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I was able to visit the DEF CON Voting Village, where actual voting machines were being hacked. But more importantly, there were independent experts and state government voting officials that you could talk to about the voting process. States such as Colorado are making strides by moving to paper ballots, requiring risk-limiting audits, and...

SchoolTool is a free and open source suite of free administrative software for schools that can be used to create a simple turnkey student information system, including demographics, grade book, attendance, calendaring and reporting for primary and secondary schools.

I have used rpm-based package managers to install software on Red Hat and Fedora Linux since I started using Linux more than 20 years ago. I have used the rpm program itself, yum, and DNF, which is a close descendant of yum, to install and update packages on my Linux hosts. The yum and DNF tools are wrappers around the rpm utility that provide additional functionality, such as the ability to find and install package dependencies. read more

In the first article in this series comparing Perl 5 to Perl 6, we looked into some of the issues you might encounter when migrating code into Perl 6. In the second article, we examined how garbage collection works in Perl 6, and in the third article, we looked at how containers replaced references in Perl 6. read more

Do you enjoy running Fedora, containers, and have a Raspberry Pi? What about using all three together to play with LEDs? This article introduces Fedora IoT and shows you how to install a preview image on a Raspberry Pi. You’ll also learn how to interact with GPIO in order to light up an LED. What […]

There are three different kinds of storage solutions -- block, file, and object -- each serving a different purpose while working with the others. Block storage is the oldest form of data storage, where data is stored in...

Creating temporary files or directories is a common task that many Linux command line users do. But there's a dedicated command line tool - dubbed mktemp - that lets you do this.

Video: Want a full-featured, easy-to-run, open-source Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud to call your own? Check out the latest version of Nextcloud.

Team Scripta is back with the second annual Open Jam, a game jam that promotes open source games and game creation tools. Open Jam 2018 will run from October 5th-8th. What is a game jam? Game jams are similar to hackathons, but for creating video games. Some are in-person, but most are online. They come in many shapes and sizes, but usually have a theme to base the games on, a set amount of time to complete them, and a judging process that helps creators get feedback. read more

Participating in open source communities—or in any open organization, for that matter—means collaborating with others who might not operate the same way you do. Their motivations may differ. Their governance models might seem foreign. Their goals might not immediately speak to you. So if you're going to work together, you'll need to develop a clear sense of what makes the project tick—and decide quickly whether working together is best for your team and your business. read more

Sonerezh is a free, open source and web-based music streaming server that can be used to access media from anywhere. It is simple, lightweight and easy to use. In this tutorial, we will explain how to install Sonerezh on Ubuntu 18.04 server.

It's great to treat your infrastructure like cattle—until it comes to troubleshooting.

The first episode of Season 2 of the Command Line Heroes podcast drops today. (New episodes will be available every week, and there's also bonus material you can get via the newsletter.) The new season focuses on seven big influencers that have shaped IT infrastructure and modern development over the last 40 years. read more

Distro emerges blinking after 8-year hibernation What were you doing in 2010? The Space Shuttles were still flying, Toy Story 3 ruled the cinemas, and Apple released its very first iPad. Oh, and Linux distro Elive locked down its last stable build. Until now.…

As Kubernetes becomes the de facto solution for container orchestration, more and more developers (and enterprises) want to run Apache Cassandra databases on Kubernetes. It's easy to get started—especially given the capabilities that Kubernetes' StatefulSets bring to the table. read more

Today Common Voice — our crowdsourcing-initiative for an open and publicly available voice dataset that anyone can use to train speech-enabled applications — was honored as a Finalist in the Experimental category in Fast Company’s 2018 Innovation by Design Awards.

The Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) has released an update to its Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct geared at computing professionals.

Opensource.com's Open Source Guide to DevOps Monitoring Tools is a free download for sysadmins. The guide includes chapters on monitoring, log aggregation, visualization, and distributed tracing tools.

News briefs September 10, 2018.

This tutorial describes the installation of the ISPConfig Roundcube Plugin on Debian 9. The plugin is used to connect RoundCube Webmail with the ISPConfig Hosting Control panel so that users can change their mailbox password, set autoresponders and manage email filter rules from within RoundCube.