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Well-known open-source developer and leader Brian Behlendorf is now the executive director of Hyperledger, a project for advancing enterprise open-source blockchain technology

Embedded Artists and Rohm have launched a 37 x 27mm COM built around an NXP i.MX7 featuring a low-power Rohm PMIC, 1GB LP-DDR3, and 8GB eMMC. You know the Internet of Things has become “a thing” when the main selling point of a computer-on-module is the properties of its power management IC. In the case […]

This tutorial describes the installation of a clustered web, email, database and DNS server to be used for redundancy, high availability and load balancing on Debian 8 with the ISPConfig 3 control panel. MySQL Master/Master replication will be used to replicate the MySQL client databases between the servers, Unison will be used to Sync the /var/www (websites) and the Mails will be synced with Dovecot.

We now know a lot more about the next version of Android, except its name. The most exciting new Android N feature is an answer to the age-old problem of pushing Android security updates to users.

The conflict between Google and Oracle continues to blaze through the courtrooms.

Targets dev-friendly skittles SAP has released a beta version of its Hana Cloud Platform for Cloud Foundry.…

There comes a time in the journey of most any programmer when they are ready to branch out past the basic examples and start to build a graphical interface to their program. In Python, the steps to get started with GUI programming are not terribly complex, but they do require the user to begin making some choices. By its nature as a general purpose programming language with interpreters available across every common operating system, Python has to be fairly agnostic as to the choices it presents for creating graphical user interfaces. read more

With better security, improved ARM support, and, oh yes, better gaming hardware support, Linux 4.6 is a major update.

If you think streams and pipes make a Linux expert sound like a plumber, here's your chance to learn about them and how to redirect and split them. You even learn how to turn a stream into command arguments. You can use the material in this tutorial to study for the LPI 101 exam for Linux system administrator certification, or just to learn for fun.

As the release date for Linux Mint 18 approaches, project announcers have reported that they are no longer shipping live CD images with embedded codecs. Furthermore, they also are dropping support for OEM images with codecs.

With better security, improved ARM support, and, oh yes, better gaming hardware support, Linux 4.6 is a major update.

I’m excited to announce that Alex Salkever joins the Mozilla leadership team today as the Vice President of Marketing Communications. In this role, Alex Salkever will be responsible for driving strategic positioning and marketing communications campaigns.

In the opening OSCON keynote this morning, the founder of Docker, Solomon Hykes, gave us a fantastic birds-eye view of lessons learned from the "firehose" while building a successful open source project. He calls this process: Incremental Revolution.

Two major open source IoT frameworks — the OCF’s “IoTivity” and the AllSeen Alliance’s “AllJoyn” — are moving toward interoperability, and possibly, a merger.

OpenLiteSpeed is a high performance and lightweight HTTP server which comes with a Web Gui administration interface. In this tutorial, I will guide you trough the installation and configuration of openLiteSpeed and PHP 7 on CentOS 7.

In its mission to hunt criminals, the FBI has been keen to hack Tor, the Internet browser that hides your true location... FBI agents are currently trying to subpoena one of Tor's core software developers to testify in a criminal hacking investigation...

Docker was the flame that catalyzed innovation in application development, according to Scott Johnston, senior vice president of product management and design at Docker. However, that success was entirely unforeseen. "I wish I could say that we had a premeditated mindset three years ago when we released Docker," Johnston said in his keynote at last month's Collaboration Summit. "But we did not." Looking back, he sees three main reasons for Docker’s success: Accessibility, Portability, and Openness.

Back in 2009, our day-to-day life at Planio was writing software for clients. Client work is often fun, but there can also be a feeling that you're stuck on a hamster wheel of endlessly churning through projects, always looking for new customers. We used Redmine, an open source project management tool built using the Ruby on Rails framework, to manage these projects. And then something curious started happening. read more

Cross-site scripting flaw gives evil websites access to local files Google has emailed Android developers advising them to update Android Studio, the official Android IDE, to fix security bugs. Other versions of the JetBrains IntelliJ IDE, on which Android Studio is based, are also affected.…

Node-RED is a browser-based flow editor that lets users wire together hardware devices, APIs, and online services in new and interesting ways. Node-RED's nodes are like npm packages, and you can get them the same way. And because Node-RED has a built-in text editor, you can make applications as complex as you like by adding JavaScript functions. Because Node-RED is based on Node.js and takes advantage of the event-driven, non-blocking model, it can be run on low-cost hardware like the Raspberry Pi or in the cloud. read more