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In Japanese business discussions, one term appears again and again: "gemba." Over many years living and working for Japanese companies, I've probably heard the phrase "gemba de kimeru" a million times. Basically, it means that issues must be solved and decided on the front-line, where the problems and/or opportunities are. Popular thinking holds that people can work with their peers to solve problems. In Japan, however, problems with this thinking can develop. read more

I must admit that this time I had a much nicer experience with PC Linux OS than I had the previous time.

I could not find any issue to note during my Live run of this operating system apart from escessive number of applications.

Good job, PCLOS team! Let's hope you'll keep up with all you've done!

Victoria Martinez de la Cruz wants to make mentoring within OpenStack an excellent experience. read more

On a go-forward basis, cause VirtualBox is going forward, there are no fixes in place to support the Linux 4.6 kernel, which is currently only at its rc4 stage, so it's not even released yet.

Often I am approached and asked the question, "How do I get people to change what they are doing, especially when it is always so incredibly clear that they do not want to?" As if I could understand or empathize with the situation and magic up a solution, I used to try to answer that question. I learned a few years ago that I'm not a wizard who has a perfect answer for every situation. People are the reason that question is hard to answer, and I don't know about the rest of you, but for me, interacting with people can be difficult. read more

Intel unveiled an “Apollo Lake” Atom SoC that integrates 14nm “Goldmont” cores and Gen9 graphics, plus a reference design featuring USB Type C and WiFi. At the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in Shenzen, China, Intel tipped a new version of the Intel Atom code-named “Apollo Lake” along with a 14nm “Goldmont” core that will power […]

The developers of the Ubuntu-based Escuelas Linux educational operating system announced today the release of Escuelas Linux 4.4.

Like a routine now, the KDE PIM spring sprint was held in Toulouse again, first week of April at Ekito's city center office, many thanks to them.

At OpenStack Summit this month in Austin, Colette Alexander will give a talk called Hunting for Purple Squirrels: Hiring OpenStack Contributors in the Wild. In this interview, she answers questions about her talk, and explains how major tech companies are like the Girl Scouts of the USA and how playing the cello helps her solve professional challenges. read more

Oracle published a new update for its acclaimed VirtualBox open-source and multiplatform virtualization software, version 5.0.18.

The 50 x 28mm Inforce 6601 Micro SOM runs Ubuntu or Android on a Snapdragon 820 SoC, and offers wireless, 4GB RAM, 64GB UFS, and a Mini-ITX carrier board. Inforce Computing’s Inforce 6601 Micro SOM is the third computer-on-module we’ve seen that runs Linux or Android on Qualcomm’s latest, powerhouse Snapdragon 820 SoC. At 50 […]

Are you 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.

In only four days, Canonical will unleash the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) operating system, the next major and most anticipated release of the popular Linux OS.

Typesetter is an open source CMS written in PHP that allows website developers to create feature rich and flexible websites using an easy to use true WYSIWYG editor. It uses flat file storage, and this is one of the main differences between Typesetter and other content management systems, so there is no need of database to store and retrieve the actual data.

Also in today's open source roundup: Facebook will remove conversations from its mobile website to force Android users to install its Messenger app, and how to build a Linux router from scratch.

This guide shows how to use Windows 10 to create a Linux Mint bootable USB drive. It also shows how to boot into Linux Mint on UEFI based hardware.

Canonical's broad vision for Ubuntu Linux is to offer a single, converged personal computing experience across devices.

Technologic’s open-spec “TS-7680” SBC runs Debian on an ARM9 i.MX286, and offers up to 4GB eMMC, WiFi, BT, wide-range power, and -40 to 85?C. Technologic’s TS-7680 single board computer uses the same NXP/Freescale i.MX286 system-on-chip found on last year’s TS-7670 and the TS-7400-V2 SBC that came out in 2014. The power-sipping i.MX286 has an ARM926EJ-S […]

In recent years software patents haven’t been nearly as much in the news as they once were. This is partly due to the Supreme Court’s ruling in Alice Corp. vs. CLS Bank which took a slew of patents off the table. Also, thanks to the efforts of companies such as Newegg to duke it out in court instead of rolling over and settling, many patents that had been successfully leveraged by the trolls for years have been invalidated.

In this article, we will show you how to install DokuWiki on an Ubuntu 14.04 VPS with PHP-FPM and Nginx. DokuWiki is a simple to use and highly versatile wiki software written in PHP that doesn’t require a database. DokuWiki is easy to install and use, has an amazing variety of extensions and it is open source. This guide should work on other Linux VPS systems as well but was tested and written for an Ubuntu 14.04 VPS.