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Following bellow is brief instruction for traditional three node deployment test Controller&&Network&&Compute for oncoming RDO Kilo, which was performed on Fedora 21 host with KVM/Libvirt Hypervisor (16 GB RAM, Intel Core i7-4771 Haswell CPU, ASUS Z97-P ) Three VMs (4 GB RAM,2 VCPUS) have been setup

Hello, open gaming fans! In this week's edition, we take a look at the GOG Galaxy beta gaming platform, the KADE miniConsole+ for retro games, new Yooka-Laylee game backed at 1.5M, and more! Open gaming roundup for May 2 - 9, 2015 read more

We can use the tail utility to monitor a log file. But it's often not that effective. An administrator of a system can suffer from information overload. Reviewing the log files in an efficient way can be a very time consuming task. There's a need for an alternative.

APODIO 10.03 has been released.

APODIO is a Linux live and installation DVD with a large collection of open source audio and video software, as well as graphical utilities for making system administration as simple and intuitive as possible. It is based on Ubuntu.

A torrent file (i.e., a file with .torrent extension) is a BitTorrent metadata file which stores information (e.g., tracker URLs, file list, sizes, checksums, creation date) needed by a BitTorrent client to download files shared on BitTorrent peer-to-peer networks. Inside a single torrent file, one or more files can be listed for sharing.

The ownCloud development team, through Daniel Molkentin, had the great pleasure of informing us about the immediate availability for download of the ownCloud Desktop Client 1.8.1, which has been declared by project leader as the best release ever.

Met Police at least have a plan: NHS doesn't even have a clue. UK government departments still running Windows XP are now doing so entirely on their own.

In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at Google's support of rival to Docker, the release of source code for tools from Netflix and EMC, and more! Open source news: May 2 - 8, 2015.

Surely they can't be that desperate ...Microsoft’s annual developer conference Build kicks off later today, and rumours are swirling that Redmond has a bold plan to rescue Windows Phone from irrelevance. Aside from a modest 10 to 15 per cent share in some markets, the platform has gone nowhere, despite billions of dollars of support from Nokia and Microsoft.

This week I talk about our best articles from May 4 - 8, 2015 on Opensource.com. Topics include: Open source content management, lessons for developers from Willie Nelson, Linux for the visually impaired, the state of Drupal security, and Raspberry Pi + Minecraft.

Dominique Leuenberger from the openSUSE Tumbleweed development team announced today, May 8, what was implemented this week on the Tumbleweed version of the openSUSE Linux operating system.

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 to each. Here are the... Continue Reading →

LibreOffice 4.4 is the most beautiful and featured release ever by The Document Foundation and now The Document Foundation has released LibreOffice 4.4.3, a bug-fix release with 88 bug fixes over 4.4.2. This release makes LibreOffice even more stable. So let's install or update LibreOffice 4.4.3 inUbuntu/Linux Mint or in other Ubuntu based distributions.

In today's open source roundup: Nintendo prepares games for smart devices. Plus: A $9 computer that runs Debian. And a Linux rootkit users graphics cards to hide itself.

Magento is a very popular and feature rich open source e-commerce web application. Magento is fully customizable to meet the users requirements and allowing them to create and launch a fully functional online store in minutes.

Canonical has announced plans to switch all versions of Ubuntu to its new Snappy package manager. The new tool offers the promise of greater stability and security for the system and applications.

If your music player does not display some MP3 tracks correctly (e.g., with garbled symbols), it is most likely that the character encoding of ID3 tags is not supported on your Linux system. You can often encounter this problem when song titles or artist names are written in Cyrillic, Greek, Chinese, Japanese or Korean characters.

Voyager-X is a closely knit Xubuntu clone with a few impressive differences that set it apart from the typical Xfce desktop. This new Voyager-X is one of the first distros to use the new Xfce 4.12 desktop, more than one year in the making.

Shannon O'Malley will give a talk at DrupalCon 2015 called: Making Content Strategic before "Content Strategy" Happens. If you've ever used Drupal for creating content, you may understand that coming up with compelling messaging and writing it all down in a format that someone else wants to read is... well, challenging. For some, it can come naturally, especially given time and experience. For others, it's a bother, a bore, and downright irriatating. read more

Oh, great. I finally get to sit down with the Jupiter Broadcasting crew at LinuxFest Northwest and I finally get to meet in person someone whose FOSS work I hold in the highest regard — that would be Matt Hartley’s work at Jupiter — and he has just announced that he is leaving Jupiter Broadcasting, moving on to “new exciting projects.”