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Amazon launched their Simple Storage Service (S3) service about 10 years ago followed shortly by Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). In the past 10 years, Amazon has learned a few things about running these services. In his keynote at LinuxCon Europe, Chris Schlaeger, Director Kernel and Operating Systems at the Amazon Development Center in Germany, shared 10 lessons from Amazon.

After many years of practicing marketing in the B2B tech world, I think I've heard just about every misconception that engineers seem to have about marketers. Here are some of the more common: "Marketing is a waste of money that we should be putting into actual product development." "Those marketers just throw stuff against the wall and hope it sticks. Where's the discipline?" "Does anyone actually read this stuff?" "The best thing a marketer can tell me is how to unsubscribe, unfollow, and unfriend." And here's my personal favorite: read more

Ever gone back through your own old scripts and programs, taken a look at something and wondered aloud what it was you were trying to do at the time? Happens to most system administrators probably once a while, developers probably a bit more frequently. Recently I had the displeasure of doing this myself and while lots of it was comical most of it was just tragic. It can't all be serious all the time so here is a look at some of the strangeness I cam across.

Are you interested in keeping track of what is happening in the open source cloud? Opensource.com is your source for news in OpenStack, the open source cloud infrastructure project. OpenStack around the web From news sites to developer blogs, there's a lot being written about OpenStack every week. Here are a few highlights. read more

To celebrate 40 years of the Star Wars saga, the Kodi developers announced earlier today the codename of the next major release of their open-source and multiplatform media center.

Rolling releases roll forward for the new year.

WordPress is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL which you can use to create a beautiful website.

Mozilla and other major technology companies, including Amazon, Apple, Google and Twitter, are joining together in an amicus brief filing that supports Facebook’s ability to challenge both a search warrant for nearly 400 Facebook users’ data, and an indefinite gag … Read more

AT&T expanded its Cellular IoT Starter Kit family with an AWS version with a K64F Freedom Board, plus a $59 model that instead lets you bring your own RPi. AT&T and Avnet announced the $99 AT&T IoT Starter Kit for its LTE cellular networks back in July, and shipped it the following month. Now, the […]

Aspyr Media have officially announced today the upcoming availability of the Sid Meier’s Civilization VI turn-based 4X video game for the Linux and SteamOS platforms.

What piques my interest in Reddit desktop clients? For starters, there is a paucity of Reddit desktop clients available in Linux Mint’s package managers. The Synaptic Package Manager does offer a package for Unity Webapp for Reddit. This is in contrast to say Twitter clients where there are more clients available such as Corebird and bti. Is there a need for a Reddit desktop client? In my opinion, definitely yes.

In any case, I’ll be posting my attempt to self-host both Kanboard and Restyaboard soon, so check back often. Until then, the top four alternatives for Trello that I’ve found, are

Evidently DevOps running MongoDB haven’t heard the word about the latest round of ransomware targeting the database, as the numbers of deployments with data being held for ransom continues to rise.

This tutorial shows how to record a region of your screen or a program window and store it as an animated gif. Those in technical spheres usually use animated gifs to quickly describe how a problem or an error gets triggered. It's also a useful way of explaining how a particular feature in a software application works. You can easily use gifs in online forums, your company presentations, and more.

As with previous years this guide looks at the top 10 distributions of last year and addresses how suitable each of them are for the Everyday Linux User based on ease of installation, ease of use, software and hardware support

Axiomtek’s rugged “IFB122” IoT gateway features an i.MX6 UL SoC with dual LANs, dual COMs, mini-PCIe expansion, and extended temperature support. Axiomtek’s IFB222 is a fanless, vertical DIN-rail form-factor gateway with a smaller, 125 x 100 x 31mm footprint than the company’s recent, Intel Atom-based ICO300-MI Gateway. The gateway is even smaller — and much […]

Last week's release of Red Hat CloudForms 4.2 promises to make life easier on DevOps running complex Hybrid Clouds.

Emerald icon theme based on Breeze icon theme, it looks Simple, Clean and Fresh. It comes with two variants Emerald light & Emerald dark. So it suites for dark & light GTK themes.

Nowadays containers are a hot topic for IT. Docker is currently one of the most popular ways to create and consume containers. If you want to get your feet wet with Docker, you can easily do that with Fedora. Part... Continue Reading →

Healthy productive FOSS projects don't just happen, but are built, and the secret ingredient is Community over code. Purpose and details are everything: If you build it will they come, and then how do you keep it going and growing? How do you set direction, attract and retain contributors, what do you do when there are conflicts, and especially conflicts with valuable contributors? Joe Brockmeier (Red Hat) shares a wealth of practical wisdom at LinuxCon North America.