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Three Ukrainian-Language Linux Foundation Courses Are Now Available

In partnership with the Veteranius project, the Prometheus platform will host three Ukrainian-language Linux Foundation Training courses. In October 2022 at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America, we announced that the Linux Foundation and the CNCF partnered with Razom for Ukraine on Razom’s Project Veteranius to provide access to technology education for Ukrainian veterans, their families, and Ukrainians in need. As part of this support, Linux Foundation has made three of LF’s training courses available in Ukrainian, which are hosted by the Prometheus platform (not to be confused with CNCF’s Prometheus project). The three courses being offered in Ukrainian are as follows: Introduction to Linux | Основи…

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How I Use Ansible To Add A Feature To My Linux KDE Desktop

Follow this tutorial to see how I use KService and Ansible on my Linux KDE desktop. I run the KDE Plasma Desktop on my computer because it’s a flexible environment with lots of options for customization. Having choices in your desktop is about more than just having lots of menus and buttons to activate or deactivate. The thing I love most about KDE Plasma Desktop is the ability to add my own features to it. One reason this is possible is KServices, a simple but powerful plugin framework for handling desktop services. Add functions to the right-click menu In the KDE Plasma…

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Computing

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Arrives In Oracle’s Cloud

Old rivals Red Hat and Oracle have teamed up for RHEL-based virtual machines running in Oracle’s OCI service. Red Hat and Oracle announced jointly Tuesday that they have partnered to bring Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, broadening Oracle’s available public cloud options and creating a measure of détente between two long-standing competitors. The announcement couched the news as step one in a broader partnership between Red Hat and Oracle, but provided details mostly of the OCI integration. RHEL will be available on Oracle’s VMs, ranging in size from 1 to 80 CPU cores and from 1GB of memory…

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How To Create A Linux VM Instance In Compute Engine

There is a new way to supercharge your learning of Google Cloud! Next time you are interested in learning Google Cloud skills or features, check out embedded interactive tutorials. Interactive tutorials are step by step tutorials that help you learn about Google Cloud. They are embedded directly into the Google Cloud console, so there is no context switching. These tutorials integrate with Cloud Shell and Cloud Code to provide a preconfigured development environment to allow you to learn quickly.In this blog post we’ll walk through how to Create a Linux VM instance In Compute Engine interactive tutorial together. You can…

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Container Analysis Support For Maven And Go Automatic Scanning Of Containers In Public Preview

Java and Go vulnerability scanning support Google Cloud’s Container Scanning API now automatically scans Maven and Go packages for vulnerabilities. With the Container Scanning API enabled, any containers including Java (in Maven repositories) and Go language packages that are uploaded to an Artifact Registry repository will be scanned for vulnerabilities. This capability builds on existing Linux OS based vulnerability detection and provides customers with deeper insight into their applications. This feature is in Public Preview which makes it available to all Google Cloud customers. Get started with Artifact Registry via the instructions for Go or the instructions for Java. How…

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Remixing Linux For Blind And Visually Impaired Users

Fegora, a Fedora project, is an unofficial Linux distribution aimed at visually impaired users. When I was around 5 years old, my father brought home our first computer. From that moment on, I knew I wanted to pursue a career in computers. I haven’t stopped hanging around them since. During high school, when considering which specific area I wanted to focus on, I started experimenting with hacking, and that was the moment I decided to pursue a career as a security engineer. I’m now a software engineer on the security compliance team. I’ve been at Red Hat for over two…

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Engineering

Moving Off CentOS? Introducing Rocky Linux Optimized For Google Cloud

As CentOS 7 reaches end of life, many enterprises are considering their options for an enterprise-grade, downstream Linux distribution on which to run their production applications. Rocky Linux has emerged as a strong alternative that, like CentOS, is 100% compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. In April 2022, we announced a customer support partnership with CIQ, the official support and services partner and sponsor of Rocky Linux, as the first step in providing a best-in-class enterprise-grade supported experience for Rocky Linux on Google Cloud. Today we’re excited to announce the general availability of Rocky Linux Optimized for Google Cloud. We…

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How Google Got To Rolling Linux Releases For Desktops

Hero image credit: Markus Teich At Google we run large production fleets that serve Google products like YouTube and Gmail. To support all our employees, including engineers, we also run a sizable corporate fleet with hundreds of thousands of devices across multiple platforms, models, and locations. To let each Googler work in the environment they are most productive in, we operate many OS-platforms including a Linux system. For a long time, our internal facing Linux distribution, Goobuntu, was based off of Ubuntu LTS releases. In 2018 we completed a move to a rolling release model based on Debian. Upgrade Toil…

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