Showing all newswire headlines

KDE announced the immediate availability of the third maintenance release in the stable KDE Plasma 5.6 series of the popular desktop environment.

Firebird Project is happy to announce general availability of Firebird 3.0 — the latest major release of the Firebird relational database.

The lead developer of a new text-to-speech app based on MaryTTS talks about what's been done and what remains to do.

Replicating databases creates redundancy which can protect against data loss, and permit optimized performance for applications. This tutorial will cover the basics of replicating an existing MariaDB 10.0 master database to one or more slaves. In the following examples, the host operating system is Debian 8.

Also in today's open source roundup: Counter-Strike 1.6 has been ported to Android, and Google has released its annual Android Security Report.

These days, GitHub is pretty much the warehouse district where nearly all open source projects are stored and maintained. There are some tricks to navigating the site, which can easily be mastered by watching tutorial videos.

In this article, we will explain how to install Grav on an Ubuntu 14.04 VPS with PHP-FPM and Nginx. Grav is a fast, simple, and flexible file-based content management system (CMS) application written in PHP and uses Twig as a template engine. This guide should work on other Linux VPS systems as well but was tested and written for an Ubuntu 14.04 VPS.

Kai Uwe Broulik reports from open source conference Augsburger Linux-Tag which happened in Bavaria last weekend. On Saturday, 16 April I had the honor of representing KDE at the 15. Augsburger Linux-Tag, one of the oldest and largest Linux gatherings in southern Germany.

Fedora Project's Dennis Gilmore just announced today two important milestones in the release schedule of the GNU/Linux distribution.

At OpenStack Summit Austin, Scott McCarty is giving a talk titled OpenShift and OpenStack: Delivering applications together. read more

Gibbous - A Cthulhu Adventure has been Greenlit by the Community in less than 10 days

Fedora Media Writer Test Day today Traditionally, the main download from the Get Fedora website has been an ISO — a disk image file which prospective Fedora users then need to figure out how to get onto a CD/DVD or... Continue Reading →

The Open Container Initiative has agreed to work on a common open container Image Format Specification.

In Japanese business discussions, one term appears again and again: "gemba." Over many years living and working for Japanese companies, I've probably heard the phrase "gemba de kimeru" a million times. Basically, it means that issues must be solved and decided on the front-line, where the problems and/or opportunities are. Popular thinking holds that people can work with their peers to solve problems. In Japan, however, problems with this thinking can develop. read more

I must admit that this time I had a much nicer experience with PC Linux OS than I had the previous time.

I could not find any issue to note during my Live run of this operating system apart from escessive number of applications.

Good job, PCLOS team! Let's hope you'll keep up with all you've done!

Victoria Martinez de la Cruz wants to make mentoring within OpenStack an excellent experience. read more

On a go-forward basis, cause VirtualBox is going forward, there are no fixes in place to support the Linux 4.6 kernel, which is currently only at its rc4 stage, so it's not even released yet.

Often I am approached and asked the question, "How do I get people to change what they are doing, especially when it is always so incredibly clear that they do not want to?" As if I could understand or empathize with the situation and magic up a solution, I used to try to answer that question. I learned a few years ago that I'm not a wizard who has a perfect answer for every situation. People are the reason that question is hard to answer, and I don't know about the rest of you, but for me, interacting with people can be difficult. read more

Intel unveiled an “Apollo Lake” Atom SoC that integrates 14nm “Goldmont” cores and Gen9 graphics, plus a reference design featuring USB Type C and WiFi. At the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in Shenzen, China, Intel tipped a new version of the Intel Atom code-named “Apollo Lake” along with a 14nm “Goldmont” core that will power […]

The developers of the Ubuntu-based Escuelas Linux educational operating system announced today the release of Escuelas Linux 4.4.