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In the first article in this series, I introduced the rsyslog tool for logging, and in the second article I provided a detailed look at the main config file. Here, I’ll cover some logfile rules and sample configurations.

Because the Linux kernel community celebrated a quarter-century of development in 2016, many people have asked us the secret to the project's longevity and success. I usually laugh and joke that we really have no idea how we got here. The project has faced many disagreements and challenges along the way. But seriously, the reason we've made it this far has a lot to do with the community's capacity for introspection and change. read more

Each Fedora release is supported for a given time period. Approximately one month after Fedora release X+2, Fedora release X will go end of life (sometimes called EOL). Fedora 25 was recently released, so Fedora 23 will be going end... Continue Reading →

The latest version of Nextcloud adds business security and scalability improvements to its small business cloud.

Google has retooled Brillo into an “Android Things” OS, supported with Android development resources. It’s also updating Weave with new device types. Google’s lightweight, Android-based Brillo OS for IoT has seen growing adoption in its first year, but it has hardly set the world on fire. It competes with a growing selection of open source […]

According to a new study of the top one million domains, 46 percent are running vulnerable software, are known phishing sites, or have had a security breach in the past twelve months.

Scalability, agility, cost, and innovation are the main factors driving cloud adoption, according to the 6th annual Future of Cloud Computing study released today by North Bridge Venture Partners and Wikibon analysts. And, this year, mobile and open source are twice as likely to be cited as a drivers for cloud computing as they were in 2015.

The new CentOS 7 release, based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3, has arrived.

You'll recall that in my last article I shared a long, complex explanation for why spam email catches my attention and intrigues me, perhaps more than it should. Part of it is that I've been involved in email forever—I even wrote one of the most popular old-school email programs back in the day.

OwnCloud is a server software for data synchronization and file sharing with an easy to use web frontend. OwnCloud can be installed on a Linux or Windows server, it is easy to configure and has a comprehensive online documentation. The native client is available for Windows, MacOS and Linux (Desktop Application). There is also a mobile app for Android and iOS. This tutorial describes the installation of Owncloud 9.1 on CentOS 7 with Nginx web server and MariaDB database.

Becoming an open leader means becoming attuned to the intricate ways that complex and ever-moving systems structure our daily lives. As I've argued, open leaders are masters of balancing multiple parts of those systems strategically—not only as part of various projects at work, but also in other aspects of their lives. In fact, open leaders operate the way they do—and achieve what they do—because of their keen balancing skills. Between work and life Here's an example of how this works. read more

My selection for Best Couple of 2015—yes, that was last year—was ssh and tar, a pair of Linux commands that work together nicely to accomplish great things. This year I have made a different type of selection for Best Couple of 2016. My choices for Best Couple this year are actually a pair of program types—not specific commands or programs. read more

At GitHub Universe 2016 in San Francisco, Gregor Martynus of Hood.ie said: "Code collaboration is no longer the problem." read more

At a meeting back in July in Stuttgart, KDE and Nextcloud developers discussed deeper integration between the respective communities. We'd like to share some of those ideas and, as always, invite anyone interested in participating to help make it happen!

Open Networking Summit (ONS) 2017 is the place to learn about the next wave of open networking. Submit a proposal today to speak in one of our five new tracks and share your vision and expertise. The deadline is Jan. 21, 2017.

A few months ago I tried out the recently open-sourced Simplenote application from the folks at Automattic. One of the other fairly new additions to their cross-platform note-syncing platform is that an Android app is available for free in the Google Play Store. It's from the folks at Automattic, the same company responsible for WordPress.

Are you interested in keeping track of what is happening in the open source cloud? Opensource.com is your source for news in OpenStack, the open source cloud infrastructure project. OpenStack around the web There is a lot of interesting stuff being written about OpenStack. Here's a sampling from some of our favorites: read more

In the new Tectonic, CoreOS will make it possible to automatically update Kubernetes, the popular cloud container management program.

The good news is developers are looking very closely at Linux's core code for possible security holes. The bad news is they're finding them. At least the best news is that they're fixing them as soon as they're uncovered.

Aaeon’s “UP-GWS01” fanless gateway is built around its quad-core Cherry Trail based UP board, with four USB ports, GbE and HDMI, and optional wireless.