Showing all newswire headlines

This tutorial shows how to build PHP 7 as a PHP-FPM and a FastCGI version on Debian 8 (Jessie). PHP 7 is up to 2 times faster than PHP 5.6 and 14 times faster than PHP 5.0 according to the release notes.

Linux was born and grew within an ecosystem of norms, not laws. Those norms were those of programming (C), operating systems (*NIX), command shells (bash, etc.), e-mail (SMTP, etc.) licenses (GPL, etc.) and Internet protocols (TCP/IP and the rest).

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install PowerDNS and Poweradmin on an Ubuntu 14.04 VPS with Nginx, MariaDB and PHP-FPM.

We initially set out to produce The Hello World Program entirely with free and open source software, which presented us with a variety of challenges. Not all professional media production software has a FOSS equivalent, requiring a bit of flexibility and ingenuity on our part. We advocate FOSS because it enables anyone of any age, background, or budget to create professional media with minimal equipment and a handful of craft supplies.

When I was 13, our school was hooked up to the Internet—a 28.8 kbps U.S. Robotics modem was all that stood between us and the vast expanses of the Web. As I grew to understand more and more about the fundamentals of HTML and websites over the next couple of years, it seemed to me that you needed to use special tools like FrontPage or the legend that was DreamWeaver to make anything of any real merit. read more

Techdirt has written a few times about the pharmaceutical industry's use of "evergreening", whereby small, sometimes trivial, changes are made to drugs in order to extend their effective patent life. It turns out the technique is applied to one of the most widely-used drugs of all, insulin:

LEGO bricks: To a parent, they're a virtual minefield, hidden away in the carpet to inflict unimaginable pain from a seemly innocent barefoot step. But to a child, they are a tool for creatively engineering anything the mind can imagine. And for many, they are our first foray into open source. The instructions with a LEGO set start out as rigid rules, and become merely guidelines as children learn to remix, adapt, and extend the "code" which defines the object being built, and then be shared with anyone nearby. read more

LibreOffice is the best free office suite around, and as such has been adopted by all major Linux distributions. Although LibreOffice is already packed with features, it can be extended by using specific add-ons, called extensions. The main LibreOffice extensions website is extensions.libreoffice.org. Extensions are tools that can be added or removed independently from the main installation, and may add new functionality or make existing functionality easier to use. read more

“Is that Run GCC, like Run DMC?” He asked about one of the more prevalent stickers on the cover of my ThinkPad T500. We laughed about it, we introduced ourselves — his name is Roger and he’s a Java developer — and we started a conversation about what we were working on.

New patent lawsuits hit an all-time high in November, with many plaintiffs likely hoping to avoid new pleading rules that came into effect yesterday. A whopping 790 lawsuits were filed last month, with at least 212 filed on a single day: Monday, November 30... Also no surprise: a big majority of the cases were filed in Eastern Texas.

The development team behind Raspbian announced the availability of Raspbian 2015-11-21.

You get to play with a T_SPACESHIP operator, and much, much, more PHP 7.0 was launched today, so we've asked @sydphp organiser and #phunconf convener Jack Skinner to explain its significance. Over to you, Jack ...…

Microsoft announced the availability of the Debian GNU/Linux open-source operating system on its Azure cloud computing platform.

Fox News is winning more than just the news network ratings wars. It's also winning the battle against copyright's fair use doctrine. In August, a federal judge sided (PDF) with the news station's copyright-infringement lawsuit against a television and radio clipping service known as TVEyes, which charges as much as $500 a month for its service. A New York federal judge ruled that wanton sharing, time searching, and downloading of Fox News' news segments is not fair use. Then in November, US District Judge Alvin Hellerstein ruled TVEyes could not allow its clients—like the White House, American Red Cross, members of Congress, and others—to download Fox News clips.

To get the most out of cloud, hire for these skills.

NEW YORK - In the financial capital of the world, containers aren't yet king, but they might be - one day. At the Tectonic Summit here, Robert Cornish CTO and Paul Morgan Systems Architect at the International Securities Exchange (ISE) detailed how they are making use of CoreOS and containers in the latency sensitive and performance demanding options trading environment.

The Q4OS development team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the new Q4OS 1.4.4 release. It's the maintenance release of the Q4OS 1.4 'Orion' series, and is built on and improves the previous version. The new Q4OS release ships with brand new update notifier and manager, as well as several different improvements. Update notifier pops up an icon in system tray, when updates are available from system repositories and lets administrator to apply them on request. Other improvements include optimized desktop profiles, fast data transfer from Android devices, broader support for various multimedia formats and more. Bunch of more or less important bug fixes, packages updates and security patches has been delivered as usual.

The bane of containers is securing them, but CoreOS has a soup-to-nuts answer for this worry: Tectonic with Distributed Trusted Computing.

Alex Polvi, CEO of CoreOS, discusses how a new Tectonic offering will enforce security from bare metal all the way up to the virtualized application.

Kornelix informed us about the immediate availability of Fotoxx 15.12, a new feature release of the open-source image editor software for GNU/Linux operating systems.