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OS install by proxy moves on to Windows XP The Twitch in the Shell project has successfully installed Arch Linux using hundreds of people simultaneously hammering keys in a terminal. One of the organizers has explained to The Reg how it was done.…

Like a lot of people involved in the open source movement, though I use a variety of different tools for real time communications, I just can't seem to get away from IRC. While IRC isn't perfect, and I don’t love some of its quirks, it's here to stay for at least the foreseeable future as its low barrier to entry and wide selection of open source clients make IRC, and particularly Freenode, the go-to place for open source projects to collaborate. read more

With two companies — Microsoft and Red Hat — from opposite ends of the software spectrum linking arms in a deal overnight, the big question that remains is: what happens to the SUSE-Microsoft deal?

Dedicated servers are not for everyone, but when you need one why pay through the nose. I will show you how I did it for free.

Informed (GNU/Linux-centric) journalists who looked beyond the misleading press releases and the distracting marketing campaign have managed to find out and highlight the patent issues associated with the Red Hat-Microsoft deal

I was in the buzz-making business long before I learned how it was done. That happened here, at Linux Journal. Some of it I learned by watching kernel developers make Linux so useful that it became irresponsible for anybody doing serious development not to consider it—and, eventually, not to use it. Some I learned just by doing my job here.

I still remember the first time I saw Linux. It was in late 1996 during an optional afterschool course, and the PC at school was running Enlightenment window manager. It was the very first Enlightenment release, and I was shocked by its graphics and usability. In particular, I clearly remember watching a vi text editor session opened with a PHP script and syntax highlighting all of the script.

Hackers are exploiting SQL injection flaws to infect MySQL database servers with a malware program that's used to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.

Valve is getting really close to the launch of the Steam Machines, and the developers are preparing the SteamOS distro. They have just released a new stable update, and it comes with a ton of updates.

Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) Desktop Screenshots Tour. Ubuntu 15.10 will be supported for 9 months for Ubuntu Desktop, Ubuntu Server, Ubuntu Core, Kubuntu, Ubuntu Kylin along with all other flavours.

In today's open source roundup: A dedicated iPhone user switches to Android after six years. Plus: Tails 1.7 has been released. And what's new in Fedora 23.

Moksha is a fork of the Enlightenment DR17 desktop which you can learn more about here. Today we are going to walk through the steps required to compile Moksha from source on Debian Jessie.

Wind River unveiled a “Helix Cloud” platform for IoT development and management, plus two small-footprint OSes: a “Rocket” RTOS and “Pulsar Linux.” Intel subsidiary Wind River has released Wind River Pulsar Linux, an IoT-oriented version of its commercial Wind River Linux distribution, as well as a new Wind River Rocket RTOS. Both of these embedded […]

Two erstwhile rivals come to a patent agreement in a move to help customers embrace the hybrid cloud.

Version 42.1 is the first version of openSUSE Leap that uses source from SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) providing a level of stability that will prove to be unmatched by other Linux distributions. Bonding community development and enterprise reliability provides more cohesion for the project and its contributor's maintenance updates. openSUSE Leap will benefit from the enterprise maintenance effort and will have some of the same packages and updates as SLE, which is different from previous openSUSE versions that created separate maintenance streams. Community developers provide an equal level of contribution to Leap and upstream projects to the release, which bridges a gap between matured packages and newer packages found in openSUSE's other distribution, Tumbleweed.

Welcome back for another installment of the systemd series. Throughout this series, we discuss ways to use systemd to understand and manage your system. This article focuses on how to convert legacy scripts you may have customized on your system. SysV init scripts... Continue Reading →

The openSUSE community is taking a big leap, dropping the old regular release cycles of openSUSE and moving to openSUSE Leap.

Summary of All Things Open 2015 session with Lee Faus, GitHub 101: An introduction I am on GitHub and have committed the Koha manual to our git repository, but I'm not sure how to use GitHub to it's fullest capabilities, so I was excited to attend Lee Faus's introduction to GitHub. For those who don't know, git is a distributed version control system; this means you can work locally without having to commit back to the repository every time. It means that developers can work locally until it's time to "push" their changes to the version control system. So, you can experiment a lot more while using git because you're working on your own local system. read more

After almost eight years of development, Qmmp has reached version 1.0, so we have a good reason to celebrate with a quick guide on how to get the most out of this winamp-styled audio player for your Linux desktop. This brand new version brings a lot of goodies, but most importantly it uses the latest Qt v5. The player looks simple and it really is very simple to use, but it actually boasts quite a lot of power under the hood, so here is what we will be exploring on this article.

Gumstix has opened up its quick-turn expansion board design service to third-party COMs and SBCs like the BeagleBone Black, with Raspberry Pi coming soon. Gumstix launched its web-based Geppetto custom design-to-order (D2O) platform for embedded boards back in 2013. Later that year, the company added new crowd-funding features to the drag-and-drop embedded board design service, […]