10 years ago, Dell and Canonical launched Project Sputnik, an initiative to deliver high-end Dell systems with Ubuntu preinstalled to meet the needs of application developers. Whereas Dell had previously offered lower-end Linux-enabled laptops, this was the first time that customers had access to powerful systems designed specifically for developers.
In order to break into the Linux industry and secure a job, it is important to understand the job market and what employers are looking for. This involves researching the types of Linux jobs available, the skills and qualifications required, and the companies that are hiring. Additionally, it may be helpful to network with professionals in the field, attend industry events, and join relevant online communities to stay up-to-date on job opportunities and industry trends. By familiarizing yourself with the job market, you will be better equipped to identify opportunities that align with your interests and skills, and make informed decisions about your job search.
Listen now (13 min) | An entire week devoted to everything BSD -- both old and new!
I'm announcing the release of the 5.10.168 kernel.
All users of the 5.10 kernel series must upgrade.
The updated 5.10.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-5.10.y and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser: https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-s...
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You can configure several parameters or tunables of Linux (the kernel) to control its behavior, either at boot or on demand while the system is running. sysctl is a widely-used command-line utility for modifying or configuring kernel parameters at runtime. You can find the kernel tunables listed under the /proc/sys/ directory.
It is powered by procfs (proc file system), a pseudo file system in Linux and other Unix-like operating systems that provides an interface to kernel data structures. It presents information about processes and additional system information.
Kate has been supported on Windows for a long time however, we missed one crucial feature on Windows that made it not as good as Kate on Linux. That feature was the built-in terminal. If you are a developer you might have to use the terminal a lot and having a built-in terminal inside your editor can be really helpful and convenient.
For a variety of reasons, the Fedora Linux 37 retrospective survey got off to a late start. But it’s here now! If you can think back to last fall, please take a few minutes toprovide your feedback. Please remember that this survey is about theprocessof producing F37, not the end result.
RPMs ofPHP version 8.2.3are available inremi-modularrepository forFedoraââ°Â¥ 36 andEnterprise Linuxââ°Â¥ 8 (RHEL, Alma, CentOS, Rocky...) and inremi-php82repository for EL 7.
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The modules for EL-9 are available for x86_64 and aarch64.
Parrot Security OS 5.2 is the second minor update in the Parrot 5.0 “Electro Ara” series that follows a long-term support (LTS) release model and it’s based on the Debian GNU/Linux 11 “Bullseye” operating system series.
The new LTS release model of Parrot 5.0 promises no major changes, but extremely fast security updates for at least two years from the moment of the release (March 2022) to ensure maximum stability and reliability. In addition, the system offers a rolling-release model for all the security tools.
Endless OS 5 officially released Friday, 27 January 2023. The OS 5 is the fifth major version of Endless GNU/Linux, a Debian-based free software distribution aimed to empower public education especially people with no internet access, conveying learning contents like the offline Wikipedia, powered by GNOME, Flatpak and OSTree technologies. This article will show you download links, how to download OS 5, verify its authencity before installing it to your computer. Happy downloading!
Canonical says Real-time Ubuntu is “designed for enterprises in aerospace, automotive, defense, IoT, robotics, and telcos, as well as the public sector and retail”, where access to agile, low-latency computing offered by a real-time kernel is a real-time requirement.
Ubuntu’s real-time kernel is based on the Linux 5.15 LTS kernel offered in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, and is available for both x86 and Arm architectures. Canonical note that the Real-time Ubuntu kernel integrates out-of-tree PREEMPT_RT patches to reduce kernel latencies, making it ‘more preemptive’ than mainline Linux kernels.
We're happy to celebrate our 14th anniversary with Kiwi TCMS version 12.0!
IMPORTANT:this is a new major release which contains security related updates,
Think of a content management system (CMS) as an engine that brings your website to life. It allows you to build and publish your content without having to code it all from the ground up. In fact, certain content management systems won’t require any coding knowledge such as HTML and CSS.
Drupal and WordPress are two of the most popular content management systems on the market. Each can help you create engaging content, customize your site’s look and feel, and in turn, help you grow your audience.
Simply put, the main difference between WordPress and Drupal is that Drupal has more customization features, while WordPress is much easier to use. As two of the most popular CMS platforms, the Drupal vs WordPress comparison is ongoing debate.
So, which CMS is the best choice for you?
Welcome to the final and last release in the series seven. The next release is planned and intended to become version 8.
I’m happy to announce thatNetplanversion 0.106 is now available onGitHuband is soon to be deployed into an Ubuntu/Debian/Fedora installation near you! Six months and 65 commits after the previous version, this release is brought to you by 4 free software contributors from around the globe.
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Highlights of this release include the new
netplan statuscommand, which queries your system for IP addresses, routes, DNS information, etc… in addition to the Netplan backend renderer (NetworkManager/networkd) in use and the relevant Netplan YAML configuration ID. It displays all this in a nicely formatted way (or alternatively in machine readable YAML/JSON format).Furthermore, we implemented aclean libnetplan APIwhich can be used by external tools to parse Netplan configuration, migrated away from non-inclusive language (PR#303) and improved the overallNetplan documentation. Another change that should be noted, is that thematch.macaddressstanza now only matches onPermanentMACAddress=on the systemd-networkd backend, as has been the case on the NetworkManager backend ever since (seePR#278for background information on this slight change in behavior).
Security researchers have discovered yet another sizable haul of malicious packages on the open source registries npm and PyPI. These packages, which could cause problems if developers downloaded them without realizing it, can be found here. It comes with a number of different packages, all of which contain the same malicious package. go file is a Trojan horse programme that was developed to mine cryptocurrency on Linux computers. According to Sonatype, sixteen of these were able to be traced back to the same actor known as trendava, who has since been removed from the npm registry.
While Big Data™ might not be a buzzword anymore, data that’s uncomfortably large is not going anywhere. In this 30 min. screencast I go through three strategies you can use to tackle big data in R and Python. I also briefly cover three tools:
How does history affect the future? The Riverside Church in New York is turning to its archival collections not only for an honest assessment of its past but also for guidance on its next steps.
Deep Transformation Network – Artists and Creatives Tuesday, February 21st, 2023.12:00 pm€ to 1:15 pm PST – Online The link to the event is here. THIS WEEK: Join for a discussion to explore maps in nature; maps in a political, cultural, historical context; and to consider how maps are used to navigate near and far […]
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Relatives of people deceased in the February 6 earthquake will receive 100 thousand lira, and housing issues will be solved within this year, Türkiye's head of state pledges.
Women have difficulty finding hygienic toilets and taking care of their children. One woman who gave birth in a tent struggles to obtain medicine.
Over the last few weeks, there has been an astounding increase in the number of objects shot down by North American air defense. Little is yet known about some of these objects, but it is clearly one of the more dramatic UFO turns in recent memory. Some of the mystery is simply the fog of war, and the time it takes for defense organizations to collect and publicize information. I think that much of it, though, is attributable to a few frustrating factors: the limited familiarity most of the public has with the reality of military operations today; the tendency of the most vocal parts of the public to attempt to fit all events into a preconceived theory (often of the more out-of-this-world kind); and the poor job the media has done of contextualizing these events.
I have writtenonce beforeabout UFOs, and I try not to do it too much for fear of coming off as a crazy person. Still, though, UFOs and their colorful history are one of my greatest interests. Over the last week I have done a lot of yelling at the television and internet comment sections. So here, I am going to attempt something ambitious. I would like to put together for you a possible, even likely, story of the UFO news of the last two years: of AATIP, balloons, and how they all fit together.
Amid growing concerns over digital ethics, data privacy and algorithmic bias, more attention needs to be paid to the straightforward ‘harms’ that arise from digital technology use in society.
A Belgium man whose wife lost her legs in a terrorist attack on a New York City bike path that killed eight people five years ago says he contemplated suicide after he had largely recovered from his physical wounds. Aristide Melissas testified in Manhattan federal court Tuesday to aid the government's quest to win a death sentence for Sayfullo Saipov. Saipov was convicted in late January of charges in the Oct. 31, 2017, attack. He drove a rental truck on a lower Manhattan bike path along the Hudson River at high speed. Afterward, he boasted that he had hoped to kill more people.
Dave Hollis, who left his post as a Disney executive to help his wife run a successful lifestyle empire, has died at his home in Texas. He was 47. A justice of the peace in Hays County says Hollis was pronounced dead Sunday afternoon at his home in Dripping Springs, a city on the outskirts of Austin. An autopsy will be performed to determine the cause of death. Hollis left his job at Disney in 2018 to join his then-wife Rachel Hollis' venture. The parents of four moved from Los Angeles to Texas, collaborated on livestreams, podcasts and organized life-affirming conferences. Rachel Hollis announced on Instagram in 2020 that they were ending their marriage.
An olive grove in Turkey's Hatay province was split in two during last week's devastating earthquake, creating a 130-foot-deep canyon.
Experts say more work could be needed to determine the consequences after a release of toxic chemicals from a Feb. 3 train crash.
The mosquitoes that transmit the disease dramatically increased their range over the last century as temperatures warmed, scientists reported.
The death toll of the earthquake that hit Syria and Turkey on Feb. 6 has topped 35,000, making it one of the most devastating catastrophes in recent times.According to the UN, that toll could end up doubling.
A Vermont legislative committee has unanimously approved a bill that would make the state the second in the country to allow nonresidents to seek medically assisted suicide. The House Human Services Committee on Tuesday approved the measure that would remove the residency requirement. The measure would have to be approved by both legislative chambers. Eight states, including California, Colorado and New Jersey, and Washington, D.C., also have medically assisted suicide laws. If removal of the residency requirement is approved, Vermont would join Oregon, which no longer requires people to be residents of the state to use its law allowing terminally ill people to receive lethal medication.
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Cybersecurity services company€ Group-IB Global Pvt. Ltd.€ has published details on previously€ unreported phishing operations carried out by the nation-state cyber threat actor SideWinder between June and November 2021.
German airline Lufthansa has been hit by a company-wide IT outage that has caused a raft of flight cancellations and delays and left thousands of passengers stranded in airports.
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The Danes have been steadfast in their co-operation ... underlined by the Caesar howitzers being sent to Ukraine
Hacking incident led to a serious GDPR leak relating to passenger information being accessible to others
Ukrainian troops are training on advanced Leopard 2 tanks at a Polish military base, after Germany and other Western allies agreed to provide them. CNN's Nic Robertson reports.
Alexandria Verner was kind, positive and "everything you'd want your daughter or friend to be," a family friend said.
Separatist fighters in Indonesia's restive Papua region have released a series of images showing a pilot from New Zealand who was taken hostage more than a week ago.
Phillip Mehrtens, a pilot for Indonesian aviation company Susi Air, was€ abducted by independence fighters from the West Papua Liberation Army.
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega releases 222 prisoners to the U.S. It’s a win for families of the prisoners, but it could set back democracy-building in the Central American nation.
The gunfire on Monday night left three dead and five critically injured. For some students, the familiar rituals of sorrow, anger and disbelief were playing out again.
Ukrainian officials are telling the remaining civilians to leave Bakhmut, another sign of a possible retreat from a city that has been the focus of fighting in the east.
ADF STAFF Africa is less safe and less democratic than a decade ago, but there is still hope. The Mo Ibrahim Foundation published the stark conclusions of the latest Ibrahim Index of African Governance on January 25, 2023. But they have not rattled the faith of the Sudanese billionaire who created the foundation.
ADF STAFF Nemes Tarimo was given a choice: fight for Russia’s Wagner Group against Ukraine or face years in a Russian prison. The lure of a pardon was too great for the 37-year-old Tanzania native to decline.
ADF STAFF With more than 600 million people online and millions more soon to join them, African nations face growing demand to safeguard cyberspace against hackers, scammers and extremists. Ghana provides a model for how to do that. In recent years, Ghana has become a regional leader in cybersecurity.
ADF STAFF To confront a host of cybersecurity threats in 2023, internet users and governments need updated technology, quicker reactions and greater transparency about attacks. That is the assessment of Cyber Security Experts Association of Nigeria (CSEAN), which recently issued a report detailing the threats facing the country. Many of the same threats apply across […]
Latvia's€ President, the Speaker of the Saeima, the Prime Minister, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Latvia have joined their voices in an appeal for members of the public to mark one year since Russia's disgraceful invasion of Ukraine.
The state Security Service (VDD) issued a warning February 24 that praising Russia's war of aggression in Ukraine will have serious legal consequences for supporters of the Putin regime's illegal actions.
On February 9, US Representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and ten Republican co-sponsors introduced a resolution “expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States must end its military and financial aid to Ukraine, and urges [sic] all combatants to reach a peace agreement.” When Matt Gaetz is right (which really isn’t very …Continue reading"Two Cheers for Matt Gaetz’s Ukraine War Resolution"
Twenty years ago this spring the US government was finally successful in lying us into war with Iraq.
Government has teamed up with dozens of firms to take part in the RebuildUkraine conference in Warsaw this week
The U.S. has already seen more than 70mass shootings this yearas of Wednesday morning. At this pace, the nation will see over 576 by the end of the year, an Axios analysis of the Gun Violence Archive found.
Only by limitinghuman-caused global warmingto 1.5€°C or less, which many scientists don't consider feasible, can a multi-century melting of the globe's ice sheets and increase in sea levels be averted, a new study finds.
There are some factors that cause the tides to be higher than what is "normally" seen from day to day. View our bulletin to see when you may experience higher than normal high tides for the period of time between March and May of 2023.
Thwaites Glacier, the largest glacier in West Antarctica, is melting faster in some spots than its shape would at first suggest, new studies show.
Indonesia, one of the largest coal-producing countries, agreed to drastically reduce its reliance on fossil fuels with the aid of a $20 billion energy transition deal, the largest of its kind. But more energy innovation is still needed, regional experts say.
The founders of the trading firm Modulo Capital are in talks with FTX about returning the investment that Sam Bankman-Fried made in the fund.
ADF STAFF A suspicious vehicle was driving through the streets of Durban, South Africa, around 3:45 a.m. with water leaking out of the back. When police pulled over the red Toyota Condor they found eight bags of shelled abalone worth about R500,000 (just more than $29,100), South African newspaper Daily Maverick reported.
The demographic challenge facing Latvia shows€ little sign of easing with provisional data compiled by the Central Statistical Bureau (CSB) and published February 14 showing€ that the number of births recorded in 2022 was the lowest for a century.
January was the third month of declines in the inflation rate, but the double-digit increase shows Britain’s cost-of-living crisis persisting.
When White House officials gather Wednesday night in the Indian Treaty Room for Brian Deese's farewell party, they’ll be saying more than just goodbye to a colleague. They’ll be watching a power center head for the exits.
Berkshire Hathaway has made a near-total exit from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) just three months after pumping $4.1 billion into the chip manufacturer.
A group of Tesla workers in Buffalo, New York today (Feb. 14) launched a campaign to unionize, which, if successful, would mark the first union for employees of the electric vehicle company.
When US carmaker Ford on Feb. 14announced1,300 job cuts in the UK, it was just the latest blow for an industry that’s been struggling to keep up production levels in a post-Brexit, pandemic-hit economy that’s on thebrink of recession.
The price of local cucumbers, tomatoes and seedlings will rise with increases in energy resources and overall prices, according to growers' forecasts.€ Some have already placed the first tomatoes on the market, but most growers estimate that harvest is expected in March or April, Zemgale regional television reported on February 14.
Latvia's economic growth will be minimal this year, according to the latest prediction of the European Commission, published February 13.
Latest data published on February 13 by the Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia show that in the academic year€ 2022/2023 higher education is acquired by 75.4 thousand students, which is 2.6€ % less than a year ago.
The number of newly-registered companies was down by 20 percent last year and settled at the lowest mark since 2014
World Bank President David Malpasssaid Wednesday that he will resign as head of the influential lender before the end of his term.
The U.S. government could be at risk of a payment default as early as July if the debt limit isn't raised, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said on Wednesday.
Expanded SNAP benefits that were granted during the pandemic are phasing out this month, leaving low-income households across the country up against escalating financial strain.
Vladislav Klyushin was convicted today of filling a safe with cash via a hack-and-insider trading conspiracy with one of the guys who allegedly hacked John Podesta.
Judge Tim Kelly's guidelines for admitting written statements of "tools" of the alleged Proud Boy conspiracy.
The January 6 Committee's refusal to turn over transcripts to DOJ until December has endangered the Proud Boys case for a second time.
The Justice Department cited the crime-fraud exception to attorney-client privilege in demanding testimony from a lawyer representing former President Donald Trump in his documents case.
The disclosure won’t include sharing the specific documents that improperly accompanied top officials when they left office, which lawmakers of both parties have demanded to see.
Walking down its streets a year ago was like wandering into the modern ruins of another empire come and gone from Afghanistan. Now, the Taliban have adopted the former diplomatic enclave as their own.
The Internal Security Bureau (IDB), has published a summary of its work carried out in 2022. The IDB is a state authority responsible for detecting, preventing and investigating offenses committed by individuals within other Interior Ministry bodies such as the State Police, State Fire and Rescue Service, and Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs.
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has sent 222 political leaders, priests, students, activists and other dissidents to the United States, whose release was long demanded by the international community. But shortly after putting the former prisoners on a plane to Washington, Ortega’s government voted to strip them of Nicaraguan citizenship, Analysts, legal experts and human rights groups are calling it a political ploy but also say it is a violation of international law. They add that the move is unprecedented — at least in the Western Hemisphere — in terms of scale and impact.
The news over the past several days has been dominated by the shooting down by the US and Canada of four objects over their airspace. Despite widespread assumptions, US officials are still trying to identify what the last three objects are.
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS; and also known as CEDEAO French and Portuguese) is a regional political and economic union of fifteen countries located in West Africa. Its main activities are connected with regional politics, economic and social questions in the region.
ASEAN should adopt a piecemeal approach in engaging dialogue partners to collaborate on matters pertaining to the 5-point consensus. ASEAN at the Fore Front in Resolving the Myanmar Crisis It has been more than two years since the Burmese junta organized a coup that toppled Myanmar’s democratically elected government.
With advanced technology, states have adopted new means to defend their interests abroad, but this has also opened new avenues for crisis and conflict. On February 4, 2023, a balloon flying over Charlotte, North Carolina became a spoiler and caused a wrench in already tense US-China relations.
Speaking via a video call to the World Government Summit in Dubai, Musk said making sure the platform can function remained the most important thing for him.
Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland's First Minister and the figurehead of the faltering Scottish independence movement, is set to resign, UK media reported Wednesday.
A government-supported organization's controversial ratings of online news sources illustrate the challenge of deciding what qualifies as disinformation.
The piece features a 1950s-era housewife with a swollen eye and missing tooth apparently pushing a man into a chest freezer.
The National Coalition Against Censorship has written to Madison County School Board in Madison, Virginia, to express our concern with recent district policy changes requiring books that include "explicit sexual content" to be removed even if they have substantial educational value for students.
The authorities under Prime Minister Narendra Modi have often used such raids in what activists call an effort to silence dissent.
Indian income tax officials today (Feb. 14) visited BBC offices in Delhi and Mumbai to reportedly probe allegations of tax evasion. This came less than a month after the UK’s national broadcaster released a two-part documentary that looked into prime minister Narendra Modi’s alleged involvement in the 2002 Gujarat…
The Mellon Foundation awarded Emory University, which sits on land that the Muscogee Nation were forced to relinquish to the U.S. government in 1821, a $2.4 million grant.
Guest post: Learn how RoVISTA measures the current deployment rate status of ROV, and how you can help.
On a recent episode of You’re Wrong About, Sarah Marshall delivered a crisp summary of how the 24-hour news cycle came to be. This led me to realize that many among us do not remember when news was confined to time slots: the 7 o’clock news, the 11 o’clock news, the morning paper.
A number of African countries have surged in global rankings that gauge internet speeds at telcos and internet service providers, asinvestments into network infrastructureand deployment intensify
Christine Wilson, the sole Republican commissioner at the F.T.C., criticized Lina Khan, the Democratic chair of the agency, accusing her of an “abuse of power.”
The new ruling comes three days after the United States demanded a scientific explanation for Mexico's GM corn ban by Feb. 14.
The Biden administration unveiled three drug payment programs Tuesday aimed at helping reduce patients' out-of-pocket costs, including one that would potentially lower Medicare payments for promising treatments approved by the FDA before clinical trials are complete.
On Friday, February 3^rd, I broke my glasses [1]. I was out and someone complemented me on my shades. I pointed out that they were just clip on shades, but I went further to show that my glasses were flexible. That's when I snapped off the left arm of my glasses at the hinge. In retrospect, I should not have done that.
But they were nineteen years old. And it was clear to Bunny that I needed new glasses anyway. As she keeps pointing out, my glasses would slowly creep down my face, but that was only to keep things in focus. It had nothing to do with my eye sight changing.
Let's Get It On is such a strong track to start this album out. You've probably heard it before, but if you're anything like me, not enough for that familiarity to take away from what a great song it is. Even if it's been used as a jokey song on a soundtrack to imply some characters are going to get it on, it still works.
My capsule generator, Zond, has been serving me well for quite a while now and hasn't really required much in the way of maintenance or new features. Nevertheless, I'm always looking for ways to streamline workflows wherever possible, as well as ways to improve a codebase.
* Gemini (Primer) links can be opened using Gemini software. It's like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter.