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Open Source Licensing: What Every Technologist Should Know

If you’re a software developer today, you know how to use open source software, but do you know how and why open source licensing...

Linux Commands for Managing, Partitioning, Troubleshooting

Managing Linux disks and the file systems that reside on them is something of an art – from initial setup to monitoring performance. How much...

3 Cool Linux Service Monitors

The Linux world abounds in monitoring apps of all kinds. We're going to look at my three favorite service monitors: Apachetop, Monit, and Supervisor....

Linux Distros That Serve Scientific and Medical Communities

Linux serves — of that there is no doubt — literally and figuratively. The open source platform serves up websites across the globe, it...

Hardening Docker Hosts with User Namespaces

Securing your Docker containers and the hosts upon which they run is key to sustaining reliable and available services. From my professional DevSecOps perspective,...

Happy Anniversary, Linux: A Look Back at Where It All Began

I first installed Linux in 1993. I ran MS-DOS at the time, but I really liked the Unix systems in our campus computer lab,...

Why Open Source Should Be the First Choice for Cloud-Native Environments

Let's take a trip back in time to the 1990s, when proprietary software reigned, but open source was starting to come into its own....

For Fun and Profit: A New Book on the History of Linux and Open...

Twenty-six years ago this month, a geeky student in Finland released the Linux kernel to the world. Today, hundreds of millions of people are...

Fiddling with Linux Processes in Memory

I’ve seen many people using the terms process, thread and program interchangeably. However, under legitimate glossary, processes, threads and programs represent different definitions. Here...

How to Integrate Containers in OpenStack

One of the key features of the OpenStack platform is the ability to run applications, and quickly scale them, using containers.   Containers are ready-to-run...