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Commentary: It’s hard to know which open source projects will take off, but it’s easy to guess which ones won’t, and why. Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto It’s almost certain you’re not going to use Senator Elizabeth Warren’s (now open source) campaign tools. Nor will you be submitting a pull request on Microsoft’s open sourced Windows calculator. …

Commentary: Front-end frameworks keep getting better, but progressive delivery just might be the best thing to hit in 2020. Image: C.Y.Ronnie.W, Getty Images/iStockphoto VCs have been dumping cash into back-end developer technologies, but front-end development is increasingly what’s cool. How cool? In an interview with Nicole Sullivan, Google’s frameworks lead, developers love frameworks like Next.js …

The award will help the organization provide paid remote work to underrepresented groups hit especially hard during the coronavirus pandemic, officials said. IBM announced in a blog post on Friday that it had awarded its second $50,000 Open Source Community Grant to the nonprofit Outreachy “for their commitment to providing paid internships to underserved and …

Ubuntu fans, it’s that time of the year–the next release is upon us! Watch for these features to be included with Ubuntu 20.04. Image: Jack Wallen Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa) will be unleashed on April 23rd, 2020. The first reports of this new release were mostly focused on a new release of GNOME and a …

LXD is a next-gen, image-based container deployment tool. Jack Wallen walks you through the process of installing LXD and deploying a container. There are so many players in the container game, it’s becoming a challenge to choose which one is right for you. There’s Kubernetes, Docker, Multipass, rktlet, containerd … the list goes on. There’s …

Find out which Linux desktop GUI is best suited for four user types. Linux is all about choice. You can choose a distribution that best suits your needs, software that helps make you more productive, servers that serve your business, and a desktop that makes your experience efficient and effective. It’s that last bit I …

Ansible administration is most often done from the command line. Make that task a bit more efficient with the help of the web-based GUI, AWX. Image: TechRepublic/Jack Wallen If you’re an Ansible admin, you’re probably well-versed in the ways of the command line interface (CLI). But there may be times when you long to have …

Microsoft’s security tools extend beyond the company’s own platforms. While the ambition for Defender for Linux is broad, the first preview is aimed just at servers and does less than on Windows. When Defender came to macOS as well as Windows, Microsoft announced that the name of the software was changing, from Windows Defender to Microsoft Defender. Hidden …

Commentary: Not all software makes sense as open source, but a GitHub mobile app just might. Image: Allmy, Shutterstock / Allmy In a world increasingly powered by open source software, there’s still plenty of software that really doesn’t need to be open source. Or, perhaps put a better way, there is software that could be …

If you’re looking to take your Kubernetes security to the next level, you’ll want to start working with pod security policies. Here’s a quick introduction to this feature. Image: Jack Wallen Kubernetes is an incredibly powerful container management tool. If you’ve worked with containers long enough, you know that security has to take a central …