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Like most things these days, modern atmospheric science is all about big data.

CompuLab announced a module based on TI’s new Cortex-A15 based Sitara AM57x SoC, with options for onboard wireless, 32GB flash, and -40 to 85°C operation.

The Werewolf is coming soon. Robolinux has been making a name for itself as a slick Linux distro for those looking to run a virtual machine.

This July, the OpenStack community celebrated five years of open cloud collaboration. It's now a global community of more than 500 organizations and 30,000 individual members across 166 countries. OpenStack has nearly four million lines of code and powers the clouds of some of world's largest brands, including AT&T, Disney, PayPal, and Walmart. read more

Interested in keeping track of what's happening in the open source cloud? Opensource.com is your source for news in OpenStack, the open source cloud infrastructure project, in this special Liberty-release edition of our weekly OpenStack news. read more

Sam Aaron is a live coder who considers programming a performance. He created Sonic Pi, an open source live coding synthesizer that lets people use code to compose and perform in classical and contemporary styles ranging from canons to dubstep. By day, Aaron works as a research associate at the University of Cambridge. By night, he codes music for people to dance to. read more

A large amount of scientific research is published in scientific journals, and there has been a lot of debate around offering open access to these articles, along with the underlying data, software, and methods. There is a new journal that launched recently with the goal of going beyond traditional scientific publishing by encompassing all outputs of the research cycle. read more

We've spent the week talking about catalyzing direction and what leaders in open organizations do differently. A lively Twitter chat with Thomas Cameron, Charlene Li, Marten Mickos, Marco Bill Peter, and many others provided outstanding takeaways. Let's look at a few of them to see if we can derive any best practices or new ideas. read more

I discovered AsciiDoc while writing Learn Linux in a Month of Lunches. AsciiDoc is a fantastically thorough markup language for writing books—think Markdown, but with more options, such as sidebars, notes, and tables. AsciiDoc lets you just type, with simple syntax controlling the formatting. read more

The transformation of any idea into a thriving culture that disrupts the status quo is attributed to the zeal of the people at the center of that idea. It is the conviction and the unwavering commitment of the community that pushes forward an idea into something that can bring about a change.

In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at community-oriented GPL enforcement, the ONOS project partnering with the Linux Foundation, an open source mod for making music with Texas Instruments calculators, and more!

Hello, open gaming fans! In this week's edition, we take a look at Minecraft: Story Mode Linux rumors, a hands-on with the Alienware Steam Machine, and more.

This week Jen Wike Huger is reporting from the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, so I've rounded up our weekly Top 5 for October 12-16, 2015.

Ka-Ro’s “TX6UL” is an SODIMM-style COM that runs Linux on an i.MX6 UltraLite, supports industrial temperatures, and offers 4GB eMMC and secure boot options. Considering all the announcements of i.MX6 UltraLite based computer-on-modules over the summer, one might think that Ka-Ro’s TX6UL is behind the times.

Config Server Firewall / CSF is firewall application suite for Linux servers. CSF is also a Login/Intrusion Detection for applications like SSH, SMTP, IMAP, Pop3, the "su" command and many more. This tutorial will show the installation of CSF on CentOS 7 and guide you trough the first steps to use this powerful application suite.

Modular Android smartwatches and smartphones are around the corner, as evidenced by new devices coming soon from Blocks and Fairphone.

In last month's article, we learned the finer points of exporting video for a sound mix. If you're at the point of a sound mix in your production, you should have these assets: read more

Red Hat product manager Burr Sutter, Java Champion, always seems to find himself in a space of cutting edge innovation. It's no surprise that he is one of the mad geniuses behind the show-stopping on-stage demos at Red Hat's annual Summit. At All Things Open this year, Burr will highlight technology that links the physical world to the Internet and showcase how the Internet of Things (IoT) will change the way we think. Hopefully his talk will inspire you to not only figure out where to start, but also to do your own awesome things. read more

Torch and pitchfork time after Redmond force-feeds update. Did you notice Microsoft being a bit too eager to push its Windows 10 update onto your PC lately?

YouTube's CEO Susan Wojcicki delivered a powerful keynote this morning to thousands of attendees at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, which is being held this week in Houston. She started with, "My daughter told me she doesn't like computers."