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GitHub.io killed the distro star: Why are people so bored with the top Linux makers?

LinuxCon 2014 Matthew Miller is a little concerned. As the new project leader for the Fedora Linux distribution, he thinks Fedora 20 is great and Fedora 21, when it ships, will be the best release ever. But he worries that to everyone else, Fedora – and Linux distros in general – are getting a little, well … boring.…

The push for interoperability, an OpenStack card deck, and more

  • Opensource.com; By Jason Baker (Posted by bob on Aug 26, 2014 1:29 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Roundups; Groups: Cloud
Interested in keeping track of what's happening in the open source cloud? Opensource.com is your source for what's happening right now in OpenStack, the open source cloud infrastructure project.

First Firefox OS Smartphones Available in India this Week

We are happy to announce that Intex Technologies just introduced the Cloud FX as the first Firefox OS smartphone available in India. Intex will offer the Cloud FX exclusively on Snapdeal.com to give their customers a powerful and customizable smartphone .

China hopes home-grown OS will oust Microsoft

Doesn't much like Apple or Google, either The world's about to get a new operating system, if reports out of China are correct: the Middle Kingdom hopes to kick off its own operating system in October 2014.…

China Developing Its Own OS To Take On Apple, Microsoft, and Google

If it hasn't been made clear enough in recent months that China would love nothing more than to cut down on its reliance to American technology companies, its just-announced decision to create its own operating system should remedy that. It seems very likely that China's OS would use Linux as a base, since there's little point in reinventing the wheel, and because of its open-source nature, the country would have complete control over the code.

Programming in Rust

Discover Rust, the systems programming language developed by Mozilla that’s fast, and wants to be better than C and C++!

Linux Supplier Red Hat Is Set for Strong Gains

Despite the fact that Linux supplier Red Hat has got off to a slow start this year, things are going to improve for the organization. Red Hat as of late posted robust results, outperforming estimates in a sluggish quarter, and saw positive arrangement action. The organization has recovered its score, and is reporting solid development despite rivalry from Microsoft and Oracle.

Top 5 articles of the week: Clocker, Docker, and Raspberry Pi

Every week, I tally the numbers and listen to the buzz to bring you the best of last week's open source news and stories on Opensource.com. read more

Is Open Source Becoming the De Facto Standard of the Data Center?

  • B2C; By Lacey Thoms (Posted by bob on Aug 24, 2014 1:40 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Editorial
It appears that might very well be the case following the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) Industry Specifications Group’s decision to move forward with an open source project designed to meet that end. The group hopes that open source solutions can be leveraged to provide businesses with the interoperability in their data centers that previously resulted from standardization.

Meet Sascha Meinrath - Akademy Keynote Speaker

A few weeks ago, the keynote speakers for Akademy were announced. KDE is fortunate to have Sascha Meinrath at Akademy in Brno, Czech Republic to open our eyes about hot topics and important issues. What are some important issues for different kinds of free and open technology over the next few years?

Unity adds native Android support for x86

Intel and Unity Technologies are collaborating to bring native support for Android apps built with the gaming-oriented Unity platform to Intel processors.

Emulator brings x86 Linux apps to ARM devices

Eltechs announced a virtual machine that runs 32-bit x86 Linux applications on ARMv7 SBCs and mini-PCs, and is claimed to be 4.5 times faster than QEMU.

What Docker does right and what it doesn't do right... yet

Docker founder Solomon Hykes explained at LinuxCon what Docker is, what it does right, and what it still needs to work on.

Zotac Nvidia Jetson TK1 review

  • Linux User Developer - the Linux and FOSS mag for a GNU generation; By Gareth Halfacree (Posted by bob on Aug 22, 2014 7:10 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Developer, GNU, Linux, Ubuntu
With five Cortex-A15 processor cores, a customised Ubuntu operating system and 192 CUDA GPU cores, is the Jetson TK1 the SBC of the future?

10 inspiring Raspberry Pi project tutorial files!

The files necessary to help you out with our 10 inspiring Raspberry Pi projects in issue 142. We’ve included a command line method in each tutorial to downloaf these files, but if you want to get the manually they’re all listed here.

Open source leaders take the ice bucket challenge

Leaders from open source companies around the globe are getting involved in the ALS ice bucket challenge. The campaign has gone viral and has raised over $31.5 million dollars. My research led me to BlackDuck Software CEO and CFO who challenged their company to take get involved. They willingly did, then, BlackDuck nominated Acquia, Red Hat, and the Linux Foundation to step up to the plate. read more

How to listen to Internet radio from the command line on Linux

  • Xmodulo (Posted by bob on Aug 22, 2014 9:39 AM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
For those of you system admins and Linux aficionados who spend a great deal of your time in front of Linux screen, do you know that ambient noise from online/local radio station can actually be a productivity booster? Believe or not, it is known that moderate level of ambient sound such as music or chatter […]Continue reading... The post How to listen to Internet radio from the command line on Linux appeared first on Xmodulo. Related FAQs: How to live stream video from webcam on Linux How to watch live streaming video from the command line on Linux How to watch free online TV on Linux How to manage your music library from the command line on Linux How to access SoundCloud from the command line in Linux

diff -u: What's New in Kernel Development

One problem with Linux has been its implementation of system calls. As Andy Lutomirski pointed out recently, it's very messy. Even identifying which system calls were implemented for which architectures, he said, was very difficult, as was identifying the mapping between a call's name and its number, and mapping between call argument registers and system call arguments..

Linux Foundation says many Linux admins and engineers are certifiable

The Linux Foundation on Wednesday introduced two new certification programs aimed at connecting employers with qualified Linux administrators and engineers. "The supply of labor has been far outpaced by the demand for Linux," said Linux Foundation executive director Jim Zemlin.

How To Install ownCloud 7 Server and Client on OpenSuse 13.1

This document describes how to install and configure ownCloud 7 on OpenSuse 13.1. I will also connect to the ownCloud Server's data with OpenSuse 13.1 Desktop, Ubuntu 14.04 desktop and windows 7 machine. ownCloud provides access to your data through a web interface or WebDAV while providing a platform to easily view, sync and share across devices—all under your control. ownCloud’s open architecture is extensible via a simple but powerful API for applications and plugins and works with any storage.

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