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OwnCloud is a free Web-based app that provides Dropbox-style file hosting. With the release of version 9 on the horizon, it's a good time to take a look at the improved security features.

A Kickstarter funded “Bela” cape for the BeagleBone Black uses Xenomai Linux real-time extensions to provide analog and digital audio I/O with 1ms latency. There are a variety of audio capes for the audio-deprived BeagleBone Black, such as Element14’s $56 BeagleBone Audio Cape. Yet, the $76 Bela is unique. Developed by the Augmented Instruments Lab […]

I was recently talking to an engineer friend of mine over of a cup of coffee at a conference. His company had been in "DevOps strategy planning" for over six months and they had settled on the task of automating the delivery of their software. He was feeling frustrated—there never seemed to be enough time to get anything meaningful done, he couldn’t tell what others were doing, and a recent conversation revealed that not everyone had the same definition for "automating the delivery of software", much less having the same ideas behind what the word DevOps meant. read more

Second major Linux kernel milestone of 2016 debuts

Although the Raspberry Pi 3 was recently announced, the Raspberry Pi 2 still has plenty of life and is more than suitable for many interesting and useful tasks. read more

Interested in keeping track of what is happening in the open source cloud? Opensource.com is your source for news in OpenStack, the open source cloud infrastructure project. read more

Writing code is so 2013 – you wanna write some hardware instead Pic At the OCP Summit last week in San Jose, California, Intel quickly mentioned it will later this year ship Xeon processors with built-in FPGAs.…

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.6 offers performance and security updates

Improved PS/2 mouse-handling, KVM Hyper-V smarts and Intel's Kaby Lake support all land Version 4.5 of the Linux kernel has been loosed upon a waiting world.…

If your organization manages Linux, AIX, HP-UX or Solaris servers in-house, chances are your system administrators at least occasionally need low-level access to those devices. Typically, administrators use some kind of serial console - for example, traditional serial port, Serial-over-LAN or Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI).

Firefly’s sandwich-style “Reload” version of its quad-core Firefly-RK3288 hacker SBC adds SATA, more HDMI, camera, and USB ports, and more expansion I/O. The Cortex-A17 has seen fairly high adoption in Android media player such as the Tronsmart Orion R28 via Rockchip’s quad-core, 1.8GHz Rockchip RK3288 SoC.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.6 offers performance and security updates

In a shocking move, cyber criminals recently hacked the Linux Mint Web server and used it to launch an attack against the popular distro's user base.

Gneural Network out - now let's teach it some tricks... The GNU free software project has launched version 0.0.1 of its Gneural Network package in response to the “outstanding and truly inspiring” results achieved of late in proprietary artificial intelligence.…

Sleep is an essential part of human life, and parents quickly learn that lack of quality sleep (for themselves and their children) can lead to a whole host of other issues (behavioral, emotional, physical, etc.). But what does this have to do with Pi Day, or with open source? read more

The Federal government is embracing open-source programming with a new pro-open-source development policy.

Mumble is a free application primarily intended for use by gamers which allows users to talk to each other while gaming. In this article, I will show you how to install the Voice Over IP application Murmur on CentOS 7.

I listen to a lot of podcasts. A lot. On my phone's podcatcher, I am subscribed to around 60 podcasts... and I think that only eight of those have podfaded (died). Unsurprisingly, a fairly sizeable proportion of those remaining alive-and-well subscriptions are shows with a specific interest or relevance to open source software. As I seek to resurrect my own comatose podcast from the nebulous realm of podfadery, I thought it would be great for us as a community to share what we're listening to. read more

Hang on vendors, it is going to get bumpy until we hit the new bottom Very few if any ever thought Windows 10 would truly reinvigorate the PC industry, and they were right - IDC has pulled down forecasts on traditional device sales for 2016.…

Being small and low-powered, the Raspberry Pi is as popular with electronic hobbyists as it is with educators. As such, it gets associated with the "maker" scene, and sometimes the line between the Arduino (and Arduino-style embedded microcontrollers) and the Pi gets blurred. read more