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The French government is now seriously looking at implementing open source software in the public sector after a public debate for France’s Digital Republic bill (La République numérique).

Recently, I had the privilege to sit down and interview Martin Wimpress, who among other things is the project lead for Ubuntu MATE. One reason I interviewed him was because I wanted to see what he’d have to say about his work with Ubuntu MATE and the Raspberry Pi, as well as to get a gleaning of his overall thoughts on free and open source software. As you will discover, Wimpress is definitely not a person who’s short on thoughts, or shy about expressing them.

I'd like to share my experiences with Free Software Melbourne, its free software workshop, and, more importantly, what has happened since then because it's kinda cool—it's not what I expected. read more

Red Hat and Black Duck want to make sure that when you run a container, it's really the container you want to run and not a rogue package.

In this tutorial, I will show you how to install mod_security for the fast Nginx web server on Ubuntu 15.04. I will configure ModSecurity as a standalone module and then build Nginx from source to include ModSecurity.

Canonical published details about an important security patch for the kernel packages of Ubuntu 15.04 and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.

Mark Russinovich went into the lion's den of All Things Open, a major SouthEast open-source technology conference, to explain to the Linux faithful how Microsoft is now embracing Linux and open-source software.

Red Hat and Black Duck want to make sure that when you run a container, it's really the container you want to run and not a rogue package.

A little more than two weeks ago, Intel employee and Linux kernel developer Sarah Sharp announced that she would not be working on the kernel any more.

Back in Fedora 15, Fedora introduced a piece of core software called systemd. systemd is a collection of tools for a range of different tasks. Its primary purpose is initializing, managing and tracking system services and daemons in Fedora, both during startup and while the system is running.

Intel employees Tim Rowley and Bruce Cherniak published a very intriguing announcement on the Mesa 3D Graphics Library development mailing list, informing us about thier new software project developed within a small team at Intel.

There have been lots of takes on the raspberry pi, mostly just upping ram, processor and the occasional port change, but many are generally a beefed up pi. Such as Banana Pi. But this one has a spin I have seen in no other.

In late September, I attended my first LibreOffice Conference in Aarhus, Denmark. There were 150 participants from more than 30 countries present, and it was an incredible experience.

Valve didn't want to share the details about the hardware and software solutions used in the Steam Link, but it looks like the community has been quick to dismantle and share with everyone all there is to know about it.

Cloud-native computing relies on ephemeral containers instead of pinned servers. Executing applications within ephemeral containers solves resource scarcity challenges, but also creates a dynamic environment that requires new practices and tooling.

Phytec’s 55 x 45mm, “PhyCore-AM57x SOM” supports the TI Sitara AM57x SoC, and offers a Linux BSP, -40 to 85°C operation, and an optional carrier board. The PhyCore-AM57x SOM is the second computer-on-module we’ve seen after the CompuLab CL-SOM-AM57x to tap TI’s newly announced Sitara AM57x SoC. The AM57x also appears on the BeagleBoard-X15 single-board ...

Red Hat commits even more resources to the cloud by buying DevOps power Ansible for $150 million.

Professional photographer Riley Brandt recently published an awesome article outlining his photography workflow - discussing tools for advanced techniques including colour management and processing RAW files. The good news is that the majority of the tools and applications that Riley.

The tiny 50 x 28mm “Inforce 6401 Micro SOM” module runs Android 4.4 or Ubuntu on a Snapdragon 600 SoC, and offers built-in WiFi-ac, BT 4.0, and GPS/GLONASS. Inforce Computing’s “Inforce 6401” computer-on-module has the same 50 x 28mm footprint and many of the same features as its higher-end Inforce 6501 COM, which runs on […]

Imagine having a career at a company where you can bring your ideas to management or engage in discussions with the key developers and founders of the software with which you work. In many organizations with traditional hierarchies, being a newbie may mean you'll be ignored in these circumstances or, at best, will receive a short reply weeks later.