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2015 was a year of many new open source projects hitting the scene with a splash. From enterprise solutions to home brewed open source concoctions, many of the projects released as open source software this year have made a huge impact on the world of computing in a very short amount of time. While flash stardom isn't always the best predictor of longevity, we think these 10 projects just might have come onto the scene with enough momentum to continue their success in the new year. You might call this list our most likely to succeed in 2016. read more

Personal data and non-public information on almost 60 percent of US citizens was available online because of a misconfigured database.

For this article, I thought it would be beneficial to go back to some basics of shell scripting and look at how functions work. Most script writers probably eschew using functions because it's a bit antithetical to how scripts tend to evolve, as a sequence of commands on the command line that are captured in a file.

This review looks at the new features in Linux Mint 17.3 and gives an overall review of the features for new users

Linux is increasingly the OS of choice for mobile devices, hacker boards, IoT, home automation, consumer gadgets, drones, robots, wearables, cars, and more. The roughly 15-year-old experiment called Embedded Linux has by several accounts surpassed real-time OSes and Windows Embedded in recent years. If you include phones, tablets, and consumer electronics using the Linux-based Android, […]

Docker sparked the trend in software containers less than two years ago. And since its modest presentation at PyCon in 2013, the startup has vaulted to a value of nearly one billion dollars, drawn 2,500 attendees to DockerCon, and its namesake technology has become a marketable skill to have, entering Hacker News' top 20 most frequently requested job skills.

A number of Reglue Kids began complaining about homework assignments being rejected. Most times they were scolded and told to re-submit the assignment in the proper format…you know, that well known proprietary one. Sometimes students were given a lower grade for not following the submission instructions.

The developers of the Chakra GNU/Linux operating system have published the distribution's plans for 2016, along with their best wishes to the community.

As of the latest CentOS 7, the default Python version still remains python 2.7, and python3 is not available in base repositories. If you need to use python3 as part of Python application dependency, there are several ways to install python3 on CentOS.

We recently interviewed Kevin Fenzi on how he uses Fedora. This is part of a series on the Fedora Magazine where we profile Fedora users and how they use Fedora to get things done. If you are interested in being... Continue Reading →

The Twitter account of Ian Murdock, the founder of Debian, is now full of tweets reporting police abuse and a possible suicide attempt.

In today's open source roundup: More than half of Android phone sales for Christmas were phablets. Plus: Google uses homepage to promote its Android and iOS apps. And a review of Xiaomi's Redmi Note 3 phone.

Looking back at 2015, there have been many projects created by the Docker community that have advanced the developer experience. Although choosing among all the great contributions is hard, here are 10 "cool tools" that you should be using if you are looking for ways to expand your knowledge and use of Docker. read more

Most routers are pretty boring. They direct traffic in and out of your network (hopefully doing so with at least a modicum of security). But while they sit by idly waiting for packets to route, they do nothing. And as for updating...that's generally on the user to handle.

One of the common misconceptions is that your need Windows or Mac to be able to manage your iPod library. I tried this for the first time in 4 years and worked first time.

iRedMail is out of the box open source mail server solution on Linux like operating system.

During 2015, there were more than $100 billion worth of mergers and acquisitions in the semiconductor market, writes Alexandru Voica in this guest column. ? Semiconductors buyers club: the mergers and acquistions of 2015 by Alex Voica This year we’ve seen unprecedented consolidation in the technology market. The story that perhaps best defined 2015 was […]

In this guide, we will explain how to install Sonerezh on an Ubuntu 14.04 VPS with MariaDB, PHP-FPM and Nginx. Sonerezh is an open source self-hosted application for streaming music. Sonerezh is build with PHP on top of the CakePHP framework and with the latest web technologies. This guide should work on other Linux VPS systems as well but was tested and written for an Ubuntu 14.04 VPS.

Are you managing a server running a blog or content website and expecting or experiencing a massive number of requests? I have been in this situation recently myself, running a WordPress instance on a single virtual machine that suddenly got over 30,000 requests in just a single day.

Ikey Doherty, father of the Solus Linux operating system, had the great pleasure of announcing the release and immediate availability for download of the Budgie Desktop 10.