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The Open Organization book club is in full swing. During preparations a few weeks ago, I was asked (as an ambassador) to pick two of my favorite chapters from the book. During the weeks to come, I would lead discussion on one of them. Choosing wasn't difficult, as topics like meritocracy and passion resonate with my many years of involvement in open source. Passion it was! read more

On your commute to work, the tiny supercomputer in your pocket sends a podcast to the computer in the dashboard of your car. Although you're not driving a flying car yet, we're undeniably living in a new age in 2015, and we're starting to see some of our science fiction dreams come true. read more

Due to its vulnerability to hacks and exploits, many of the Windows and Linux users describe Windows as a very unsafe operating system. However, one Israeli security organization is claiming to work towards to change the impression of Microsoft's software that people have in their mind.

Legal woes (and cracked licence keys) cause dev favourites to throw in the towel. Iron Speed, a firm which provided a rapid application development tool for creating .NET apps, is shuttering itself thanks to "litigation with a patent troll", according to a letter sent to customers by co-founder and chairman Alan Fisher.

Fritzing is a new open source PCB designer that supports Linux systems. Its power stems from its user-friendly interface, drag n drop features, pleasing visuals, and comprehensive views. To me, it looks very much like Autodesk's 123D Circuits and also works very similarly to it too, so this is very positive to say the least.

Are we on the cusp of seeing dramatic changes in the way governments operate by publishing and consuming open data? Mark Headd, Developer Evangelism at Accela seems to think so. He'll be leading a panel discussion at the All Things Open conference in October about open data and wants to explore just that—how open data is changing government, both institutionally and operationally. read more

While researching my article about Python Turtle Graphics for Opensource.com, I came across Bryson Payne's new book, Teach Your Kids to Code. It's extremely well written, and I believe it's one of those rare volumes that's great for anyone wanting to learn to code. The title belies the fact that this book can be used by children, parents, teachers, and even college students. read more

Interested in keeping track of what's happening in the open source cloud? Opensource.com is your source for news in OpenStack, the open source cloud infrastructure project. read more

Developer push begins in earnest Facebook has announced that its Parse project has been expanded with new SDKs for silicon vendors like Broadcom, Intel, Texas Instruments, and Atmel.…

Why and what the FCC wants to do Analysis America's broadband watchdog is suffering a backlash over plans to control software updates to Wi-Fi routers, smartphones, and even laptops.…

Soon-to-be-redundant chap in pink slip slip on Facebook Oracle appears to be making redundancies in the ranks of its Java evangelists team.…

Hello, open gaming fans! In this week's edition, we take a look at Amazon's new open source SDK for game developers, GameCredits' new open source digital currency for games, and more. Open gaming roundup for August 30 - September 5, 2015 read more

Intel’s launch of its 6th Gen Core (“Skylake”) processors this week precipitated a flurry of COM Express module announcements by embedded board vendors. Intel’s 48 new 6th Gen Core processors span an extremely wide range of power consumption and performance. At the low end are the mobile-oriented “Y-series” system-on-chips, starting with the dual-core, 2.2GHz-clocked Core […]

In this week's edition of the open source news roundup, we take a look at the User Data Manifesto 2.0, the Alliance for Open Media, new open source fonts, and more! Open source news roundup for August 30 - September 5, 2015 read more

In this week's Top 5, our best articles of the week are about a new Blender short film, alternatives to Minecraft, back to school with open source, impostor syndrome, and teaching student sys admins.

Boot times can become slow on systems with many CPUs, partly because of the time it takes to crank up all the RAM chips. Mel Gorman recently submitted some patches to start up RAM chips in parallel instead of one after the other.

UK gov’s financial pledges yet to filter down A number of schools have failed to train their teachers in the government's flagship computing curriculum introduced last year, which was intended to turn Blighty into a nation of coders.…

DevOps is often touted as the next big thing in software development, and rightly so. DevOps encourages collaboration among different teams working on the product, aims to reduce products' time to market, and much more. But what if you are not developing software, per se? Do you have to miss this new wave of innovation? Of course not! In his upcoming talk at All Things Open (ATO), Sean Cavanaugh of Cumulus Networks will discuss using DevOps tools like ONIE and Ansible for provisioning and modernizing the data center. I caught up with Sean to hear his thoughts on networking in open source, his other experiences with open source software, and a sneak preview of his talk. read more

This tutorial will show you how to mount an NTFS drive in read/write mode on CentOS and other RHEL based Linux operating systems. NTFS-3G is a stable Open Source NTFS driver that supports reading and writing to NTFS drives on Linux and other operating systems.

A while ago, Fedora Magazine posted this interview with Rackspace architect Major Hayden where he mentioned the powerline utility. If you often use a terminal, you too might find powerline useful. It gives you helpful status information, and helps you stay... Continue Reading →