4 cool Kubernetes tools for mastering clusters

Kubernetes, the cluster manager for containerized workloads, is a hit. With the Big K doing the heavy lifting in load balancing and job management, you can turn your attention to other matters. But like nearly every open source project, it's a work in progress, and almost everyone who works with Kubernetes will find shortcomings, rough spots, and annoyances. Here are four projects that lighten the load that comes with administering a Kubernetes cluster.

Skyport Systems Extends Secure Server Protection to Hybrid Cloud Edge

Skyport Systems is a security vendor that first emerged from stealth three years ago in May 2015 and has raised $67 million in venture funding to date. The core promise behind Skyport is secure hardware attestation, with the company's SkySecure server hardware platform.

FontBase – A Beautiful Font Manager for Designers

FontBase is a cross-platform font manager with a beautifully designed UI and a well-organized panel layout. It is free and just as fast, stable, and reliable as several paid apps in its category.

Wine Staging 2.8 Improves Support for Star Wars: The Old Republic, StarCraft

The Wine Staging team announced the release of version 2.8 of the open-source compatibility layer for running Windows programs on top of Linux-based operating systems.

Total War: SHOGUN 2 and Fall of the Samurai Are Out Now on Linux and SteamOS

SteamOS Now Based on Debian 8.8 with Linux 4.11, Uses Mesa Instead of AMDGPU-PRO

10 Linux distributions for developers

Linux distributions geared toward casual desktop users are important, but developers also need to use Linux. Developers have different needs than other users, so certain distributions can be better than others for development purposes. But which distros are well suited for developers?

Libre OS USB : Your Portable System [TechPhylum Exclusive Review]

Libre OS USB is not yet released to the public as it needs crowd-funding to be released on a larger scale and keep it maintained. Once released Libre OS USB will be completely free for everyone and will release a new version on every Long Term Support version of Ubuntu. Furthermore, intermediate versions on every Ubuntu release will also be made available to the public.

Tails 3.0 Anonymous Live OS Gets a Release Candidate, Upgrades to Tor 0.3.0.7

4MParted 22.0 Disk Partitioning Live CD Enters Beta Based on GParted 0.28.1

4MLinux developer and founder Zbigniew Konojacki‏ is informing Softpedia today about the release and immediate availability for download of the Beta version of the upcoming 4MParted 22.0 open-source disk partitioning live OS. 4MParted is a freely distributed live system that users can deploy on a USB flash drive or CD/DVD disc and use it independently of the operating system installed on a personal computer to manipulate partitions. The Beta release of the upcoming 4MParted 22.0 version is based on 4MLinux 22.0 and GParted 0.28.1.

SMB on openSUSE Conference

The conference program is impressive and if you can make it, you should consider stopping by.

Linux 4.12 + Mesa 17.2-dev Yields Noticeable Advantages For Radeon Gamers On Ubuntu 17.04

While Ubuntu 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" was just released one month ago, by upgrading the Linux kernel and Mesa you can already score measurable performance advantages if you are using AMD Radeon graphics.

Solus Devs Update Nvidia Drivers to Support SteamVR, Revamp Software Center App

First Mesa 17.1 Point Release Expected This Week with More RadeonSI Goodies

Collabora's Emil Velikov announced earlier that the first point release of the recently launched Mesa 17.1 3D Graphics Library is being prepared this week for GNU/Linux distributions.

xinput list shows a "xwayland-pointer" device but not my real devices and what to do about it

The importance of reproducible bug reports

UDisks to build on libblockdev!?

Reporting and monitoring storage actions

Storaged merged with UDisks, new releases 2.6.4 and 2.6.5

Unix Sockets For Auth

A Simple Script To Setup Development Environment In Ubuntu

How To Automatically Update Running Docker Containers

How to Save a File in Vi / Vim Editor in Linux

Force Users To Use Root Password Instead Of Their Own Password When Using Sudo Command

How to Install Magento 2 with Apache, Varnish and Memcache

Ubuntu-Based Black Lab Enterprise Linux 11.0.1 Drops GNOME 3 for MATE Desktop

Coming about two weeks after the release of Black Lab Enterprise Linux 11, which is based on the Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS (Xenial Xerus) operating system using the HWE (hardware enablement) kernel from Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak), Black Lab Enterprise Linux 11.0.1 appears to be an unexpected maintenance update addressing a few important issues reported by users lately.

3.26 Developments

My approach to development can often differ from my peers. I prefer to spend the early phase of a cycle doing lots of prototypes of various features we plan to implement. That allows me to have the confidence necessary to know early in the cycle what I can finish and where to ask for help.

Further experiments in Meson

Meson is definitely getting more traction in GNOME (and other projects), with many components adding support for it in parallel to autotools, or outright switching to it. There are still bugs, here and there, and we definitely need to improve build environments — like Continuous — to support Meson out of the box, but all in all I’m really happy about not having to deal with autotools any more, as well as being able to build the G* stack much more quickly when doing continuous integration.