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CityCamp NC, now in its fifth year, brings an entrepreneurial spirit to citizen-problem solving. CityCamp NC is an annual, citizen-led unconference, aiming to solve civic challenges with open technology and community input. We aim to partner with our local, county, and state government agencies to tackle issues and discuss better ways to do things. read more

Nagios is an open source software for system and network monitoring. Nagios can see the activity of a host and its services, and provides a warning/alert if something bad happens on the server. Nagios can run on Linux operating systems. At this time we are using Ubuntu 15.04 for the installation.

Docker, the popular open-source container company, has started a certification and partner program: Ecosystem Technology Partner.

Adlink, MSC, Nexcom, and Portwell have all launched COM Express Type 6 modules built around 14nm Intel “Braswell” SoCs, and offering up to 4K video support. COM Express Type 6 is typically the first module form factor to launch with new x86 processors, and Intel’s new 14nm-fabricated “Braswell” Pentium and Celeron SoCs are no different. […]

Docker, the popular open-source container company, has started a certification and partner program: Ecosystem Technology Partner.

Acrosser’s latest ruggedized vehicle PC is only 35mm tall, runs Linux on a 3rd Gen Core with 16GB RAM, and offers extensive I/O including optional wireless. The AIV-HM76V1FL is said to be Acrosser’s first slim vehicle mount computer, and is aimed at taxis, police cars, ambulances, firetrucks, heavy duty trucks, buses, construction vehicles, and trains. […]

Although the title might sound like some new-fangled tech jargon, I'm actually referring to a fairly simple Android app called "Unclouded." If you're a Dropbox user who also has things stored in Google Drive, Unclouded is a single interface to multiple file syncing backends.

Red Hat is adding new web development tools, dynamic languages and databases, and support for multiple language versions and, oh yes, Docker container support.

Scilab is a free and Open Source software for numerical computation providing a powerful computing environment for engineering and scientific applications.

Canonical has used a variety of content management systems throughout the years, including Drupal and Zope, and a large number of our websites have run on WordPress; in fact, many still do. Our developer portal was one of these standard WordPress instances, which worked well enough for a simple website that didn't get very heavy traffic, but we began to outgrow it. read more

Encrypted email has long been a complicated problem to solve, but a combination of Internet titans and innovative startups are working to make it practical for real people.

Editing in Kdenlive is done both in the monitors and in the timeline. Your initial cuts are made while reviewing your footage and placing clips into the timeline in the order that you want your movie to be seen. Once the initial cut is done, though, most of your time will be spent in the timeline. It doesn't take long to get comfortable working in the timeline, but it does take a little bit of work to get efficient. read more

Even as the US government bids adieu to Clipper Chip, an infamous episode that influenced the cryptography debate for years, there is renewed focus in a number of quarters that it should not repeated. read more

Not exactly a big push, reviving concerns that it's in trouble WWDC 2015 Apple didn't so much launch as absent-mindedly nudge its HomeKit smart home technology this week at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC).…

Free Electrons has posted free detailed training materials for its course on building an embedded Linux project on a BeagleBone Black SBC using Buildroot. Last November, Linux training firm Free Electrons posted free training materials for a three-day training course on building an embedded Linux project using Yocto Project and OpenEmbedded. Now, the company has […]

In Fedora 22, one of the new features from the Cloud SIG is a project called Tunir. It is a very simple system which can be used to test Fedora Cloud images, or it can be used to test any normal software project using the Cloud images or bare metal systems.

Version 2.0 to have free, open compiler and standard library. WWDC 2015 Apple will release version 2.0 of its Swift programming language as open source.

Because you're a reader of Linux Journal, you probably already know that Linux has a rich virtualization ecosystem. KVM is the de facto standard, and VirtualBox is widely used for desktop virtualization. Veterans should remember Xen (it's still in a good shape, by the way), and there is also VMware (which isn't free but runs on Linux as well).

Peppermint combines Ubuntu Linux with Google's Chromium Web browser and cloud services for a modern take on the desktop.

As the name suggest 'Very Secure File Transfer Protocol Deamon' (VSFTPD) is one of the most secure FTP daemons available, vsftpd is used as the default FTP server in the Ubuntu, CentOS, Fedora, NimbleX, Slackware and RHEL Linux distributions.