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If you can't reach your favorite Linux developer by IM or e-mail today, it's because they're under a denial of service (DoS) attack. The top programmers are all at the Linux Plumbers conference, which is being hammered by an Internet attacker.

So you've some written excellent documentation. Now what? Now it's time to go back and edit it. When you first sit down to write your documentation, you want to focus on what you're trying to say instead of how you're saying it, but once that first draft is done it's time to go back and polish it up a little.

Once you get over systemd's rude departure from the plain-text, script-laden System V of yore, it turns out to be quite nifty and comes with an equally nifty toolbox. In this article, we'll be looking at four of those tools, plus one you're probably already familiar with but haven't used in the way you will see here.

The OpenDataPlane (ODP) project is a founding initiative by the Linaro Networking Group to produce an open-source, cross-platform application programming interface (API) for the networking Software Defined Data Plane.

For the past several years, Gabor Szabo has been the owner and primary editor of the Perl Weekly, and the Perl Maven. Never willing to rest on his laurels, he recently started the Code Maven Podcast, and recently, during the last week of October, he spun up his newest site, a listing of open source technology events. This new site is pretty remarkable.

In this tutorial, I will show you how to install the Django web framework and configure it to use a PostgreSQL database for development. We will run Nginx as a reverse proxy for Django web framework for speed and security reasons. Django will run under the python WSGI HTTP server 'Gunicorn', we will manage and control 'Gunicorn' with 'Supervisor' as the process control system.

For so long Linux users filled very excluded from the gaming world, with a lot of games for other OSes and almost no games for Linux. For playing good Linux games with good graphics the solution was to use wine but, wine never worked very well out the box. Most of the games were small in size and not too good in graphics, the developers didn’t think of porting or creating games for linux because of it small size of users.

Programming languages never die, they just fade into obscurity. But some don't even do that. Some languages seem to stand the test of time, or at the very least, are still in broad enough use to require new developers to learn them just to keep existing software maintained and functional. read more

A walk through guide on how to manage kernel modules in linux

Guide to install Asterisk 13 on Raspberry Pi 3 with G729 Codec

More students are learning about the world of open source through video games. Open source games like FreeCiv and Minetest invite young gamers to dig into the source code, while projects like SpigotMC empower them to write plugins to extend their favorite games. read more

?Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) is used to encrypt connections between clients and the FTP server. SFTP provides file access, file transfer, and file management functionalities over over SSH tunnels.

Programming languages never die, they just fade into obscurity. But some don't even do that. Some languages seem to stand the test of time, or at the very least, are still in broad enough use to require new developers to learn them just to keep existing software maintained and functional. read more

The m23 project released version 16.3 of the software deployment tool for Linux networks, containing workflow improvements and new customization options, as well as a couple of other new features and bug fixes.

Is somebody really claiming to have invented a method for switching from watching one video to watching another? This question comes from a lawyer at the New York Times, as an aside in an interesting article about the paper's response to a defamation threat from a presidential candidate. Apparently, that defamation threat distracted the his legal team from their work on another task: responding to a patent troll. Intrigued, we looked into it. The patent troll is called Bartonfalls, LLC and its patent, U.S. Patent No. 7,917,922, is our latest Stupid Patent of the Month.

With little fanfare, W3C declares next major version of the web to be a done deal.

Lead Linux maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman talks about open source compliance, aging kernel developers, and Linux on microcontrollers. No one aside from Linus Torvalds has more influence or name recognition in the Linux Kernel project than Greg Kroah-Hartman. More commonly known as GKH, the ex-SUSE kernel developer and USB driver maintainer is now a Linux Foundation […]

After being in development for the past month or so, during which it received a total of three RC (Release Candidate) builds, the final version of the highly-anticipated Mesa 13.0.0 3D Graphics Library is now available.

In which Wix forgets what happens when you add GPL code to your closed-source app.

Brian Behlendorf, co-founder of the Apache Software Foundation, discusses the enduring role that the Apache Way plays in software development.