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OwnCloud is a free Web-based app that provides Dropbox-style file hosting. With the release of version 9 on the horizon, it's a good time to take a look at the improved security features.

One simple command on a Linux system lets you calculate pi to as many digits as you have the patience to wait for.

A Kickstarter funded “Bela” cape for the BeagleBone Black uses Xenomai Linux real-time extensions to provide analog and digital audio I/O with 1ms latency. There are a variety of audio capes for the audio-deprived BeagleBone Black, such as Element14’s $56 BeagleBone Audio Cape. Yet, the $76 Bela is unique. Developed by the Augmented Instruments Lab […]

The larger reward is intended for someone who finds a persistent compromise of a Chromebook in guest mode, according to Google's security blog on Monday.

Publicly, Canonical Software's announcement that Ubuntu 16.04 will include the ZFS filesystem sounds like a potential violation of the second version of the GNU General Public License (GPLv2).

I was recently talking to an engineer friend of mine over of a cup of coffee at a conference. His company had been in "DevOps strategy planning" for over six months and they had settled on the task of automating the delivery of their software. He was feeling frustrated—there never seemed to be enough time to get anything meaningful done, he couldn’t tell what others were doing, and a recent conversation revealed that not everyone had the same definition for "automating the delivery of software", much less having the same ideas behind what the word DevOps meant. read more

Install Kodi 16.0 on Ubuntu 15.10(Wily Werewolf)

Second major Linux kernel milestone of 2016 debuts

Although the Raspberry Pi 3 was recently announced, the Raspberry Pi 2 still has plenty of life and is more than suitable for many interesting and useful tasks. read more

Interested in keeping track of what is happening in the open source cloud? Opensource.com is your source for news in OpenStack, the open source cloud infrastructure project. read more

Michael Hall of Canonical has posted a lengthy blog post to explain why the forthcoming Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) operating system needs your help to make GNOME Software look beautiful.

Today I came across a requirement to copy couple of files and change permissions to execute those files when writing some ansible playbooks. We can do this by using cp, chmod, chown command as shown below. Ownership is changed from root user to normal user surendra.

Writing code is so 2013 – you wanna write some hardware instead Pic At the OCP Summit last week in San Jose, California, Intel quickly mentioned it will later this year ship Xeon processors with built-in FPGAs.…

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.6 offers performance and security updates

Improved PS/2 mouse-handling, KVM Hyper-V smarts and Intel's Kaby Lake support all land Version 4.5 of the Linux kernel has been loosed upon a waiting world.…

I keep reading comments that Linux gaming is pretty much stagnating and not worth investing in because it is still at around 1% in the Steam Hardware Survey. So I decided to try and find some numbers.

Plank is one of the simplest to use and easiest to install dock-like applications for GNU/Linux operating systems, and it reached the 0.11.0 milestone this past weekend. Dubbed "Eddy," Plank 0.11.0 introduces a bunch of new features and enhancements that make the dock app even better for those who like to manage and launch their applications from a dock instead of the old-school Applications Menu, such as the addition docklets support like Desktop, Trash, Clippy, and Clock.

Internet of Things (IoT) programming company myDevices is seeking solutions that combine its Cayenne platform with Raspberry Pi hardware.

If your organization manages Linux, AIX, HP-UX or Solaris servers in-house, chances are your system administrators at least occasionally need low-level access to those devices. Typically, administrators use some kind of serial console - for example, traditional serial port, Serial-over-LAN or Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI).

In this tutorial, we will explain how to install CachetHQ on a CentOS 7.1 VPS with MariaDB, PHP-FPM 5.6 and Nginx. CachetHQ is an open source status page system build on top of Laravel 5. This guide should work on other Linux VPS systems as well but was tested and written for CentOS 7 VPS.