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File transfer between Linux systems (and perhaps all POSIX systems in general) is in some ways a neglected subject. The arcane protocols in common use are far from secure, and the SSH replacements offer too much power and complexity.

MySQL Cluster is designed to provide a MySQL compatible database with high availability and low latency. The MySQL Cluster technology is implemented through the NDB (Network DataBase) and NDBCLUSTER storage engines and provides shared-nothing clustering and auto-sharding for MySQL database systems. In the shared-nothing architecture, each of nodes has its own memory and disk, the use of shared storage such as NFS, SANs is not recommended and supported.

Looking for an open source alternative to Dreamweaver or another proprietary HTML/CSS editor? Let's round up some of your options. Not all that many years ago, pretty much every webpage on the Internet was, at some level, designed painstakingly by hand. It was tough, and before CSS really took hold and became well supported across most common browsers, it often involved hacking a layout together by using HTML tables in a way that they were never really envisioned to support. read more

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Swift has landed on Linux. Repeat: Swift has landed on Linux The latest iteration of Apple's open-source programming language Swift has taken its first major step towards Linux support.…

Starting with an upcoming 14nm “Kaby Lake” CPU, Intel will shift to three Core generations per fab process step, instead of two. The “tick-tock” strategy Intel has been using for the last decade with its Core microprocessors has come to an end. Typically, Intel increases the fabrication density in a “tick” generation, such as 5th […]

In March, the yearly meeting of KDE's Plasma team was held in Geneva, kindly hosted by the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN). In-person meetings provide unique opportunities to work together face-to-face, at high bandwidth to tackle problems together and plan for the future.

Aaeon’s rugged “Boxer-6638U” industrial PC runs Linux on a 5th Gen Core i3, and offers four COM ports, 9-24V input, and -20 to 60°C operation. Despite the different branding schemes, the “economical” Boxer-6638U is said to be the follow-on to Aaeon’s similarly stripped down, 4th Generation “Haswell” based AEC-6638 box-PC.

We are excited to announce the release of GNOME 3.20. This latest version of GNOME 3 is the result of six months of development and includes 28,933 changes, made by approximately 870 contributors.

IRC has long been Penn Manor School District's high school sweetheart. read more

This tutorial shows how to set up a high-availability storage with two storage servers (Debian Jessie) that uses GlusterFS. Each storage server will be a mirror of the other storage server, and files will be replicated automatically across both storage nodes. The client system (Debian 8 as well) will be able to access the storage as if it was a local filesystem.

We recently interviewed Giannis Konstantinidis on how he uses Fedora. This is part of a series on the Fedora Magazine where we profile Fedora users and how they use Fedora to get things done. If you are interested in being... Continue Reading →

Red Hat was the first billion dollar Linux company, now it's the first $2 billion open-source company. Not bad eh?

Google has announced the release of security software BinDiff for free. In a blog post on Monday, Google software engineer Christian Blichmann said the software, a creation of zynamics -- which was acquired by Google in 2011 -- is now a free addition for security researcher toolkits.

Google announces partnership with NodeSource. In Brief Google has added support for Node.js on its marmitey App Engine on a managed VM beta basis.…

Seco’s Linux-friendly COM Express Type 6 Compact module runs Linux on a 3rd Gen AMD R-Series SoC, and offers -40 to 85°C operation and a Mini-ITX carrier. Seco’s COMe-A98-CT6 module follows Congatec’s Conga-TR3 as the second Linux-ready COM Express Type 6 computer-on-module we’ve seen that runs AMD’s dual- and quad-core Embedded R-Series SoC, code-named “Merlin Falcon.”

IBM has long been a stalwart supporter of, and participant in the Open Source community. So IBM’s announcement of the LinuxONE platform last year should have come as a surprise to no one. The ultimate goal for LinuxONE, however, may be a bit more surprising.

This tutorial shows you how to setup an AoE client (initiator) and server (target) on Debian 8 /Jessie). The term AoE stands for "ATA over Ethernet" which is a storage area network (SAN) protocol that allows AoE clients to use storage devices on the (remote) AoE server over a normal ethernet network. "Remote" in this case means "inside the same LAN" because AoE is not routable outside a LAN (this is a major difference compared to iSCSI). To the AoE client (initiator), the remote storage looks like a normal, locally-attached hard drive.

Did you know that O'Reilly's annual Open Source Convention, OSCON, is moving from their regular location of Portland, Oregon, to Austin, Texas (May 16-19)? As an Austin local, I'm ecstatic to have my favorite conference in my favorite city.

Today KDE releases a feature-packed new version of its desktop user interface, Plasma 5.6. This release of Plasma brings many improvements to the task manager, KRunner, activities, and Wayland support as well as a much more refined look and feel.