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SIMP(ly) your tax dollars at work. The NSA today revealed it has uploaded source code to GitHub to help IT admins lock down their networks of Linux machines.

Google has become the company that we love and can't live without, but at the same time, I think we all worry a little about just how much Google knows about us. With that caveat, it's hard to ignore Google's newest offering: Google Photos.

Need a slim-line work environment? We recommend the best Screenshots Linux long ago reached parity with Windows and OS X. That's great for the average user looking to make the switch from either platform to Linux. Indeed distros like Ubuntu, with its Unity desktop, make switching relatively painless.…

Sprints are one of the most effective tools for building momentum and community around an open source documentation project. For the past four years, the Open Help Conference & Sprints has hosted doc sprints for a number of prominent open source projects, and often has been the first sprint venue for a project. Open Help celebrates its fifth year in 2015 with a venue upgrade and space for six doc sprints. read more

Grandstream’s “GVC3200″ is an Android based videoconferencing device that offers 9-way SIP/Android sessions, a 12x zoom HD camera, and triple HDMI displays. Any Android device with a front-facing camera is potentially a personal videoconferencing device, especially now that Google Play has apps like Skype and Google Hangouts. Yet, we haven’t seen many Android- or Linux-based […]

The good news is that this OpenSSL security breach does not affect shipping Linux or Unix operating systems.

Docker is a tool for deploying, executing and managing containers. This article provides links to Linux on Power Systems Docker binaries and the steps to install them.

Last chance for Flock registration Flock is our big, annual contributor conference, where we get together to talk about what we’re working on and what we want to do in future releases, and also actually get in rooms together to... Continue Reading →

As you might know, ISPConfig is one of the best free opensource hosting control panels available to manage linux servers in single and multi server environments. This tutorial explains how to deploy and install this amazing contol panel with ispconfig_setup script.

Gumstix and KIPR have used Gumstix Geppetto to design a new Linux-on-Sitara based robot controller for upcoming K12-focused autonomous Botball contests. The nonprofit KISS Institute for Practical Robotics (KIPR) has been holding regional and international Botball Educational Robotics competitions for K12 students since 2003. At this year’s international competition, which runs this week from July […]

This also just in: Dogs and cats living together in peace. Microsoft did this for OpenBSD's help in porting OpenSSH to Windows.

The Opensource.com team asked if I'd share some of my thoughts about The Open Organization, seeing as I'm quoted in the book. read more

When you deal with a lot of documents every day, whatever you write—whitepapers, manuals, presentations, different marketing materials, contracts, etc.—at a certain point (most commonly, at the final stage) you have to interact with different people, specifying and discussing details, proofreading and approving them. read more

This article explains the various optimization techniques in power assembly so as to make applications run faster. Applying certain techniques in IBM® PowerPC® processor-specific applications improves the performance of the program. Some of the following techniques are now applied on Linux glibc string and memory functions and there is a significant amount of performance improvement. This article is intended for IBM AIX and Linux programmers who write assembly code for performance improvement in IBM Power Architecture.

Michelle Brush will talk at OSCON this year about how engineers and architects in tech can make better decisions by understanding their environment. How? Through behavioral economics, a discipline that, in her words, straddles psychology and economics. Hear insights that can be applied to any position in tech. Plus, have you heard of Midwest.io? Get all the details in this interview. read more

Flying pension scheme dips toe in the water – but nothing else British Airways is giving developers tentative access to small amounts of its data, launching a scheme to open up some of its APIs.…

If the probability of your assets being prodded by attackers foreign and domestic doesn't scare the bejesus out of you, don't read this article. If you're operating in the same realm of reality as the rest of us, here's your shot at redemption via some solid preventive pen testing advice from a genuine pro.

Open Hardware Summit 2015 is open for registration and preparations are in full swing. The Summit will be held in Philadelphia, on September 19 this year. This annual conference is organized and hosted by the Open Source Hardware Association, and this year will be the sixth conference, maintaining its focus on open hardware.

Count the committers for an OSS project, and go from there. Comment In a world where even Microsoft gets the open source religion, the planet’s overall quota for positivity and good karma must be increasing, right? Of course this is not the case, there are bad eggs in every basket and open source has had its share of so-called “openwashing” from time to time.

Mirantis is now offering turnkey OpenStack appliances.