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Not too long ago, I was working at an art organisation that offered university classes, low-cost membership for facility usage, and just an all-round creative space where people could come and look at and create art. It was very nearly my ideal organisation. It was non-profit, creative, and as open as it could be to anyone who wanted to learn. read more

The UK's only dedicated Postgres user event has two new speakers, along with a great line up of technology and other experts

Swappiness is the kernel parameter that defines how much (and how often) your Linux kernel will copy RAM contents to swap. This parameter's default value is “60” and it can take anything from “0” to “100”. The higher the value of the swappiness parameter, the more aggressively your kernel will swap.

Intrinsyc’s tiny “Open-Q 410 SOM” module has a quad-core, Cortex-A53 Snapdragon 410, offers WiFi, BT, GPS, 8GB of eMMC, and supports both Android and Linux. Vancouver, Canada based Intrinsyc Technologies Corp. has expanded its line of Qualcomm Snapdragon based Open-Q computer-on-modules with a tiny module that taps Qualcomm’s 64-bit, Snapdragon 410. The Open-Q 410 is […]

BQ and Canonical were proud to announce a few hours ago on their Twitter account that the recently announced BQ Aquaris E5 HD Ubuntu Edition smartphones have moved from pre-order to being available to buy.

Keep your containers close and your data closer. ClusterHQ has inked an agreement that will see its Flocker container management code integrate with EMC's flashy fare.

Design and user experience (UX) can often be an afterthought for open source projects. But that’s changing. PatternFly is a project helping to bridge the gap between developers and designers.

OpenRA is an open source project that revives the classic Command & Conquer game titles, like Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert. OpenRA's primary focus is cross-platform multiplayer between Linux, Windows, and OS X.

Security, networking, virtualisation, multibooting, troubleshooting, amazing FOSS, the best distros and more inside this fantastic new bookazine

Dropbox synchronizes folders in your PC with a virtual hard disk in the cloud. This tutorial shows the installation of Dropbox on Ubuntu 15.04

Google’s Nest upgraded its Linux-based automation line with a new “Nest Protect,” and a 1080p “Nest Cam” surveillance cam with optional cloud analytics. In 2013 and 2014, it seemed we were covering Linux-based home automation gizmos almost every week, but by the end of last year, the market grew saturated, and acquisitions overtook startups. This […]

In today's open source roundup: elementary OS leaves SourceForge for new hosting. Plus: First impressions of a Chromebook from a Linux user. And which Chromebook should a university student buy?

Linux Journal editors are proud to introduce GeekGuides-- practical ebooks for the most technical people on the planet.

Normally, I don’t cover vulnerabilities about which the user can do little or nothing to prevent, but two newly detailed flaws affecting hundreds of millions of Android, iOS and Apple products probably deserve special exceptions.

I’ve lived in many cities during my military career. Each time I’ve moved, I’ve had to deal with a new city’s website, and what I’ve learned is that there are great differences across each city's site design and in how much government data is online and accessible. read more

Steps to extend or increase swap space using a swap file in Linux

A few weeks ago, I received an email notification from GitHub alerting me to a new, user-submitted issue in PencilBlue, our Node.js-based, open source content management system. The notification was titled, “WYSIWYG: Server running on Ubuntu generate [sic] ??? when pasting large chunk of text.” read more

The Linux Foundation, ever in the forefront of shaping the future of Linux, has announced the 2015 Linux Training Scholarship Program, which aims to provide educational funds “to up-and-coming developers and sysadmins who show incredible promise…but do not otherwise have the ability to attend Linux Foundation training courses,” according to a page on the Foundation’s website.

Last year, the free software community was full of debates about systemd, the system manager that replaces init, the process that boots a Linux system. Now that systemd is uneventfully running the latest releases of major distributions like Debian, Fedora, and Ubuntu, you might imagine that opposition to it is melting away -- but you'd be wrong.

Sierra Wireless unveiled a Cortex-A5 based “AirPrime WP” IoT module with 3G or 4G radios, plus a modularly expandable, open-source “mangOH” carrier board. We’ve seen plenty of low-power, Linux-ready Internet of Things computer-on-modules, mostly based on Qualcomm’s MIPS-based Atheros SoCs. The Linux-based AirPrime WP modules from Sierra Wireless instead tackle IoT and industrial M2M with […]