Showing all newswire headlines

The TIM Review is an open access journal with an upcoming Open Source Strategy issue they want you to contribute to. Mekki MacAulay is the guest editor for the issue, and in this interview find out more about the journal, this issue, and how you can share your expertise on the subject. read more

I know it has been a while since I wrote my last post. That is mostly due to my really very busy schedule with testing RHEL7.1/ nss-nspr/ RHDS releases but […]

Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth is in the works and it's being ported for the Linux platform by Aspyr Media. The devs have encountered some problems with the Intel and ATI video cards and they are considering dropping the support for this hardware.

How to configure the WiKID Strong Authentication 4.0 using the Quick-setup option The 4.0 release of the WiKID Strong Authentication System has two major new features. First it is now free for up to 5 users making it perfect for home users, small businesses or long-term testing. Second, there's a new quick-start configuration system. You create a text file with pertinent information about your network and use it to build a fully-functioning two-factor authentication server. This tutorial will show you how to use this new feature.

A syslog server represents a central log monitoring point on a network, to which all kinds of devices including Linux or Windows servers, routers, switches or any other hosts can send their logs over network. By setting up a syslog server, you can filter and consolidate logs from different hosts and devices into a single […]Continue reading... The post How to configure a syslog server with rsyslog on Linux appeared first on Xmodulo. Related FAQs: How to analyze Squid logs with SARG log analyzer on CentOS How to configure Nagios for audio alerts and mobile notifications How to set up RainLoop webmail in Ubuntu server How to sniff HTTP traffic from the command line on Linux How to configure HTTP load balancer with HAProxy on Linux

JUNOS comes to Linux, and Juniper announces Open Compute-based OCX open hardware switch.

Mod_security is an Apache module that helps to protect your website from various attacks such as cross-site scripting, SQL injection attacks, path traversal attacks etc. Mod_evasive is an Apache module that helps to prevent HTTP DoS (DDoS) attacks or server brute force attacks.

They use our stuff. Why not our values too?

At this point in history, arguments for using Linux, FOSS (free and open-source software) and the Internet make themselves. Yet the virtues behind those things—freedom, openness, compatibility, interoperability, substitutability—still tend to be ignored by commercial builders of new stuff.

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install PowerDNS and Poweradmin on a CentOS 7 VPS with Nginx, MariaDB and PHP-FPM. PowerDNS is a high-performance and reliable DNS server, written in C++ and can be used as an alternative to BIND. This guide should work on other Linux VPS systems as well but was tested and written for CentOS 7 VPS.

PrestaShop is an open-source e-commerce solution which allows you to maintain your own online shop. It is very easy to use as well as very easy to install.

A short roundup of distro news.

Interested in keeping track of what's happening in the open source cloud? Opensource.com is your source for what's happening right now in OpenStack, the open source cloud infrastructure project.

It's time for another Readers' Choice issue of Linux Journal! The format last year was well received, so we've followed suit making your voices heard loud again. I couldn't help but add some commentary in a few places, but for the most part, we just reported results. Please enjoy this year's Readers' Choice Awards!

Google is pushing out version 5.01 of Lollipop, the first update to the latest version of Android.…

Over the course of the past year, Docker has become a much-hyped technology for application virtualization using containers, winning the support of major IT vendors including VMware, Microsoft, Amazon and Red Hat, among others. While the open-source Docker engine provides a core set of capabilities, a market ecosystem of complementary and enabling technologies has emerged.

CoreOS CEO Alex Polvi certainly got the attention of the Docker community on Monday when he announced Rocket, his company's alternative to the Docker container file format and runtime. But just what is Rocket and what does it offer that Docker doesn't?…

This article compiles a good selection of roguelike games available for Linux. If you enjoy intense, addictive gameplay, try these 13 games. Don't be put off by the primitive graphics, you'll soon forget the visuals once you get immersed. All of them are available to download without charge, and almost all are released under an open source license.

In today's open source roundup: Quantum OS promises to blend Android's Material Design into the Linux desktop. Plus: Opera 26 has been released for Linux, and download the beta of the Scrivener writing tool for Linux.

According to a new report from The Linux Foundation, Linux is leading Windows on both the cloud and in enterprise application deployments.

Do you know about the Dutch Data Prize? From the Research Data Netherlands (RDNL) website: The Dutch Data Prize expresses appreciation for researchers or research groups that make an additional contribution to science by making their research data available for new or further research. There is a prize for the humanities and social sciences as well as a prize for the exact and technical sciences. The Dutch Data Prize is initiated by Research Data Netherlands (RDNL). read more