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What started as an uphill battle in Burlington, Vermont on the National Day of Civic Hacking in June 2013, transversed into an understanding between local government, non-profits, the media, and the community four months later. What they came to understand was that we can grow stronger when we work together. When we partner. When we work on stuff that matters. Robert Coleburn, a Technology Librarian (and systems administrator) at Fletcher Free Library, jumped at the opportunity to partner with Code for Burlington, a Code for America brigade, to help host a hackathon on the last weekend in October called Hack the Stacks. The event drew over 30 people volunteering to improve their community through open source technology.

The list derives from the foundation’s Who Has Your Back Program, which surveys Web service providers to find out if they are implementing the foundation’s best practices for encryption.

The head of the Linux Mint distribution has slammed a Canonical developer who made an offhand comment about the security of the distribution, and also the media outlets who propagated this information without bothering to check.

The GNOME development team has released the second maintenance release for the stable GNOME Settings Daemon 3.10 package, which is part of the GNOME 3.10.2 desktop upgrade.

While most Linux distributions have switched from using sysvinit or Upstart to systemd as their init daemon, Upstart continues to be happily used within the Ubuntu camp. For the Ubuntu 14.04 development cycle there are more Upstart improvements planned.

The following article is about how to install and set-up the Roundcube webmail interface on a CentOS VPS.

In this post, I'll answer a question to which I hoped I'd find an answer on the internet--but I did not manage to find that answer. The question is about minimal specs for a motion-capture machine and, though my answer will have to remain somewhat imprecise owing to the fact that I did not test multiple systems, it will at least give a probable base-line for what may be the lowest-powered system one could use for the task I'm describing.

The Network Time Protocol is one of the oldest protocols in the TCP/IP Protocol Suite. The protocol was designed in 1985 by David L. Mills of the University of Delaware. As of June 2010, NTP has a current version of 4, sometimes referred to as NTPv4.

This wasn’t the case with a group of Reddit users last week, where a scene broke out in a comment thread that pretty much turned into a mob that reminded me of the Cooks Source massacre of 2010. It seems that a few folks don’t need to know the full story before picking up their virtual weapons and launching an attack. They’re ready to bring SourceForge to its knees by flooding all of SourceForge’s download mirror sites with emails vilifying the service.

Angel 2.5 is now available. Angel Linux is a newer Puppy-based lightweight desktop oriented Linux distribution.

Many computer users are familiar with the basic idea of filesystems. A storage device is divided into partitions each formatted to a particular filesystem that holds files. Well, just as the filesystem hold the files, a partition table holds the filesystems. There are a few partition table types. The most commonly known one is MBR.

Sony has just launched its PlayStation 4 console, and it seems that the rumours about being based on FreeBSD are actually true.

You flashed an SD card with Raspberry Pi image, and plug the SD card into Raspberry Pi. Then what next? The first thing to do after booting Raspberry Pi is to configure your Raspberry Pi. Each Raspberry Pi system comes with its own software configuration tool. For example, use raspi-config for Raspbian, firstboot for Pidora, etc. This tutorial explains how to perform initial configurations on Raspbian-powered Raspberry Pi by using raspi-config tool.

Many Linux users know at least some shell scripting due to its importance. However, many users are not aware of the importance of Python scripting in Linux. True, shell scripting is more important than Python scripting, but Python is a very useful scripting tool in Linux. This is a general tutorial for Python3.

Run apps directly on the Glass hardware Google has unveiled what it's calling a "sneak peek" at its Glass Developer Kit (GDK), a new way to write software for the Chocolate Factory's privacy-stomping future-specs.…

What options are available for users who want a file and application launcher similar to the one found in Ubuntu's Unity desktop, but under a different desktop environment or distribution? That’s what I set to find out.

In 2002, the GSyC/LibreSoft research group at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos successfully surveyed a broad swath of over 2500 respondents (mostly developers) from open source and free software communities. They have long been researching and collaborating with Free and Libre Open Sourse Software (FLOSS or FOSS) organizations and groups and are back again to recreate the survey with the goal of assessing where the community stands today after over ten years of evolution and innovation. This year, the Libresoft research group encourages anyone involved in a FLOSS project (not only developers) to participate in the survey.

How to install Nagios 4.0.1 (Monitoring Tool) in ubuntu 13.10 server (Saucy Salamander)

I love distros that try and mimic other OSes. They lessen the blow of using a new OS and encourage inexperienced users to take the plunge into Linux. In that respect, Pear OS 8 is a wonderful imitation of Mac OS X, but does a poor job of presenting the best of Linux.

Today in Open Source: The NSA wanted a backdoor into Linux. Plus: openSUSE 13.1 review, and Mir won't be in Ubuntu 14.04