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In this tutorial, we will explain how to install Symphony CMS on an Ubuntu 14.04 VPS with MariaDB, PHP-FPM and Nginx. Symphony CMS is a XSLT-powered open source content management system which enables users to create and manage websites and web applications.

Eurocom announced the immediate availability of the EUROCOM M4 Ultraportable laptop powered by Ubuntu Linux.

Adminer is a database management tool written in PHP. It is similar to phpMyAdmin and it is developed to improve security, user experience, performance etc.

Welcome to another edition of the Opensource.com weekly Top 5! First, a few notes. read more

The Cirrus7 Nimbini mini PC is probably one of the most beautiful and powerful mini-PCs available right now that ship with Ubuntu. The German company that builds them has shown us how that amazing aluminium case looks on the inside.

MYIR’s new sandwich-style dev board mixes a Linux-ready, Zynq-based COM with 4GB eMMC with a carrier board that has USB, GbE, HDMI, PMOD, and FMC I/O. Like MYIR’s Z-Turn Board SBC, the MYC-C7Z010/20 computer-on-module, which plugs into a MYD-C7Z010/20 baseboard to form a sandwich-style SBC, runs Linux on a Xilinx Zynq system-on-chip. You can choose […]

LinuxFest Northwest has had a brush with fame in the Michael Mann movie “Blackhat” which came out earlier this year. The protagonist in the movie, with his trusty Toshiba, has a stack of magazines next to his laptop and, lo and behold, one of those has to be a Linux magazine (I’m guessing Linux Pro, which ran full-page ads for Linux expos on a regular basis — but again, that’s a guess) because the back page ad is for LinuxFest Northwest. Of course, unless you are familiar with the ad, you may not recognize it, but for those who are observant can see the Linux totem associated with the Bellingham show.

Fedora is a big project, and it’s hard to keep up with everything. This series highlights interesting happenings in five different areas every week. It isn’t comprehensive news coverage — just quick summaries with links. Here are the five things... Continue Reading →

The United Nations has proactively researched and promoted open government data across the globe for close to five years now. The Open Data Institute maintains that open data can help "unlock supply, generate demand, and create and disseminate knowledge to address local and global issues." McKinsey & Company report that "seven sectors alone could generate more than $3 trillion a year in additional value as a result of open data." read more

In today's open source roundup: SourceForge may have lingered for too long. Plus: It's time for developers and users to move on from SourceForge. And redditors discuss the tactics of SourceForge.

And if you want to know how we know, here's some code Facebook has released the source code to Infer, its homegrown static analysis tool, under the open source BSD license.…

The last article in our Fedora 22 screenshot tour series is for the Xfce Spin, which is built around the latest Xfce 4.12 desktop environment.

In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at Apple open sourcing Swift, ApacheCon splitting into two events, and more! Open source news: June 6 - 12, 2015 read more

How to install Linux, Lighttpd, MariaDB (MySQL), PHP (LLMP) on CentOS 7

Ubuntu developers are preparing to release a new update for the Ubuntu Touch platform, but they are also thinking about the update that will come after this one, and it looks like full shell rotation is finally coming.

Every year, Fedora users and developers in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region meet up at the annual FUDCon (Fedora Users & Developers Conference) to learn how to do get more out of Fedora, and plan the future of our OS.... Continue Reading →

I got started with Linux in the late 90s. I worked in the Bell Labs Denver datacenter and had done lots of different kinds of work with UNIX since 1978; switching systems, and tools, and datacenter work, and we always had the source code for every kind of UNIX we had installed. read more

NoChrome is the first ad-free browser for Android, based on Chromium.

Thankfully, the open source world offers many good choices when it comes to video editing. Some of the most popular choices are the PiTiVi, OpenShot, Kdenlive and Blender. Avidemux is another one - maybe the one with the worst name, but being one of the oldest (five years old) it is now quite mature and stable as well as relatively feature rich.

New HAT module provides power and an Ethernet connection with a single cable