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OwnCloud offers you the ability to run a cloud storage service that you administer and control yourself. The latest version, ownCloud 9.0, was released on March 8. Let's look at the process of installing ownCloud 9.0 on a system running Debian Jessie.

Hey, remember when the FCC reassured us last year that it wasn’t going to lock down Wi-Fi routers? Well, there goes that. Because even though the FCC said its new requirements were not intended to lock down router software or block the installation of open source firmware, at least one large manufacturer has reacted by doing just that. And more could follow.

Also in today's open source roundup: Oracle wants $9.3 billion dollars from Google for using Java in Android, and 5 open source home automation tools.

The FBI hack of an iPhone 5c running iOS 9 may have left the device just a little bit insecure in the eyes of some users, as the agency has not provided details of how it was able to access data on the phone used by the San Bernardino terrorist.

Why in a mobile market dominated by Android and iOS is it worth considering Sailfish OS? Today I am hoping to answer this question a bit after having spent some time using Sailfish OS.

Connect a keyboard and mouse, and it becomes a full-featured Linux desktop.

The Justice Dept. confirmed that it has dropped a legal case against Apple, demanding that the company help federal agents unlock an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters.

The Fedora 24 Alpha is here, right on schedule for our planned June final release. The Alpha release contains all the features of Fedora 24’s editions in a form that anyone can help test. This testing, guided by the Fedora QA team, helps us target and identify bugs. When these bugs are fixed, we make a Beta release available. A Beta release is code-complete and bears a very strong resemblance to the third and final release. The final release of Fedora 24 is expected in June.

“I had 25 laptops I was going to bring with me from work. They had been released for recycle so they were mine to do with as I pleased. But after looking them over, I decided they were just too old and I would be burdening you more than helping you. I pulled the hard drives and crushed the rest.”

The Sabayon Linux rolling release operating system based on the powerful Gentoo distro has just been updated today, March 28, for the month of April 2016, and new ISO images are now available for download.

Stali, which is built with statically linked binaries for speed and compactness, upends traditional ideas about how a Linux distribution should work.

On Indieogogo, a $119 “dumb” battery-powered “NexDock” laptop offers a 14.1-inch display and a BT keyboard to extend a phone, mini-PC, or Raspberry Pi SBC. The NexDock laptop offers a big-screen, mouse and keyboard environment for Android, iOS, and Windows 10 mobile devices, stick computers, and mini-PCs.

In recent years, it has become common for the terms "open source" and "FOSS" to be used interchangeably. While it's true that all FOSS is also open source, it's also true that being open source doesn't necessarily mean it's FOSS.

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Agora Project on an Ubuntu 14.04 VPS with Apache, PHP and MySQL installed on it. Agora Project is an open source and user friendly groupware based on PHP and MySQL which allow users to create their own private space and share it with the other team members.

The Web has revolutionized and enriched out lives. And yet our current model for sharing on the internet is deeply flawed. We are giving up far more than we realise and becoming increasingly ensnared by mega-content providers. We need to start by recognising this and remember that there is an alternative.

Recently it was found that the fix for this issue incorrectly kept buffer offset/length in sync on a failed atomic read. This could result in a pipe buffer state corruption – and a local, unprivileged user could use this to crash the system / leak kernel memory to the user space.

You couldn't ask for a better segue than this, from Smith's book about the pitfalls of automotive security to our community's solution to them—that is, The Linux Foundation's Automotive Grade Linux (AGL) n

Chris Borkenhagen, vice president of IT for Concur, discusses the importance of open mindedness in IT.

There are many stories about teaching open source in schools and universities. The teachers representing free and open source software come up with creative ways of teaching the lessons of open source to students. The Rochester Institute of Technology is... Continue Reading →

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