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At FOSDEM this weekend KDE is announcing our newest project, KDE neon. Neon will provide a way to get the latest KDE software on the day its released. More than ever people expect a stable desktop with cutting-edge features, all in a package which is easy to use and ready to make their own.

In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at Gizmo from The New York Times, GitLab's new features, OneOps continuous app lifecycle management software from Walmart, and more. Open source news roundup for January 23 - 29, 2016 read more

Element14 has spun an industrial version of the BeagleBone Black with -20 to 85°C support, while BeagleBoard.org is prepping a “BeagleBone Blue” for robots. The Raspberry Pi single board computer has seen numerous spin-offs in recent years, from official Raspberry Pi Foundation models like the Zero to competitive, third-party lookalikes like the Banana Pi and […]

The OpenSSL project has patched a problem in the cryptographic library but one that likely does not affect many popular applications. OpenSSL enables SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) or TLS (Transport Layer Security) encryption. Most websites use it, which is indicated in Web browsers with a padlock symbol.

Whether you're a novice programmer, a seasoned veteran, or not an engineer at all, there are many ways to contribute to open source projects beyond coding. Compared to proprietary software, open source projects tend to be relatively short-handed when it comes to non-engineering contributions, so don't shy away from open source just because you're not a coder. Your blog post or design skills could be much more meaningful to the right project than just another line of code.

Piwik is the leading open source web analytics application, it has been developed to provide an alternative to google-analytics. In this tutorial, I will show you how to install Piwik on ubuntu 15.10 with Nginx web server and PHP 5.6 in php-fpm mode. We will use MariaDB as the database system.

The Fedora Project is pleased to announce the 2016 Flock conference, coming August 2-5, 2016 in Krakow, Poland. At Flock, Fedora contributors gather to promote and discuss ideas to improve our distro, community, and userbase, and promote our core values: Freedom, Friends, Features, First....

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In this video, Jono Bacon describes a singular passion that motivates his career in open source: "Figuring out how we can build strong, inclusive, effective communities that build really cool things." It’s not easy, Bacon says. "It’s really complicated. It’s a mixture of people, process, and technology." And to better understand this mixture, he’s recently turned to a new source of inspiration: behavioral economics, the science of seemingly "irrational" behavior. Bacon tells his audience how this science actually offers a new scaffolding for building communities. read more

Linux has seen more than its fair share of controversy through the years. And, that's not so surprising. For one thing, the operating system flies in the teeth of deeply entrenched multinational companies. The fact that it stands for users instead of vested interests has drawn more than a little ire as well.

Intrinsyc has launched its first SBC: a $165 Open-Q 600 that runs Android 5.1 or Linux on a Snapdragon 600 with 2GB RAM, 16GB eMMC, GbE, WiFi, BT, and GPS. Intrinsyc Technologies has spun a number of Open-Q branded, Qualcomm Snapdragon based computer-on-modules and sandwich-style carrier board starter kits, and now it has launched its […]

Opensource.com asked readers a few months ago: What's the biggest barrier to participation in open source? Answers from 56% of poll takers was that they aren't sure where to start. And, 13% said they are uncomfortable jumping in. If you feel the same way, this post is for you.

In the first tutorial, we have learned how to deploy a new virtual machine from default Azure images. In this tutorial, we are going to find out how we can use our existing virtual machine to duplicate it or save as image for further usage.

Learn the correct location for files under the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) on a Linux system and see how to find important files and commands. You can use the material in this tutorial to study for the LPI 101 exam for Linux system administrator certification, or just to explore file organization and management.

The Linux Foundation announced its 2016 event calendar, and issued a CFP for the Apr. 4-6 Embedded Linux Conference, which features an OpenIoT Summit. It’s once again time to check your calendar to see if you can carve out a few days to network with your geeky peers.

After a recent presentation about agile development, Jen Krieger received that she calls "the most epic conference feedback ever: 'Your talk was poop.'" It stung—but she learned from it. Proponents of agile "have failed to deliver the message in a way the open source community understands," she tells her audience in this video. So Krieger took to the stage to dispel four common myths about agile and "get to the truth of what it’s intended to be." read more

Pagure is a new, full featured git repository service for the web, written in Python. It is similar to other popular git forges like Github and Gitlab, allowing open source contributors to share and collaborate on code and content. By the... Continue Reading →

Learn how to create partitions on a disk drive and how to format them for use on a Linux system as swap or data space. Use the material in this tutorial to study for the Linux Professional Institute LPIC-1: Linux Server Professional Certification exam 101, or just to learn about partitions and Linux filesystems for your own use.

Privacy on the Internet is… well, let's just say it's complicated. In this article, I'll analyze a few open source tools and concepts that you might use to increase privacy on the Internet for yourself. It will not be an exhaustive list of all possible avenues, nor does it pretend to ensure complete privacy even in the fact of a concentrated, personal attack. Some of the tips you will find useful, others you will discard, and still others you might use in conjunction with other policies to construct your own privacy model. read more

Taste the painbow Popular and widely used source-code hosting service GitHub is, for the moment, no longer a widely used source-code hosting service. It has fallen offline.…