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I saw Moriel Schottlender give a talk about this topic at linux.conf.au 2016 in Geelong last month and asked her to submit an article about it. When you watch her talk video and read her article, you'll see why I couldn't take proper notes to write about the talk, so I'm glad she contributed her story directly to us instead. —Rikki Endsley   read more

Bridge the gap between books and videogames by creating an interactive novel or choose-your-own-adventure with Python and pygame

Over the past several weeks, Mozilla has been running an educational campaign about encryption. We believe it’s essential for everyday Internet users to better understand the technology that helps keep the Web a more secure platform. So far, we’ve explored encryption’s … Continue reading

It's an open-source switch OS for clouds OCP Summit Put down your coffee gently. Microsoft will today release a homegrown open-source operating system, based on none other than Debian GNU/Linux, for network switches.…

Collaborating on scholarly research projects can sometimes become complicated and disorganized. For example, using Flickr for sharing and commenting on images while communicating via email and editing documents together in Google Docs works, but it places information about the research in way too many places. read more

The most popular integrated development environments, Eclipse and Visual Studio, are coming together.

Congatec’s “Conga-IC170” is a Linux-ready thin Mini-ITX board with 6th Gen dual-core Intel Core CPUs, up to 32GB DDR4-2133, and a wide-range power supply. Congatec, which was early to announce COM Express modules based on Intel’s 14nm, 6th Generation Core (“Skylake”) processors, has now rolled out a thin Mini-ITX Skylake board. The 170 x 170 […]

security researchers say there are other options, like “de-capping” the phone’s memory chip to access it outside the phone (which Snowden has also mentioned), or resetting the phone’s internal counter so that you can guess the passwords as many times as you want. Those techniques are hard and expensive and could destroy the phone, experts say — but have worked in the past.

For years, the benefits of open source code development have been self-evident to the software development community: Transparency leads to collaboration, and collaboration leads to better and more secure code. The scientific community is just starting to understand these benefits. read more

Warns Java may not see 30th birthday if 'corporate drones' prevail Java evangelist Reza Rahman has left Oracle, to help save Java.…

Mattermost is an open source, self-hosted Slack-alternative. Mattermost is modern communication behind your firewall. This Howto explains the installation of Mattermost on CentOS7 using PostgreSQL as a database backend.

LeMaker’s “Cello” is a $299, server-oriented single board computer with a quad-core Cortex-A57 AMD A1100 SoC and a 96Boards Enterprise Edition form factor. This first SBC to use 96Boards.org’s “96Boards Enterprise Edition” form-factor will soon arrive with a 64-bit, quad-core, ARM Cortex-A57 AMD Opteron A1100 system-on-chip.

Microsoft, as well as its partners, Canonical and Red Hat, are in earnest with bringing SQL Server to Ubuntu and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

We do Linux. We do Java. Second surprise in a week from the Windows company. Microsoft is joining the Eclipse Foundation as a Solutions Member, according to an announcement today at the EclipseCon event in Reston, Virginia.…

There is and always shall be order in the universe. All things have order of some form. When we observe the murmuration of birds (flying in a swarm like pattern), we at first see chaos, but then as we observe more closely we note form. Rarely ever do these birds collide in air. It is amazing to watch literally hundreds if not thousands of birds flying in a clump and moving in unison. read more

Architect for failure, sure, but know that it will never be easy QCon London At the QCon Developer conference underway in London, William Hill's R&D Engineering Lead Gavin Stevenson told attendees that they should celebrate IT failures.…

The next version of ownCloud, the personal cloud server, adds enterprise-level scalability and collaboration improvements.

You'd be hard pressed to find someone who wouldn't agree that design for open source projects in a broad sense (websites, materials, logos, and so on) couldn't use a bit of... finesse. Or perhaps, just a touch more forethought and a good designer on hand. Bermon Painter and his collegues in the field of design and user experience know this all too well and are trying to change the way designers contribute to and participate in open source projects.

Linaro released Android Open Source Project code for the octacore HiKey SBC. This is Linaro’s first AOSP build that will be maintained within the AOSP common tree. ARM-backed Linaro, a collaborative engineering organization for developing open source ARM software, announced the new AOSP (Android Open Source Project) release for the 96Boards-compatible HiKey SBC at Linaro […]

All interested students are encouraged to begin working with the KDE community. The KDE GSOC guide is a good place for students to start before beginning to create their proposals. The KDE community creates software in teams; students should find a team working on software they want to help with, get to know team members, familiarize themselves with the code-base, and start fixing bugs.