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With so much going on in OpenStack, the open source cloud computing project, it can be difficult to keep track of what's new and to learn how to use it. Fortunately, there are a lot of resources out there to help, including third-party training, listservs, IRC channels, and of course the official documentation. read more

Fedora 23 release is GO! After last week’s schedule adjustment, and a last minute panic where we discovered that the installer wasn’t actually showing help when you pressed the help button (thanks everyone who scrambled to fix that!), we’re on schedule for a release on Tuesday, November 3rd.

I met Alison Chaiken at LinuxCon 2010 in Boston, not long after she joined Nokia as a Meego technical consultant. A few months later, I interviewed her about her role at Nokia and her predictions about where open source technology was headed in 2011. She predicted an increasing role for cameras and microphones in mobile. "Cameras and microphones are used deliberately to take photos and record voice commands, but in the future they will be always on, gathering ambient data about the environment of users on the go," she said. read more

CompuLab’s SODIMM-style “CL-SOM-iMX6UL” COM runs Linux on an i.MX6 UltraLite SoC, and offers up to 32GB eMMC, WiFi/BT, and industrial temperature operation. CompuLab’s CL-SOM-iMX6UL joins a handful of computer-on-modules that, over the past several months, have adopted the new, IoT-oriented i.MX6 UltraLite system-on-chip that Freescale unveiled in late May. The Ultralite shifts from the i.MX6’s […]

This whole microservices caper looks less like a House of Cards every day Video-streamer and junior filmed entertainment production house Netflix has updated its open source policies, with a notable change being a decision to release code pre-packaged in Docker's container formats.…

On my 21st birthday in 1998, I received a phone call from Richard Stallman, founder of the GNU Project and Free Software Foundation (FSF), to tell me the root password of the GNU Project's web server. read more

For years, people have wondered when Google would combine Android and Chrome OS. That day appears to be coming.

Redmond upgrades upgrade to 'recommended update' Microsoft will download Windows 10 to PCs via "recommended" Windows Update early next year.…

Solu Machines will soon surpass its Kickstarter funding goal for a smartphone-like mini-PC with a Linux based, cloud oriented OS and a novel UI stack. Kickstarter funding packages start at $388 for the Solu, which would join a fairly short list of mini-PCs with pre-installed Linux, and an even smaller group of ARM-based Linux mini-PCs. […]

Ad giant about to perform mashup we all knew was coming Google is reportedly going to "fold" Chrome OS into Android, effectively killing off a secure, lightweight desktop OS in the process.…

Free website hosting service 000webhost has suffered a data breach which has placed the service's security practices under scrutiny. 000webhost is a free web hosting service which supports both PHP and MySQL, catering for millions of users worldwide. On Wednesday, the firm told users in a Facebook message that the company had suffered a databreach on its main server.

Google has given Symantec an offer it can't refuse: give a thorough accounting of its ailing certificate authority process or risk having the world's most popular browser-Chrome-issue scary warnings when end users visit HTTPS-protected websites that use Symantec credentials.

'Almost no meaningful contributions' as code goes proprietary. The team behind RoboVM, an iOS compiler of tools for mobile Java applications, says that making its core product open source has not worked and that current and future versions will be proprietary.

Axiomtek’s fanless “CAPA848” SBC runs Linux on an Intel Bay Trail Celeron N2807 processor, and offers up to 8GB of onboard RAM and -20 to 70°C operation.

Conjecture on cracked primes for the Diffie-Hellman asymmetric algorithm is in recent news, suggesting that several nations have broken primes in common use and can read all traffic:

Recently, I drove to the Netherlands for a day to hang out with about half the people who work at Greenpeace International. The meetup actually lasted an entire week, but I only attended Thursday, a day on which newly formed teams gathered to do some bonding and better understand each other's work. We talked about purpose and vision, as it was the first in-person meeting after a rather large re-organization that has been taking place over the last year or so. read more

The new Director of Community at GitHub, Jono Bacon, delivered a keynote at All Things Open this year titled: The new era of community. His talk was largely a call action to do better job of leading, guiding, and engaging in open source communities. Here's how. read more

SFC GPL enforcement hearing scheduled for 2016 Software Freedom Conservancy has spat out a “high level” update on the GPL enforcement case it is backing against VMware, ahead of an expected first hearing next year.…

Python is everywhere. These days, it seems it powers everything from major websites to desktop utilities to enterprise software. Python has been used to write all, or parts of, popular software projects like dnf/yum, OpenStack, OpenShot, Blender, Calibre, and even the original BitTorrent client. read more

LISA is an annual technical conference for IT operations professionals, organized by The USENIX Association. The first LISA was held back in 1986, and the event still has a reputation for delivering top-notch technical content and an exceptional hallway track. This year, Amy Rich (Mozilla Corporation) and Cory Lueninghoener (Los Alamos National Laboratory) co-chaired the conference. In this interview, Amy offers a preview of what's in store at LISA15 and tips for conference-planning teams. read more