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I have dozens of VHS tapes recorded in some cases nearly 30 years ago. I wanted to digitize some of the content and share it with my children via YouTube. I have a digital video camera that's almost ten years old. I also have a VHS/DVD player recorder that I originally purchased to dub these videos. Rather than use the recording deck to create a DVD that I would then use Handbrake to turn into MP4s, I decided to try to use my digital video camera as a passthrough device connected to my laptop. read more

The company behind Mandriva is now gone, but open-source efforts remain

I recall a senior medical doctor once saying that being a practitioner nowadays is much more difficult than ever before, because when people get diagnosed, they go home to search the web, and often come back with tough questions. Open hardware for physiological computing isn’t making it any easier, but it seems like that’s not a bad thing. read more

Today, the KDE Community is happy to announce the release of KDE Applications 15.04.2. More than 30 recorded bugfixes include improvements to Gwenview, Kate, Kdenlive, the Kontact Suite, Konsole, Marble, KGpg, Kig, the KDE Telepathy call UI and Umbrello. In addition to software bugs, issues with translations have also been addressed in this release.

Weren't so sure on the lower specs of the Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition? Then look no further than the upgraded E5 for a better, more powerful Ubuntu Phone

TechNexion expanded its EDM computer-on-module line with models based on new Freescale i.MX6 SoCs, including one with the new, IoT-oriented i.MX6 UltraLite.

Time and time again, we hear of companies achieving rapid acceleration with DevOps. Companies are touting success with the metric of deploys per day, sharing new baselines of 10, 50, or even 100 deploys a day. In more mature organizations, like LinkedIn, Netflix, Etsy, Facebook, and others, this number is a startling 1,000+ number. But, what does this even mean? read more

The Rust programming language is an ambitious project in many ways. With the release of Rust 1.0 on May 15, one might ask, "What's next?" Many words have been written about the technical aspects of how the Rust language achieves its goals of memory safety without garbage collection, but less has been discussed about the project itself and how it is structured. Open source projects are more than just code, and Rust is no exception. read more

Jon Masters tells us the latest in the Linux kernel community, as the merge window for Linux 4.1 closes and work begins towards Linux 4.2

The main motivation for installing voice commands and speech recognition software is to aid in the management of the operating system, in this case, Ubuntu 15.04. For many people with disabilities is also very useful to use the voice as the main enforcer when it comes to the operating system, ie, whether the disabilities were are motor or even visual, software commands via voice is the perfect solution.

When I was a young girl, I remember my dad showing me Linux on his computer. He was showing me what was known then as Red Hat Linux—it was a fresh version of Colgate 4.0 from Best Buy. At that time, I was familiar with Windows 95 and knew how to use a computer, but Linux was new to me. It looked like a bunch of code and too technical. So, it was many years later, in January of 2009, that I finally made the switch. This is my Linux story. read more

We are proud to announce the official release of Fedora 22 for POWER, the community-driven and community-built operating system now available in Cloud and Server editions.

Congatec’s “Conga-QA4″ Qseven COM is based on Intel’s 14nm “Braswell” Pentium and Celeron SoCs, and offers MIPI-CSI, dual SATA ports, and 4K video. Like Congatec’s Conga-QA3 and Qseven Headless, the new Conga-QA4 computer-on-module runs Linux or Windows on Intel processors and adopts the 70 x 70mm Qseven format. Whereas the earlier modules supported Atom E3800 […]

In yet another testament of the awful state of home router security, a group of security researchers uncovered more than 60 vulnerabilities in 22 router models from different vendors, most of which were distributed by ISPs to customers.

Although the technology itself has been around for a while, RSS is still the way most people consume Web content. When Google Reader was ended a few years back, there was a scramble to find the perfect alternative. You may remember my series of articles on Tiny Tiny RSS, Comma Feed and a handful of other Google Reader wannabes.

Axiomtek’s “CAPA840? SBC supports Atom E3800 SoCs, and offers -20 to 70°C support, wide-range power, dual mini-PCIe, and a “ZIO” connector for I/O modules.

We created Firefox to give people choice and control of their Web experience and we’re always adding more ways to personalize your Firefox. Firefox is made by a non-profit organization and a global community dedicated to Mozilla’s mission of promoting … Continue reading

In an open organization, measuring performance for particular roles like community managers may not be straightforward, especially when comparing those roles to others with more defined success metrics, goals, and outcomes. In my experience over the past six years, I've worked closely with my manager to make sure that we are in sync with my objectives and what I need to do in order to maximize my impact in my role as a community manager. read more

FireFox and Chromium are the two most popular open source browsers, though there are actually thousands out there. And what about the non-open browsers? Let's hash it out. What is it about browsers that make them so useful? What features do you like best? read more

Open source software is changing academic research, enabling new discoveries and innovation in ways that were previously impossible. Every month I take a look at open source tools you can use in your digital humanities research and some humanities research projects that are using open source tools today. read more