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The Docker 1.8.2 release is now out provide the second incremental update to Docker 1.8.x since the initial 1.8.0 release on August 12. As was the case with 1.8.1 this is a bug and stability update

At a time when software patents seem to be on the retreat in the US, India has perversely decided to move in the other direction, as reported here by The Economic Times:

On Monday, September 7, I kicked off the second week of the Open Organization book club. This week, our topic was "Chapter 2: Igniting Passion," in which author Jim Whitehurst describes several strategies for igniting passion in your organization. read more

OpenWrt is a GNU/Linux distribution for embedded devices that has been designed to work on routers and a few other platforms. This is a new maintenance release, and it's available for download.

Rackspace joins Canonical's Ubuntu Certified Public Cloud (CPC) program, will now offer Ubuntu across their platform, including public and private clouds, OnMetal, as well as dedicated and hybrid environments.

The Ioncube loader is a PHP module to load files that were protected with the Ioncube Encoder software. Ioncube is often used by commercial PHP software vendors to protect their software, so it is likely that you come across an Ioncube encoded file sooner or later when you install extensions for CMS or Shop software written in PHP. In this tutorial, I will explain the installation of the Ioncube loader module in detail for CentOS, Debian, and Ubuntu.

Fanbois turn on fanbois, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria Analysis Windows Phone fanbois are turning on each other in an online orgy of recrimination. So says Daniel Rubino of unabashed fan site Windows Central – formerly Windows Phone Central.…

In today's open source roundup: Linus vents his frustrations about people who design "new and improved" interfaces. Plus: Ten Linux dream jobs. And five open source alternatives to Gmail.

There's a lot of articles from community managers about how you can attract student volunteers to your open source project. This time, I'm going to write about the same thing, but from a student's perspective. Here's how you can attract me to your open source project. read more

Calibre is a powerful application that can be used to read, convert, and edit eBooks, among many other functions. The developer has just released a new update for it, and a new version is now available for download.

Lots of people embed a Raspberry Pi into their projects—whether it's an arcade machine, a robot, a photo booth, or a weather station. You can develop your application with the Pi like it's a desktop, then disconnect your mouse, keyboard, and monitor and embed it into your project, short-term or long-term. read more

Early on my dad was very familiar with Linux as a operating system, which is a story in itself. However, this story is more about why he left the Microsoft environment.

Canonical, through Udi Nachmany, had the great pleasure of announcing that Rackspace, the world's most used managed cloud company, joined the Ubuntu Certified Public Cloud (CPC) program.

No one had a busier LinuxCon show than the folks at SUSE. Yet still they were gracious enough, and care enough about the community, to sit down for a talk with Linux Journal. We had the distinct pleasure of sitting down for a few minutes during LinuxCon with Michael Miller, SUSE’s VP of Global Alliances and Marketing, to talk about their announcements, their future and the future of Linux,

For Linux desktop users, there are many ways to access weather forecasts, e.g., using standalone weather apps, desktop widgets, or panel applets. If your work environment is terminal-based, there are also several ways to access weather forecasts from the command line.

Open-source software is especially trustworthy compared to closed-source software because you can see the source code of the program you’re running.

RapidDisk is an advanced Linux RAM Disk which consists of a collection of modules and an administration tool. Features include: Dynamically allocate RAM as block device. Use them as stand alone disk drives or even map them as caching nodes to slower local disk drives. Enable Non-Volatile memory as high performing block devices and more.

But with some Raspberry Pi hi-fidelity add-ons mentioned in the article, including Class-D power amplifiers “delivering tens of watts,” you could make a better-than-adequate sound system. It sounds like a potential weekend project for those audiophiles out there.

The Mageia Project, through Rémi Verschelde, announced earlier today, September 10, that the Mageia 4 Linux distribution will reach end of life at the end of next week, on September 19, 2015.

Axiomtek tipped a 120x120mm motherboard with up to a quad-core 1.9GHz Atom SoC, three display outputs, dual GbE, dual mini-PCIe, and -40 to 85°C operation. Intel’s two-year-old “Baytrail-I” Atom and Celeron SoCs keep popping up on new products aimed at embedded, industrial, and IoT applications, as evidenced by Axiomtek’s new Nano-ITX form factor “NANO840″ and […]