Showing headlines posted by bob

You really can stop calling me Opera Jon now. Interview Hats off to any woman or man who is fighting the dumbing down of software.

Within the next decade, the number of individuals with access to the Internet will rise to five billion. These billions of new users, many from emerging markets, have the potential to experience unprecedented personal, civic and economic opportunity online.

In this week's Top 5, we highlight Stephen Walli's 12 memes to explain open source software, an introduction to Picademy, Matthew Tift's thoughts on whether Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) are good or bad for the web, a question from resident-question-asker-and-answer-seeker Jason Baker on what you'll use to deploy your next big application, and an interview with Jess Portnoy, a PHP developer working on the monitoring tool JaM. read more

Apple, Microsoft, are you listening? Interview Which platform will the next billion people on the internet use? Is it more likely to be Microsoft’s Windows squeezed onto low-cost mobile hardware, or a mobile OS given some steroids? Three former Google executives are betting it's the latter.…

Bryan Lunduke is well known in free software circles. He's a writer of books and Network World articles. He co-founded the Linux Action Show and is a co-host of the Bad Voltage podcast. In between hobbies, he has a day job doing marketing for SUSE and serving on the openSUSE board. read more

System engineers in aerospace, defense, automotive, transportation and rail, not to mention embedded software developers across disciplines, will be drawn to the ideas in Dr Bruce Douglass' new book Agile Sy

For this tutorial, we will use the Whale Docker image. The Whale is the official mascot of Docker and the Whale docker image resembles the cowsay program which generates ASCII pictures of a cow in the terminal with a message. It can also generate pictures using pre-made images of other animals, such as Tux the Penguin, the Linux mascot.

In my article on how to set up a Linux-based music server at home, I mentioned that I have two CuBox-i4 cube computers, using the Volumio music system, serving music in my home. read more

Teaching students to participate in open source communities can be difficult. Teaching teachers to teach students to participate in open source communities can be even more challenging. read more

Supposed you wanted to install a device driver for a new graphics card or a network interface card that you purchased, and for whatever reason (e.g., missing kernel driver, outdated driver version, non-common build options), you decided to compile and install the driver module from the source yourself. So you went ahead and downloaded the ...

The Linux Foundation has posted slide presentations from this week’s Embedded Linux Conference, which featured the first ever ELC keynote by Linus Torvalds. In case you missed this week’s North American Embedded Linux Conference and OpenIoT Summit in San Diego, you’ll be happy to know that videos of the live streamed event will be released […]

Axiomtek’s “ICO310” is a Linux-ready, DIN-rail field controller and IoT gateway, featuring a Braswell CPU, -20 to 60°C support, IP40, and PoE PD. Axiomtek bills its ICO310 as the industry’s first field controller with PoE PD (Power over Ethernet Powered Device), which lets you power the device over one of its dual GbE ports. The […]

'Insider' update includes Linux along with new Skype, dark theme and more. Microsoft's latest "Insider" Windows 10 preview Build 14316, includes the Windows Subsystem for Linux along with a flurry of other new features.

Canonical has released an update that patches four bugs that, including one that could cause an attacker to execute code. Ubuntu users have been notified of a reasonably pressing update to install that addresses four security issues, though none are remotely exploitable. The bugs affect Ubuntu 14.04 Long Term Support (LTS), which gets five years of coverage.

Hackers are using malware which targets Linux to build botnets to launch distributed denial of service (DDoS attacks) security researchers have warned.

The newest Windows 10 Fast Ring release, 14316, includes Ubuntu and Bash. It may not have a Linux foundation, but this is close as a Windows PC has ever come to also being a Linux computer.

Switching from Windows to Linux is easier than ever. There was a time when running Linux required a lot of CLI know-how and confidence, but today's graphical environments are extremely user-friendly and responsive.

This tutorial explains how you can integrate ClamAV into PureFTPd for virus scanning on a CentOS 7 system. In the end, whenever a file gets uploaded through PureFTPd, ClamAV will check the file and delete it if it contains a virus or malware.

This year at the Percona Live Data Performance Conference, I'll be discussing Vitess. Vitess is an open source storage platform for scaling MySQL databases, which is optimized for use in both the cloud and on dedicated hardware. Vitess was created by YouTube in 2011, and is a distributed, cloud-based storage solution that exhibits some of the best properties of a relational database. read more

The workday is winding down. You and your significant other have a dinner reservation, so you're eager to get home. And that's when the email arrives. "I need to include one more report in my meeting with the execs tomorrow," it says. "I've attached some spreadsheets. Can you write me something to calculate the [irrelevant, obscure business term]?" You start thinking about what you'll need to get this done. If you only know a compiled language like C# or Java, the list probably goes something like this: read more