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To help you better understand containers, container security, and the role they can play in your enterprise, The Linux Foundation recently produced a free webinar hosted by John Kinsella, Founder and CTO of Layered Insight.

Every once in a while, a prominent member of the security community publishes an article about how horrible OpenPGP is. Matthew Green wrote one in 2014 and Moxie Marlinspike wrote one in 2015. The most recent was written by Filippo Valsorda, here on the pages of Ars Technica, which Matthew Green says "sums up the main reason I think PGP is so bad and dangerous."

With this long-term support Linux desktop, which is based on Ubuntu 16.04, Linux Mint is better than ever. Since I've already found Linux Mint 18 to be the best desktop out there of any sort, that's saying something.

ADUPS is an Android "firmware provisioning" company based out of Shanghai, China. The software specializes both in Big Data collection of Android usage, and hostile app installation and/or firmware control. Google has blacklisted the ADUPS agent in its Android Compatibility Test Suite (CTS).

While recently reading The Innovator's Mindset: Empower Learning, Unleash Talent and Lead, by George Couros, I was struck by the parallels between the author's thinking and that of Jim Whitehurst in The Open Organization: Igniting Passion and Performance. read more

Ceph is an open source storage platform, it provides high performance, reliability, and scalability. In this tutorial, I will show you step-by-step to install and configure a Ceph Block Device client to use Ceph as a filesystem on CentOS 7.

The Christmas holiday is fast approaching and many of us are thinking about ways we can help others, both near and far. The world certainly needs as much help, kindness, and charity as it can get, and some of us give money, or food, and toys to help out. Whatever we can give out of our own abundance to make things just a little bit brighter for someone else. And, what do we have in abundance more than code? read more

A unique trait of open source is that it's never truly EOL (End of Life). The disc images mostly remain online, and their licenses don't expire, so going back and installing an old version of Linux in a virtual machine and getting a precise picture of what progress Linux has made over the years is relatively simple. We begin our journey with Slackware 1.01, posted to the comp.os.linux.announce newsgroup well over 20 years ago. read more

Aaeon’s “COM-APLC6” is a COM Express Compact Type 6 module with an Apollo Lake SoC and 2x SATA, 3x PCIe, 10x USB, 2x MIPI-CSI, and dual display support. After announcing Intel Apollo Lake based products including a 3.5-inch SBC (GENE-APL5), a thin Mini-ITX SBC (EMB-APL1), and a Pico-ITX SBC (PICO-APL1), Aaeon has now unveiled its […]

The task of securing Linux systems is so mind-bogglingly complex and involves so many layers of technology that it can easily overwhelm developers. However, there are some fairly straightforward protections you can use at the very core: the kernel. These hardening techniques help developers guard against the bugs that haven’t yet been detected.

This list of top programming articles from the year on Opensource.com, showcase the depth of the open source community's latest programming interests. If you share my curiosity for even the tiniest steps forward in open source programming tools and tricks, this article's for you.

The special sauce in USMobile, Inc.'s Scrambl3, the mobile app that facilitates "the world's most private calls and messages", is a set of open-source components that create a top-secret-grade VPN, encryption algorithms and internet protocols.

The rugged Kunbus “Revolution Pi” runs on a Raspberry Pi Compute Module, and offers variable power and customizable DIO and gateway modules. While we await the arrival of the quad-core, Cortex-A53 Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3, German embedded manufacturer Kunbus has released an industrial computer based on the original computer-on-module spin on the single-core Raspberry […]

New kernel hardening features can protect against the bugs that are most typically exploited by malware hackers — even if the bug has yet to be detected. The task of securing Linux systems is so mind-bogglingly complex and involves so many layers of technology that it can easily overwhelm developers. However, there are some fairly […]

This tutorial shows you the steps to replace two old hard disks with new (larger) ones when using a software RAID on Debian.

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. As the holiday season nears, OpenStack development typically slows. This will be our last weekly coverage of OpenStack development for 2016, and we look forward to seeing you back in the new year. read more

This was an exciting year for webinars at The Linux Foundation! Our topics ranged from network hardware virtualization to Microsoft Azure to container security and open source automotive, and members of the community tuned in from almost every corner of the globe. The following are the top 5 Linux Foundation webinars of 2016:

The public sector tends to lag—some would say drag—behind the private sector when it comes to adopting new technologies. This is also true when it comes to adopting free software: Although companies widely see free technologies as a boon, government organizations often are still locked into proprietary software and work with closed standards. That said, some countries are making progress moving toward open source technologies. read more

IP problems most commonly involve mixing source code that is licensed under incompatible or conflicting licenses (e.g., proprietary, third-party, and/or open source). Such admixtures may result in companies being forced to release proprietary source code under an open source license, thus losing control of their (presumably) high-value intellectual property and diminishing their capability to differentiate in the marketplace.

The opening ceremony at the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio featured snowboarder Amy Purdy wearing a 3D printed dress, wearing prosthetics printed from the same material as the dress, and dancing with a Kuka robotic arm. read more