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Great news! It’s totally working. The very concept behind the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) -- a group of disparate yet dedicated people building software for the public good -- has proven successful and fruitful for the 21st year in a row. The indomitable community spirit dedicated to openness and innovation shows absolutely no sign of slowing down.

U-turns on proprietary API project, will show all at JavaOne Oracle has told The Register it is "committed" to Java amid growing fears the IT giant had all but given up on Java EE – aka Java Platform, Enterprise Edition.…

One of the greatest aspects of Linux is its flexibility—it can be whatever you need it to be. It can be a massive server for big data, a desktop for rendering video or editing audio. A graphic designer’s studio. An every-day, get things done machine.

Learn how to set up a docker private registry with TLS and HTTP authentication on an OpenPower server running Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.1 LE.

In this week's edition, we take a look at the open source re-release of Habitat, The Other 99's Linux announcement, and more. Open gaming roundup for July 3-9, 2016 read more

“If you’re a bit tired, this is a presentation on cache maintenance, so there will be plenty of opportunity to sleep.” Despite this warning from ARM Ltd. kernel developer Mark Rutland at his recent Embedded Linux Conference presentation, Stale Data, or How We (Mis-)manage Modern Caches, it was actually kind of an eye opener -- at least as far as cache management presentations go.

Santali, an aboriginal South Asian language, has a brand new freely licensed font and set of cross-platform open source input tools on the way. read more

In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at BMW teaming up with Intel and Mobileeye for yet more autonomous vehicle development, open source content management systems for IT, and more. Open source news roundup for July 2 - 9, 2016

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Linux Lite falls into that ubiquitous category of Linux distributions perfectly suited for low-end hardware. However, this particular take on the lightweight operating system achieves something few in this category can manage.

In this week's Top 5, we highlight 10 Raspberry Pi add-on boards, Linux as the face of kindness, open source tools for writing a book, open source solar panels, and alternatives to Microsoft Publisher.

This tutorial shows how to use eCryptfs to encrypt a directory on Ubuntu 16.04. eCryptfs is a POSIX-compliant enterprise-class stacked cryptographic filesystem for Linux. You can use it to encrypt partitions and also directories that don't use a partition of their own, no matter the underlying filesystem, partition type, etc.

At some point, you probably have installed or configured a piece of software on a server or desktop PC. Since you read Linux Journal, you've probably done a lot of this, as well as developed a range of glue shell scripts, Perl snippets and cron jobs.

Welcome to my series on learning how to use the Git version control system! In this introduction to the series, you will learn what Git is for and who should use it. read more

The three cutting-edge frameworks showcased in these talks from MesosCon North America demonstrate the amazing power and flexibility of Apache Mesos for solving large-scale problems.

FriendlyARM launched an $8 open source, 40 x 40mm “NanoPi Neo” SBC that runs Ubuntu Core on a quad-core Allwinner H3. It’s Ethernet-ready, but headless. With the NanoPi Neo, FriendlyARM has released what appears to be the world’s smallest quad-core ARM based single-board computer, and one of the smallest ARM SBCs we’ve seen. This open […]

Learn how to use the vagrant-digitalocean plugin to use Vagrantfiles to maintain cloud instances in Digital Ocean

What has 21 million lines of code, 4000 contributors, and more changes per day than most software projects have in months, or even years? The Linux kernel, of course. In this video, Greg Kroah-Hartman provides an inside view of how the largest, fastest software project of all absorbs so many changes while maintaining a high level of quality and stability.

During his time recruiting young programmers on college campuses, one of the questions Chris Aniszczyk would hear a lot is, "How do I get involved in open source?" At Great Wide Open earlier this year, Aniszczyk gave a lightning talk highlighting eight ways new contributors can get started: read more

Privacy advocates take note: Android's full-disk encryption just got dramatically easier to defeat on devices that use chips from semiconductor maker Qualcomm, thanks to new research that reveals several methods to extract crypto keys off of a locked handset. Those methods include publicly available attack code that works against an estimated 37 percent of enterprise users.

In his book, The Open Organization, Red Hat President and CEO Jim Whitehurst recognizes Vineet Nayar, former CEO of HCL Technologies, an IT consulting company based in India. Whitehurst writes that Nayar started an internal blog called "My Problems," which featured the strategic problems Nayar was working on and solicited feedback and ideas from anyone in the company willing to share thoughts.

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