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2015 was a year of many new open source projects hitting the scene with a splash. From enterprise solutions to home brewed open source concoctions, many of the projects released as open source software this year have made a huge impact on the world of computing in a very short amount of time. While flash stardom isn't always the best predictor of longevity, we think these 10 projects just might have come onto the scene with enough momentum to continue their success in the new year. You might call this list our most likely to succeed in 2016. read more

Personal data and non-public information on almost 60 percent of US citizens was available online because of a misconfigured database.

For this article, I thought it would be beneficial to go back to some basics of shell scripting and look at how functions work. Most script writers probably eschew using functions because it's a bit antithetical to how scripts tend to evolve, as a sequence of commands on the command line that are captured in a file.

Linux is increasingly the OS of choice for mobile devices, hacker boards, IoT, home automation, consumer gadgets, drones, robots, wearables, cars, and more. The roughly 15-year-old experiment called Embedded Linux has by several accounts surpassed real-time OSes and Windows Embedded in recent years. If you include phones, tablets, and consumer electronics using the Linux-based Android, […]

Docker sparked the trend in software containers less than two years ago. And since its modest presentation at PyCon in 2013, the startup has vaulted to a value of nearly one billion dollars, drawn 2,500 attendees to DockerCon, and its namesake technology has become a marketable skill to have, entering Hacker News' top 20 most frequently requested job skills.

We recently interviewed Kevin Fenzi 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 →

Looking back at 2015, there have been many projects created by the Docker community that have advanced the developer experience. Although choosing among all the great contributions is hard, here are 10 "cool tools" that you should be using if you are looking for ways to expand your knowledge and use of Docker. read more

During 2015, there were more than $100 billion worth of mergers and acquisitions in the semiconductor market, writes Alexandru Voica in this guest column. ? Semiconductors buyers club: the mergers and acquistions of 2015 by Alex Voica This year we’ve seen unprecedented consolidation in the technology market. The story that perhaps best defined 2015 was […]

Are you managing a server running a blog or content website and expecting or experiencing a massive number of requests? I have been in this situation recently myself, running a WordPress instance on a single virtual machine that suddenly got over 30,000 requests in just a single day.

While reviewing the most-read articles on legal topics in open source on Opensource.com this year, I was reminded of the old maxim: The more things change, the more they stay the same. Readers recognize that the problem of patent trolls is certainly not new, and the Supreme Court hasn’t solved it, but creative legislative solutions to address it remain interesting.   read more

In this Special Edition of our weekly open source news roundup, we look back at the top news stories in 2015! I looked most closely at news in the areas of business, government, and hardware. There has also been remarkable news about how open source continues to help make a difference and the world a better place. read more

Angae means "Fog" in Korean. The term is widely used in parts of custom code used by the Red Star OS. We will lift the fog on the internals of North Korea's operating system. Our talk will provide information about how privacy is invaded for all users of Red Star OS and how an operating system designed by a totalitarian dictatorship works.

As far as web server performance is concerned, there are many different factors at play, e.g., front-end application design, network latency/bandwidth, web server configuration, backend caching, raw hardware capability, server load of shared hosting, etc. To compare and optimize web server performance under such a wide array of factors, we often perform load test (or […]Continue reading...

Open source software—software freely shared with the world at large—is an old idea. A guy named Richard Stallman started preaching the gospel in the early ’80s, though he called it free software. Linus Torvalds started work on Linux, the enormously successful open source operating system, in 1991, and today, it drives our daily lives—literally... if there’s one thing we learned in 2015, it’s that we shouldn’t underestimate the power of open source.

Apart from its physical form, a smartphone is indistinguishable to a normal computer so why not treat it as such? Even the oldest smartphones out there are considerably more powerful than desktop computers were even 20 years ago. You can install Debian, a version of the open-source Linux operating system on your device. Then just connect it to a monitor, sync up a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse, and you’re good.

What makes this free solution so interesting is how it comes pre-loaded with Bitcoin and OKCash clients, which should create a smoother out-of-the-box experience for users. Some synchronization for both clients might be needed during the initial startup, so make sure your Raspberry Pi has some external storage on board more than 50GB.

When the Raspberry Pi was first launched things were relatively straightforward – there was just one model to choose from. Fast forward to today, however, and you have no less than four major models to choose from. So, which one is best for your needs?

There are three main areas anyone wanting to get more intimately familiar with the Internet of Things should focus on: devices, cloud and analytics. With such a diversity of skills required, as Darshana Sugathan puts it, there can be no such thing as an "IoT expert."

The Xen Project has reported a new bug, XSA-169, that means "A malicious guest could cause repeated logging to the hypervisor console, leading to a Denial of Service attack." The fix is simple - running only paravirtualised guests - but the bug is a big blunder for another reason.

Options for those lacking a Linux render farm When it comes to video editing, Windows and Mac rule the screen. Professional apps by the likes of Adobe, Avid and Apple only run in the Win/Mac world and Apple even throws in a pretty sophisticated video editor (iMovie) for free.…