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Matomo (formerly Piwik) is a free and open source web analytics application developed by a team of international developers, that runs on a PHP/MySQL web server. This tutorial will show you how to install Matomo on a CentOS 7 system using Nginx as the web server and we will secure the website with a Let's Encrypt SSL certificate.

When Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, he envisioned a single software package that allowed everyone to create and read pages across the internet. Much has happened in the intervening years, but this idea is starting to come back.

Development of standards specifications and development of open source software have much in common: both are mechanisms by which competitors can collaborate; both can facilitate interoperability; both can be used to facilitate the adoption of new technologies; both can be used to crystallize or harmonize mature technologies. read more

News briefs for February 26, 2019.

Logging and log analysis are essential to securing infrastructure, particularly when we consider common vulnerabilities. This article, based on my lightning talk Let's use centralized log collection to make incident response teams happy at FOSDEM'19, aims to raise awareness about the security concerns around insufficient logging, offer a way to avoid the risk, and advocate for more secure practices. read more

Qualcomm and Thundercomm have launched a “Robotics RB3 Platform” that runs Linux and ROS on an octa-core Snapdragon 845 via a new “DragonBoard 845c” 96Boards SBC. The $449 kit includes 4K and tracking cameras. Qualcomm subsidiary Qualcomm Technologies, which in December released a Qualcomm Flight Pro for drones, has returned with another Snapdragon based robotics […]

VIDEO: In a recent post, Torvalds shared some thoughts about ARM processors and servers, and people thought he was dismissing ARM's future on servers and the cloud. Here's what he really meant.

Open Networking Summit is the industry’s premier open networking event, enabling collaborative development and innovation across enterprises, service providers and cloud providers and discussing the future of Open Source Networking.

VersaLogic’s rugged, Linux-friendly “Swordfish” SBC is equipped with a dual- or quad-core i.MX6 with up to 4GB RAM plus eMMC, GbE, HDMI, LVDS, USB, WiFi/BT, and a NimbleLink socket for cellular expansion. VersaLogic has posted preliminary specs for a $239 and up Swordfish SBC that runs Linux and other Arm-friendly operating systems on a Cortex-A9 […]

The RISC-V Foundation will be hosting a free, Getting Started with RISC-V event in Boston. This 1 day event will showcase innovative RISC-V implementations from members of the Foundation. The half-day Boston event on April 1 will feature engaging presentations, demos and networking opportunities.

A huge part of what makes working in open source special is working with a diverse set of people from different backgrounds. During Black History Month (BHM), we honor those who've come before us, but I also want to spotlight some of today's incredible, diverse open source inventors and leaders whose contributions have influenced the technology we depend on today. read more

As satisfying as it is to make fun of Microsoft and Apple—and, boy howdy, is it ever—we in the Linux (and general Free and Open-Source Software world) are not immune from highly embarrassing, crazy destructive bugs and security vulnerabilities.

Live CDs are useful for many tasks such as: installing the operating system to a hard drive repairing a boot loader or performing other rescue-mode operations providing a consistent and minimal environment for web browsing …and much more. As an alternative to using DVDs and USB drives to store your Live CD images, you can […]

We have covered a total of 5 C programming tutorials so far. Each tutorial focused on something specific. In process of remaining close to the topic, some generic concepts remained untouched. Some of those concepts we'll be discussing here in this tutorial.

Would it surprise you to learn that most of the world's scholarly research is not owned by the people who funded it or who created it? Rather it's owned by private corporations and locked up in proprietary systems, leading to problems around sharing, reuse, and reproducibility. read more

News briefs for January 25, 2019.

Many great tools have come and gone over the years. But none of them have made an impact as large as the one that Ansible has made in the IT automation space. From servers to networks to public cloud providers to serverless to Kubernetes… Ansible has a lot of use cases. "The Ansible Automation for Sysadmins Guide" was created to help celebrate Ansible's 7th birthday this year! read more

LinuxSecurity debunks some common myths and misconceptions regarding open source and Linux by answering a few Linux-related frequently asked questions.

Renesas unveiled an “RZ-G2” family of up to octa-core Cortex-A53 and -A57 SoCs with an updated RZ/G Linux Platform with the 64-bit Arm CIP SLTS kernel for 10 year+ availability. There are also two 96Boards dev boards. Since Renesas Electronics Corp. announced its dual-core Cortex -A7 and -A15 based RZ/G family of SoCs back in […]

Arrow unveiled a 96Boards CE Extended “Avenger96” SBC with a compute module that runs Linux on ST’s Cortex -A7/M4 hybrid STM32MP1 SoC. The SBC has 1GB RAM, 8GB eMMC, GbE, WiFi/BT, and 3x USB ports. Arrow and manufacturing partner DH Electronics are collaborating on a sandwich-style 96Boards CE Extended SBC with a computer-on-module based on […]