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Seco announced a “SYS-A62-GW” IoT gateway that runs Linux on an i.MX6 Solo, and features WiFi, GbE, and two serial expansion board options. Seco’s SYS-A62-GW is a low-end Internet of Things gateway that runs a Yocto Linux based distribution on NXP’s single-core, 1GHz i.MX6 Solo.

Just a few moments ago, Mozilla started seeding the binary and source packages of the final release of the Firefox 50.0 web browser for all supported platforms, including GNU/Linux, macOS, and Microsoft Windows.

Building software securely requires a verifiable method of reproduction and that is why the Linux Foundation's Core Infrastructure Initiative is supporting the Reproducible Builds Project.

Zimbra Collaboration Suite is a successful open-source collaboration application that includes email, calendaring, file sharing, chat and video chat. Zimbra's developer, Synacor, Inc., recently released two new Zimbra-related offerings, namely Zimbra Open Source Support (ZOSS) and Zimbra Suite Plus.

Quite a while ago, we had published a post that showcased four examples of how Linux users can utilize their terminal to perform simple daily tasks and fulfill common everyday use needs. Of course, the use case possibilities for the Linux terminal are nearly endless, so we’re naturally back for a second part containing more practical examples.

Overcloud deployment Ceph nodes via instack-virt-setup requires some additional repos to be installed on VIRTHOST (32 GB) and on INSTACK VM as well as exporting DIB_YUM_REPO_CONF referencing delorean trunks Newton "current-passed-ci" and CentOS-Ceph-Jewel.repo in INSTACK stack's shell before building overcloud images prior to overcloud deployment. I am aware of official trpipleo quickstart release 1.0.0 for RDO Newton . . .

Geniatech’s “Development Board IV” is a 96Boards-like SBC that runs Android or Debian on a Snapdragon 410, and features 40- and 60-pin expansion connectors. Linaro’s 96Boards spec has taken off to the point that we’re beginning to see clones and near-clones that are not yet sanctioned by 96Boards.org with an official mark of compliance, as […]

This post shows how to dual-boot Ubuntu 16.10 and Windows 10 on a computer with UEFI firmware and on a single hard drive.

After a fairly un-eventful rebuild RC build is available at the usual spot:

I was scrolling my Facebook feed on a lazy Saturday when... boom! I saw that one of my acquaintances had quit his job at one of the Silicon Valley darlings. This company prided itself on creating a revolution in their niche, and raised hundreds of millions of dollars and employed hundreds of people all over the world. What went wrong? I eventually found out that my friends was fed up, the company wouldn't allow him to contribute to open source. Wow. Even in Silicon Valley. read more

security researchers E. Eugene Schultz and Edward Ray recommend that enterprises consider the following measures to prevent rootkit infections:

The maker movement intersects deeply with open source. When I think of open source I normally think of the most hardcore bleeding-edge software or hardware development. But the maker movement has a long-established sharing culture, which really is nothing less than pure open source. read more

After informing us last week about the availability of the Release Candidate (RC) version of the first point release of Mesa 13.0.0, Collabora's Emil Velikov released the final version today.

Why build a qcow2 Fedora Rawhide image for a VM? Because Fedora Rawhide has nightly builds and is not guaranteed to be stable, you may not want to upgrade your stable version of Fedora to Rawhide. Still, you may want to... Continue Reading →

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Correctly installing and configuring an integrated development environment, workspace, and build tools in order to contribute to a project can be a daunting or time consuming task, even for experienced developers. Tyler Jewell, CEO of Codenvy, faced this problem when he was attempting to set up a simple Java project when he was working on getting his coding skills back after dealing with some health issues and having spent time in managerial positions. After multiple days of struggling, Jewell could not get the project to work, but inspiration struck him. read more

Samsung has decided to create the Tizen Mobile App Incentive Program as part of its efforts to increase the number of apps available for Tizen devices. Through this incentive program, app developers can earn $10,000 for an app that manages to emerge as part of the top 100 most-downloaded apps list on the Tizen Store.

Besides announcing its next version of Ceph-powered SUSE Enterprise Storage, SUSE has bought openATTIC, the open-source Ceph and storage management framework.

Enterprises considering adopting public clouds are concerned about where their data is located and how it's protected, according to a new survey by IDG.

Guild Software developers are proud to announce this past weekend the release of a new maintenance update for their popular, cross-platform, and VR-ready Vendetta Online 1.8 massively multiplayer online role-playing game.