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As containerization goes mainstream, many are finding new applications and use cases for container technology. Jan Pazdziora, senior principal software engineer at Red Hat, faced the limitations of traditional Docker when he wanted to containerize FreeIPA. This led to creation of his Docker-freeipa open source work. read more

So about those automatic Windows updates ... Windows 7 users were left scratching their heads on Wednesday when a mysterious garbled patch appeared in Windows Update, origins unknown.…

In a recent blog post, The Linux Foundation, through Amanda McPherson, announces a report that strives to answer the following question: "What does it cost to build world's technology infrastructure?"

I recently read an article on Opensource.com that had me thinking about personality traits those of us in open source share. Certain kinds of people are attracted to open management structures. I've explored this through other lenses, and I keep coming back to the idea that many of these traits are traits I would attribute to leaders. read more

The Free Software Foundation has announced Libiquity's Taurinus X200 laptop has met its strict requirements for being a free-software computer, including replacing Intel's Management Engine firmware.

Industrial Shields has launched an expandable 10.1-inch “HummTouch” panel PC that runs Linux or Android on an i.MX6 DualLite SoC-based HummingBoard SBC. Barcelona-based Industrial Shields has followed up on its earlier Raspberry Pi-based Touchberry Pi touch-panel PC with a HummTouch system based instead on the SolidRun HummingBoard Carrier Pro, which was previously announced as the […]

Microsoft and Google are settling their patent disputes which entrains everything from smartphones to video game consoles. The two companies have agreed to drop over 20 lawsuits they filed in the US and Germany.

The debate over whether vehicle owners have a right to tinker with the software on their vehicles—just like they have the right to change their own oil—comes amid a growing and global in-vehicle software scandal at Volkswagen. And it comes as the US Copyright Office is considering a proposal from the Electronic Frontier Foundation and others that would authorize such tinkering without chilling researchers' speech.

A FREE one-day conference covers FOSS innovations in the Cloud on October 9 in San Antonio, Texas. Topics to be covered include Docker, Unikernels, OpenStack, vGPUs, and much more.

The Linux Foundation is now recommending that users with new and shiny Chromebooks should really install Linux along their Chrome OS distros.

WebSVN provides a Graphical User Interface (GUI) for managing Apache Subversion (SVN) repositories. Using WebSVN we can compare the revision of files.

Open source code in the Linux Foundation's Collaborative Projects is worth $5 billion, according to a report out this week.

The second of the many to come lessons about Linux is here, and today we're going to talk about how a GNU/Linux distribution works.

In today's open source roundup: Google announces a new Chromecast and the Chromecast Audio device. Plus: Google also announces new Nexus phones. And Google shows off the Pixel C tablet.

Why schema suggested by Benjamin Schmaus for RDO Juno in http://schmaustech.blogspot.com/2014/12/configuring-dvr-in-o... generates several errors on Liberty, which may be tracked down in reasonable time and finally brings to success, just silently fails on RDO Kilo taking away VXLAN tunnels forever. Posting bellow is supposed to address this issue.

Enpass is an advanced password manager that works natively on Linux. Although its open source nature is limited in the use of a free software encryption engine called SQLCipher, the tool offers good integration with widely used online services and can serve as a central platform where a lot of different passwords, accounts, and other miscellaneous information can be added. That said, it can be useful to many Linux users out there so here's a quick guide on how to set it up.

Pentaho is set to debut its new Pentaho 6 Enterprise 6 and community edition, providing users with new business intelligence capabilities. Pentaho formally announced the Penthao 6 release on September 30, though general availability is not scheduled until October 14.

This week, the Code for America Summit (CfA) 2015 kicks off. As I prepared to attend, I thought of the many CfA staff, fellows, and alumni who are active on Twitter. So, if you're interested in open government and what some of the brightest and most creative minds in the space are talking about, consider following some of these people on Twitter. I decided to also included some of the speakers attending the conference this year. read more

It wasn’t long ago that gamers avoided Linux like the plague, citing the lack of games as their main reason. When I was growing up, there were next to no major games to play on Linux and it seemed no developers cared to try. However, with the help of companies like Valve, 2K, and Aspyr Media, that’s quickly changing. More and more games are becoming available, with even some being Linux exclusives, including a launch on Steam of Don’t be a Patchman this past July.

Abby Mayes is a lead developer for Mozilla Science Lab, which is a global network of researchers, tool developers, librarians, and publishers who work to further open science on the web. Abby has previously done work as a bioinformatics software developer, was a mentor on the Genome Informatics Group, and has won several awards for science and mathematics. In this interview with her prior to her talk at All Things Open this year, find out more about how to open up scientific data. read more