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Also in today's open source roundup: DistroWatch reviews Antergos 2016.02.21, and Linux and OS X are challenging the developer dominance of Windows.

In this tutorial, we will build a Proxmox 4 cluster with 3 Proxmox servers and 1 NFS Storage server. Proxmox VE 4 supports the installation of clusters and the central management of multiple Proxmox servers. You can manage multiple Proxmox servers from one web management console. This feature is really handy when you have a larger server farm.

Most people working in open source communities understand the value the community brings to projects and organizations. But how do you show that ROI on a spreadsheet or pie chart? I provide an overview in How community building can help an organization's bottom line. And I've collected this additional list of resources, which will help you make a strong business case for building engaged, enthusiastic open source communities. read more

Nvidia has announced an updated display driver for GNU/Linux, BSD, and Solaris operating systems, Nvidia 364.12.

It works fine overall, but it has several minor niggles that seem to go against the goals of user-friendliness and consistency in the user experience (especially for newbies).

Toonz, the software that animators at Studio Ghibli used for classics like Princess Mononoke, is going open source. Italian studio Digital Video made a deal with Japanese media company Dwango, enabling Dwango to produce and release a free version of the tool, called OpenToonz, for the international animation community.

Whilst extracting money by extorting the competition, which Microsoft claims to “love”, the company is also hijacking the competition and trying to tilt it Microsoft’s way, using software patents not only as a cash cow but also means of leverage (by pressure)

Come check out the results of the Linux Gamer survey done by GOL, shows some really interesting results for Linux as a whole.

Be patient: first code won't land until 2017 The slow reveal that is Microsoft's SQL-Server-on-Linux strategy has taken a small step forward, with Redmond pressing “publish” on a blog post discussing SQL strategy.…

Google Summer of Code is a yearly program ran by Google that focuses on bringing more students into open source software development. Students work with an open source organization over a three month period during their break from school. Google... Continue Reading →

Aaeon’s EMB-BSW-1 is a Mini-ITX SBC based on Intel’s N3000 “Braswell” SoCs, and featuring triple display support, dual hdmi, dual mini-PCIe, and 12-24V input. Due to the height of the built-in heatsink, Aaeon can’t use the term “thin” for its latest “EMB-BSW-1” industrial Mini-ITX board, but otherwise the board would likely fit that definition.

Dell has been quite successful recently selling a line of computers preinstalled with GNU/Linux. So much so that the company posted a blog on March 10 extolling the fact that Precision 5510, 3510, 7510 and 7710 mobile workstations are all available worldwide with Ubuntu preinstalled. What’s more, the company doesn’t hide Linux availability in the fine print or make potential customers find a special page to order from, which had once been its practice. Just go to the page for Precision laptops, find the one you want and tic the Ubuntu Linux option in the Operating System box in the Build My Dell section.

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden opened the Free Software Foundation's LibrePlanet 2016 conference on Saturday with a discussion of free software, privacy and security, speaking via video conference from Russia. Snowden credited free software for his ability to help disclose the U.S. government's far-reaching surveillance projects – drawing one of several enthusiastic rounds of applause from the crowd in an MIT lecture hall.

We gathered that Life Is Strange is coming to Linux from all the recent SteamDB activity, but it looks like Feral Interactive are the ones behind it.

Some updates for an extra year then just security fixes. Stand well back: Microsoft has had a bright idea. Rather than royally screwing over people running Windows 7 and 8.1 on new Intel hardware, it's just going to give them a rough ride instead.…

Our Open Organization community gathered for another lively Twitter chat on Thursday, March 17. This time, we discussed "open organizations under the hood"—the nitty-gritty details of daily life in an open organization. Check out the highlights below read more

Blender Foundation announced version 2.77 of its open-source and cross-platform Blender 3D modeller software.

Companies can encrypt data so that what is stolen remains useless to the attacker. However, right now, most forms of cryptography can be broken with the right tools — but what if there were a development in the works that could change the game completely?

Quoting Official delorean documentation "The RDO project has a continuous integration pipeline that consists of multiple jobs that deploy and test OpenStack as accomplished by different installers.This vast test coverage attempts to ensure that there are no known issues either in packaging, in code or in the installers themselves .. "

RethinkDB is an open-source non-SQL database for realtime web applications. It pushes JSON to the web application in realtime and makes the JSON querying much simplified.