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This year's API Strategy and Practice (known as APIStrat)—to be held in Boston on November 2-4—has a strong open source component running throughout the event, and with little wonder. Successful API strategies more often than not either contribute new open source projects, or draw on the rich source of tools already built by the open source community. read more

Finally Overcloud deployment start to initialize mistral work flow in QuickStart environment. Memory allocation as 7 GB for PCS HA Controllers and 6.7 GB for each compute overcloud node (1 VCPU by default for any node running in overcloud) seems to be safe to pass phases 5.X of overcloud deployment with QuickStart.

Now in its seventh year, MozFest is the world’s go-to event for the free and open Internet movement. Part meeting place for like-minded individuals keen to share ideas; part playground for Web enthusiasts, MozFest is a buzzy hive of activity.

IT Pro had a conversation with Scott Hanselman, who gave a keynote address on Thursday at All Things Open, as well as an afternoon presentation on .NET Core. We talked about Microsoft's approach to open source.

Keeping your software up to date is one of the first and most important things you need to do after getting a VPS. Many critical vulnerabilities are patched by the time they become public so if you do not update your software frequently then your server is at a big risk of being exploited. In this tutorial, we will show you how to update the system software on your Linux VPS running CentOS or Ubuntu as an operating system.

All appearances are that Microsoft is no longer an outsider within the enterprise open source community, but a full-fledged citizen.

A new major version of the powerful, free, cross-platform and open source FFmpeg multimedia framework has been released for all supported platforms, including GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows.

Hot on the heels of the Moksha 0.2.1 desktop release I am happy to announce the stable release of Bodhi 4.0.0.

HashiCorp's Mitchell Hashimoto tells IT Pro how he got started in software, about the acceptance of open source by the enterprise, and why he recently changed hats from CEO to CTO at the company he founded.

Samsung extended its Artik line with a Linux-driven Artik 7 COM and dev kit for gateways with 8x Cortex-A53 cores, plus two Cortex-M4 based Artik 0 modules. Samsung started shipping its Linux-ready, dual Cortex-A7 Artik 5 and octa-core -A7/-A15 Artik 10 modules and carrier board kits earlier this year, and announced an Artik IDE and […]

In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at a 3D-printed violin, a NASA tool for calculating orbital trajectories, and more. Open source news roundup for October 16-29, 2016 read more

It's common knowledge that companies are looking for developers with open source skills -- but how do you help them find you?

Ubuntu, and Linux in general, is not known as the go-to platform for multimedia production. Instead, Apple Mac systems are probably the most popular system for graphic designers, video editors, and music production specialists, with Windows PC’s coming a close second. But here are a few Linux video editing software review.

This week in Linux and open source news, R3 has made its blockchain platform’s code public, a newly identified vulnerability threatens Android phones, and more! Keep your finger on the pulse of OSS with this weekly digest.

Chapeau is a cutting-edge Linux distribution, built from Fedora Workstation, using the GNOME desktop environment, and intended to be an incredibly intuitive and easy to use, out-of-the box experience.

In this week's Top 5, we highlight time management tools; thoughts on FOSS cryptography; tips and resources for MySQL beginners; Python file-management tricks for digital artists; and 12 open source games for Android. Top 5 articles of the week 5. 12 open source games for Android read more

Protecting the security of the Internet requires everyone. We talked about this theme in a recent post, and in this post we’ll expand on the role Mozilla plays, and how our work supports and relies on the work of the … Continue reading

In this tutorial, I will guide you to create your own Mattermost server that uses PostgreSQL as the database system and Nginx as the reverse proxy for Mattermost. I will use ubuntu 16.04 as the operating system. Mattermost is an open source messaging system written in the programming languages Golang and React. It's a slack alternative, we can build our own messaging service like slack or hipchat with it.

In 2007 I took part in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) developing the Avogadro application. As we were developing Avogadro, we founded The Open Chemistry project as an umbrella project to develop related tools for chemistry and materials science. read more

FriendlyElec’s $45, 75 x 40mm “NanoPi S2” SBC runs Debian or Android on a quad-core A9 SoC, and offers RPi expansion, WiFi, Bluetooth, and 8GB eMMC. FriendlyARM, which is now selling its hacker boards under the name FriendlyElec, is one of the most prolific of hacker board makers. The Chinese firm spins numerous variations on […]