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Parrot showed off a fixed-wing, hand-launchable “Disco” drone that can fly for up to 45 minutes at up to 50 mph, and offers a new autopilot mode. Just two months after launching its second generation, Linux-based BeBop 2 quadcopter, claimed to offer a groundbreaking 25 minutes of flight time, Parrot showed off a fixed-wing Disco UAV claimed to almost double that with 45 minute battery life. Although Parrot doesn’t mention it on its product page, several CES reports, including one from BGR, claims the Disco can fly at speeds of up to 50mph, far faster than prosumer quadcopter speeds.

In today's open source roundup: Dan Gillmor leaves Microsoft and Apple behind, and couldn't be happier with his switch to Linux. Plus: Arch Linux moves to Linux Kernel 4.3. And DistroWatch reviews paldo GNU/Linux.

Five strategic goals that will help CIOs achieve more in 2016.

A poll of open source users reveals the types of operating systems and devices they use. GNU/Linux-based laptops and PCs top the list; Android and iOS are much less popular.

The biggest advantage of LVM over traditional disk partitions is its support for "dynamic partitions"; you can create and resize (grow or shrink) LVM volumes dynamically as needed. There is no notion of physical disk boundary in LVM logical volumes, so you can create a large LVM volume that spans across multiple smaller physical disks.

Atlassian, parent company of popular chat service HipChat, started in 2002 with just two people. Thirteen years later, there are more than 1,300 of us spread around the world. That kind of growth forced the need for us to organize our open source efforts around a single point of contact, establish a rhythm in the company for contributing to open source projects, and encourage contributions to existing projects as well as the creation of new communities. We learned a few things along the way. Here's the roadmap we used to get started. read more

Git 2.7 major release of the world's best free, open source and cross-platform distributed version control software used by millions of developers worldwide arrived on January 4, 2016 for all supported operating systems.

The year was 2003. I was an underpaid accountant-turned-IT-professional, and father to two children under the age of four. The idea of using Linux was intriguing, but it wasn't until I had a chance to experience it while taking a class on Long Island for work that I was fired up enough to try it out.

Unless you've lived under a virtual rock since 2003, you have probably heard of Linden Lab's baby, Second Life at some point. The online virtual world, where you can literally pretty much do anything, might not be at the peak popularity it once experienced but there is still plenty going on. If you're a Second Life user (or resident, as they like to put it) or looking to become one, here's how to install a Linux client.

The Linux Foundation released an Automotive Grade Linux Unified Code Base distribution featuring GENIVI components, and announced new members including Ford. The Linux Foundation’s Automotive Grade Linux (AGL) working group has released an AGL Unified Code Base (UCB) distribution for open source Linux-based in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) systems. The Yocto Project based distribution combines elements from […]

In the first day of each month, the Arch Linux developers release of a new ISO image of the fully customizable Arch Linux operating system, bringing the latest software updates released during the month that just passed.

Samsung unveiled a new Tizen Smart TV UX with SmartThings IoT hub connectivity and a universal remote, while Roku announced 4K smart TVs. We still prefer the flexibility of combining a dumb TV with smart devices rather than buying a smart TV, but the latter are becoming more compelling as they add increasingly sophisticated Linux-based […]

Ian Murdock, a free software and open source programmer who founded Debian GNU/Linux at a time before the Free Software Foundation supported Linux, has died.

Work-in-progress at "ugly" stage for now. 32c3 There's a long way to go before it becomes an “anyone can do this” hack, but games console tinkerers fail0verflow have replicated their PlayStation 2 work, getting Linux to run on Sony's PlayStation 4.…

Ben Hutchings has announced the immediate availability for download of Linux kernel 3.2.75 LTS (Long Term Support).

FTP is a very insecure protocol because all passwords and all data are transferred in clear text. By using TLS, the whole communication can be encrypted, thus making FTP much more secure. This article explains how to set up ProFTPd with TLS on an Ubuntu 15.10 server, how to add an FTP user and to use FileZilla to connect securely with TLS.

RDO deployment bellow has been done via straightforward RDO Kilo packstack run demonstrates that Storage Node might work as traditional iSCSI Target Server and each Compute Node is actually iSCSI initiator client. Notice that Glance,Cinder,Swift Services are not running on Controller.

Google's next Android mobile operating system, Android N, will use OpenJDK, the open source Java implementation, rather than Oracle's proprietary Java environment.

Aaeon’s “EPIC-BT07” SBC runs Linux on Bay Trail CPUs and offers multiple display, GbE, USB, and COM ports, plus mini-PCIe and stackable PCI-104 expansion. The Aaeon EPIC-BT07 appears to be aimed at bringing updated features to the PC/104 Consortium’s well worn EPIC SBC form factor.

In today's open source roundup: failOverflow demonstrates Linux running on the PlayStation 4. Plus: Microsoft's Cortana is available for Cyanogen OS. And Valve adds more improvements to the Steam Controller in a new beta.