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As you can tell by my Wi-Fi focus in The Open-Source Classroom this month, I really love wireless networking. I've implemented wireless solutions for schools on a shoestring budget, and I've helped plan campus-wide rollouts of redundantly controlled enterprise solutions.

If something was missing from the Linux world that was an expansion pack for Cards Against Humanity, that's entirely about Linux. Well, it won't be missing for much longer, and one such expansion is on its way.

In a blog post published earlier today, October 15, KDE contributor and developer Björn Ruberg talks about the stability, usability, and reliability of the KDE Plasma 5 desktop environment for end users.

Although there are countless different GNU/Linux distributions out there for people to choose from, you may not find exactly what you're looking for and that is perfectly normal. In this tutorial, we will explore how to use SUSE Studio to generate a highly tailored Linux system based on the latest openSUSE.

Canonical's Ubuntu Linux open source mobile OS for smartphones and tablets will be able to run programs designed for any version of Linux.

At last - Americans finally get to parallel park Updated Tesla has offered to make its customers more confident drivers by allowing them to hand over control of their vehicles to software.…

In today's open source roundup: The Linux Foundation's free Chromebook offer has been extended. Plus: The Ubuntu Touch store gets its first malicious app. And can the Internet exist without Linux?

In today's open source world, there are a number of very large communities that have tangible incentives for contributing to projects. Commits that make it into the master branch of Docker can attract tips, and once you become an Active Technical Contributor for OpenStack you get a number of perks, including free entry to the next OpenStack Summit. read more

After being in development for quite a few months now, the port of the CentOS 7 Linux operating system to 32-bit (i686/x86) hardware architectures has been finalized.

Syncloud is open source software which allows users without any technical knowledge to have popular services running at home on cheap hardware like raspberry pi with UI similar to modern mobile app store solutions. With almost one click install within seconds user can have complex services like ownCloud ready for use otherwise impossible to install without an admin friend with experience.

NGINX, an open source, high-performance HTTP server, reverse proxy, and IMAP/POP3 proxy server, has gained popularity as a load balancer. I caught up with Sarah Novotny, head of Developer Relations at NGINX, ahead of her All Things Open session later this month, and asked her to explain NGINX's growing popularity. read more

This article covers the case study to find the comparison between IBM AIX and Linux on Power processor utilization with the help of network workload. The article also explores why there is a considerable difference between the overall system-level processor utilization reported on the IBM Power hardware while running the same workload on AIX and Linux on Power platforms.

TI has released its Sitara AM57x SoCs, with one or two 1.5GHz Cortex-A15 cores and C66x DSPs, plus two Cortex-M4 MCUs, a PowerVR GPU, and a quad-core PRU. The Linux-ready Sitara AM57x SoC family is part of the larger Texas Instruments AM5x family announced in early 2014. More information was supplied In Nov. 2014 when […]

If you feel extremely lucky or your have a supercomputer to your disposal you my try to mine for bitcoins to earn some extra cash. The complexity of Bitcoin's block chain hashing algorithm gets stronger every 2 weeks to combat the Moore's law so be sure to bring in some decent hardware. In this article we will show how to easily deploy a Bitcoin mining node with docker.

Bundling – what’s changed, and what’s the big deal? I’ve talked about bundling and unbundling in the previous 5tFTW, and a month ago as well, and we’ve been debating the issues on the Fedora devel list, in a gigantic thread... Continue Reading →

Having just passed its thirtieth birthday, the Free Software Foundation has plenty to celebrate. Having begun as a fringe movement, free and open source software has become the backbone of the Internet, transforming business as a side-effect. Yet for all is accomplishments, the one thing it has not done is capture the popular imagination. As a result, I find myself wondering how free and open source software might present itself in the next thirty years to overcome this problem.

I thought about ignoring this one and letting it slide, but it’s too priceless, too typically Microsoft, not to pass on. It seems that Redmond has been inadvertently infecting Windows computers with ransomware through its MSN website. Not to worry, however. The company is happy to hand you a tool to remove the malware, which is akin to locking the door after the horse is gone, as your files will by then be locked up tighter than a waterproof safe.

The 2015 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC) started out like any other, with a giant room filled with thousands of women with a passion for technology and computing. This year's welcome keynote opened with green lights strobing over a dark room. What a way to highlight the rows and rows of women ready to learn, connect, and join new communities. Telle Whitney, founder of GHC, was first to the podium and offered a heartfelt and sincere welcome message that brought a tear to my eye. She spoke of the women who built GHC from their vision of a better future, where women and men take equal part in technology, and of her diagnosis of an auto immune disease. But she's doing well she says, and thanked everyone for their thoughts and concern. read more

Early builds unbootable on PCs this week, warns Microsoft. Those who downloaded many Windows 10 preview editions will have to upgrade by Thursday or face an unbootable PC.

On October 13, Canonical's Lukasz Zemczak sent his daily report to inform Ubuntu Touch developer and Ubuntu Phone users alike about the latest work done in preparation for the forthcoming OTA-7 software update.