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Makeblock’s “Codeybot” is a dancing, singing, laser-shooting robot that runs OpenWrt Linux, and teaches kids how to program using mBlockly.

Red Hat and SanDisk have partnered to bring Ceph, the open source distributed storage platform for clusters and the cloud, to the enterprise.

Linux Does Stuff. We're huge fans of open source here at Linux Journal, which I'm sure comes as no surprise to anyone.

Great news RPG fans, as Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear DLC is now available and has day-1 Linux support as promised.

In this week's Top 5, we highlight Top 11 project management tools for 2016, 5 open source home automation tools, a My Linux Story, an interview with Benjamin Kerensa on Glucosio for diabetics, and an event report from last weekend's LibrePlanet.

Wine 1.9.7 has been released as the seventh milestone towards the next major version of the open-source project designed for Linux users who want to run Windows apps and games.

Incremental improvements more than big headlines, but Azure stays on track. BUILD 2016 Day two of Microsoft's Build conference was focused on Azure, the company's cloud platform, with new features announced and preview features moving to general availability.

DVR && Nova-Docker Driver (stable/mitaka) tested fine on RDO Mitaka (build 20160329) with no issues described in previous post for RDO Liberty. So, create DVR deployment with Contrpoller/Network + N(*)Compute Nodes.

If you are a package maintainer for Fedora, or if you regularly spin up your own versions of RPMs for install on your Fedora system, you have probably gone through the process of updating a package when a new version.

What do you do when the developers of your operating system make a design choice you hate? If your operating system is a proprietary code base, you have only a few choices, and none of them are very satisfactory.

The man who turned Oracle into a Linux power, Wim Coekaerts, has moved to Microsoft.

The Linux Foundation is offering a free class to help open-source developers stay on the right side of intellectual property law.

Aaeon’s four port “FWS-2251” network appliance runs on Bay Trail Atoms and Celerons, and offers three mini-PCIe slots and a SIM slot for WiFi and 3G/4G. Those of you reading this from an Internet café — otherwise known as “a café” — will likely to see a router hidden away somewhere, typically running Linux. In […]

HAProxy or High Availability Proxy is an open source TCP and HTTP load balancer and proxy server software. In this tutorial, I will guide you trough the HAProxy installation and configuration for 3 servers, one load balancer, and two Nginx web servers. We will install HAProxy on a single server and then install Nginx web server on the other servers. HAProxy acts as a load balancer for the Nginx web servers.

For many it seemed like an April Fools joke that came early, but it's not, even though the very serious matter of intellectual property and patents isn't part of the discussion.

When you are using a proxy, the "proxy exception list" (also known as "ignore-hosts list") is sometimes necessary. The proxy exception list basically tells an application or desktop (which uses a proxy) to not use the proxy for particular destinations or websites. The proxy exceptions are needed when you are trying to access web servers on local LAN or those with private IP addresses which are not reachable from outside.

Aaeon’s rugged “Boxer-6638U” industrial PC runs Linux on a 5th Gen Core i3, and offers four COM ports, 9-24V input, and -20 to 60°C operation. Despite the different branding schemes, the “economical” Boxer-6638U is said to be the follow-on to Aaeon’s similarly stripped down, 4th Generation “Haswell” based AEC-6638 box-PC.

Members of the Red Hat Developer Program can now get a no-cost Red Hat Enterprise Linux license.

We will continue our extensive coverage of SBCs and COMs, but will reduce our coverage of end user products and expand our coverage of OSes beyond Linux. In celebration of LinuxGizmos.com's third birthday, and 16 years after I launched its predecessor, LinuxDevices.com, we have decided to make some exciting changes to the site.

Could it really be? Has somebody really decided to develop a Linux distribution using COBOL?