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As a command line person myself, I was very intrigued when I saw Klaatu's talk, HIG for the Unix Shell, on the upcoming All Things Open schedule. While I have always been attracted to the Unix/Linux shell because of its beautiful simplicity—yes, really—it is always nice to connect with someone who shares that appreciation. Klaatu, however, has gone further than mere appreciation by defining some of the attributes that contribute to the elegance of the shell.

eInfochips has launched a 35 x 26mm “Eragon 410” COM that runs Linux or Android on a quad-core Snapdragon 410, and offers 8GB eMMC and wireless I/O.

The man behind Popcorn Time, the popular and free BitTorrent-based video streaming platform, has decided to reveal his true identity in an interview with Norwegian website DN.no.

Expanding Linux Venues In the South (or ELVIS): A FOSS event fit for The King, this one would be held in Memphis, as close to Graceland as possible. Everyone would be required to wear blue suede shoes. We could have Elvis impersonators demonstrating various Linux distros and FOSS programs. Heck, we could have Linus impersonators doing the same thing. And Stallman impersonators doing the same thing. And Jon ‘maddog’ Hall impersonators…you get the idea. This is definitely something worth planning, and I’m so far from Memphis. Is someone closer that could take the reins? Uh, thankyouverymuch.

In this article, I will describe how you can monitor your CentOS 7 server with Munin and Monit. Munin produces nifty little graphics about nearly every aspect of your server (load average, memory usage, CPU usage, MySQL throughput, eth0 traffic, etc.) without much configuration, whereas Monit checks the availability of services like Apache, MySQL, Postfix and takes the appropriate action such as a restart if it finds a service is not behaving as expected. The combination of the two gives you full monitoring: graphics that lets you recognize current or upcoming problems (like "We need a bigger server soon, our load average is increasing rapidly."), and a watchdog that ensures the availability of the monitored services.

MATE, an open source desktop environment for Linux, is gaining modest but significant new features, which shows that demand remains high for traditional graphical user interfaces on Linux.

Sometimes, open-source code is forked and it never returns. Case in point is LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org as well Jenkins and Hudson. In those cased the projects were forked because developers didn't like the way thing were going and the forks have (arguably) gone on to become vastly more popular and widely deployed then the original project.

Should all academic software be released as open source by default? In this special guest feature, Neil Chue Hong (Software Sustainability Institute), Simon Hettrick (Software Sustainability Institute), Andrew Jones (@hpcnotes & NAG), and Daniel S. Katz (University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory) discuss the the role of open source software in publicly funded research.

WANdisco is offering a free two-week trial of its big data replication software for Hadoop environments.

It's not really fair to compare Dropbox directly with BitTorrentSync. First of all, my title implies Dropbox is somehow inferior. To be honest, I haven't found anything that works as smoothly as Dropbox when it comes to sync reliability and ease of installation. That said, although it has incredible strengths, it also has a few shortcomings.

Toradex is prepping two Linux-ready Colibri branded COMs, based on Freescale’s single- and dual-core Cortex-A7 i.MX7 SoCs, for release early next year. Last week we were intrigued by a vague pre-announcement from Toradex about its plan to develop one of the first computer-on-modules built around the i.MX7 system-on-chip, which Freescale announced in June. The Swiss […]

In today's open source roundup: The Ubuntu-based Ultimate Edition 4.6 Gamers is packed with Linux games. Plus: Amazon gets rid of the last of its Fire phones. And Steam for Linux usage rises again.

This year has been big for apertusº and its AXIOM Beta camera, a new professional digital image capturing platform. The apertusº project focuses on creating open source and open hardware professional digital cinematic motion picture technology. During this year's National Association of Broadcasters convention in Las Vegas, AXIOM began recording at 4K (4096x2160 pixels) resolution for testing. Over the next few months, further development and an eventual release version are planned. The first early betatype shipped on August 25th. read more

Now entering its third year, the ROSE (Red Hat Open Source for Education) Project is a cross-community effort that brings students from Tira together with students from Yonatan Middle School in Ra'anana to the Red Hat offices in Israel to learn about the Linux operating system and Python programming. The students spent six months on a weekly basis working and learning together. At the graduation ceremony executive members of both municipalities were present and awards were given to the students including two special achievement awards.

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The Steam for Linux platform seems to be on an upward trend again, and it registered an increase in the number of users, for the month of August.

In my All About Audio article, I covered the basics of organizing audio in Kdenlive with the intent to round-trip the soundtrack out to a proper audio editor and mixer to produce a mixdown. Since that series of articles was specifically about Kdenlive, I only mentioned XJadeo as the video viewer during an audio mix, so it's high time to return to the topic now with a little more attention given to the tools outside Kdenlive that help you produce great sound for your motion pictures. That's exactly what this and next month's article will address. Before taking sound out of your editor, though, there are some best practices you should follow. In my screenshots I'll use Kdenlive, but the principles apply no matter what video editor you're using. read more

Aegisub is a full-featured, advanced subtitle editor with all the bells and whistles, written in GTK3, which can save subtitles as ASS or export them to other formats.

One of the things that draws people to using Ubuntu is its package management. Despite upcoming changes to Ubuntu's software management, the current Debian package has been a large part of Ubuntu's success. One of the best parts about the Debian package management that Ubuntu provides is how easy it is to backup your software. In this article, I'll talk about some of the best techniques for backing up your software and how they differ from one another.

After just a few months, we’re excited to announce a major upgrade for elementary OS Freya! This new version 0.3.1 closes about 200 reports and brings new features, tons of fixes, better hardware support, visual polish, and enhanced translations.

I am happy to announce that the stable version of 4MLinux 13.1 is ready for download. Four major changes in this release: the Linux 3.18 LTS kernel series is now included in the core of the system, the GTK+ 3.x series has been added, Mesa and X.Org have been totally rebuilt to ensure full 3D support for modern video cards, and the so called Legacy Installer (which makes it possible to install 4MLinux on old computers) has been included in the 4MLinux installation CD.