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Robolinux LXDE is an open source, freely distributed, low on resources and extremely fast computer operating system derived from the award-winning Debian GNU/Linux distribution and built around the lightweight LXDE (Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment) graphical desktop environment. The LXDE edition of Robolinux promises ultra fast boot times and requires only 66 MB of RAM to boot (on the 32-bit flavor).

Distributed as 64-bit and 32-bit Live DVDs

The LXDE edition of Robolinux is available for download as two Live DVD ISO images, one for each of the supported hardware platforms, 64-bit (x86_64) and 32-bit (i386). Users can write the ISO images to either USB flash drives or DVD discs, as they have approximately 1.5 GB in size each.

From the boot menu of the Live DVD ISO images, the user can start the live system with normal configuration or install the distribution on their computers, replacing or alongside an existing operating system.

LXDE loads really fast, looks traditional

As mentioned, this Robolinux flavor is built around the LXDE desktop environment, which loads really fast and looks traditional, comprised of a single taskbar (panel) located on the bottom edge of the screen, from where users can access the main menu and browser installed apps, launch frequently used programs, interact with running applications, as well as to cycle between virtual workspaces and access essential system functions or apps that reside in the system tray area.

Comes pre-loaded with a great software selection

With Robolinux LXDE, users will be able to download torrent files using Deluge, browse the Internet with Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome, chat with friends and family using Pidgin or Skype, send/receive emails or stay informed with the latest news articles using Mozilla Thunderbird, edit office documents with LibreOffice, view and organize photos with Shotwell, edit images with GIMP, listen to music using Audacious or Banshee, or view movies with VLC Media Player.

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As an IT manager at an enterprise company, you’ve done the research and become convinced that software-defined storage (SDS) is the only storage approach that can handle today’s data explosion. And now you’re faced with helping decide which SDS solution is right for your company.

It’s a good time to stop and ask, “What is the value of making the switch to this particular vendor, rather than its competitor X?” The only right answer is that the vendor has more experience and offers more services and capabilities than the others—to alleviate the IT burden and help you accomplish more without hiring more staff.

Suppose you’ve decided to go with open source. You could get the free version of Ceph, today’s most popular open source distributed storage solution. Free is hard to beat in up-front value, but then the real challenge is finding out whether your team can manage and maintain the solution without any structured support or built-in integration to your existing infrastructure. That no-cost solution can quickly become extremely expensive in the time and effort you spend to run it.

On the other hand, there’s SUSE Enterprise Storage. Based on the same popular Ceph technology, it comes with all the powerful capabilities of the free open source solution but also includes a wealth of built-in enterprise support and features that simplify and streamline operation and management for your IT team.

Robust features save you time and money

SUSE Enterprise Storage delivers a highly scalable and resilient storage environment with a single unified SDS cluster that provides applications with object, block and file system storage capabilities. With its distributed storage cluster, it offers unlimited scalability to accommodate hundreds of terabytes to petabytes and beyond.

Its self-healing and self-managing features can keep applications available and performing after hardware failures by automatically rearranging resources as needed to optimize system performance. Consider this: a good rule of thumb for conventional block storage is that it requires around one storage admin per 500 TB of data. Because a Ceph cluster manages itself, a Ceph storage admin can easily administer as much as 3-4 PB of data. Productivity improves and your team is freed up for projects that help build the business.

Another interesting money-saving feature of SUSE Enterprise Storage is its per-node pricing model, versus the typical per-gigabyte pricing. Now you don’t have to request more budget for adding more data or using larger nodes or drives.

The storage solution that evolves with your organization

Thanks to our early adoption of SDS and leadership in the industry, SUSE continues to improve SUSE Enterprise Storage to meet evolving storage requirements. We are committed to making it faster, easier and even more manageable with every release. Today, SUSE Enterprise Storage 5.5 incorporates numerous performance and stability enhancements including Ceph BlueStore, a new native backend that increases performance by a factor of two or more. Enhancements to ease of use and management, further reducing costs, and increasing operational efficiencies through OpenStack integration and openATTIC enhancements (Note: openATTIC concepts and technology provide the basis for a new default management and monitoring dashboard for Ceph Mimic). Also included is production support for CIFS/Samba and industry first support for heterogeneous Ceph deployments – Non SUSE RBD and CephFS Clients. Security has been enhanced with embedded support of AppArmor. AppArmor or “Application Armor” is a Linux kernel security module that will allow the storage administrator to granularly select the actions that can be made within the Ceph Cluster. There is extensive support for localization and translation of documentation. And technology previews include System Event notifications through email and text, and Enhanced data protection and disaster recovery capabilities with the support for asynchronous iSCSI replication.

See how your peers are managing their data with SUSE

One of the most convincing arguments for any vendor or solution is to see how your peers and competitors are using it to their advantage. One New York-based police department used SUSE Enterprise Storage to significantly increase public safety because the super-scalable solution could accommodate huge data streams from new body cameras. Credit-services guru Experian kept control of its rapid spike in data volumes with SUSE Enterprise Storage and saw a dramatic increase in system performance. Also, an IT services provider and an arts-oriented school in the Netherlands both used our SDS solution to manage their growing data stores while lowering their total cost of ownership.

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The majority of companies using open source understand its business value, but they may lack the tools to strategically implement an open source program and reap the full rewards. According to a recent survey from The New Stack, “the top three benefits of open source programs are 1) increased awareness of open source, 2) more speed and agility in the development cycle, and 3) better license compliance.”

Running an open source program office involves creating a strategy to help you define and implement your approach as well as measure your progress. The Open Source Guides to the Enterprise, developed by The Linux Foundation in partnership with the TODO Group, offer open source expertise based on years of experience and practice.

The most recent guide, Setting an Open Source Strategy, details the essential steps in creating a strategy and setting you on the path to success. According to the guide, “your open source strategy connects the plans for managing, participating in, and creating open source software with the business objectives that the plans serve. This can open up many opportunities and catalyze innovation.” The guide covers the following topics:

1. Why create a strategy?
2. Your strategy document
3. Approaches to strategy
4. Key considerations
5. Other components
6. Determine ROI
7. Where to invest

The critical first step here is creating and documenting your open source strategy, which will “help you maximize the benefits your organization gets from open source.” At the same time, your detailed strategy can help you avoid difficulties that may arise from mistakes such as choosing the wrong license or improperly maintaining code. According to the guide, this document can also:

• Get leaders excited and involved
• Help obtain buy-in within the company
• Facilitate decision-making in diffuse, multi-departmental organizations
• Help build a healthy community
• Explain your company’s approach to open source and support of its use
• Clarify where your company invests in community-driven, external R&D and where your company will focus on its value added differentiation

“At Salesforce, we have internal documents that we circulate to our engineering team, providing strategic guidance and encouragement around open source. These encourage the creation and use of open source, letting them know in no uncertain terms that the strategic leaders at the company are fully behind it. Additionally, if there are certain kinds of licenses we don’t want engineers using, or other open source guidelines for them, our internal documents need to be explicit,” said Ian Varley, Software Architect at Salesforce and contributor to the guide.

Open source programs help promote an enterprise culture that can make companies more productive, and, according to the guide, a strong strategy document can “help your team understand the business objectives behind your open source program, ensure better decision-making, and minimize risks.”

Learn how to align your goals for managing and creating open source software with your organization’s business objectives using the tips and proven practices in the new guide to Setting an Open Source Strategy. And, check out all 12 Open Source Guides for the Enterprise for more information on achieving success with open source.

This article originally appeared on The Linux Foundation

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Posted On: Nov 8, 2018

Amazon Inspector now offers agentless network assessments with the ‘Network Reachability’ rules package that identifies ports and services on your Amazon EC2 instances that are accessible from outside your VPC. With just a few clicks in the Inspector console, you can analyze the network configuration of your AWS account to identify the resources accessible from the internet or private networks like VPN, Direct Connect, or a peered VPC.

An Amazon Inspector assessment using the network reachability rules package helps you validate that your AWS network configurations are working as you expect. Assessments generate detailed findings that show you accessible ports on your EC2 instances along with the network configurations that allow access to these ports, to help you easily restrict access as originally intended. The network reachability rules package uses the latest technology from AWS’s Provable Security initiative, which is a suite of AWS technologies that uses automated reasoning. The agentless assessment analyzes your AWS network configurations including Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs), security groups, network access control lists (ACLs), and route tables, to find accessible ports.

You can install the Inspector Agent on your EC2 instances to get additional information when using the network reachability rules package. Findings are enhanced with information that identifies the processes listening on accessible ports. By using an Inspector host assessment rules package, like Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE), you will also get information about vulnerabilities on the Amazon EC2 instances. This creates a more complete view of potential security risks by showing possible access paths to the EC2 instances that host your applications as well as vulnerabilities and insecure configurations in those instances.

Amazon Inspector is available in the following eleven regions: US East (Northern Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Northern California), US West (Oregon), EU (Frankfurt), EU (Ireland), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and AWS GovCloud (US). The network reachability rules package for Inspector assessments is available in all of these regions except AWS GovCloud (US).

To learn more about Amazon Inspector or to start your free trial, please visit Amazon Inspector.

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Different types of commands are needed to run from the terminal in Linux. Sometimes we need to run multiple commands at a time where the commands can depend on each other or not. Running multiple commands at once is called command chaining. Many types of operators can be used for command chaining for different purposes. How you can run two or more commands by using most commonly used operators is shown in this tutorial.

pipe(|) operator is used to run two or more related commands at a time. The input of the next command will be the output of the previous command. So, the success of each command depends on the success of earlier command without first command. In the following command, the first command, ls will find out the list of files and folders of the current location and send the output as input for the second command, wc. It will print the total number of lines, words, and characters based on the input data.

Semicolon (;) Operator

Semicolon(;) operator is used to running two or more unrelated commands at a time. This means that the output of each command is not dependent on other commands. In the following example, three types of commands are combined together and the failure of each command will not create an effect on the output of other commands. The first command will print the content of a file, the second command will make a directory and the third command will change the current directory.

$ cat myfile.txt ; mkdir newdir ; cd Desktop

Logical AND (&&) operator

The commands which run by Logical AND (&&) are related with each other like pipe (|) command. So, if the previous command will not execute successfully then the next commands will not work. In the following example, two commands, mkdir, and rmdir combined by && operators. So, it mkdir command is failed to execute successfully then rmdir command will not execute. According to the output of ls command, myDir directory already exists in the current location. So the first command will not execute and for this second command will not execute also.

$ ls
$ mkdir myDir && rmdir temp
$ ls

Logical OR (||) operator

Logical OR (||) operator is the opposite of the Logical AND (&&) operator. The next command will execute if the previous command fails to execute. Three cat commands are combined with OR (||) operator in the following example. When you will run the command, first of all, it will try to display the content of cat.txt file. If no such file exists in the current location then it will try to execute the next command. According to the output, bird.txt file exists in the current location and the content of this file is displayed.

$ cat cat.txt || cat dog.txt || cat bird.txt

Multiple commands with multiple operators

You can use multiple operators to run multiple commands at a time. In the following example, three commands are combined with OR (||) and AND (&&) operators. After running the command, first of all, it will change the current directory to newdir if the directory exists. If this command fails then it will create the directory by executing the second command and print the message, “directory is created.” According to the output, newdir directory not exist in the current location. So, the error message is displayed and the directory is created later.

$ cd newdir || mkdir newdir && echo “directory is created”

Combination operator {}

Two or more commands can be combined using this operator and if the execution of the first command fails then the second command will not execute. In the following example, OR, AND and combination operators are used together. First commands will check the temp directory is exist in the current location or not. If the first command fails then it will create a temp directory and print a message. The last command will show the current directory list.

$ [ -d temp ] || { mkdir temp; echo temp directory is created now.; } && ls

Precedence operator ()

You can use this operator for grouping the commands at the time of execution. Here, each group will work as a single task. In the following example, two command groups are defined and if the first group fails to execute then the second group will execute.

$ (cd temp && ls -a) || (mkdir temp && ls)

Conclusion

This tutorial explained the mostly used operators for running multiple commands in Linux. But there are many others operators exist in bash which are used to run two or more commands together. These are ampersand (&), redirection (<,>,>>), Logical NOT (!), Combination ({}) etc.

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If you’re planning your transition to SAP HANA, you probably have many questions like:

• What is SAP’s strategy and roadmap for SAP HANA 2.0?
• What are my options for getting my data center ready?
• Why should I consider putting my SAP workloads in the cloud, and how can I get there?
• With SAP’s focus on open source, which solutions work well on-premise and in the cloud?
• How can I mitigate the risks of transitioning to SAP HANA?

Wouldn’t it be great if you could get the answers to all of these questions and more from experts in an interactive setting without taking up too much of your valuable time? Well, you can!

Make plans to be in New York City on November 20, 2018 and add the “SAP +3 Workshop: Transition to SAP HANA” event to your calendar. This workshop is for IT leaders and architects who are planning to move to SAP HANA, or perhaps are already executing their plan and want to fine-tune it. Experts from SAP, SUSE, Microsoft Azure and Protera will be there for presentations and informal discussions to provide information that can be invaluable to executing a success move from your current SAP NetWeaver and relational database infrastructure to SAP HANA. And you get all of this plus a hot lunch in about a half-day.

For a detailed agenda and registration information, click here. If this workshop doesn’t fit your schedule or New York isn’t convenient for you, don’t worry because we’re planning more in the coming year. Check suse.com/events and future blogs for dates and locations as they become available.

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More than 30 members join new Ceph Foundation to manage the massive growth in data and information generated from cloud, container and AI applications

CEPH DAY BERLIN – Nov. 12, 2018 – The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announces over 30 global technology leaders are forming a new foundation to support the Ceph open source project community. The Ceph project develops a unified distributed storage system providing applications with object, block, and file system interfaces.

Founding Premier members of Ceph Foundation include Amihan, Canonical, China Mobile, DigitalOcean, Intel, OVH, ProphetStor Data Services, Red Hat, SoftIron, SUSE, Western Digital, XSKY Data Technology, and ZTE. The Ceph Foundation will organize and distribute financial contributions in a coordinated, vendor-neutral fashion for immediate community benefit. This will help galvanize rapid adoption, training and in-person collaboration across the Ceph ecosystem.

“Ceph has a long track record of success when it comes to helping organizations with effectively managing high growth and expanding data storage demands,” said Jim Zemlin, Executive Director of the Linux Foundation. “Under the Linux Foundation, the Ceph Foundation will be able to harness investments from a much broader group to help support the infrastructure needed to continue the success and stability of the Ceph ecosystem.”

Ceph is used by cloud providers and enterprises around the world, including financial institutions (Bloomberg, Fidelity), cloud service providers (Rackspace, Linode), academic and government institutions (Massachusetts Open Cloud), telecommunications infrastructure providers (Deutsche Telekom), auto manufacturers (BMW), software solution providers (SAP, Salesforce), and many more.

Ceph is also used by Rook, a Cloud Native Computing Foundation project that brings seamless provisioning of file, block and object storage services into the Kubernetes environment, running the Ceph storage infrastructure in containers alongside applications that are consuming that storage.

Efficient, agile, and massively scalable, Ceph significantly lowers the cost of storing enterprise information in the private cloud and provides high availability to any object, file, and block data. Unstructured data makes up 80% and more of enterprise data, is growing at the rate of 55% to 65% per year, and is common with rich-media, predictive analytics, sensors, social networks, and satellite imagery.[1] Block and file storage are critical to any IT infrastructure organization and are important components of infrastructure platforms like OpenStack and Kubernetes. According to recent user surveys, roughly two-thirds of OpenStack clouds use Ceph block storage.

The growth of new cloud, container and artificial intelligence/machine learning applications are driving increased use of Ceph. For example, Ceph combined with analytics and machine learning enables enterprises to comb through mass amounts of unstructured data to quickly spot patterns with customer behavior, online customer conversations and potential noncompliance scenarios.

The Ceph Foundation is the successor framework to the Ceph Advisory Board, which was formed in 2015. Get involved in the Ceph community at https://ceph.com/get-involved/ or learn more about membership at https://ceph.com/foundation.

Project Creator and Leadership Quotes

“A guiding vision for Ceph is to be the state of the art for reliable, scale-out storage, and to do so with 100% open source,” said Sage Weil, Ceph co-creator, project leader, and chief architect at Red Hat for Ceph. “While early public cloud providers popularized self-service storage infrastructure, Ceph brings the same set of capabilities to service providers, enterprises, and individuals alike, with the power of a robust development and user community to drive future innovation in the storage space. Today’s launch of the Ceph Foundation is a testament to the strength of a diverse open source community coming together to address the explosive growth in data storage and services.”

“Ceph was designed and built for scalability, initially with supercomputers and later with cloud infrastructure in mind. A key design premise was that the storage system needs to provide a highly reliable and available service in a dynamic and increasingly heterogeneous hardware environment where everything can potentially fail,” said Carlos Maltzahn of University of California, Santa Cruz, a co-founder of the research project that first created Ceph over a decade ago.

Cephalocon and KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2019

The Ceph Foundation plans to host the second Cephalocon conference in Barcelona, Spain from May 19 – 20, 2019, co-located with KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2019, May 20-23. The first Cephalocon took place in March 2018 in Beijing, China, bringing together 1000 attendees consisting of Ceph vendors, users, and developers from all over the world.

For updates, subscribe to the Ceph project’s announcement mailing list and follow Ceph on Twitter @Ceph.

Founding Members

Founding members of the Ceph Foundation at the Premier level include Amihan, Canonical, China Mobile, DigitalOcean, Intel, OVH, ProphetStor Data Services, Red Hat, SoftIron, SUSE, Western Digital, XSKY Data Technology, and ZTE.

Ceph Foundation General members include Ambedded Technology, Arm, Catalyst Cloud, Croit GmbH, EasyStack, Intelligent Systems Services, Pingan Technology, QCT, Sinorail, and Xiaoju Science Technology.

Associate members include Boston University Information Services and Technology, CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), FAS Research Computing – Harvard, Greek Research and Technology Network (GRNET), Monash University, South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO), Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) at UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), and University of California Santa Cruz’s Center for Research in Open Source Software (CROSS).

Supporting Quotes

“As a founding member of the Ceph Foundation, Amihan is committed to contributing its knowledge and expertise in cloud-native infrastructure to the advancement of the Ceph project. Building on Ceph has allowed us to provide our enterprise clients with the most reliable foundation for digital transformation.”

• Winston Damarillo, executive chairman, Amihan

“Ceph delivers enterprise-grade storage with best-in-class economics. Given the exponential growth we are witnessing in our customers’ data requirements, we recognize it to be a fundamental part of the open source private cloud stack. Our participation in the launch of the Ceph Foundation underlines our commitment to accelerating its adoption, technology base and developer community.”

• Christian Reis, VP, Data Centre Field Engineering at Canonical

“China Mobile always embraces Open Source and gives back to Open Source. Ceph is the best implementation of Open Source Software Define Storage, and it has been widely used in China Mobile’s data center. We are very happy to join Ceph Foundation and make Ceph more closer to enterprise storage level.”

• Junwei Liu, vice general manager of cloud computing department, China Mobile (Suzhou) software technology Co., Ltd.

“Open source has been a key part of our business from the start. Ceph is a core component of our fast-growing storage infrastructure and one of the many open source projects we use at DigitalOcean to accelerate innovation and deliver great products for our customers. We are proud to be a founding member of the Ceph Foundation. As a leading cloud provider we believe it is our responsibility to give back to the open source community and support the projects that help developers build amazing apps.”

• Shiven Ramji, VP of Product, DigitalOcean

“OVH is thrilled to join the newly created Ceph Foundation as a Premier member. Its Open Source values fit in very well with our own DNA, which is marked by openness, innovation and freedom of choice. With Ceph being the de-facto standard Software Defined Storage solution for OpenStack, it was only logical for us to adopt Ceph as part of our Public Cloud block storage. We have been using Ceph for many years and have since contributed numerous patches that went upstream in Ceph, co-hosted the Ceph Day in Warsaw and shared our experience with Ceph at various events. As one of the founding sponsors of the Ceph Foundation, we are now excited to make an even stronger contribution to the Ceph community and help take it to the next level.”

• Alain Fiocco, EVP Chief Technology Officer, OVH

“The incredible growth of data generated by connected devices, services, and modern software requires an advanced, adaptable storage platform to help gain the greatest value from all this information. Ceph’s open innovation is key for the industry to address these demands. Intel is proud to join the Ceph Foundation and support the redefinition of data storage.”

• Imad Sousou, Corporate vice president and general manager Open Source Technology Center, Intel Corporation

“Ceph is the future of storage. We at ProphetStor are proud to have contributed our machine learning technology to its community to help bring it to the forefront of the storage industry.”

• Jeremy Wei, VP of Corporate Business Development, ProphetStor

“Red Hat is honored to be deeply involved as a leader in open source communities as modern enterprises pivot toward an open hybrid cloud model. The creation of the Ceph Foundation brings to bear collaboration across the industry to enable rapid adoption of advanced data services and cloud-native technologies.”

• Sarangan Rangachari, Vice President and General Manager, Red Hat Storage

“Ceph is quickly becoming the de facto standard for storage at scale. We are proud to be a part of that success and support the new Ceph Foundation. Ceph is a shining example of how open source software can squeeze out inefficiencies in very large markets.”

• Tim Massey, CEO, SoftIron

“The formation of the Ceph Foundation under the Linux Foundation umbrella reflects the professional growth of the Open Source community and increasing industry participation. The new framework will lead to more community collaboration, outreach, inclusion and market awareness. SUSE is pleased and committed to be a top tier contributor to both the technical community and the foundation to help facilitate innovation in software-defined storage and represent the interests of our customers and partners.”

• Lars Marowsky-Brée, Distinguished Engineer, SUSE

“As a technology leader enabling cutting-edge technologies with data infrastructure, we understand and believe in open standards, open software, and open ecosystems. The establishment of the Ceph Foundation is an important milestone that we are proud to support.”

• Allen Samuels, Engineering Fellow at Western Digital, Inc

“With the establishment of Ceph Foundation, Ceph is opening a new era in global development. Together with other members, XSKY will spare no effort to push forward the construction of a broader Ceph ecosystem and explore commercial models for open-source software. We aim to achieve a landing storage approach of high-availability and high-reliability for users in mass data era.”

• Haomai Wang, CTO, XSKY

“It has been my pleasure to see the growth in popularity of Ceph in China over the last several years, and the power of Ceph of transforming numerous organizations’ IT infrastructure. Open source is a huge opportunity for organizations to work cooperatively to improve software and to benefit from each others’ hard work, and the establishment of Ceph Foundation will definitely accelerate its development and bring us a real future of storage.”

• Xinyu Chen, General Manager of Telecom Cloud & CoreNet Product, ZTE Corporation

About the Ceph Foundation
Ceph is a unified distributed storage system providing applications object, block, and file system interfaces in a single unified storage cluster—making Ceph flexible, reliable and easy for you to manage. Ceph is built on the Reliable Autonomic Distributed Object Store (RADOS), which provides a highly available and scalable fabric that can either be consumed directly or via higher-level object, block and file services that are built on top. The Ceph Foundation is a directed fund under The Linux Foundation. It provides a neutral home for the Ceph community to collaborate and grow, and is supported by members across multiple industries.

About the Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation is the organization of choice for the world’s top developers and companies to build ecosystems that accelerate open technology development and industry adoption. Together with the worldwide open source community, it is solving the hardest technology problems by creating the largest shared technology investment in history. Founded in 2000, The Linux Foundation today provides tools, training and events to scale any open source project, which together deliver an economic impact not achievable by any one company. More information can be found at www.linuxfoundation.org.

The Linux Foundation has registered trademarks and uses trademarks. For a list of trademarks of The Linux Foundation, please see our trademark usage page: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/trademark-usage. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.

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Want to get rid of annoying ads? Check out the following ad blocker for android to stop seeing ads on Android.

Ads. You can’t escape them whether it’s on the small screen or your computer. Most of the ones you encounter in your browser exist to push a product or service while occasionally earning the site a bit of cash. It’s something your favorite website may use to survive, but some sites go a little crazy with their ads. Especially when not optimized for our mobiles.

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There was a time when the dreaded “Pop-up” ad was reserved for folks using their desktop PC or laptop. The annoying ads made their way to mobiles as soon as the platform become relevant, which left plenty of consumers looking for the best ad blocker apps. Unfortunately, there is a problem with that. The vast majority of Ad blockers in the Play Store are less than stellar, and you cannot rely on Play Store reviews these days.

Offering up a free Ad blocking service is also a surefire way to lure folks in if you are a developer with a shady application. As we all know, downloading a bad app can cause a whole new set of problems as your next stop may be searching for a Malware detector. We’ve compiled a short list featuring a few great options, but also have some tips to keep in mind as well.

Always keep in mind that some of your favorite websites need those ads to keep the lights on. That means you may want to choose an ad-blocking browser or program that lets you have exceptions. Some Ad blocker apps may also hamper functionality on certain sites.

So, what is the best ad blocker for android to stop ads from filling up your screen while using an app or browser? Installing an adblock android app will block any ads from showing up on your Android device, thus allowing you to use your favorite apps without being berated to ‘purchase this item,’ or ‘visit this site.’

The best Android ad block apps that will make your Android device ad-free

The first app on this list of “Ad blocker for Android” is adblock plus android, cannot be found on Google Playstore anymore as it has been removed. But fortunately, the team over at Adblock Plus is still offering the Android version on their website. (You can also grab the latest adblock plus apk here). The link above will provide you with instructions for using Adblock Plus on your Android device. While it may seem as if it is a lot of trouble to get an ad blocking app on your device, it certainly isn’t as Adblock Plus for android is one of the best and most trusted ad blocker apps available not only on Android, but Chrome, Firefox, and more. Download and install it: you will be glad you did.

There is also an official Adblock Plus add-on for Firefox Android browser. Open Firefox browser, Downlaod and Install the add-on, activate it then restart the Firefox app and enjoy ad-free browsing.

The Free Adblocker Browser is a solid option if you don’t mind switching from your normal browser are want something a little different graphically. As the name suggests, it will kill any Ad coming your way on the web. It also destroys pop-ups along with a slew of annoying “specialty” ads. Some of these include video ads and banner ads, but it can supposedly stop any sites trying to track your footsteps as well.

Whether it’s a shady cookie or an ad set up on auto-play, the Free Adblocker Browser app can cover most folks needs. The app (and its ad-blocking feature) are free to download and use although there are in-app purchases which allow for a few additional features and themes.

Like some of the other entries on our list, the Adblock Browser for Android is available in web form and on your smartphone or tablet. It isn’t much different from its ad-blocking competitors in the sense that its zaps most ads from websites including pop-ups. It’s also free to download which is always a plus.

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The Adblock Browser blocks all incoming ads by default but does allow users a measure of control. You can opt to let in advertising deemed nonintrusive or configure a list of filters based on different dialects. Depending on your browsing habits, that alone may be worth the price of admission. Nobody wanst to be assaulted with garbled foreign text. There are several other options that can help with your privacy as well by letting you disable tracking, anti-ad blocking messages, malware domains, and social media buttons.

Sometimes a browser with a pop-up blocker isn’t going to cut it. If that’s the case for you, you may want to look into Adguard for Android. The popular app promises to filter all the nastiness out of the web to give you a clean and trouble-free browsing experience. That said, you’re not going to be able to get the real deal through the usual means as Google does not like “true” ad blocking software for obvious reasons.

Adguard can block any ad coming your way through a browser, but can also kill advertisements in mobile games. Other features include a firewall, phishing and malware protection and increased web page speed. We’d be remiss if we didn’t also mention the built-in VPN, something you don’t see baked into many apps of this nature.

As it’s not available in the Play Store anymore, you will have to download the Adguard app through their website and follow a few simple installation instructions. On the flipside, there is a “content blocker” from the company anyone can pick up from the Play Store, but it is very limited unless you are rooted.

While the AppBrain Ad Detector can block pop-ups and ads, the way it goes about it is different. It can actually “sniff” them out and goes far beyond just snooping for the usual piece of advertising. AppBrain can lock down spam ads and push notifications while detecting for harmful app networks. Staying true to its private eye nature, the app can actually let you see which tool developers used as well.

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Using the AppBrain Ad Detector is simple for rookies and pros alike. There is a tab for “Concerns” which quickly allows you to see if any harm is headed your way. From there you can look at any ad networks that are connected along with social SDKs and Dev tools. It’s really a wealth of information if you’ve ever wondered about things like who Chick-fil-A’s advertising goes through.

It’s Admob just in case you’re curious, and their app does not use social SDK’s. AppBrain filled us in on those details, and it’s free to download from Google Play if you want to give it a whirl.

AdAway is another awesome option if you need something stronger than an ad-blocking browser or plug-in. It’s also an app that is only going to work for users who are rooted, which rules plenty of folks out. Is it worth the hassle? The answer is a resounding yes if you are concerned about your privacy and hate to be troubled with ads.

This particular application is setup with host files which hits any ads coming your way with a quick change of direction. The redirect effectively kills pop-ups, banner ads, and any advertisements shown in games as well. Want a bit more control over your content? The Whitelist option can take care of that. Techies will also appreciate the open-sourced nature of AdAway as it’s not going to be an app that goes long without an update.

AdAway is free to download through F-Droid, but again, you will need Root access. You can read more about the app on the official site if you are still on the fence.

Are you wary of mobile ad networks collecting personal information through the apps that you use? TrustGo Ad Detector scans and dually protects your Android device from possible privacy violations and identity leaks that could occur via ads displayed within an Android app. Use your Android device with the clarity of mind to know that your personal information is safe and secure. An all-to-common occurrence, TrustGo Ad Detector is a different type of ad blocker, but one that will keep your personal information safe and secure.

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