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This tutorial shows you how you can use incron on an Ubuntu system to run commands when a file or Directory is changed. The incron daemon is similar to cron, but instead of running commands based on time, it can trigger commands when a file or directory event occurs (e.g. a file modification, changes of permissions, etc.).

Open source software seems like a perfect fit for government IT projects. Developers can take advantage of existing code bases and, it's hoped, mold that code to their needs quickly and at less cost than developing code from scratch. Over the last few years, governments in the U.S. and abroad have been more closely embracing open source. However, agencies at all levels of U.S. government are still wary of open source and can be reluctant to adopt it. read more

In February 2016, Microsoft announced that it was bringing Red Hat Enterprise Linux -- the flagship product of Microsoft's biggest open source competitor -- to its Azure cloud as a new OS option. It had good reason to think the move would please customers, since Microsoft also reported at the time that 60 percent of the Azure images were Linux-based even before RHEL became an option.

Yes, we're talking about Xfce 4.14, the successor of the current stable version, Xfce 4.12, which is used in numerous Linux kernel-based operating systems by default.

My inclination was to go back to school and get the certs I needed to work in the Linux administration field. I already had the base knowledge and experience; it was just a matter of jumping through the hoops to get a piece of paper saying I already knew what I was learning. Not that I wouldn’t learn a thing or two along the way.

Whether you're teaching a piece of software or a concept, facilitating a workshop to hack on a project or product, or even organizing adonors night for your local non-profit, you will have to deal with multiple personality types. And anyone leading an open organization today knows that managing group and team dynamics is an essential part of the job. I teach and facilitate groups of people in all sorts of learning experiences, and over the years I've noticed some repetition in my group dynamics. read more

Following on from my last two blogs about how we share our own content on the web today, this blog introduces triki - a new semantic web server.

Human beings are complicated animals. We are packed with ambitions, fears, desires, anxieties, and other nuggets of the human condition. Of course, the extent and manifestation of these different elements varies from person to person, across cultures, and in different environments. read more

The developers behind the MPlayer-based MPV open-source video player software have announced today the release of the MPV 0.17.0 update for all supported platforms.

I reached out to Canonical to find out the truth behind this move to have my suspicions validated. This had nothing to do with the GUI...or bringing Ubuntu to Windows. What this is all about is bash...the command line. Even though we had pundits speculating that we'd see a full user-mode Linux image running on Windows, the truth is (or so says the Canonical PR folk), this is only commands specific to servers and development.

Now that we've told you about some of the features that are coming to the Linux Mint 18 operating system in the next few months, the time has come to get a glimpse of the new features of Cinnamon 3.0.

Zappix's development of its Visual IVR customer service platform is informed by research showing that 77% of consumers report that valuing their time is the most important element of good service.

Also in today's open source roundup: How Remix OS will eat the world. And goodbye open source, hello free software.

National Instruments LINX v3.0 adds Raspberry Pi and BeagleBone support, enabling its LabVIEW IDE. NI’s Digilent is selling LINX 3.0 kits for the SBCs. National Instruments (NI) sells the science and engineering focused LabVIEW graphical integrated development environment (IDE) as part of its NI Linux Real Time and Windows software stack available on its data […]

The development team of the MythTV open-source media center has announced today the release and immediate availability for download of the MythTV 0.28 update.

Dr. Sean White joins the Mozilla leadership team this week as a Vice President of Technology Strategy. In this role, Sean will help guide and consult on strategic projects across the organization, with an initial focus on emerging technology opportunities … Continue reading

Free and open source software advocates have courageously blazed a trail that is now being followed by those interested in open source for physical objects. It's called free and open source hardware (FOSH), and we're seeing an exponential rise in the number of free designs for hardware released under opensource licenses, Creative Commons licenses,or placed in the public domain.

I still see a surprising amount of confusion from people on what Steam games work on Linux. Hopefully this will help clear it all up.

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.

The recently released GNOME 3.20 desktop environment is about to get its first point release, but it looks like it just arrives in the main software repositories of Arch Linux.