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Last year, around Pi Day, I authored an article here on Opensource.com on how to set up a music light show with your Raspberry Pi. Before creating the light show, I encouraged the reader to learn about breadboards and the CanaKit as a way to do some prototyping controls with the Raspberry Pi and LEDs. read more

You may have heard the news recently that the MAME project has been licensed under the GPL version 2. read more

My Linux story started in 1998 and continues today. Back then, I worked for The Gap managing thousands of desktops running OS/2 (and a few years later, Warp 3.0). As an OS/2 guy, I was really happy then. The desktops hummed along and it was quite easy to support thousands of users with the tools the GAP had built. Changes were coming, though. read more

If you're running below version 2.7.3, you're at risk Code dive A chap who found two serious security bugs in Git servers and clients has urged people to patch their software.…

Introduction If you store or track storage across lots of different places, you may have heard of ownCloud. This open source product lets you manage and share data across locations seamlessly. The project is a popular one, and there’s even a commercial service built... Continue Reading →

Powerful offsite backup solution for Linux with support for rsync, SSHFS and more launched by ElasticHosts

Servers are generated – often with a ‘golden master’ and then left never to be checked or examined from a security perspective. This session discusses the ways the server settings can degrade, the undesirable effects this may have on your organization and how you can avoid both.

This tutorial will show you the installation of the Nginx web server on Debian 8. Nginx (pronounced "engine x") is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server. Nginx is known for its stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption. The setup includes PHP and MariaDB and is ready to use its as hosting system for CMS systems like Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal etc.

Security of users is paramount. Technology companies need to do everything in their power to ensure the security of their users and build products and services with strong security measures in place to do that. At Mozilla, it’s part of … Continue reading

I've mentioned many times before the questionable nature of downloading video game ROMs in order to emulate them on your computer.

The growing trend of closed content silos—publishing platforms that require a login in order to view the content—is a step away from a more open web. As this trend continues, owners of closed silos will have even more control over published content and traffic that content drives. This is why content producers should also consider ways to publish content openly, and for their users to have the option to access content through their web browsers rather than being driven into closed ecosystems.  read more

Opinion: It can stop forcing companies to pay for its bogus Android patents. Right. Like that's ever going to happen.

If you're one of those people upgrading to the Raspberry Pi 3, you might wonder what to do with your old, lesser Pi. Aside from turning it into an array of blinking LEDs to entertain your cat, you might consider configuring it as a microcontroller. read more

Think of it as a productivity kit Deep dive Jide’s Remix OS is Android for a desktop or tablet OS: with multitasking, overlapping windows and the shortcut conveniences you need for productivity-style work.…

Futarque’s “Rho Board” 4K media player SBC is up on Kickstarter, starting at $35 with a quad-core, Cortex-A7, a Pi 2 connector, and optional DVB-T2/C tuner. Danish digital video specialist Futarque needs another $5,000 or so to reach its Kickstarter goal for the Rho Board, with eight days left to go. The board is primarily […]

Qualcomm's broken drivers are tip of the iceberg If you've got a Qualcomm Snapdragon chip in your Android phone and tablet, make sure you grab its latest security updates – if you can.…

The Web is the platform for game development and we’ll be showing it in action at this year’s Game Developer Conference in San Francisco. Powerful new capabilities continue to emerge and gain mindshare with developers and gamers alike.

Initial release to work on at least four websites. Success? Mozilla is planning an initial release of its new Servo-based new web browser in June, according to a post on the developer mailing list by research engineer Paul Rouget.

I must admit that I don't really follow basketball. But, I do like to engage with folks at work, and every spring I've always felt a little left out when my work colleagues fill out their NCAA March Madness basketball brackets. If your office is like mine, it seems everyone gets very excited to build their brackets and follow the basketball games and play in an office pool.

You all know these old gangster films where a guy uses a knock sequence on a door to get in? Port Knocking is exactly that, just for your server. Installing port knocking on Ubuntu is easy. I will show you in this article how to install and set up port knocking. The steps from this tutorials should work for Debian 8 as well.