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SODAQ’s “LoRaONE” is a tiny Arduino-compatible SBC based on an Atmel SAM21 MCU, plus a LoRa radio and a GPS, sensors, micro-USB, and optional Grove add-on. Dutch embedded firm SODAQ (SOlar powered Data AcQuisition) has almost doubled its $22,740 Kickstarter funding goal for its Arduino compatible LoRaONE SBC, aimed at low-power LoRa wireless applications. The […]

If you're looking to teach, tutor, or mentor beginning programmers, you've got your work cut out for you. Different learning styles, varying levels of knowledge, and a subject area that's a moving target all conspire to see you run ragged as an instructor. Luckily, there is help available—lots of help. It comes in the form of open source textbooks, tools, and even games—all created to make being a teacher (and a learner) easier than ever before. read more

Even today, there are still folks who believe there aren't any decent applications for backing up an Ubuntu installation. To remedy this issue, I've put together my personal recommendations for the best Ubuntu backup applications.

I've written about containers before, and I've waxed lyrical about the multitude of benefits they bring to DevOps and cloud computing.

If you're new to server administration and command-line, perhaps you haven't heard of terminal multiplexers or what they do. You want to learn how to be a good Linux sysadmin and how to use the tools of the trade. Or perhaps you're a seasoned administrator already and administer quite a few machines, and want to make your life a little easier. Or maybe you're somewhere in between.

Linux 4.5 seems to have got Intel's Skylake platform (ie, 6th-generation Core CPUs) to the point where graphics work pretty reliably, which is great progress (4.4 tended to lose all my windows every so often, especially over suspend/resume). I'm even running Wayland happily. Unfortunately one of the reasons I have a laptop is that I want to be able to do things like use it on battery, and power consumption's an important part of that.

While the open-source OpenStack cloud platform is software, like all software at the bottom layer it requires hardware to run on. OpenStack vendor Mirantis first announced its Unlocked Appliances initiative in July 2015 as an effort working with hardware vendors to build OpenStack cloud appliances and has been growing the program ever since.

KDE announced the immediate availability of the third maintenance release in the stable KDE Plasma 5.6 series of the popular desktop environment.

Firebird Project is happy to announce general availability of Firebird 3.0 — the latest major release of the Firebird relational database.

The lead developer of a new text-to-speech app based on MaryTTS talks about what's been done and what remains to do.

Replicating databases creates redundancy which can protect against data loss, and permit optimized performance for applications. This tutorial will cover the basics of replicating an existing MariaDB 10.0 master database to one or more slaves. In the following examples, the host operating system is Debian 8.

Also in today's open source roundup: Counter-Strike 1.6 has been ported to Android, and Google has released its annual Android Security Report.

These days, GitHub is pretty much the warehouse district where nearly all open source projects are stored and maintained. There are some tricks to navigating the site, which can easily be mastered by watching tutorial videos.

In this article, we will explain how to install Grav on an Ubuntu 14.04 VPS with PHP-FPM and Nginx. Grav is a fast, simple, and flexible file-based content management system (CMS) application written in PHP and uses Twig as a template engine. This guide should work on other Linux VPS systems as well but was tested and written for an Ubuntu 14.04 VPS.

Kai Uwe Broulik reports from open source conference Augsburger Linux-Tag which happened in Bavaria last weekend. On Saturday, 16 April I had the honor of representing KDE at the 15. Augsburger Linux-Tag, one of the oldest and largest Linux gatherings in southern Germany.

Fedora Project's Dennis Gilmore just announced today two important milestones in the release schedule of the GNU/Linux distribution.

At OpenStack Summit Austin, Scott McCarty is giving a talk titled OpenShift and OpenStack: Delivering applications together. read more

Gibbous - A Cthulhu Adventure has been Greenlit by the Community in less than 10 days

Fedora Media Writer Test Day today Traditionally, the main download from the Get Fedora website has been an ISO — a disk image file which prospective Fedora users then need to figure out how to get onto a CD/DVD or... Continue Reading →

The Open Container Initiative has agreed to work on a common open container Image Format Specification.