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As many deployments of open cloud computing platforms are maturing, integrating and managing container technologies and platforms is a very high priority. Container management and automation tools represent a hot area for development as companies race to fill the growing need to manage highly distributed, cloud-native applications. Analysts at 451 Research have called containers the “future of virtualization,” predicting strong … Read More

Jonathan Riddell is continuing to improve the KDE Neon Linux distribution with the latest Open Source software and GNU/Linux technologies, and he had the pleasure to announce the availability of a new development version of KDE Neon Developer Edition. Tomorrow, we should be able to get our hands on the Beta release of the upcoming KDE Plasma 5.9 desktop environment, … Read More

After less than two weeks since their end of year announcement, Eagle Eye Digital Solutions have announced the release of a new update of their security-oriented Linux Kodachi operating system, versioned 3.7. Linux Kodachi 3.7 looks to us like a hefty point release that adds quite some interesting goodies, starting with support for displaying the computer’s MAC address directly on … Read More

It is the beginning of 2017 which can mean only one thing. It is time to look back at the top 10 Linux distributions of 2016 in order to analyse their suitability for the everyday Linux user. The idea of this guide isn’t to pitch one distribution against another and the list is not my personal choice of the best … Read More

With last week’s release of Red Hat CloudForms 4.2, open source’s biggest success story ups its game to help it gain more traction in the cloud. The features added since the last release of the cloud management platform indicate the company isn’t so much focused on either public or private clouds, but on the whole hybrid cloud enchilada. What Red … Read More

  Looking out at the world of technology is exciting. It has a lot of moving parts, and it seems the further you dig into it, the deeper it gets, and then it’s turtles all the way down. For that very reason, technology is also overwhelming. Where do you start if you’re keen to join in and help shape the … Read More

Linux.com has listed its ranking of the “best Linux distros for 2017”, detailing which Linux distributions suit which scenarios best. The list by the publication is detailed below, predicting which distros will “rise to the top of their respective heaps”. Best distro for sysadmins – Parrot Linux Parrot Linux is based on Debian and offers many penetration testing tools to administrators. … Read More

Bash (Bourne-Again SHell) is a Linux and Unix-like system shell or command language interpreter. It is a default shell on many operating systems including Linux and Apple MacOS X. Shell scripts are a fundamental part of the Unix programming environment. If you have always used a graphic user interface like KDE or Gnome or MS-Windows or Apple OS X, you … Read More

Red Hat today released a beta of its Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.9 platform, providing a preview of the next incremental update for the company’s older supported release. RHEL 6 first debuted in November of 2010 and was superseded in June 2014 by RHEL 7 as the leading-edge edition of Red Hat’s enterprise Linux platform. “Red Hat Enterprise Linux … Read More