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The average general-purpose Linux distribution launches all kinds of stuff at startup, including a lot of services that don't need to be running. Bluetooth, Avahi, ModemManager, ppp-dns… What are these things, and who needs them?

Cory Doctorow gave a fast-paced keynote at OSCON 2016 this year that served as a warning message against DRM (digital rights management): Open, closed, and demon haunted: An Internet of Things that act like inkjet printers. read more

Few would claim that the year-old fork and legal dispute between rival Arduino camps is healthy for the open source hardware community. Yet, so far, the platform remains strong, despite growing competition from open source Linux SBCs like the Raspberry Pi. In large part, this is due to the rising interest in Internet of Things (IoT) devices, which dovetails nicely with the low-power, gadget-oriented MCU-based platform.

Arduino Srl will unveil a wireless-rich, IoT oriented Arduino Primo SBC and companion Primo Core module at the Maker Faire in San Mateo, Calif. on Friday. Arduino Industrial 101 Arduino Srl is riding the IoT wave with a string of new product introductions this week. On Monday, the company unveiled the Arduino Industrial 101 single […]

I've heard the term "impostor syndrome" tossed around a lot lately, and while I understand what it means in broad strokes, it wasn't until Christina Keelan's keynote at the Community Leadership Summit (CLS) this year that I began to gain a deeper understanding. read more

This guide shows how to set up Conky and how to customise it so that it shows the information the way you want it and where you want it.

The newly renamed company says finding vulnerabilities in containers isn't just about looking for known issues.

Bitnami cofounder and COO, Erica Brescia says hiring good engineers is difficult. One of the greatest challenges facing companies today is that the younger, less experienced engineers may be a better culture fit than engineers with more experience. Also, more experienced engineers may not apply at all because they are secure in their current jobs. read more

Antoni Roman, the developer of the Ubuntu-based Pinguy OS GNU/Linux operating system wrote a short blog post on the distro's website to inform the community that he wants to pull the plug on the entire project.

Solomon Hykes, founder of Docker, details his firm's open-source experience and releases new tools at the OSCON conference.

The Flock 2016 schedule is now available! You can see all the sessions and speakers here on Sched.org. Each year, the Fedora community holds several premier events in different regions of the world. One of these is Flock, a conference for Fedora... Continue Reading →

If you are looking for an iPad or Android tablet alternative, this Ubuntu tablet is not for you. There aren’t many apps that will help you do anything more than basic Web browsing, emailing, messaging and YouTube viewing.

But you'll need a new phone to do it Google I/O 2016 Google has been outlining plans for kickstarting its virtual reality portfolio this year, including new hardware, software tools, and developer support.…

Well-known open-source developer and leader Brian Behlendorf is now the executive director of Hyperledger, a project for advancing enterprise open-source blockchain technology

Embedded Artists and Rohm have launched a 37 x 27mm COM built around an NXP i.MX7 featuring a low-power Rohm PMIC, 1GB LP-DDR3, and 8GB eMMC. You know the Internet of Things has become “a thing” when the main selling point of a computer-on-module is the properties of its power management IC. In the case […]

This tutorial describes the installation of a clustered web, email, database and DNS server to be used for redundancy, high availability and load balancing on Debian 8 with the ISPConfig 3 control panel. MySQL Master/Master replication will be used to replicate the MySQL client databases between the servers, Unison will be used to Sync the /var/www (websites) and the Mails will be synced with Dovecot.

I want to share with you some findings of the installed version of Xubuntu 16.04 LTS.

We now know a lot more about the next version of Android, except its name. The most exciting new Android N feature is an answer to the age-old problem of pushing Android security updates to users.

It’s no secret that containers are hot right now in the Linux world. They are quickly becoming the backbone of the Cloud and are making DevOps dreams come true. Even so, at first glance, it seems a bit redundant for Canonical to develop a new container system for Ubuntu in a world easily dominated by Docker.

The conflict between Google and Oracle continues to blaze through the courtrooms.