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Although there are countless different GNU/Linux distributions out there for people to choose from, you may not find exactly what you're looking for and that is perfectly normal. In this tutorial, we will explore how to use SUSE Studio to generate a highly tailored Linux system based on the latest openSUSE.

At last - Americans finally get to parallel park Updated Tesla has offered to make its customers more confident drivers by allowing them to hand over control of their vehicles to software.…

In today's open source world, there are a number of very large communities that have tangible incentives for contributing to projects. Commits that make it into the master branch of Docker can attract tips, and once you become an Active Technical Contributor for OpenStack you get a number of perks, including free entry to the next OpenStack Summit. read more

NGINX, an open source, high-performance HTTP server, reverse proxy, and IMAP/POP3 proxy server, has gained popularity as a load balancer. I caught up with Sarah Novotny, head of Developer Relations at NGINX, ahead of her All Things Open session later this month, and asked her to explain NGINX's growing popularity. read more

This article covers the case study to find the comparison between IBM AIX and Linux on Power processor utilization with the help of network workload. The article also explores why there is a considerable difference between the overall system-level processor utilization reported on the IBM Power hardware while running the same workload on AIX and Linux on Power platforms.

TI has released its Sitara AM57x SoCs, with one or two 1.5GHz Cortex-A15 cores and C66x DSPs, plus two Cortex-M4 MCUs, a PowerVR GPU, and a quad-core PRU. The Linux-ready Sitara AM57x SoC family is part of the larger Texas Instruments AM5x family announced in early 2014. More information was supplied In Nov. 2014 when […]

Bundling – what’s changed, and what’s the big deal? I’ve talked about bundling and unbundling in the previous 5tFTW, and a month ago as well, and we’ve been debating the issues on the Fedora devel list, in a gigantic thread... Continue Reading →

The 2015 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC) started out like any other, with a giant room filled with thousands of women with a passion for technology and computing. This year's welcome keynote opened with green lights strobing over a dark room. What a way to highlight the rows and rows of women ready to learn, connect, and join new communities. Telle Whitney, founder of GHC, was first to the podium and offered a heartfelt and sincere welcome message that brought a tear to my eye. She spoke of the women who built GHC from their vision of a better future, where women and men take equal part in technology, and of her diagnosis of an auto immune disease. But she's doing well she says, and thanked everyone for their thoughts and concern. read more

Early builds unbootable on PCs this week, warns Microsoft. Those who downloaded many Windows 10 preview editions will have to upgrade by Thursday or face an unbootable PC.

One of the major shifts in technology over the last few years has been the emergence and adoption of NoSQL databases. More and more firms are moving to NoSQL because it’s scalable, distributed, and flexible. Those are all elements that make NoSQL a good choice for today's big data applications.

After a pair of very public disclosures in the last two weeks, Netgear published new firmware for vulnerabilities in its routers that have been publicly exploited.

Siri may be your personal assistant. But your voice is not the only one she listens to. As a group of French researchers have discovered, Siri also helpfully obeys the orders of any hacker who talks to her-even, in some cases, one who's silently transmitting those commands via radio from as far as 16 feet away.

Windows 10 only is not a universal solution. Microsoft introduced the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) this year: applications that run across many device types, provided that they all run Windows 10.

Aaeon’s “AQ7-BT” COM runs Linux on dual- or quad-core Bay Trail SoCs, and offers onboard RAM and SSD, rich I/O, PCIe expansion, and -40 to 85°C operation.

BeagleBoard.org has provided some new details, including PCIe support, for its dual-core Cortex-A15 BeagleBoard-X15 SBC, which is due by December for $239. The open-spec BeagleBoard-x15 single-board computer was announced in Nov. 2014, with promises of shipments by February. In August when BeagleBoard.org announced the now-shipping BeagleBone Green, the Texas Instruments aligned community organization said that […]

Just in time for the 24th Birthday of the Linux Kernel, the Linux Foundation has released the first episode in a new web video animation series that shows us what a world without Linux might be like. For those who... Continue Reading →

Rust is a systems programming language that got it's start in 2010 with Mozilla Research. Today, one of Rust's most ardent developers and guardians is Steve Klabnik, who can you find traveling the globe touting it's features and teaching people how to use it. At All Things Open 2015, Steve will give attendees all they need to know about Rust, but we got an exclusive interview prior to his talk in case you can't make it. read more

That may sound like an odd threesome, but Jessie can run Firefox as a native Gnome 3 application. And why would you want to do that? Debian already comes with a perfectly good web browser --- Iceweasel, a rebranded version of Firefox. Why? Because of updates. Firefox updates much more often than Iceweasel. If you want the latest features and the latest bug fixes and security updates, you want Firefox.

I'm not generally a privacy nut when it comes to my digital life. That's not really a good thing, as I think privacy is important, but it often can be very inconvenient. For example, if you strolled into my home office, you'd find I don't password-protect my screensaver.

It was late 2006 (if my memory serves me right), and I was still using Windows XP. Right around the corner, though, was the (now dreaded) Windows Vista. I really didn't like the thought of it, XP had been giving me grief, and I was just getting fed up with Windows' nonsense in general. read more