) launched its MCC 118 voltage measurement DAQ HAT for the Raspberry […]

Simply deploying containers with a managed service isn't enough. Learn top tips to keep Kubernetes container deployments safe and secure.

The most common question I get on my YouTube channel and in person is what my favorite Linux distribution is. If I limit the answer to what I run on my desktops and laptops, my answer will typically be some form of an Ubuntu-based Linux distro. My honest answer to this question may surprise many. My favorite Linux distribution is actually RetroPie.read more

The open-source VLC Media Player app from VideoLAN reached a major milestone today as it just passed the 3 billion downloads mark on the project's official website.

Linux is blessed with a mouthwatering array of excellent open source music players. But I’m always on the look out for fresh and innovative music players. Kaku bills itself as the next generation music client. Is that self-proclaimed hype?

Timesys’ TimeStorm IDE 5.3.2 adds support for embedded Linux development within Windows 10. Other new features include Python target debug and custom bootloader support and a streamlined, Git-based workflow. Timesys’ Yocto Project driven TimeStorm Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for embedded Linux has been upgraded to a version 5.3.2 release that adds Windows 10 support as [[he]#8230[/he]]

Like Pence and Moreno (shown above), who exchange a political refugee for loans, the Linux Foundation abandons its commitment to GNU/Linux in exchange for maximisation of financial contributions

A look at four key trends – and where they converge

As open source software continues to become increasingly important for enterprise application development, there is a need to help fund developer efforts.

2019-01-10: The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded. This release is based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2019/Jan/08). Linux kernel was updated to 4.19.13-1. Partclone was updated to 0.3.12+gitfeb58af. Package ldmtool and haveged were added. Package curl was added.

Systemd, the popular but controversial Linux system and service manager, has three recently discovered security holes. Patches for them are already ready to go.

Fedora Classroom sessions continue with an introductory session on the use of Buildah to create container images. The general schedule for sessions is availble?on the wiki, along with?resources and recordings from previous sessions. Topic: Building container images with Buildah Containers are becoming the de facto standard for building and distributing applications. Fedora as a modern […]

PyCharm is an intelligent and fully featured IDE for Python developed by JetBrains. It also provides support for Javascript, Typescript, and CSS etc. You can also extend PyCharm features by using plugins.

Debian testing enters freeze state for the release of the next Debian stable version called Buster. The current stable version of Debian is Stretch which is versioned 9. So you can correctly guess Buster version is gonna be the number 10. If you aren't a Debian testing user, worry not, there are tons of exciting new stuff to expect in the next stable Debian version.