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The Long Death of Project Hosting Sites

Last month, Microsoft and Google bypassed their own code hosts to post major code projects on GitHub. The once-favored hosts have begun a long, familiar decline.

Mozilla and Telenor Announce WebRTC Competency Center to Advance WebRTC and Help Standardization

Web Real-Time Communications (WebRTC) is changing the way people communicate over the Web by enabling developers to more easily integrate real-time communications on websites, mobile Web apps or video conferencing systems. WebRTC makes complex real-time communications technology available to everyone.

How to install the new Pydio 6 release on Ubuntu 14.10 (Utopic Unicorn)

How to install the new Pydio 6 release on Ubuntu 14.10 (Utopic Unicorn) This guide explains how to configure Pydio in Ubuntu 14.10 (Utopic Unicorn). Pydio (formerly AjaXplorer) is a mature open source software solution for file sharing and synchronization. With intuitive user interfaces (web / mobile / desktop), Pydio 6 provides enterprise-grade features to gain back control and privacy of your data: user directory connectors, legacy filesystems drivers, comprehensive admin interface, and much more.

It’s Here! Announcing Fedora 21!

  • Fedora Magazine; By Matthew Miller (Posted by bob on Dec 9, 2014 3:26 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Announcements; Groups: Fedora
The Fedora Project is pleased to announce Fedora 21, the final release, ready to run on your desktops, servers, and in the cloud. Fedora 21 is a game-changer for the Fedora Project, and we think you’re going to be very pleased with the results.

Google pushes 'go' on Android Studio

  • The Register; By Richard Chirgwin (Posted by bob on Dec 9, 2014 9:37 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Android
Worried Oompa-Loompas are questioning security guards and combing the wilds of Mountain View after it was discovered that Google has allowed a product, the Android Studio IDE, to escape from the Chocolate Factory's near-impenetrable Beta compound.

News: Linux 3.18 Diseased Newt Released

  • LinuxPlanet; By Sean Michael Kerner (Posted by bob on Dec 9, 2014 8:40 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Kernel, Linux
Linus Torvalds formally released the Linux 3.18 kernel on December 7, even though a regression issue that first showed up in Linux 3.17 has yet to be resolved.

How to speed up a WordPress website with CloudFront CDN

If your WordPress-powered personal blog or website is loading slowly, you are hardly alone. Rather than simply bemoaning your web hosting, you can take more proactive approaches to solve the problem.

A look back at open source in 2014

  • Opensource.com; By Tarus Balog (Posted by bob on Dec 9, 2014 5:48 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Editorial; Groups: Community
The year 2014 will be marked as one where open source changed for me. It didn't change overnight or even very rapidly, but in July I noticed that the open source of today was not what I imagined it would be. And this can be a good thing.

Home Wi-Fi security's just as good as '90s PC security! Wait, what?

UK home Wi-Fi security is as bad as PC security was in the 1990s, according to a new study. Security software firm Avast found that more than half of all routers are poorly protected by default or common, easily hacked password/ID combinations. Easily hacked password combinations such as admin/admin or admin/password, or even admin/<no-password> are commonplace.

Randa Meetings 2014 - Another Great Success

It's been quite some time since the Randa Meetings 2014 and even this year's edition of the KDE Community Summit called Akademy has already happened, but it's still nice to look back and see what was accomplished at this KDE Tech Summit in the middle of the Swiss Alps.

Tinkering with the Raspberry Pi A+

The Raspberry Pi team is on fire (in a good way), making new Raspberry Pi models faster than we can review them. Eben Upton, Raspberry Pi Founder and CEO of Raspberry Pi's engineering team, recently announced the new Raspberry Pi A+ model.

Computing without a Computer

I've covered a lot of various pieces of software that are designed to help you do scientific calculations of one type or another, but I have neglected a whole class of computational tools that is rarely used anymore. Before there was the electronic computer, computations had to be made by hand, so they were error-prone. To try to minimize these human errors, shortcuts and aids of one form or another were developed.

Mozilla Joins Hour of Code

For the second year in a row, Mozilla is a partner in the Hour of Code, and we hope you’ll join us. This campaign launched in 2013, to align with Computer Science Education Week, and to demystify code and show that anyone can learn the basics.

$6 quad core SoC targets low cost 4K set-top boxes

Allwinner unveiled a $6 “H3? SoC targeting $35 to $50 OTT STBs, featuring four Cortex-A7 cores, a Mali-400 GPU, 4K HDMI output, and 5MP camera support.

Silicon Valley high rollers toss $36m at 'data centre OS' Mesosphere

First new OS since Android? A startup building a "data centre operating system" that owes its existence to a former PHD student has landed $36m in funding from some high-tech high rollers.…

OpenMotics improves home automation

  • Opensource.com (Posted by bob on Dec 8, 2014 3:00 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
OpenMotics is an open source home automation hardware and software system that offers features like switching lights and outputs, multi-zone heating and cooling, power measurements, and automated actions. The system encompases both open source software and hardware. For interoperability with other systems, the OpenMotics Gateway provides an API through which various actions can be executed. read more

How to use Evernote from the command line on Linux

  • Xmodulo (Posted by bob on Dec 8, 2014 11:11 AM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
This week let's continue our journey into the depth of the Linux command line to manage and organize information. After managing your personal expenses from the command line, I propose you to manage your notes from the command line, in particular, when your notes are stored in Evernote. In case you have never heard about […]Continue reading... The post How to use Evernote from the command line on Linux appeared first on Xmodulo. Related FAQs: How to access Dropbox from the command line in Linux How to speed up directory navigation in a Linux terminal How to access SoundCloud from the command line in Linux How to manage DigitalOcean VPS droplets from the command line on Linux What are useful CLI tools for Linux system admins

Linus Torvalds releases Linux 3.18 as 3.17 wobbles

  • The Register (Posted by bob on Dec 8, 2014 10:14 AM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
Seven release candidates is enough Linus Torvalds has pressed the go button for a new release of his eponymous operating system.…

Tinkering with the Raspberry Pi A+

The Raspberry Pi team is on fire (in a good way), making new Raspberry Pi models faster than we can review them. Eben Upton, Raspberry Pi Founder and CEO of Raspberry Pi's engineering team, recently announced the new Raspberry Pi A+ model. read more

OpenStack welcomes you to the software-defined economy

  • ZDNet; By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Posted by bob on Dec 8, 2014 4:03 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Cloud, Linux
The IT revolution is here and OpenStack cloud leadership believes it's being driven by the cloud, the bring-your-own-device movement, and open-source software.

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