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Drupal is a very widely used open-source content management system. It initially was released in 2001, and recent statistics show Drupal as the third-most popular content management system, with just less than 800,000 Web sites utilizing Drupal as a content management system.

Data Modul’s 3.5-inch MS-98F3 SBC can run any 4th or 5th Generation Intel Core ULT chip, and offers dual mini-PCIe, GbE, and SATA connections. Data Modul’s MS-98F3 is the first embedded board we can recall to offer support for two different generations of Core processors. The 3.5-inch form-factor single board computer ships with a 4th […]

NGINX (pronounced "engine x") is an open source, high-performance HTTP server and reverse proxy server. read more

NCR hurls Google's Linux at Windows XP walls Banks have a new option for finally unhitching from Windows XP on tens of thousands of ATMs – Google’s Android.…

This week in Santa Clara, Opensource.com is attending OpenStack Live, a two day conference with six hands-on tutorials and 18 sessions along with keynotes and panel discussions featuring a wide range of speakers including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. read more

Case studies about open source project participants and users are a great way to showcase your project and how it works in the real world. Such studies will highlight interesting features of your software, demonstrate different (and potentially unique) ways your project is in use, and foster positive communication among members of your community. read more

Bigger than Justin Bieber and infinitely more interesting NASA has let it be known its working on an API portal so it can put more data into developers' hands.…

The bait--a trove of phony "stolen" data including several thousand Social Security numbers, credit cards, names, and email addresses--was swallowed within the first few days of being planted in the Dark Web. And when the 12-day experiment was over, the data had traveled to more than 22 different countries and been viewed nearly 1,100 times.

At first glance, there's little new in the next version of Ubuntu Linux. Under the hood, it's a different story.

After seven release candidates, the Linux 4.0 kernel is now generally available. Linux 4.0 began its merge window life as Linux 3.20 but got renamed after Linus got community input about his 'the numbers are too big' concern.

3DR launched a Linux-based “Solo” quadcopter starting at $1,000 that can beam HD video to a mobile app and take follow-me and selfie videos with GoPro cams. The Solo quadcopter is 3DR’s first Linux Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), and the first drone to directly control GoPro cameras and live-stream HD video to mobile devices, says […]

Kdenlive features an advanced overlay system by default. In fact, it's almost—but not quite—nodal. Node compositing is found in dedicated compositing software like Blender and Natron. And that's by default, for free. read more

A Kickstarter project is pitching a HAT add-on for the Raspberry Pi that provides a 2.7-inch E-paper display, as well as a battery backed real time clock. For educators, one of the coolest things about the Raspberry Pi is the HDMI port, which let you easily plug in to a monitor. But for embedded gizmos, […]

Vzwatchd is an OpenVZ monitoring daemon that informs the server administrator by email when a limit of the container is reached. OpenVZ is a Linux Kernel virtualisation technology that is often used by Web Hosting services, it is the free core of the commercial virtuozzo virtualisation application. OpenVZ is a lightweight virtualisation which has less overhead then KVM or XEN, it is more like a Linux LXC jail but with advanced limit options to define how many ressources a virtual machine may use and it has support for filesystem quota.

I really like the command line interface (CLI) in Linux. It bestows great power upon its users, and I spend a good deal of time availing myself of those powers. And yet without the GUI desktop I would still be limited. It is through the combination of the GUI and the command line that I find the power of Linux to be more fully realized. read more

Hit and miss? Or on the money? Speak your brains Poll Radio 4 has dipped a toe into Lake Geek with a five part series looking at computer languages. Or more accurately the history and reputation of four computer languages: Fortran, Cobol, Basic and Java.…

Welcome back, folks, to our third installment of my Six Degrees column. Thanks for the wondrous support over the past two installments. As always, keep your feedback flowing in the comments and feel free to drop me an email if you have topics you would like me to delve into. For this month's column, I want to dig into what I consider to be an important topic: how open source can provide the guardrails for a new generation of innovators. read more

Several days after HP seemed to announce that it was going to stop offering public cloud services, the company is now stating that it will continue to offer its OpenStack-powered Helion public cloud.

Wordpress is a free and open source blogging tool and CMS used by millions of people in the world. Its simplicity, power and flexibility places it as a top choice for people to use and developers to recommend. It has come a long way from its release in May, 2013. It consists of tons of themes, plugins and features that help the user to obtain speed, security and reliability.

No, really! While on a normal day, the word "Microsoft" can be used as an antonym for "Open", the world of .NET seems to be going legitimately open source.