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OnlyOffice is yet another entry in a long line of cloud-based office suites. Because it is cloud-based, you can use it from any browser on any platform.

Danese Cooper, head of open source for PayPal, spoke to during the Day 2 OSCON morning keynotes about the sustainability of open source, mixing in some of the history of open source as well as her own sage advice. read more

SolydX and SolydK are Debian-based distributions with the Xfce and KDE desktops respectively.

Arduino Srl and Runtime unveiled an open source, Bluetooth savvy, “Apache Mynewt” RTOS for 32-bit MCUs, found on the new Arduino Primo and STAR Otto SBCs.

In this week's Top 5, we highlight the project management tool Redmine, advice from a tech recruiter, a new open standard called "federated sharing," open source options to build a GUI framework, and how to avoid burnout in tech.

Nova-Docker driver is installed on Compute node which is supposed to run two Java EE Servers as light weight Nova-Docker Containers (instances) having floating IPs on two different external vlan enabled subnets (10.10.10.0/24; 10.10.50.0/24). General Setup RDO Mitaka ML2&OVS&VLAN 3 Nodes.

Kubuntu and KDE developer Marcin S?gol today announced the availability of the latest KDE Plasma 5.6.4 desktop environment in the special repositories for Kubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) users.

FriendlyARM’s NanoPi M3 SBC runs Linux or Android on a 64-bit, octa-core Samsung S5P6818, and offers WiFi, BT, GbE, and a 40-pin RPi connector. In April, FriendlyARM blew away the scant competition in octa-core, 64-bit hacker SBCs with its $60 NanoPC-T3 board. Now it has stepped even harder on the affordability scale with a smaller, […]

Chromebooks are already outselling Macs. So Linus Torvalds is wondering if this really might be the year of the Linux desktop? Maybe, with the addition of Android apps to the Chromebook, maybe it really will be.

Icinga 2 is a scalable OpenSource monitoring software. This tutorial describes the installation of Icinga 2 together with Icingaweb on a CentOS 7 server.

DIY health care is here. Open source is providing the ways and means for amazing and affordable advances, like an artificial pancreas built using a Raspberry Pi, and letting people take charge of their health care in the process.

The OpenEMR community has released version 4.2.2. This new version is 2014 ONC Certified as a Modular EHR. OpenEMR 4.2.2 has numerous new features including 30 language translations, a new modern user interface, and fully supports PHP7 and the most recent versions of MySQL and MariaDB. Thanks goes to the OpenEMR community for producing this release.

In the following article we’ll show you how to install SOGo and use it with LDAP on a CentOS 7 Linux VPS. If you’re looking on how to set it up on an Ubuntu Linux VPS, please refer to our guide on how to install SOGo on Ubuntu 14.04 VPS.

SOGo is a fully supported and trusted groupware server with a focus on scalability and open standards. SOGo is released under the GNU GPL/LGPL v2 and above. SOGo provides a rich AJAX-based Web interface and supports multiple native clients through the use of standard protocols such as CalDAV, CardDAV and GroupDAV, as well as Microsoft ActiveSync.

"The blockchains, marked contracts, distributed ledgers and databases in general are really about building the next generation stack for the Internet," says Behlendorf. It's "hard to imagine an industry that isn't going to be affected."

By 2009, developer Nick Sagona had, over time, built quite a few custom, hand-rolled content management solutions for his specific client needs. He realized that having a standard, modular platform for all these custom bits would be useful, and Phire CMS was born. read more

Earlier this week, I downloaded and installed this latest and greatest to revisit what continues to be one of my favorite distros. The last time I’d taken a look at Bodhi had been last August, for a review of 3.1.0, which had been the first version with Moksha.

There are many reasons why people switch to Linux: cost, stability, security, flexibility, and of course, the value that comes from being open source. Which of these reasons first led you to Linux? Regardless of what caused you to first make the switch, it's exciting to be a part of a community that supports so many different needs with a single ecosystem of overlapping project. The Linux community gives you choice, through a variety of distributions, to find an operating system that finely matches your individual needs. read more

Setting up an efficient photographic workflow on Linux is more than just installing and mastering digiKam, the GIMP, and Darktable.

Persistent data storage is a challenge for containers. Here's how Docker and CoreOS currently solve the data storage problem.

For decades now, open source software (and lately, hardware!) has been transforming the ways that we live and work. It is, in the opinion of Dana Lewis, high time that we start using open source to innovate to save lives and solve health problems. read more