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Crowdfunding is a big discussion topic in the world of people who create things. In particular, subscription-based patronage models have been growing in popularity over the last few years. And it's not just for artists and other creatives. Open source development has started adopting this model with growing success.

What is Modularity? A classic conundrum that all open-source distributions have faced is the “too fast/too slow” problem. Users install an operating system in order to enable the use of their applications. A comprehensive distribution like Fedora has an advantage and a disadvantage to the large amount of available software.

What do you get when you combine a global financial services, media, and data company that employs 5,000 software developers headed by a founder who is heavily into philanthropy? If you're Bloomberg, you get a series of company-sponsored hackathons where employees, community members, students, and others come together over a weekend to hack on open source tools, including Python, Perl, and Eclipse. read more

Multiple previously unconnected Chinese threat actors behind numerous cyber campaigns aimed at organizations in the United States, Japan, and other countries over the past several years are actually operating under the control of the country's state intelligence apparatus.

Less than a week away from Google I/O (where this will probably be officially announced), a new settings option for Linux apps has appeared on the Chrome OS Dev channel. It’s titled “Linux (Beta),” with the description, “Run Linux tools, editors, and IDEs on your Chromebook.” From there, you can fully enable the Linux container.

FocusWriter is a cross-platform tool available to be easily installed on multiple GNU/Linux distributions, as well as Windows and Mac OS.

Qubes OS is a security-focused operating system that, as tech editor Kyle Rankin puts it, "is fundamentally different from any other Linux desktop I've used". Join us this weekend in reading Kyle's multi-part series on all things Qubes.

This week in open source and Linux news, an update on all the happenings this week at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe, Facebook announces plan to open source its AI tools, including Translate, and more!

Diamond has launched three rugged, Linux-friendly “SabreCom” mission computers with MIL-spec connectors and IP67 protection, based on its Aries (Bay Trail), Venus (Skylake), and Zeta (Apollo Lake) boards with mini-PCIe and PC/104 expansion. Diamond’s new SabreCom series of rugged, industrial temperature “mission computers” is part of its Sabre line of devices...

We solved privacy in the natural world with clothing, shelter, manners and laws. So far in the digital world, we have invisibility cloaks and the GDPR. The fastest way to get the rest of what we need is to recognize that privacy isn't a grace of platforms or governments. In the physical world, privacy isn't controversial. In the digital world, it is.

News briefs for May 4, 2018.

BookStack is an open source platform to create documentation/wiki content for your project. In this tutorial, I will show you step-by-step how to install and configure BookStack on CentOS 7 under the LEMP (Linux, Nginx, PHP-FPM, MySQL/MariaDB) stack.

what if you’d prefer your Linux to be based on Slackware? Yes, there’s a distribution perfectly suited for you. That distribution is called Absolute Linux; it’s based on Slackware and focuses solely on the desktop. Said desktop looks and feels quite a bit like something you’d have used in the early 2000s. That’s not a bad thing … just a thing.

Acme has launched a rugged, 22mm thick “CM3-Panel” 7-inch capacitive touch-panel computer built around a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3. Four models are available: WiFi, USB, WiFi and 868MHz Yarm RF, or USB and Yarm. Acme has followed up on last December’s CM3-Home home automation carrier board for the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3 with […]

LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache 2.4 web server on an Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver) server with PHP 7.2 support (mod_php) and MySQL / MariaDB and how to setup an SSL certificate with Let's encrypt. Additionally, I will install PHPMyAdmin to make MySQL administration easier. A LAMP setup is a perfect basis for CMS systems like Joomla, Wordpress or Drupal.

HPE and Red Hat are tying Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform with HPE Synergy to speed up container application delivery for the enterprise.

Aaeon’s 3.5-inch “GENE-APL6” SBC ships with an Intel Apollo Lake SoC, SATA storage, a pair each of GbE, USB 3.0, and mini-PCIe, and up to 128GB eMMC. The GENE-APL6 lives in a parallel universe to the similar, recently released GENE-APL7.

The Cloud Foundry command-line interface (cf CLI) is your primary tool for interacting with your Cloud Foundry instances: manage apps, view logs, run health checks, manage buildpacks, manage users, and manage plugins.

In the mid-1990s, I was enrolled in computer science classes. My university’s computer science department provided a SunOS server—a multi-user, multitasking Unix system—for its students. We logged into it and wrote source code for the programming languages we were learning, such as C, C++, and ADA. In those days, well before social networks and instant messaging, we also used the system to communicate with each other, sending emails and using utilities such as write and talk. We were each also allowed to host a personal website.

Version 28 brings non-free third-party repos for some reason The Fedora Project has released Fedora 28, a significant update which includes something shunned for years – an official repository for non-free third-party apps.…