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Within Red Hat's top 30 deals in the most recent quarter, seven included the Red Hat OpenStack platform, five included OpenShift and five included storage, according to CEO Jim Whitehurst.

Our year-end review of Opensource.com's top government stories underscores the observation that the main question before governments today is not...

For network interface card (NIC) hardware to operate properly, you need a suitable device driver for the NIC hardware.

If left unchecked, your system cache might take up a big chunk of your storage and memory.

Phoronix: Linus Torvalds is expected to release the Linux 4.10-rc1 kernel this weekend ahead of Christmas and thereby marking the formal end of the 4.10 merge window

While it is easy to stream Youtube videos on VLC, it is not as easy to stream other online videos to VLC. This tutorial shows you how to do so.

 MakeTechEasier: If you are a student who uses Linux, you can use these Linux education apps to improve your studying and learning experience.

Online gaming is becoming something of a standard and there quite a few options available for those in the Linux universe.

 softpedia: The deprecation of 32-bit and PPC ISOs from Ubuntu was discussed last month by several Ubuntu developers during the Ubuntu Online Summit event

 dzone: End-to-end tests have flaws that make this style of testing easy to dismiss.

PC World: Not going anywhere for the holidays, and want try something new? These projects can be done in a couple hours.

InfoWorld: More async support, more type-hinting power, more speed, and more efficient memory usage top a long list of useful additions to Python

 ostechnix: A simplest and quick way to monitor your websites using watch command from Terminal.

HowToForge: In this tutorial, I will show you how to install and configure Apache Tomcat 8.5 on a CentOS 7 server.

opensource.com: Check out gift ideas for the non-technical people in your life from Jason van Gumster, our open source creative expert.

Web browsers are for newbs.

 DarkDuck: Linux monitoring systems can help you with managing all critical performance tweaks so that critical issues/errors can be resolved well within the timelines.

eWEEK:  ClusterHQ which had been an early pioneer in the container storage market with its open-source Flocker project, ceases operations.

ServerWatch: Red Hat reports third quarter fiscal 2017 revenue of $615 million, with some large OpenShift deals helping to power the company forward.

 EnterpriseAppsToday: Odoo's open source application offerings range beyond ERP to include such features as CRM, website building, eCommerce and BI.

 The LinuxWorks: Late on Monday Simon Ho of Conexant announced the release of a driver for the company's driver for CX2072X codec to the ALSA-devel mailing list.

softpedia: We know that KDE's Plasma Mobile operating system is still in the works and nowhere near becoming mainstream anytime soon, or even shipping on some no-name device.

 CIO.com: Security is not an 'If it ain't broke, don't fix it' problem.

 opensource.com: Whether your product is open source or "open core," how do you collaborate with competitors, and still stand out from the competition?

MUFFIN is an acronym for My User Friendly & Flexible INterface

VirtualBox 5.1.12 is mostly a maintenance release.

OMGchrome: It’s a question many have been asking over the past few months, as open-source enthusiasts rallied around reports that show Linux marketshare gaining ground for another consecutive month.

GCC 6.2 fixes 79 bugs

Phoronix: For users of the Network File System, there are more NFS client updates coming in the Linux 4.10 kernel.

Linux.com: Justin Dean, Ticketmaster’s SVP of Platform and Technical Operations, explains the company's massive public cloud strategy that uses Kubernetes.

EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet: Akamai's Third Quarter 2016, State of the Internet Report shows a 21 percent year-over-year increase in the global average internet connection speed.

Happy holidays from the Nmap Project!  In case your Christmas break plans involve a lot of port scanning, we're delighted to announce our holiday Nmap 7.40 release!

 InfoWorld: Developers want power, flexibility, stability, and ease, and these Linux distributions have it all.

HowToForge: What if you could access your phone from your computer?

Have you ever downloaded an Android app only to find that it wants access to all your phone's features and all of your data?

 ostechnix: This guide explains how to install latest stable Linux Kernel version in CentOS, RHEL, Fedora, and Ubuntu, Linux Mint.

 2daygeek: Tar is the most commonly used command in Linux for creating a archive file.

One of the first things you can always investigate is filesystem inconsistency or errors and there is no other better utility for performing this other than fsck.

 LinuxConfig: Netflix and Linux have a somewhat troubled past.

Among the improvements included in BlackArch Linux 2016.12.20, we can mention that all the in-house build BlackArch tools have received new versions