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Adobe, maker of such renowned proprietary products as Flash Player and Creative Suite, has hired a career open-sourcer to lead mobile marketing.

Open gaming roundup Week of November 8 - 14, 2014 Hello, open gaming fans! In this week's edition, we take a look at Gamebuino's Arduino console, Oculus VR's SDK for mobile release, women in gaming, and more! read more

Congatec announced a “Qseven Headless” module based on a new 1.33GHz Intel Atom E3805 SoC that lacks graphics, but has a TDP of only 3 Watts. Congatec’s first-ever “headless” computer-on-module — designed for embedded applications that don’t require displays — debuts the most power efficient Intel Atom processor yet, with a Thermal Design Power rating of just three Watts. Intel quietly released the 1.33GHz Atom E3805 system-on-chip last month, according to Gadget-Help.

Fedora is a big project, and it’s hard to keep up with everything that goes on. This series highlights interesting happenings in five different areas every week. It isn’t comprehensive news coverage — just quick summaries with links to each. Here are the five things for November 14th, 2014.

I really stink at video games. I write about gaming occasionally, but the truth of the matter is, I'm just not very good. If we play Quake, you'll frag me just about as often as I respawn. I don't have great reflexes, and my coordination is horrible.

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Mozilla, the mission-based organization dedicated to promoting openness, innovation and opportunity on the Web, is happy to announce that Cherry Mobile will launch the first Firefox OS smartphone in the Philippines in the coming days. Cherry Mobile will offer the … Continue reading

Open Food Week on Opensource.com Starting on November 17, we will run stories from the open food community about how people are using open source software and methods used to improve farming, food, and agriculture systems. read more

One thing that we all may have had the chance to learn in either easy or hard ways is that the importance of backups can never be underestimated. Considering that there are as many backup methods as the number of fish in the sea, you may wonder how you can effectively choose the right tool […]Continue reading... The post How to perform system backup with backup-manager on Linux appeared first on Xmodulo. No related FAQ.

In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at Firefox's 10 anniversary, Microsoft open sources more of .NET, copyleft.org announced, and more! Open source news for your reading pleasure. November 8 - 14, 2014 read more

Google is gradually rolling out the fifth major iteration of its Android operating system, codenamed Lollipop, to some lucky devices – and has made the firmware available for the tech-savvy to download and install.

Zero day actually refers to two things-a zero-day vulnerability or a zero-day exploit. Zero-day vulnerability refers to a security hole in software-such as browser software or operating system software-that is yet unknown to the software maker or to antivirus vendors.

Installation and configuration of Drupal on CentOS 7 This document describes the installation and configuration of Drupal on CentOS 7. Drupal is an open source content management platform powering millions of websites and applications. It’s built, used, and supported by an active and diverse community of people around the world.

Claims Aurora db offers 5x performance for pennies Amazon fired a volley at Oracle and other relational database vendors on Wednesday, with the launch of a new, cloud-hosted database service that it says can deliver better performance than on-premises installations at a fraction of the cost.…

OpenSUSE 13.2 minimal server Installation This is a detailed description about how to set up an OpenSUSE 13.2 64bit (x86_64) minimal server. This setup will be used as basis for various other OpenSuSE tutorials at howtoforge like our perfect server series.

At the core of the open source spirit, there is a conviction that knowledge and skill development ought to be at the reach of everybody. We are driven by a radical spirit of inclusion and embracement of everyone’s abilities. We refuse to exclude others from access to information, knowledge, tools—and above everything, from the enjoyment of experiencing and building things together in a community. It is curious and exciting to find such drive as well in the burgeoning communities of GroupMuse, a new social network that is determined to bring three-dimensional classical music human players physically into to your living room. read more

Cloud-flinger Rackspace has joined Microsoft’s new army of cloud service providers. Rackspace is now running Microsoft’s Cloud Platform at all of its US data centres

Microsoft, fixin' to broaden the appeal of its .Net software development platform, has committed to delivering a new version of the toolset that is not only language agnostic but also cross-platform and entirely open source.

Today Microsoft announced that the .NET core framework, which powers web applications using the ASP.NET libraries, will be open source on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. But what are the implications for Mono, the existing open source project which already provides .NET support on Linux and the Mac?

Microsoft showered application developers with new tools on Wednesday, including a preview of the next release of Visual Studio and an all new version of the IDE that offers the full flexibility and extensibility of the flagship Visual Studio product, free of charge.