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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.

While reviewing the most-read articles on legal topics in open source on Opensource.com this year, I was reminded of the old maxim: The more things change, the more they stay the same. Readers recognize that the problem of patent trolls is certainly not new, and the Supreme Court hasn’t solved it, but creative legislative solutions to address it remain interesting.   read more

In this Special Edition of our weekly open source news roundup, we look back at the top news stories in 2015! I looked most closely at news in the areas of business, government, and hardware. There has also been remarkable news about how open source continues to help make a difference and the world a better place. read more

Angae means "Fog" in Korean. The term is widely used in parts of custom code used by the Red Star OS. We will lift the fog on the internals of North Korea's operating system. Our talk will provide information about how privacy is invaded for all users of Red Star OS and how an operating system designed by a totalitarian dictatorship works.

As far as web server performance is concerned, there are many different factors at play, e.g., front-end application design, network latency/bandwidth, web server configuration, backend caching, raw hardware capability, server load of shared hosting, etc. To compare and optimize web server performance under such a wide array of factors, we often perform load test (or […]Continue reading...

Open source software—software freely shared with the world at large—is an old idea. A guy named Richard Stallman started preaching the gospel in the early ’80s, though he called it free software. Linus Torvalds started work on Linux, the enormously successful open source operating system, in 1991, and today, it drives our daily lives—literally... if there’s one thing we learned in 2015, it’s that we shouldn’t underestimate the power of open source.

Apart from its physical form, a smartphone is indistinguishable to a normal computer so why not treat it as such? Even the oldest smartphones out there are considerably more powerful than desktop computers were even 20 years ago. You can install Debian, a version of the open-source Linux operating system on your device. Then just connect it to a monitor, sync up a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse, and you’re good.

What makes this free solution so interesting is how it comes pre-loaded with Bitcoin and OKCash clients, which should create a smoother out-of-the-box experience for users. Some synchronization for both clients might be needed during the initial startup, so make sure your Raspberry Pi has some external storage on board more than 50GB.

When the Raspberry Pi was first launched things were relatively straightforward – there was just one model to choose from. Fast forward to today, however, and you have no less than four major models to choose from. So, which one is best for your needs?

There are three main areas anyone wanting to get more intimately familiar with the Internet of Things should focus on: devices, cloud and analytics. With such a diversity of skills required, as Darshana Sugathan puts it, there can be no such thing as an "IoT expert."

The Xen Project has reported a new bug, XSA-169, that means "A malicious guest could cause repeated logging to the hypervisor console, leading to a Denial of Service attack." The fix is simple - running only paravirtualised guests - but the bug is a big blunder for another reason.

Options for those lacking a Linux render farm When it comes to video editing, Windows and Mac rule the screen. Professional apps by the likes of Adobe, Avid and Apple only run in the Win/Mac world and Apple even throws in a pretty sophisticated video editor (iMovie) for free.…

Hello, open gaming fans! In this week's edition, we take a look at the Wine 1.8 release, a chance to win a Steam Machine from Feral Interactive, SuperTux's first stable release in a decade, and more. Open gaming roundup for December 19 - 25, 2015 read more

Without some help, the world of OpenStack can be an intimidating space. It seems as if there's always something new to learn, and the corpus grows larger every day. So what's a cloud administrator to do? read more

This year has been another great one for open science. At Opensource.com we published several great stories about open science projects that are changing the way we research, collaborate, and solve problems.

Just as well Azure and Office 365 are growing The last twelve months have been pivotal for Microsoft, the company which once promised to put a PC on every desk but now settles for a vague mission statement about “achieve more”.…

Congatec announced a “Conga-TS170” COM Express Basic module series based on Intel’s 6th Gen (“Skylake”) Core and Xeon processors, and aimed at high performance “server class” apps. Congatec is introducing a series of COM Express Type 6 Basic modules that are available with a selection of Intel’s 14nm 6th Generation Core (“Skylake”) processors, as well […]