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It’s been a big month for Microsoft and open source. The company joined the Eclipse project and open-sourced some plug-in code. It announced SQL Server will be made available for Linux (presumably for the benefit of Azure). It now has a range of Android apps available. The news keeps flowing in, and plenty of people are impressed by the efforts.

A router designed to ease the use of multiple devices through a virtual private network is the latest hardware project to receive the Free Software Foundation's official blessing.

The maintainers of the Manjaro Linux LXQt operating system, a community flavor of the well-known Arch Linux-based operating system, have announced the release of Manjaro Linux LXQt 16.03.

We get a lot of rain in the Pacific Northwest, especially in the winter. But temperatures are also pretty mild, which gives us plenty of opportunity to get outside. Once we're outside—provided that we're paying attention—we can see and hear much of nature's subtle beauty that is too easy to miss while running errands or commuting. For example, we northwesterners often see drops of water clinging to branches and glowing as they refract the light. read more

Bruce Dubbs from the LFS (Linux From Scratch) and BLFS (Beyond Linux From Scratch) projects has announced the availability of the LFS 7.9 and BLFS 7.9 maintenance releases.

In the course of my job at Red Hat, I work with a lot of servers. Many of them are a mix of reproducers for customer environments and production boxes. Some of these are dedicated boxes, but there are also plenty of virtual... Continue Reading →

Gwyther runs a community website for LARPers called Larping.org and has a side business selling foam-tipped arrows that are popular with LARPers. He got sued in October by a company called Global Archery, which claims that Gwyther's arrows business violates two patents it owns and also illegally uses its trademark. Last month, Gwyther, strapped for cash, went public with the dispute.

Augment your home by adding your own smart infrastructure to control it, all custom-coded and controlled by your Raspberry Pi

Verification been done bellow is actually targeting conversion of HAProxy/Keepalived (Active/Active) 3 Node Controller which design was suggested for RDO Liberty in https://github.com/beekhof/osp-ha-deploy/blob/master/HA-keep... to be able support Compute Nodes running in DVR mode. The core issue on Liberty was resolved for Mitaka , see upstream record [RFE] Unable to create a router that's both HA and distributed

There are perhaps six known historic flaws in SecureROM that have enabled jailbreakers to bypass the signature check in one way or another. These bugs are particularly appealing to jailbreakers, because SecureROM is baked into hardware, and so the bugs cannot be fixed once they are in the wild: Apple has to update the hardware to address them. Exploitable bugs have been found in the way SecureROM loads the image, verifies the signature, and communicates over USB, and in all cases they have enabled devices to boot unsigned firmware.

Advantech’s “SOM6868” is a Linux-friendly COM Express Compact Type 6 module supporting Intel’s Atom X5-E8000 and related Pentium and Celeron Braswell chips. The embedded-oriented, 14nm fabricated Intel Atom X5-E8000 system-on-chip debuted last month in a variety of Congatec boards. The Qseven based computer-on-module (Conga-QA4), COM Express Compact Type 6 module (Conga-TCA4), COM Express Type 10 […]

FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol. It was written by Abhay Bhushan and published in 1971. FTP is supported by all the operating systems and browsers.

ARM chip manufacturer Qualcomm and open source Linux vendor Red Hat have partnered to develop 64-bit ARM servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

The Vivaldi development team, through Ruarí Ødegaard, has announced today the availability of the first snapshot build, for public testing, of the upcoming web browser since the release of the third Beta.

The Document Foundation today announced the release of LibreOffice 5.1.1, the first minor release of the LibreOffice 5.1 family, with a number of mostly bug fixes over the last major release, version 5.1.0 which was released on February 10.

This is a very basic guide showing how to clone git packages, how to install the programs and how to amend them. It is aimed as a nudge in the right direction for people wanting to get into Linux software development

Free licensing offer if you convert from Big Red. Pic In an aggressive move, Microsoft has told Oracle customers: migrate to SQL Server 2016 and Redmond with give you free licensing for the lifetime of the product plus technical support.

Today we will show you how to install ProjectSend on a Centos 6 VPS using Apache web server and MySQL database. ProjectSend is an open source file and image sharing application that allows you upload files and assign them to specific clients that you create yourself!

MariaDB is a community-developed fork of MySQL and aims to be an enhanced, drop-in replacement for it. The following tutorial will guide you through the steps to install MariaDB 10.0 on CentOS 6.

Since the release of the Linux Steam client, Linux gamers have had a greater range of choice. Today, more than 1,900 games are available for download, with another 100 on their way. This compares well with OS X, which currently sports 2,900 downloadable titles.