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F23 NetworkManager Test Day August 20th!

  • Fedora Magazine (Posted by bob on Aug 14, 2015 1:33 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Fedora; Story Type: News Story
Fedora 23 is scheduled to be released at the end of the October. Among many other improvements, this release will include a new version of NetworkManager, a service that manages network connectivity. We’ve been busy fixing bugs and adding functionality,... Continue Reading →

Waving the open source flag in Austrailia

Aimee Maree Forsstrom is an early open source advocate, who has worked in IT since 2000 building new code management practices for government and enterprise. Forsstrom is a current board member of OSIA (Open Source Industry Australia). She will be speaking at LinuxCon North America, with her talk titled Waving the open source flag in government—the highs, lows, and community code. We caught up with her, to talk about her work, bringing open source to governments. And, also, about her upcoming talk at LinuxCon, why open source code requires a community approach, and which challenges this brings. read more

Learn Linux, 101: Hard disk layout

  • IBM developerWorks : Linux (Posted by bob on Aug 14, 2015 9:44 AM EDT)
  • Groups: IBM, Linux; Story Type: News Story
Learn how to design a partition layout for disks on a Linux system. Use the material in this tutorial to study for the Linux Professional Institute LPIC-1: Linux Server Professional Certification exam 101, or to learn for fun.

diff -u: What's New in Kernel Development

Linus Torvalds reported on some GCC compiler warnings that he felt were unnecessary, and he gave his opinion on how they should work instead. Specifically, GCC 5.1 would issue a warning against using a switch statement with a boolean variable, presumably because a boolean would be better handled by a simple if statement.

NPD: Chromebooks outsell Windows laptops

  • ZDNet | Linux and Open Source RSS (Posted by bob on Aug 14, 2015 4:01 AM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux, Tablets; Story Type: News Story
For businesses, tablets are on the decline and laptops are rising once again. And Chromebooks aren't just for consumers looking for cheap laptops.

How to install ProFTPd with TLS support on Ubuntu 15.04

  • Howtoforge Linux Howtos und Tutorials (Posted by bob on Aug 13, 2015 8:24 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Ubuntu, Linux; Story Type: News Story
FTP is a very insecure protocol because all passwords and all data are transferred in clear text. By using TLS, the whole communication can be encrypted, thus making FTP much more secure. This article explains how to set up ProFTPd with TLS on an Ubuntu 15.04 server, how to add an FTP user and to use FileZilla to connect securely with TLS.

Opening up computers to millions of individuals with disabilities

  • Opensource.com (Posted by bob on Aug 13, 2015 5:32 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
According to the latest numbers from the World Health Organization, over a billion people in the world live with some sort of disability. Addressing the various accommodations, abilities, and disabilities of the world's largest minority may seem like a daunting task for developers of all stripes, but Colin Fulton is up for it. He wants to change the way accessibility is viewed and perceived in the Linux and open source communities. read more

Go wide: Open source advocacy on Twitter

  • Opensource.com (Posted by bob on Aug 13, 2015 3:38 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Wisely used, Twitter can be an outstanding tool for getting the word out about open source solutions. Too often, though, I see open source enthusiasts retweeting tweets from open source enthusiasts to their own followers, who are predominantly open source enthusiasts. read more

Goodbye Henry Ford, hello open organization

  • Opensource.com (Posted by bob on Aug 13, 2015 10:52 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
The decision to pursue an MBA is a major one, and people make it for many reasons: the opportunity to refocus your career (even change it completely), the chance to prove yourself as a future business leader, a guaranteed way to quickly grow your professional network, and, most of all, the educational opportunity to learn new skills from business leaders and professors. read more

Six-port net appliance runs Yocto on Braswell

Aaeon’s rugged “FWS-2260″ network appliance runs Yocto Linux on a 14nm Intel “Braswell” SoC and has six GbE ports, SATA and CFast, and dual mini-PCIe slots. The FWS-2260 desktop networking appliance was briefly announced last month in conjunction with Aaeon’s 3.5-inch GENE-BSW5 SBC, which similarly runs Yocto Linux on Intel’s new 14nm Pentium and Celeron […]

A comprehensive guide to Dolphin, a KDE file manager

Dolphin has been the default file manager for the KDE desktop since Fedora 10. Other distributions that use KDE as a desktop option also use it as their default file manager. It's very powerful and provides some very advanced features.

Mozilla flings glove at Microsoft's feet: Firefox 40 will PWN Edge

This week's edition tightens screw on dodgy add-ons – and Windows 10. Mozilla has released Firefox 40, featuring a new look for Windows 10, better protection against uncertified add-ons, and an attempt to resist Microsoft’s effort to make Edge the default browser.

Love for Perl unites diverse community

I've used Perl for several years, beginning in 2002 on Solaris, then moving to Debian and working on Koha in 2008.

Would you hire a hacker who hacked your website?

A lot of companies now offer bug bounties in the form of cash, gear, or recognition to folks who find flaws in their sites or code. The taboo over hiring hackers has pretty much faded away. But, how they went about it, and how they disclosed, would make a lot of difference to me.

Red Hat Satellite 6.1 finally arrives

  • ZDNet | Linux and Open Source RSS; By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Posted by bob on Aug 13, 2015 12:42 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux, Red Hat
The new version of Red Hat's systems management program brings significant upgrades in three key areas.

Canonical and Microsoft working together on containers

Will every Ubuntu server soon be ready to work with Windows and Azure LXD-based container services?

Hardkernel tweaks its popular Odroid-C1 Pi clone

Hardkernel launched a $37 Odroid-C1+ SBC that updates its $35 C1 with a full-sized HDMI, heatsink, I2S audio, and USB power, but keeps the quad-core SoC. Hardkernel’s Odroid project is shipping a replacement for its community-backed Odroid-C1 single-board computer, which debuted last December, and came in fourth place in this June’s LinuxGizmos/Linux.com Linux/Android SBC reader […]

Make Fedora 23 Beautiful – Contribute Your Wallpaper

  • Fedora Magazine (Posted by bob on Aug 12, 2015 8:46 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Fedora; Story Type: News Story
Fedora 23 development is moving on and the time to release is not long anymore, so it is time to open the submission phase for Fedora 23 Supplemental Wallpapers. What are supplemental wallpapers? Supplemental wallpapers are the non-default wallpapers provided... Continue Reading →

Bounce Around IRC with ZNC

In my discussion on IRC with "bkidwell" (see the Non-Linux FOSS article for more on our talk), we were discussing how we connect to IRC. My main method is to SSH in to my co-located Raspberry Pi in Austria and connect to a screen session I have running that is constantly connected to IRC with Irssi. This works really well for me, and I never miss messages when I'm away.

The State of Fedora: 2015 Edition

  • Fedora Magazine (Posted by bob on Aug 12, 2015 7:11 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Fedora; Story Type: News Story
Fedora’s third Flock conference kicked off Wednesday morning with a keynote by Matthew Miller, the Fedora Project Leader (FPL). How’s Fedora doing? Says Miller, “The actual state of Fedora is awesome, we’re doing very well as a project and it’s... Continue Reading →

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