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Welcome back to the GPG series, where we are exploring how to make use of GPG with other applications to secure and protect your data. In the first installment, we covered the functions of GPG. You learned about integrity, non-repudiation... Continue Reading →

Software Freedom Conservancy Oracle's Gnuts ZFS licence is the problem The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) thinks Canonical, the curator of Ubuntu, has breached the Gnu Public Licence (GPL).…

DAB-Embedded’s wireless enabled “DAB-OWRT-SAMA5” router SBC runs OpenWrt Linux on an Atmel SAMA5D36 SoC linked to an Altera MAX 10 FPGA. Belgium-based DAB-Embedded BVBA announced a router board for collecting and processing data from different wired and wireless interfaces. The 90 x 90mm DAB-OWRT-SAMA5 runs OpenWrt Linux or Windows Embedded Compact 7 on an Atmel […]

Explosive growth in enterprise adoption of public and private cloud technologies is really pushing requirements for scalable, automated solutions to ensure security, cost and operational compliance across deployments of virtual “cloud” infrastructure.  With the emergence of ever-larger and more dense server farms, and ever larger and more complex cloud configurations, cloud automa

I love high-level, dynamically typed languages, such as Python, Ruby and JavaScript. They're easy—and even fun—to use. They let me express myself richly, and they lend themselves to code that easily can be reused and maintained.

#IstandwithMozilla Security is paramount to a trusted Internet. Encryption is a critical part of how that trust is made real. The recent events around Apple and the FBI set a dangerous precedent. Our position on these issues is simple: the FBI should not be able to require a technology company to create code that “undoes” years of security enhancements by creating additional vulnerabilities.

Proxmox Virtual Environment or short Proxmox VE is an Open Source server virtualization software based on Debian Linux. In this tutorial, I will show you the installation of Proxmox on a server that runs a minimal Debian 8 installation, e.g. in a datacenter.

The Tao Te Ching, believed to have been written by the sage Lao Tzu in the 6th century BCE, is among the most widely translated texts in existence. read more

In this article, I'll share my technique for leveraging open source contributions to stand out as a great candidate for a job in the technology field. read more

Fonts, like any other digital asset on your computer, come with their own rules for licensing. When selecting a font, the decision process involves more than choosing between serif and sans serif: understanding how the font is licensed matters too. Though typographers need to be concerned with their rights to modify and extend a given font, even you as an end user should be asking yourself some questions. Do you have permission to use a font in commercial work, or in a public work at all? Can you even share that font with another person? read more

Remember the Nokia devices acquisition? That went well. Not Analysis Microsoft is acquiring Xamarin, a move which goes to the heart of the company's new mobile strategy.…

Create your own Wearable Tech glove that places control at your fingertips

Phytec has spun a Linux-supported, 50 x 41mm PhyCore-i.MX7 COM with -40 to 85°C support, also available as part of a sandwich-style PhyBoard-i.MX7 Zeta SBC. NXP’s low-power, Cortex-A7 based i.MX7 system-on-chip, which includes a Cortex-M4 MCU for real-time processing and motor control, appears to be heading for the same popularity as the i.MX6. Size matters […]

You've done it: you've taken your own personal utility, library, or web application and placed it on GitHub as free and open source software for all the world to see. Maybe you wrote this software to fill a personal need, or maybe you've always hoped that it would reach more people. One thing's certain: it's always been yours, and yours alone—but the moment you pushed that code for the first time, your baby left the nest. What comes next is up to you. read more

This tutorial shows the installation of the latest PostgreSQL 9.5 version on Ubuntu. We will use the official repository from postgresql.org, so you can update your server easily in future and get direct updates and patches from the database vendor. The steps have been tested with Ubuntu versions from 12.04 until 15.10.

Learn how to query databases and manipulate data by using basic SQL commands. You can use the material in this tutorial to study for the LPI 102 exam for Linux system administrator certification, or to learn for fun.

Embrace, extend, eat Microsoft has bought its long-time partner Xamarin for an undisclosed sum.…

My open source story began during my first year of college when I joined Mozilla's Firefox Student Ambassadors (FSA) program.

AMD launched 3rd Gen, dual-core, G-Series SoCs with 6-15W TDPs, DDR4 and 4Kx2K support, and R-Series pin compatibility, plus an entry-level G-Series LX SoC. The lines between AMD’s Embedded G-Series and its higher end R-Series system-on-chips continue to blur with a new line of 3rd Generation G-Series SoCs that offers pin compatibility with the “Merlin Falcon” R-Series SoC announced last October.

Redmond updates official guide If you don't know how to control the information Windows 10 sends back about you to Microsoft, the Redmond giant has updated its guide on how to do so.…