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As I read Jim Whitehurst's The Open Organization, as well as articles about initiatives involving educators and students in open source projects and communities, I imagined what the future might look like in primary, secondary, and higher education around the world.

Ubuntu will soon work on phones and desktops, so people are asking whether the desktop will have the same restrictions. The answer is not as straightforward as you might think, and the Ubuntu developers are still analyzing how much access will be granted to users.

As far as to my knowledge Cisco's schema has been implemented :- Keepalived, HAProxy,Galera for MySQL Manual install, at least 3 controller nodes. I just highlighted several steps which as I believe allowed me to bring this work to success.

Git for Teams by Emma Jane Hogbin Westby is a good technology book, but it's the non-technical parts that make it excellent.

In today's open source roundup: Microsoft's effort to bring Android apps to Windows 10 Mobile might have failed. Plus: Top challenges for desktop Linux. And a review of the HP Chromebook 11.

Numecent promises cloudpaging for Android and Linux open source platforms following a new $15.5M funding round.

The open-source Docker container project, provides tooling that enables application virtualization in a way that is more agile than other traditional approaches. The agility of Docker containers is being used by developers in a number of unique and innovative ways to solve challenges big and small. At the Dockercon EU conference in Barcelona, Spain this week, the best and the brightest of those innovative Docker use-cases were on display.

Just a few moments ago, the Linux Mint developers announced the official release and immediate availability for download of the Beta builds of Linux Mint 17.3 "Rosa" Cinnamon and MATE editions.

The Intel Graphics Installer for Linux, a tool that allows users to easily install the latest graphics and video drivers for their Intel graphics hardware, is now at version 1.2.1 and is ready for download.

In preparation for Linux Mint 17.3, a lot of work went into MATE 1.12. Most of the papercut issues identified in Linux Mint 17.2 were fixed and some of the new features implemented in Cinnamon were ported to MATE.

The latest Red Hat Enterprise Linux includes major improvements to security, networking, system administration and, oh yes, containers. Lots and lots of new container goodness.

I am not a hacker or IT professional, yet I use Linux because it is better and more ethical. There are a lot of us evernoobs out there. This is a review and some guidelines for using Digital Ocean to set up a WP blog.

With the recent release of Fedora 23,  Fedora 21 will officially enter End Of Life (EOL) status on December 1st, 2015. After December 1st, all packages in the Fedora 21 repositories will no longer receive security, bugfix or enhancement updates,... Continue Reading →

BQ will offer Aquaris smartphones with the Ubuntu Linux open source operating system in Russia starting this week.

This tutorial shows how to install and run a TYPO3 (version 7 LTS) web site on a Ubuntu 15.10 system that has a Nginx web server installed instead of Apache. This kind of setup is often called LEMP = Linux + Nginx (pronounced "engine x") + MySQL + PHP). Nginx is a fast and efficient HTTP server that uses less resources than Apache and delivers pages a lot faster, especially static files.

In a session at this week's Dockercon EU conference in Barcelona, Nathan McCauley, director of security at Docker, detailed recent efforts to improve security and offered insight on innovations yet to come.

If you like GNOME3, you will find that Ubuntu GNOME 15.10 is a good and reliable system for you. Apart from small performance issues in the browser, I had nothing major to report in the "problems" area.

We all need to eat, and we know that good nutrition is an important component of a long and healthy life. Daily we read about genetically modified food and the dangers inherent in a system rife with food that's been altered by biotechnology. And, if you're like me, you begin to wonder, "Where can I get good food?" My wife and daughter have been an inspiration for me to eat better. They want to be able to shake the hand of the person that grew their food. Their inspiration, along with my keen interest in the open source culture, led me to the Open Food Network. read more

Speaking about the enhancements Microsoft has made to Windows 10 in terms of security, Nadella has called the company's latest product ”the most secure operating system,” explaining that it comes with significant improvements in this regard for both consumers and enterprises.

Welcome back to our continuing series on systemd. In an earlier article, we discussed simple commands to manage the services on your Fedora system. Here we are going to discuss a subtlety of systemd that makes it very powerful: masking. Before we... Continue Reading →