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The ATM Industry Association or ATMIA has released a white paper today in which they recommend the use of Windows 10 on ATMs, skipping any intermediary steps, and for the first time they are considering Linux as a viable option.

In a previous post, I gave 5 reasons wikis rock for documentation. It was a great deceit. In truth, I'm not a big fan of wikis in most cases. So today I present 5 reasons to use a rendered language to publish your documentation. read more

Have you ever had an awesome song on your phone, and want to listen to it on your desktop without moving the file over? Or want to easily listen to your preferred streaming music service easily on your computer? Fedora... Continue Reading →

I have been watching the evolution of the Ubuntu Software Center for quite a while now. I had doubts about its interface and its speed, but I liked the fact that it offered an easy, down-to-earth interface that allowed users to install software easily. However, I have to say that the way the Ubuntu Software Center has evolved is worrying me -- a lot.

You know the scene. The one In Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. The book's plucky hero learns that his Aunt Polly wants him to spend his day off whitewashing the fence. Tom, of course, would rather be doing something—anything—else, and when "he began to think of the fun he had planned for this day [...] his sorrows multiplied." read more

Nginx (engine-x) is a open source and high performance HTTP server, reverse proxy and IMAP/POP3 proxy server. The outstanding features of Nginx are: stability, rich feature set, simple configuration and low resource consumption. Nginx is being used by some of the largest websites on the internet and is gaining more and more popularity in the webmaster community. This tutorials shows how to build a nginx .deb package for Ubuntu 15.04 from source that has Google pagespeed module compiled in.

SQLite is a zero-configuration, server-less, file-based transactional database system. Due to its lightweight, self-contained, and compact design, SQLite is an extremely popular choice when you want to integrate a database into your application. In this post, I am going to show you how to create and access a SQLite database in Perl script. The Perl […]Continue reading... The post How to access SQLite database in Perl appeared first on Xmodulo. Related FAQs: How to run SQL queries against Apache log files on Linux

I have dozens of VHS tapes recorded in some cases nearly 30 years ago. I wanted to digitize some of the content and share it with my children via YouTube. I have a digital video camera that's almost ten years old. I also have a VHS/DVD player recorder that I originally purchased to dub these videos. Rather than use the recording deck to create a DVD that I would then use Handbrake to turn into MP4s, I decided to try to use my digital video camera as a passthrough device connected to my laptop. read more

Fedora 22 Workstation is the primary flavor of the operating system, and it is always built around the latest stable version of the GNOME desktop environment.

The company behind Mandriva is now gone, but open-source efforts remain

There are certain general rules about who not to attack that you should generally stick to: You should never get involved in a land war in Asia. You should never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel. And perhaps now we can add: never sue the EFF for defamation for calling your patent stupid. But that appears to be exactly what Scott A. Horstemeyer is doing.

VIDEO: Juniper CEO Rami Rahim discusses why OpenStack is important to his business and why he's doubling down on security.

I recall a senior medical doctor once saying that being a practitioner nowadays is much more difficult than ever before, because when people get diagnosed, they go home to search the web, and often come back with tough questions. Open hardware for physiological computing isn’t making it any easier, but it seems like that’s not a bad thing. read more

Canonical has made it possible to install and test the latest Unity 8 desktop environment on any Ubuntu system just by adding a PPA and installing the appropriate packages.

Today, the KDE Community is happy to announce the release of KDE Applications 15.04.2. More than 30 recorded bugfixes include improvements to Gwenview, Kate, Kdenlive, the Kontact Suite, Konsole, Marble, KGpg, Kig, the KDE Telepathy call UI and Umbrello. In addition to software bugs, issues with translations have also been addressed in this release.

Canonical wants to integrate services like WhatsApp & Dropbox into Ubuntu Touch.

Privately-held OpenStack vendor BlueBox is being acquired by IBM. Financial terms of the deal are not being publicly disclosed.

Weren't so sure on the lower specs of the Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition? Then look no further than the upgraded E5 for a better, more powerful Ubuntu Phone

In today's open source roundup: SourceForge takes heat for taking over Nmap account. Plus: Five reasons to use Linux. And Amazon matches Google's price drop on the Nexus 6.

TechNexion expanded its EDM computer-on-module line with models based on new Freescale i.MX6 SoCs, including one with the new, IoT-oriented i.MX6 UltraLite.