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Xen is a bare metal hypervisor, meaning that you must prepare a bare machine to install and run Xen. KVM is a little different - you can add it to any machine already running Linux. This tutorial describes how to install and configure Xen hypervisor on unused hardware. This procedure uses Debian Jessie (their testing […]Continue reading... The post How to install Xen hypervisor on unused old hardware appeared first on Xmodulo. No related FAQ.

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

Every municipality should have an open data champion. The City of Raleigh, the capital city of North Carolina, is fortunate to have Jason Hare, an open data program manager and an open data consultant. Last year, Hare lead the effort to deploy a beta version of the first open data portal for Raleigh that went live earlier this year after another iteration with even more data available to the public.

This is a part of Fedora Council Elections interviews series. This is an important election, as two candidates will be selected as the Elected Representives, seats which carry full membership in our new top-level leadership and governance body.

Revolutionizing American agribusiness from the ground up, one seed at a time. read more

If you need to use multiple Linux distributions, you do not have so many options. You can either install it, on your machine or in a virtual one, or you can boot on it from an ISO file in live mode. The second option, if less needy in hard drive space, is bothersome as you […]Continue reading... The post How to boot on an ISO image from Grub appeared first on Xmodulo. Related FAQs: How to add kernel boot parameters via GRUB on Linux What are useful CLI tools for Linux system admins

Timesys announced LinuxLink support for the Cortex-A9 based Renesas RZ/A SoC and RSK HDK. Renesas also tipped an RZ/A-based board for ARM Mbed development. Renesas Electronics announced the RZ/A1, the first of its RZ/A Series system-on-chips, over a year ago for HMI-driven industrial automation, medical, and consumer electronics applications. Now Timesys has launched a customized […]

Adobe, maker of such renowned proprietary products as Flash Player and Creative Suite, has hired a career open-sourcer to lead mobile marketing.

Open gaming roundup Week of November 8 - 14, 2014 Hello, open gaming fans! In this week's edition, we take a look at Gamebuino's Arduino console, Oculus VR's SDK for mobile release, women in gaming, and more! read more

Congatec announced a “Qseven Headless” module based on a new 1.33GHz Intel Atom E3805 SoC that lacks graphics, but has a TDP of only 3 Watts. Congatec’s first-ever “headless” computer-on-module — designed for embedded applications that don’t require displays — debuts the most power efficient Intel Atom processor yet, with a Thermal Design Power rating of just three Watts. Intel quietly released the 1.33GHz Atom E3805 system-on-chip last month, according to Gadget-Help.

Fedora is a big project, and it’s hard to keep up with everything that goes on. This series highlights interesting happenings in five different areas every week. It isn’t comprehensive news coverage — just quick summaries with links to each. Here are the five things for November 14th, 2014.

I really stink at video games. I write about gaming occasionally, but the truth of the matter is, I'm just not very good. If we play Quake, you'll frag me just about as often as I respawn. I don't have great reflexes, and my coordination is horrible.

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Mozilla, the mission-based organization dedicated to promoting openness, innovation and opportunity on the Web, is happy to announce that Cherry Mobile will launch the first Firefox OS smartphone in the Philippines in the coming days. Cherry Mobile will offer the … Continue reading

Open Food Week on Opensource.com Starting on November 17, we will run stories from the open food community about how people are using open source software and methods used to improve farming, food, and agriculture systems. read more

One thing that we all may have had the chance to learn in either easy or hard ways is that the importance of backups can never be underestimated. Considering that there are as many backup methods as the number of fish in the sea, you may wonder how you can effectively choose the right tool […]Continue reading... The post How to perform system backup with backup-manager on Linux appeared first on Xmodulo. No related FAQ.

In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at Firefox's 10 anniversary, Microsoft open sources more of .NET, copyleft.org announced, and more! Open source news for your reading pleasure. November 8 - 14, 2014 read more

Google is gradually rolling out the fifth major iteration of its Android operating system, codenamed Lollipop, to some lucky devices – and has made the firmware available for the tech-savvy to download and install.

Zero day actually refers to two things-a zero-day vulnerability or a zero-day exploit. Zero-day vulnerability refers to a security hole in software-such as browser software or operating system software-that is yet unknown to the software maker or to antivirus vendors.

Installation and configuration of Drupal on CentOS 7 This document describes the installation and configuration of Drupal on CentOS 7. Drupal is an open source content management platform powering millions of websites and applications. It’s built, used, and supported by an active and diverse community of people around the world.