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In this tutorial, I will guide you trough the installation of an NFS server on CentOS 7, then we will add the NFS share as a storage option in the Proxmox server so that it can be used as backup space the virtual machines.

One answer to the problem of high textbook prices could be open source textbooks, which are available online at little or no cost. Students with the North Carolina Public Interest Research Group’s textbook affordability campaign promoted open source textbooks...

Learn to run multiple guest operating systems on top of your main Linux distro

This past summer, I was an intern at the GVIS Lab at NASA Glenn, where I brought my passion for open source into the lab. My task was to improve our lab's contributions to an open source fluid flow dynamics simulation developed by Dan Schroeder. read more

SCO lost its legal battle against IBM and Linux long ago, but now the final shovel of dirt has been thrown on its lawsuits' grave.

The higher-education community was the first to grasp the potential of open source textbooks, which students can legally access online, download and self-print for free, or have printed on demand at low cost. The K–12 sector has been a bit behind higher education in using open source textbooks and other open educational resources (OER)... “Openness in learning can help students to be more collaborative, more proactive and more independent, skills that will benefit all of us beyond just the walls of school.”

For over two decades, the battle between privacy-minded technologists and the U.S. government has primarily been over encryption. In the 1990s, in what became known as the Crypto Wars, the U.S. tried to limit powerful encryption — calling it as dangerous to export as sophisticated munitions — and eventually lost.

The famous festival SXSW is coming up in March in Austin, Texas and will hold a special event called SX Create, focused on cool gadgets and hardware projects. If you have a badge, this event will be open to you—plus, it's free and open to the public. How very open source of them.

Well, that's one way to differentiate from Apple Amazon is notifying customers that the latest update for its Fire OS will disable device encryption.…

Mumble is a voice chat application which is designed for the gamer's so that they can to talk to each other by connecting their mumble clients to the same server. This Voice over IP application is similar to Ventrilo and TeamSpeak. The simple administration interface, high-quality codecs and low latency makes it quite popular. In this article, I will tell you how you can install and configure Murmur on to your systems. Murmur is a server component of Mumble.

Mozilla announced four Firefox OS based “Connected Devices” projects, including a home automation system, an AI agent, a voice interface, and a “SensorWeb.”

The people who package and distribute our software to the world are crucial to our user's experience. In keeping with our original KDE vision, we want to improve the working relationships between distributions and KDE developers. Not only do we want to foster professional friendship, but we also want to help our software shine in each distribution.

My last full-time job was manager of a university's database department. Ironically, I know very, very little about databases themselves. I'm no longer in charge of college databases, but I still do have a handful of MySQL servers that run my various Web applications. Apart from apt-get install, I have no idea how to make databases work. Thankfully, help is available.

Mozilla today joined a coalition of technology companies, including Google, Nest Labs, Facebook, WhatsApp, Evernote, Snapchat and Microsoft, in filing an amicus brief in support of Apple’s position in its ongoing dispute with the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Aaeon’s industrial Mini-ITX EMB-Q170A, EMB-Q170B, and EMB-H110B SBCs tap Intel’s 6th Gen Core “Skylake” CPUs, with up to 32MB DDR4 RAM and 4K video support.

MATE, Gnome and chums Review Canonical's next version of Linux-based operating system Ubuntu has hit its first beta stage – and while Ubuntu's Unity release is sitting out its first beta, as is Kubuntu, there are plenty of changes and new features in the rest of the Ubuntu family.…

In my recent article 4 open source tools for Linux system monitoring, I discussed interactive tools that can be helpful in solving system problems. I also mentioned the sar command and how it is different from interactive commands. The sar command is one of my favorites when it comes to resolving problems. read more

GNU/Linux software-related issues can be solved or circumvented by using a debugger’s perspective

There are two kinds of Linux users: the cautious and the adventurous. On one side is the user who almost reflexively tries out ever new option which hits the scene. They’ve tried handfuls of window managers, dozens of distributions, and every new desktop widget they can find. read more

BeagleCore has released design docs for its open-spec, BeagleBone-like COM and carrier board, which are both available for pre-order from Conrad Electronics. Last summer, Iesy funded startup BeagleCore failed to win funding for its eponymous BeagleBone Black COM clone on Kickstarter. Now, however, a slightly tweaked design is available for pre-order from Conrad Electronics, with […]