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Linus Torvalds has asked for the community's view on Linux numbering and the numbers are clear.
Welcoming OpenStack Liberty, documentation improvements, and more
Interested in keeping track of what's happening in the open source cloud? Opensource.com is your source for news in OpenStack, the open source cloud infrastructure project.
Linux Quota - installation and configuration on Ubuntu and Debian
Quota allows you to specify limits on two aspects of disk storage: the number of inodes a user or a group of users may possess; and the number of disk blocks that may be allocated to a user or a group of users. The idea behind quota is that users are forced to stay under their disk consumption limit, taking away their ability to consume unlimited disk space on a system.
3.5-inch Haswell SBC has powered serial ports
Axiomtek’s “CAPA881? SBC taps Intel’s 4th Gen Core chips, supports extended temperatures, and has powered COM ports, plus SATA, CFast, and mini-PCIe.
How to make remote incremental backup of LUKS-encrypted disk/partition
Some of us have our hard drives at home or on a VPS encrypted by Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS) for security reasons, and these drives can quickly grow to tens or hundreds of GBs in size. So while we enjoy the security of our LUKS device, we may start to think about a possible […]Continue reading...
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A beginner's guide to GitHub
From Google to The White House, everyone is on GitHub. If you don't know what GitHub is, keep reading, because I'm also going to talk about why it's one of my favorite websites and share some of its most popular features.
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Redesigning the Linux video system from the ground up
Being a good open source citizen—that's where it starts. For Jon Cruz, navigating various technical opportunities over the years eventually led him there. Jon recently started working in the Open Source Group at Samsung where he works on the Wayland project as well as IoTivity, an infrastructure for the Internet of Things.
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Interstellar sci-fi WORMS its way into spinning black hole science FACT
Einstein? Pah! Computer code maps light beams
Vid Boffins who worked alongside Hollywood film-makers on the Oscar-nominated sci-fi flick Interstellar reckon they have come up with new discoveries that reveal the "powerful effects" of black holes – all thanks to the computer code that was used for the movie.…
Create a NAS box from spare parts
Repurpose old hardware with NAS4Free to use as a NAS server for backups and more
OpenPi review a Pi of Things
The base for your own custom Raspberry Pi-powered hardware utilises the compute module and an open circuit that you can modify yourself.
New games for Linux, Open Source Virtual Reality, and more
Hello, open gaming fans! In this week's edition, we take a look at Steamworks SDK by Valve, mapping Twitch with Gephi, Open Source Virtual Reality, and more.
Fedora is sponsoring HackRU Spring 2015!
After much anticipation, we have decided to sponsor HackRU, a hackathon occurring on April 18-19th 2015 at Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ). As a hackathon attendee, I have noticed relatively little […]
Rocket and the application container spec
It's no secret: application containers have seen an enormous surge in interest and popularity over the past year or two. While Docker has been one driver of this trend, there are other contenders as well. Perhaps chief among them is Rocket.
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Ubuntu smartphone, Tower drone flight control app, and more
In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at the the new Ubuntu smartphone, Tower drone flight control app, farmers get open source, and more!
Remy DeCausemaker hired, DevConf videos, FUDCon APAC planning, F22 branches, and discussion about Fedora Rings
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 February 13th, 2015.
Open source data-driven discovery at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
For anyone remotely interested in open source software within the earth and/or planetary sciences domain, the following article may prove somewhat an update of what is going on with the open source agenda within a part of the world's most advanced aeronautics and space administration, NASA.
Rugged signage player runs Android on quad-core i.MX6
AOpen’s rugged “MEP320? media player and signage device runs Android 4.2.2 on a 1GHz Freescale i.MX Quad, and offers a thin profile and dual HDMI ports.
Linux for Astronomers
I've looked at specialty distributions that were created for engineers and biologists in previous articles, but these aren't the only scientific disciplines that have their own distributions. So in this article, I introduce a distribution created specifically for astronomers, called Distro Astro.
Oregon State University Open Source Lab hosts 160 projects
The South California Linux Expo (SCALE) is an annual event aiming to provide educational opportunities on the topic of open source software. This is SCALE13X, and prior to the event I caught up with one of the speakers, Emily Durham, who will give a talk called Human Hacking.
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Linux kernel set to get live patching in release 3.20
A collaboration between SUSE and Red Hat is going to bring relief to Linux users the world over: they'll be able to patch their systems without reboots. The live patching infrastructure looks set to become available in version 3.20 of the Linux kernel.
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