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Lighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed for speed-critical environments. This tutorial shows how you can install Lighttpd on an Ubuntu 15.04 server with PHP support (through PHP-FPM) and MySQL. PHP-FPM (FastCGI Process Manager) is an alternative PHP FastCGI implementation with some additional features useful for sites of any size, especially busier sites. I use PHP-FPM in this tutorial instead of Lighttpd's spawn-fcgi.

C.H.I.P., a $9 mini computer (with full Linux capability and WiFi connectivity), was met with a great response when it launched on Kickstarter earlier this year, more than quadrupling its original fundraising goal of $50,000.  read more

Microsoft has partnered with Hortonworks and Canonical to launch a big data solution – Azure HDInsight -- which is a Hadoop managed service in the cloud.

The privacy implications of Windows 10 and its data collection have been a talking point since the operating system was released. And today, Microsoft published a response of sorts.

When we first introduce Linux to a new user, whether child or adult, we take our time with the introductory stuff. The file system itself is a sticking point with many new Linux users. The ever-present “My Documents” isn’t to be found. Instead, they have their “Home” folder. Now, that’s easy enough to explain. In fact, we show them just how much easier their file system is for them under Linux.

My Linux story begins like that of so many others—with an old computer and a desire to tinker. read more

How to configure NFS Server and Client Configuration on Ubuntu 15.04

In this exclusive interview with Chris Aniszczyk, the Head of Open Source at Twitter explains how company engineers are working on open source technologies internally and contributing to a range of community projects. Learn more about open source at Twitter in Chris's talk at All Things Open. read more

QMole brings Linux software to iPhone and iPad; introduces a Linux desktop system with GTK, Fox and parts of Gnome to iOS. Everybody built a variant of Linux, here's the one for everyone's pocket !

I've been using Linux and Unix desktops for decades, but I know they'll never be popular -- though not for the reasons you might imagine.

The Raspbian developers have just updated their Linux distribution, and it's now based on Debian 8 "Jessie," the latest stable version available right now.

The GNOME 3.18 Linux desktop, released Sept. 23, offers a milestone feature update. Code-named Gothenburg, the new open-source desktop environment benefits from 25,112 changes from 772 contributors.

Peter Buonora explains how enterprise architects work with IT to drive business results.

While the open source Drupal content management system (CMS) is freely available, there is money to be made in support and services. This is where Acquia, the lead commercial vendor behind Drupal, comes into play.

Acquia today announced a new $55 million Series G equity financing round, with investors Centerview Capital Technology, New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and Split Rock Partners.

FFmpeg's Ganesh Ajjanagadde has announced that the next release of the open-source and cross-platform FFmpeg multimedia framework will include an improved FFplay media player component.

As already pre-announced, we switched the default installer. Anaconda served us well, but we decided to embrace the community-baked Calamares, the distribution-independent installer. If you don't know it, check out their website. Also if it is young and some features are missing, it is lighter and more bug-free with respect to our old installer. The KDE edition now ships the new Plasma 5 by default. Since we had to put much effort in making a working release with Calamares, we had to ditch Steam Big Picture mode and Media Center installation options.

It's difficult to gage the success of the Ubuntu Phones, but there are three devices with Ubuntu in the wild and one of them is no longer available. On the other hand, the official website does say "more Ubuntu phones coming soon."

Silent Circle and Fairphone, which each offer smartphones that run extensively forked versions of Android, will soon ship powerful second-generation models. Alternative Android distributions have grown increasingly popular in recent years, from CyanogenMod to the OnePlus 2’s Oxygen OS to Chinese Android variants like Xiaomi’s MIUI. Last year, two more Android flavors also arrived in […]

The MP3 decoding patent in one those things that seems pretty harmless and present in pretty much any device around us, but it's actually something that generates ton of money per unit for Fraunhofer and Thompson. Linux distributions need to offer this feature and it means integrating a proprietary solution, although there is some hope now that the patent seems to have expired.