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Without some help, the world of OpenStack can be an intimidating space. It seems as if there's always something new to learn, and the corpus grows larger every day. So what's a cloud administrator to do? read more

This year has been another great one for open science. At Opensource.com we published several great stories about open science projects that are changing the way we research, collaborate, and solve problems.

Just as well Azure and Office 365 are growing The last twelve months have been pivotal for Microsoft, the company which once promised to put a PC on every desk but now settles for a vague mission statement about “achieve more”.…

Congatec announced a “Conga-TS170” COM Express Basic module series based on Intel’s 6th Gen (“Skylake”) Core and Xeon processors, and aimed at high performance “server class” apps. Congatec is introducing a series of COM Express Type 6 Basic modules that are available with a selection of Intel’s 14nm 6th Generation Core (“Skylake”) processors, as well […]

Over a year ago now, I went looking for the best plugins to turn Vim into a full-fledged IDE. Interestingly, a lot of the comments on that post were about how Emacs already has most of these plugins built in, and was already a great IDE. Although I can only agree about Emacs' incredible versatility, […]Continue reading...

The Arrow Electronics SF2+ Development Kit, which targets security camera, communications, connected home, and Internet of Things (IoT) applications, is unusual in that it pairs the stripped down uClinux and U-boot with a Microsemi SmartFusion2 (SF2) SoC.

Fedora Election results Fedora's leadership structure is a mix of appointed and elected positions, with many of the appointed ones selected by other project members active in a particular area.

At the beginning of October I spent a week in Dublin sharing a room at a tiny bed and breakfast with two English students, each with really interesting stories to tell. Why was I there? I received diversity scholarship to attend LinuxCon 2015. I was so excited I didn't even mind the rain on the first day. But how did I get there? read more

Network Manager is a feature-rich network configuration service which is used by default in most Linux desktop environments nowadays. It provides automatic configuration of (wired/wireless) network interfaces, as well as VPN, mobile broadband and even Bluetooth connections. Network Manager is smart enough to automatically switch to the best (or the most recent) connection network, and […]Continue reading...

Three years ago, I wrote a series of articles titled "Getting Started with 3D Printing" that discussed the current state of the hobbyist 3D printing market from both the hardware and software angles. This is an incredibly fast-moving industry, and a lot has changed since I wrote those columns.

Codeweavers has released a new major version of Crossover, the popular Microsoft Windows compatibility layer which is now based on Wine 1.8. The software is commercial and it costs around $40, but there is also a two-week trial version which is fully functional and can be downloaded for free. For this quick guide, I will be using the latter to show how you can install, set up, and run Windows executables with Crossover 15.

The Missing Maps project, which launched in 2014, aims to literally and figuratively put more than 20-million at-risk people on the map using OpenStreetMap (OSM) as a platform. We need to fill in "missing maps" before the next disaster strikes, ensuring the maps have detail sufficient for emergency responders to hit the ground running. read more

Juniper Networks, a tech giant that produces networking equipment used by an array of corporate and government systems, announced on Thursday that it had discovered two unauthorized backdoors in its firewalls, including one that allows the attackers to decrypt protected traffic passing through Juniper’s devices. The researchers’ findings suggest that the NSA may be responsible for that backdoor, at least indirectly.

I recently installed the Fedora Cinnamon Spin after using Manjaro for some months. I have used Fedora for many years, and Cinnamon is one of my favorite desktop environments. However, until Fedora 23, if I wanted to use Cinnamon in... Continue Reading →

With the mounting online security risks, simple one-step security no longer suffices, and people resort to multiple layers of security to thwart increasingly sophisticated attacks on their digital assets and online privacy. An advanced form of security defense often employed in financial sectors and other corporate environments is hardware-based protection, where a tamper-proof physical security […]Continue reading...

Compulab launched its fastest Fitlet mini-PC yet with a quad-core, 2.4GHz AMD G-Series “Fitlet-T,” plus two Intense PC mini-PCs using Intel’s 5th Gen Cores. Compulab added to two of its Linux-ready mini-PC families with a Fitlet-T starting at $386, and two new Intense PC (IPC) models starting at $638.

One of the great aspects of open source is that there’s always something new to learn. Many of us like to jump right in with new software or technology and learn by trial and error. Sometimes, however, we can use a guiding hand. That hand comes in the form of a good how-to or manual.

From next year, websites with new SHA-1 certificates will not be supported by Google Chrome in the interest of security.

LibreOffice is one of the most important pieces of free software, allowing many of us to work, study, and share information. Although the software features many tools and capabilities, the spectrum of possible uses for each and everyone out there is so wide, that it is simply impossible to cover every special need with hotkeys and shortcuts. However, LibreOffice can be set to support user-created commands that can essentially help us increase our productivity.

Wearable electronics have exploded in the past year. Countless small devices are now on the market for not only fitness tracking, but posture improvement, sunscreen reminders, muscle-sensing gesture control, and much more. As technology on the body becomes more pervasive than ever, having open source tools for developing wearable technology is more important than ever, so that we can create the future of fashion tech while maintaining data privacy of biometric sensor data.

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