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Parrot is prepping two Linux-based mini-drones: a $160 “Jumping Sumo” wheeled robot and a $100 “Rolling Spider” quadrocopter that can fly, roll, or climb.

This tutorial explains the configuration of a static IP address (IPv4 and IPv6), the hostname and nameservers on CentOS. To be compatible with Desktop and Server Systems, we do the configuration on the shell.

This guide explains the installation and configuration of a VNC server on Ubuntu 14.04 server.

Many Internet Relay Chat (IRC) clients in Fedora (xchat, hexchat, irssi) only support the IRC protocol, however many users also converse in other Instant Messaging (IM) protocols like Google Talk. One option to have all your IMs and Chats in one application is to switch to a client that supports both IRC and IM, such as pidgin or empathy. However, there is another option that does not require you to switch IRC clients — bitlbee.

Jon Masters summarises the latest goings on in the Linux Kernel community, including the Linux 3.15 merge window, and ongoing development

Since the launch last June of Mozilla Science Lab, we’ve been working to unpack what science on the web and like the web means, and what Mozilla can do to support it.

Red Hat engineer Adam Miller decided it was time to start a conversation about what it means to be part of the open source world, and to remind his colleagues of the responsibility to use open source software and to contribute to making it better. He captured my attention, and that of many other Red Hatters globally.

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Containers are finally coming into their own as a virtualization alternative, but until now their programs were incompatible. Now, the major container players are agreeing to line up behind Docker's libcontainer.

The next generation desktop from KDE is taking shape and the second beta is out now for testing. The developers have settled on a name - Plasma 5, and there is only one month to go until the first release so please test packages from your distro or download the Neon 5 Live ISO to see what is working and what needs fixed.

Aaeon’s 6.3 x 4.1 x 1.37-inch FWS-2250 is dubbed “the world’s smallest network appliance,” and has an Atom E3800, four gigabit ports, and 20W consumption. Aaeon briefly tipped the Fedora Linux-ready FWS-2250 back in October in conjunction with the Atom E3800 (Bay Trail-I) system-on-chip announcement. The SMB/SOHO oriented appliance is said to support small firewalls, IDS/IPS, load balancing, network access control, bandwidth management, web filters, and anti-spam applications.

More speed, better performance and increased ARM support are what we expect. Dual Shock 4 and EFI 64-bit bootable from 32-bit we weren't.

It's been more than a year since I've had a successful build of Chromium that I was willing to share with anyone else, but last night I pushed out a Fedora 20 x86_64 build of the current stable Chromium. Here's where you can go and get it.

Linux-based container infrastructure is an emerging cloud technology based on fast and lightweight process virtualization. It provides its users an environment as close as possible to a standard Linux distribution.

When it comes to opening up your work there is, ironically, a bit of a secret. Here it is: being open—in open science, open source software, or any other open community—can be hard. Sometimes it can be harder than being closed. In an effort to attract more people to the cause, advocates of openness tend to tout its benefits. read more

Want to launch a heated debate among Linux aficionados? Ask them what is their favorite text editor. In the open source community, choosing a software to write text with, and potentially to write code with, is such an important decision that choosing a football team or a game console is less dangerous. But anyone new […]Continue reading... The post What is a good text editor on Linux appeared first on Xmodulo. Related FAQs: What is good LaTeX editor software on Linux? How to open a large text file on Linux What is a good HEX editor on Linux? How to install LaTex on Ubuntu or Debian How to search text files for patterns efficiently

A flaw was found in the way file's Composite Document Files (CDF) format parser handle CDF files with many summary info entries. The cdf_unpack_summary_info() function unnecessarily repeatedly read the info from the same offset. This led to many file_printf() calls in cdf_file_property_info(), which caused file to use an excessive amount of CPU time when parsing a specially-crafted CDF file (CVE-2014-0237).]

Here’s something else to blame on last April’s Heartbleed security bug: It smeared the line between security holes that users can do something about, and those we can’t. Getting that distinction right is going to be crucial as we weather a storm of vulnerabilities and hacks that shows no sign of abating.

Technologic is sampling a fast-booting “TS-4740? COM that runs Debian on a 1GHz, ARM9 PXA168 SoC and offers a 25K-LUTs Spartan-5 FPGA and gigabit Ethernet.

Discover how to analyse code for compliance, log and track issues, estimate code debt and much more.

When Heidi Ellis took the floor at this year's Professors' Open Source Summer Experience—held May 28-30 at Drexel University in Philadelphia—she wanted her colleagues to understand the extraordinary educational benefits of involving students in open source projects.