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You'll recall that in my last article I shared a long, complex explanation for why spam email catches my attention and intrigues me, perhaps more than it should. Part of it is that I've been involved in email forever—I even wrote one of the most popular old-school email programs back in the day.

OwnCloud is a server software for data synchronization and file sharing with an easy to use web frontend. OwnCloud can be installed on a Linux or Windows server, it is easy to configure and has a comprehensive online documentation. The native client is available for Windows, MacOS and Linux (Desktop Application). There is also a mobile app for Android and iOS. This tutorial describes the installation of Owncloud 9.1 on CentOS 7 with Nginx web server and MariaDB database.

Becoming an open leader means becoming attuned to the intricate ways that complex and ever-moving systems structure our daily lives. As I've argued, open leaders are masters of balancing multiple parts of those systems strategically—not only as part of various projects at work, but also in other aspects of their lives. In fact, open leaders operate the way they do—and achieve what they do—because of their keen balancing skills. Between work and life Here's an example of how this works. read more

My selection for Best Couple of 2015—yes, that was last year—was ssh and tar, a pair of Linux commands that work together nicely to accomplish great things. This year I have made a different type of selection for Best Couple of 2016. My choices for Best Couple this year are actually a pair of program types—not specific commands or programs. read more

At GitHub Universe 2016 in San Francisco, Gregor Martynus of Hood.ie said: "Code collaboration is no longer the problem." read more

At a meeting back in July in Stuttgart, KDE and Nextcloud developers discussed deeper integration between the respective communities. We'd like to share some of those ideas and, as always, invite anyone interested in participating to help make it happen!

Open Networking Summit (ONS) 2017 is the place to learn about the next wave of open networking. Submit a proposal today to speak in one of our five new tracks and share your vision and expertise. The deadline is Jan. 21, 2017.

A few months ago I tried out the recently open-sourced Simplenote application from the folks at Automattic. One of the other fairly new additions to their cross-platform note-syncing platform is that an Android app is available for free in the Google Play Store. It's from the folks at Automattic, the same company responsible for WordPress.

Are you interested in keeping track of what is happening in the open source cloud? Opensource.com is your source for news in OpenStack, the open source cloud infrastructure project. OpenStack around the web There is a lot of interesting stuff being written about OpenStack. Here's a sampling from some of our favorites: read more

In the new Tectonic, CoreOS will make it possible to automatically update Kubernetes, the popular cloud container management program.

The good news is developers are looking very closely at Linux's core code for possible security holes. The bad news is they're finding them. At least the best news is that they're fixing them as soon as they're uncovered.

Aaeon’s “UP-GWS01” fanless gateway is built around its quad-core Cherry Trail based UP board, with four USB ports, GbE and HDMI, and optional wireless.

Mintbox Technologies announced a $24, open source “Winkel Board” Arduino compatible with ATmega128 and ESP8266 chips, OTA programming, and WiFi, BT, and RF.

After energy balancing software PowerMatcher was released as open source at Alliander in 2014, I was able to convince more of my colleagues to invest in making more technologies open source. I started the conversation with a question about the Open Smart Grid Platform: "How open is open? Where can I find the code?" read more

For many of us, when we look around at the state of computing in 2016, we nod and think, "Yes, today is what I expected when I thought about what The Future would be like." Sure, we haven't got flying cars yet, but today's technology is flashy. We swipe fingers across screens instead of pressing buttons, and I'm told we are all very excited about all of the latest virtual reality headsets and augmented reality gadgets. read more

Learn how to enable and use the new Fedora feature that allows you to quickly search, select and input emoji using your keyboard.

Scribus is a robust open source page layout application developed with and relied upon by the open source community since 2001. According to the project's website, Scribus is built for Linux, FreeBSD, PC-BSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, and the program offers CMYK colors, spot colors, ICC color management and PDF creation. The site also touts the application's advanced features, such as vector drawing tools, support for a huge number of file types via import/export filters, emulation of color blindness or the rendering of markup languages like LaTeX or Lilypond. read more

It turns out that the NES Classic Edition is just a little Linux-powered board inside a cute case, and it’s totally possible to build your own tiny Linux-powered computer inside a cute case without spending much more than $60. And by using the Raspberry Pi and freely available software, you can build something capable of doing a whole heck of a lot more than playing the same 30 NES games over and over again.

This week in Linux and OSS news, The Linux Foundation's Hyperledger Project continues to grow rapidly as its membership hits 100, Arpit Joshipura comes aboard The Linux Foundation's staff as an OSS networking specialist, and more!

Utilizing a proprietary electronic voting system that does not permit access to the software that counts the vote eliminates the right to vote. For that reason alone, countries such as Australia decided the only option to protect their citizens' right to vote was to utilize open-source software. In fact, Australia has made their open-source election software available to the world, free to download and modify to meet whatever needs another country might have.