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In February, I gave a talk at DevConf in the Czech Republic about Fedora.next — background on where it came from, what problems it’s trying to solve, what we are […]

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: Amarok merges advanced track statistics importers (a GSoC project) KDevelop allows language plugins to provide styles to formatters Konsole stores terminal size in the profile, each profile can now set desired column and row size; allows users to specify css file for tab bar style (this can be used to set minimum width of the tabs, distinguish active tab, etc) Kwallet replaces SHA with PBKDF2-SHA512+Salt Porting to Qt5 and Frameworks 5 continues, we have initial ports of kfind and konq. Read the rest of the Digest here. Dot Categories: Developer

Adlink is readying four PC/104-style SBCs using Intel Atom E3800 SoCs, and offering SATA, GbE, USB, and multimedia ports, plus stackable PCI and ISA buses. Despite having absorbed PC/104-creator Ampro, Adlink isn’t the first embedded boardmaker out with Bay Trail on the PC/104 form-factor. That distinction appears to belong to ADL, which demonstrated its new […]

A new book on open source education teaches school leaders and parents why kids need to see coding as more than cool. Energizing Education through Open Source: Using Open Source Software to Enhance Learning by Christopher Whittum makes a strong case for deploying the Linux OS and its academic software in schools. This book should be required reading for developing computer-driven curricula.

According to a secret document provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, the agency tracks down the private email and Facebook accounts of system administrators (or sys admins, as they are often called), before hacking their computers to gain access to the networks they control.

ZTE’s ZTE9 joint venture unveiled a Tegra 4-based media player and game console, and ZTE announced an IPTV/OTT STB, both featuring Android and video chat. Like Huawei, ZTE is a major Chinese telecom equipment provider that has more recently moved aggressively into mobile devices. They primarily serve up Android phones and tablets, but ZTE has […]

Need a technology podcast to add to your queue? Check out Dave and Gunnar's show at dgshow.org. Dave is a Chief Technologist for Red Hat's US Public Sector group and a self-described drum playing, motorcycle riding computer geek, husband, dad, and catechist. Gunnar is also a Chief Technologist for Red Hat's US Public Sector group whose ears perk up around discussions about cross-domain security, edge innovation, and interagency collaboration through the open source model.

Open source news for your reading pleasure. March 15-21, 2014 In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we look at The Guardian's new custom rich text editor, printable circuit boards, and more.

'Hack' language brings best bits of other languages to LAMP-land The big “HACK” signs reputed to adorn the walls of Facebook offices aren't just a command from His Royal Zuckness: The Social Network also uses a programming language called “Hack” and has just given it to the world.…

What is Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software (HFOSS) in education and how can we get more students involved? HFOSS is open source software that has a humanitarian purpose such as disaster management, health care, economic development, social services, and more. Experience with undergraduate participation in HFOSS shows it can both motivate students and provide excellent learning opportunities. There is also an indication that it can help attract and retain female students.

The KDE community today released the third beta of Applications and Development Platform 4.13. With API, dependency and feature freezes in place, the focus is now on fixing bugs and further polishing. We kindly request your assistance with finding and fixing issues.

Working with the Android OS on a desktop computer environment takes personal computing in a new direction. How many will follow it remains to be seen. The release of Android-x86 version 4.4-RC1 (KitKat-x86) by the Android-x86 Project brings the viability of an Android distro as an alternative desktop several steps closer, but it is still a work in progress.

With the first alpha release yesterday of the Debian 8.0 installer back when I was briefly in the office, I decided to try out the updated installer and packages for this next Debian release that's under the Jessie codename.

Making a 'feature' of security, two years later than planned, Oracle has made Java ready by default for a multi-core world.

Canonical developer Daniel d'Andrada has posted a new video showing off Unity 8 as a Mir compositor.

Even the most beautiful Rails application can lose its elegance if not deployed correctly. Like other Ruby frameworks or languages, such as Sinatra, Rails is based on the Rack interface. This article provides a basic introduction to Rack hosting and Rack-based application deployments.

At another Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee meeting on Wednesday, another promising round of Fedora 21 features were approved...

Linux is as secure as ever. The real security hole lies with some of Linux's administrators and users.

Docker is nothing more than a handy container. But for a lot of use cases, it's opening up amazing new possibilities for making development and deployment work together more closely than ever. It's an open source project designed to make it easy to create lightweight, portable, self-sufficient containers of an application, allowing that containerized application to run just as easily on a massively scaled cloud as it does on a developer's laptop. For projects like OpenStack, it's a new way of deploying applications as an alternative to (or on top of) a virtual machine, while potentially using fewer system resources in the process.

iRobot has begun shipping a Linux-based telepresence robot, featuring a 21-inch videoconferencing screen and camera, and autonomous navigation via LIDAR. iRobot announced its Ava 500 telepresence robot last June, and says it is now shipping it in North America and Europe. We’ve seen some evidence that the 21-inch Cisco Telepresence EX60 tablet, which forms the […]