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The Freedom of the Press Foundation joins with The Guardian Project to develop the Haven Android app that can help to protect personal spaces, by using sensors on Android device to detect potential intruders.

Learn how to configure mail aliases and mail forwarding for the sendmail program on Linux. Learn about some alternative mail transfer agents. Use the material in this tutorial to study for the LPI 102 exam for Linux system administrator certification or to learn for fun.

Searching a code base is a part of every day developer activities. From fixing a bug, to learning a new code base or checking how to call an api, being able to quickly navigate your way into a code base... Continue Reading →

In an effort to help support the growth of its own business, Citrix has made a tough decision, that Free users will not like. Citrix is taking steps to help advance the commercially supported version of its XenServer virtualization product, while at the same time, removing some capabilities from the free edition of XenServer.

Aaeon’s “PICO-APL3” has an Apollo Lake SoC with up to 64GB eMMC, and provides 4x USB, 2x serial, 2x M.2, 2x MIPI-CSI, SATA, GbE, HDMI, eDP, and TPM. Aaeon’s PICO-APL3 has the same choice of Apollo Lake processors, coastline ports, and 100 x 72mm Pico-ITX form factor, as last December’s PICO-APL1. However, it’s otherwise redesigned […]

At the All Things Open 2017 conference, Michael Clayton and I gave a talk about game jams and open source development tools. Here's an overview of our presentation. First, there are many reasons developers love creating games. Here are four great ones: It includes many disciplines, both creative and technical; It offers a tangible, shareable result; It is symbiotic to work; and It's fun!

The primary goal of the Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS) is to give researchers who develop, contribute to, and maintain open source software a means to get citable credit for their work within today’s research ecosystem. In short, JOSS is a developer-friendly journal for publishing research software packages.

Trying to stop snoops stalling page loads. When Mozilla lobbed Firefox 57 over the fence last month, it introduced an anti-tracking feature without saying anything much about it.

Mozilla Tech Policy Fellows continue to lead policy conversations around the world. When Mozilla rolled out a new fellowship focused on tech policy this past June, the goal was to gather some of the world’s top policymakers in tech to continue advancing the important initiatives they were working on in government as fellows with Mozilla.

Swap-partition holds the memory which is used in case the physical memory (RAM) is full . When RAM capacity has been utilized to maximum , Linux machine moves inactive pages from memory to swap-space which are then used by the system. Though it gets the work done, it should not be considered as a replacement to physical memory/RAM.

In this tutorial, I will show you step-by-step how to install MediaWiki with Nginx web server on Ubuntu 16.04. I will guide you on how to install and configure the LEMP stack for MediaWiki installation, including generating and configuring new free SSL Letsencrypt for MediaWiki security.

Redis is open source database, precisely, it’s a in-memory data structure store that can be used as a database, cache & message broker. It does not possess the limits offered by the relational database...

I'm not sold on the whole idea of mobile first, but I do know that more people than ever are using mobile devices like smartphones and tablets to get information on the go. That includes online software and hardware documentation, much of which is lengthy and poorly suited for small screens. Often, it doesn't scale properly, and it can be difficult to navigate. read more

We have been using a lot of free and open source software and often this software is licensed under GNU/GPL. Our very famous Linux Project, the base for tens of modern operating systems, is itself licensed under GNU and is often called GNU/LINUX as it uses most software licensed under GNU.

SELinux or Security Enhanced Linux is advanced access control mechanism which was developed by US security agency NSA to prevent malicious intrusions & tempering. It implements MAC (Mandatory Access control) over already present DAC (Discretionary Access Control ) i.e. read, write , execute permissions.

Collaboration and information silos are a reality in most organizations today. People tend to regard them as huge barriers to innovation and organizational efficiency. They're also a favorite target for solutions from software tool vendors of all types. Tools by themselves, however, are seldom (if ever), the answer to a problem like organizational silos. The reason for this is simple: Silos are made of people, and human dynamics are key drivers for the existence of silos in the first place. So what is the answer? read more

Linux is 26 years old, and look what happened in those 26 years: everything. Now what? Linux is both shrinking and expanding.

This is sad, very sad. A developer from The Libretro Team has written up a blog post on the libretro site asking for us and others to highlight an ongoing problem of open source code getting ripped off.

During the administration of a system, being able to schedule a task for a later execution it's one crucial ability: to perform a backup of a database for example, or perhaps to run a maintenance script. Less known than cron or anacron, the at program let us do this in a pretty easy way: in this tutorial we will learn how to use it and how it is different from the programs mentioned above.

The Document Foundation announced on Wednesday the release and immediate availability for download of the fourth maintenance update to the LibreOffice 5.4 office suite series.