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Facebook is on a new open source journey. They're managing hundreds of active open source projects across the company and over the last nine months, have rebooted how they run those projects. Just scroll through their GitHub pages to browse the projects they're actively contributing to. Yes, they have six pages of projects on GitHub.

Oracle reveals three generations of silicon and Solaris 12 release schedule Oracle has quietly published a roadmap for its legacy Sun SPARC and Solaris platforms.…

Android apps are not made for use in a laptop and are made with the intent of being touched. That is a problem... So the question is, what would Android need to do to make it a great laptop operating system?

It is with great pleasure that I announce that Dr. Tony Young, aka Ridcully, has accepted an appointment to the LXer post of Senior Asia/Pacific Editor effective immediately.

Valve just announced that they have updated their github repository of their OpenGL debugger or VOGL for short, to support Unreal Engine 4. The new updated version which is available for anyone to download and implement will now support Unreal Engine’s implementation of OpenGL, since Epic games have announced that they will be supporting both Linux and SteamOS with their Engine.

A roundup of this weeks events at KDE.

Updated httpd packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having Moderate impact.

Yes, many of your Windows programs aren't available on Linux, but some of them are and there are Linux programs that can do just as well as your old XP software.

Open source enthusiasts firmly believe that much is possible when people band together. After all, the core underpinning of open source doctrine is social. So I recently decided it's time that teachers band together to specify the computers we want manufacturers to make. Open source thinking gives me the boldness to think this is possible.

Improve Spam abuse protection in dovecot by restricting access to mail accounts by IP address (e. g. with ISPConfig 3) This howto will show you how to add ip restrictions to single mail accounts when using dovecot with MySQL. This is especially useful if you need to access a mail account from only one single ip or a few ips or if you want to block specific ip addresses from accessing the mail account (e. g. due to spam abuse).

Indian state dumps Microsoft for Bharat Operating System Solutions Linux The Indian State of Tamil Nadu will solve its Windows XP problem by adopting Linux.…

Raspberry Pi Foundation expands their charitable mission to go beyond computing and into general education.

Web servers use HTTP by default, which is a clear text protocol. As the name suggests, a clear text protocol does not apply any form of encryption on the transit data. While the HTTP-based web server is very easy to set up, it has a major drawback in terms of security. Any "man-in-the-middle" is able […]Continue reading... The post How to set up HTTPS in Apache web Server on CentOS appeared first on Xmodulo. Related FAQs: How to set up a Subversion (SVN) server on CentOS or Fedora How to secure a mail server using encryption How to install Apache Tomcat on CentOS How to install Apache Ant on CentOS How to set up BGP Looking Glass server on CentOS

Linux can't be understood in terms of hierarchy. Neither can the Internet. That's because both are examples of heterarchy at work.

Intrinsyc has launched a 10-inch developer tablet that runs Android 4.4 on a quad-core Snapdragon 805 SoC, and features 802.11ac and a 3D gesture camera.

IPython 2.0 was released today adding widgets, for manipulating Python objects in the kernel with GUI controls in the notebook. IPython comes with a few built-in widgets for simple data types, and an API designed for developers to build more complex widgets.

Ingenic unveiled a tiny MIPS-based “Newton” COM for wearable and IoT devices that runs Android or Linux on an its Xburst SoC, and offers WiFi and sensors. The Newton computer-on-module development platform was announced both by Beijing-based semiconductor company Ingenic Semiconductor and by Imagination Technologies, which licenses MIPS intellectual property to Ingenic. While Imagination’s announcement […]

Automated testing has its place in detecting IT security weaknesses but it cannot replace manual testing. “Amazingly, even a decade’s old vulnerability like SQL injection still surprises most clients,” adds Jensen. “I think most of the surprises come from the exploitation of seemingly innocuous functionality that results in a devastating vulnerability.”

In the open source community, we know the value of collaboration. It’s at the core of everything we do. Some of us are lucky to work for organizations that understand and embrace the power of collaboration. Yet, the silo mentality runs rampant in many organizations where collaboration and internal crowdsourcing is not valued. (Opensource.com readers who are pursuing open source projects on the side, but spend their days working at companies with silos are likely very familiar with this).

Data recovery from accidentally deleted files or crashed drives in Redhat, CentOS and Fedora Linux This tutorial will help you to recover data from accidentally deleted data from Linux-file systems. This is a very drastic mistake by any user/admin which costs for huge penalties. This script will be a boon for newbies/expert for data management. I will be using TestDisk for data-recovery. Here I have simplified the task with the help of a script.