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2016: a Long Year - I know you're expecting a sarcastic comment about an election year in the US making it seem longer than normal, but no, 2016 is literally a longer year than most.

Five new Linux Kernel releases debuted in 2015, including a major number release

The intersection of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math), open educational resources (OER), and computer programming is the focus of a number of the articles published on Opensource.com in 2015. They highlight a growing interest in all three areas where students, parents, and educators have the opportunity to immerse themselves in education as never before. read more

Ian Murdock was a Linux original. He was the "ian" in Debian, which he founded in 1993 while still an undergrad at Purdue.

Just prior to his death, Murdock had started sending increasingly erratic tweets from his Twitter account.

There are different ways to manage virtual machines (VMs) running on KVM hypervisor. For example, virt-manager is a popular GUI-based front-end for VM management. However, if you would like to use KVM on a headless server, GUI-based solutions will not be ideal. In fact, you can create and manage KVM VMs purely from the command […]Continue reading...

2015 has been a great year for open source and Linux gaming. The number of Linux games continues to grow, and Steam Machines finally hit the market on November 10. So, with the end of the year closing in, I’d like to give you my picks for the top five open games.

Just let that settle in. Google appears to be lining up OpenJDK – an open-source implementation of the Java platform – for future Android builds.

I recently was talking to someone over IRC who was helping me with a PHP app that was giving me trouble. The extremely helpful individual asked me to let him know the value of a certain field in a record on my MySQL server. I embarrassingly admitted that I'd have to install something like PHPMyAdmin or Adminer in order to find that information.

Fedora Security Lab is probably one of the most unknown Fedora Labs for the public. It is typically used for a very specific task. But what exactly is that task? This article aims to answer that question! Security Lab and cyber... Continue Reading →

At this year's Blender Conference, the Blender Institute released its latest open movie project, Glass Half. You can watch the full three minutes of this short animation in all its glory right here. read more

2015 was a year of many new open source projects hitting the scene with a splash. From enterprise solutions to home brewed open source concoctions, many of the projects released as open source software this year have made a huge impact on the world of computing in a very short amount of time. While flash stardom isn't always the best predictor of longevity, we think these 10 projects just might have come onto the scene with enough momentum to continue their success in the new year. You might call this list our most likely to succeed in 2016. read more

Personal data and non-public information on almost 60 percent of US citizens was available online because of a misconfigured database.

For this article, I thought it would be beneficial to go back to some basics of shell scripting and look at how functions work. Most script writers probably eschew using functions because it's a bit antithetical to how scripts tend to evolve, as a sequence of commands on the command line that are captured in a file.

Linux is increasingly the OS of choice for mobile devices, hacker boards, IoT, home automation, consumer gadgets, drones, robots, wearables, cars, and more. The roughly 15-year-old experiment called Embedded Linux has by several accounts surpassed real-time OSes and Windows Embedded in recent years. If you include phones, tablets, and consumer electronics using the Linux-based Android, […]

Docker sparked the trend in software containers less than two years ago. And since its modest presentation at PyCon in 2013, the startup has vaulted to a value of nearly one billion dollars, drawn 2,500 attendees to DockerCon, and its namesake technology has become a marketable skill to have, entering Hacker News' top 20 most frequently requested job skills.

We recently interviewed Kevin Fenzi on how he uses Fedora. This is part of a series on the Fedora Magazine where we profile Fedora users and how they use Fedora to get things done. If you are interested in being... Continue Reading →

Looking back at 2015, there have been many projects created by the Docker community that have advanced the developer experience. Although choosing among all the great contributions is hard, here are 10 "cool tools" that you should be using if you are looking for ways to expand your knowledge and use of Docker. read more

During 2015, there were more than $100 billion worth of mergers and acquisitions in the semiconductor market, writes Alexandru Voica in this guest column. ? Semiconductors buyers club: the mergers and acquistions of 2015 by Alex Voica This year we’ve seen unprecedented consolidation in the technology market. The story that perhaps best defined 2015 was […]

Are you managing a server running a blog or content website and expecting or experiencing a massive number of requests? I have been in this situation recently myself, running a WordPress instance on a single virtual machine that suddenly got over 30,000 requests in just a single day.