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One look around the airport waiting lounge or family living room will tell you everything you need to know about where the cloud is headed. Christmas carols drift on by thanks to Pandora, gifts come without having to stand in line at the mall, and those holiday snaps of the family will be stored on someone else’s server. In the next 12 months, software running on clouds will rule our world more than ever—but unfortunately not many of those clouds are powered by OpenStack. read more

Ian Murdock, 42, was best known for his contributions to the Linux operating system, founding the Debian Project, a widely used Linux distribution, while a student at Purdue University in Indiana, where he earned...

In this fortnight's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at the first official release of the Perl 6 language specification, a reading and watching list from the EFF, and more! Open source news roundup for December 19, 2015-January 1, 2016 read more

Hardware projects and the culture of makers in tech continued to grow by leaps and bounds in 2015. At Opensource.com, we published numerous articles about how to build, rig up, and connect something. We also covered new open source hardware that made its debut during the year.

Magento is an open source e-commerce software and content management system for e-commerce websites based on the PHP Zend Framework. It uses MySQL or MariaDB as database backend. The Magento development has been started in 2008 by Varien. Inc. In this tutorial, I will show you how to install Magento 2 with Nginx, PHP-FPM, and MariaDB as the database on Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf).

My introduction to open source was pure, geeky coincidence. read more

Plaintiffs say upgrade was never meant for 4S Lawyers in New York have filed a class action lawsuit against Apple, saying that the iOS 9 operating system upgrade slowed their older iPhone 4S handsets into uselessness.…

Community backed, open-spec SBCs vary wildly, from sub-$10 minimalists to octa-core powerhouses. Here we present 64 Linux- and Android-friendly models. In 2015, the number of open-spec, hacker friendly single board computers running Linux or Android has continued to grow while prices have dropped to unprecedented levels. Low-cost boards such as the Chip, Raspberry Pi Zero, […]

2016: a Long Year - I know you're expecting a sarcastic comment about an election year in the US making it seem longer than normal, but no, 2016 is literally a longer year than most.

Five new Linux Kernel releases debuted in 2015, including a major number release

The intersection of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math), open educational resources (OER), and computer programming is the focus of a number of the articles published on Opensource.com in 2015. They highlight a growing interest in all three areas where students, parents, and educators have the opportunity to immerse themselves in education as never before. read more

Ian Murdock was a Linux original. He was the "ian" in Debian, which he founded in 1993 while still an undergrad at Purdue.

Just prior to his death, Murdock had started sending increasingly erratic tweets from his Twitter account.

There are different ways to manage virtual machines (VMs) running on KVM hypervisor. For example, virt-manager is a popular GUI-based front-end for VM management. However, if you would like to use KVM on a headless server, GUI-based solutions will not be ideal. In fact, you can create and manage KVM VMs purely from the command […]Continue reading...

2015 has been a great year for open source and Linux gaming. The number of Linux games continues to grow, and Steam Machines finally hit the market on November 10. So, with the end of the year closing in, I’d like to give you my picks for the top five open games.

Just let that settle in. Google appears to be lining up OpenJDK – an open-source implementation of the Java platform – for future Android builds.

I recently was talking to someone over IRC who was helping me with a PHP app that was giving me trouble. The extremely helpful individual asked me to let him know the value of a certain field in a record on my MySQL server. I embarrassingly admitted that I'd have to install something like PHPMyAdmin or Adminer in order to find that information.

Fedora Security Lab is probably one of the most unknown Fedora Labs for the public. It is typically used for a very specific task. But what exactly is that task? This article aims to answer that question! Security Lab and cyber... Continue Reading →

At this year's Blender Conference, the Blender Institute released its latest open movie project, Glass Half. You can watch the full three minutes of this short animation in all its glory right here. read more

2015 was a year of many new open source projects hitting the scene with a splash. From enterprise solutions to home brewed open source concoctions, many of the projects released as open source software this year have made a huge impact on the world of computing in a very short amount of time. While flash stardom isn't always the best predictor of longevity, we think these 10 projects just might have come onto the scene with enough momentum to continue their success in the new year. You might call this list our most likely to succeed in 2016. read more