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I’m a big believer in collaboration. It's one of the main tenets of the open source way and a huge part of the design process. When done right, collaboration is about finding the right and diverse mix of people, collectively defining the problem and goals, and then collectively doing the work: researching, listening, thinking, sharing, tinkering, doing more research, more thinking, more tinkering, and more sharing until you get to a strategy that has conviction and truth. read more

The Fedora 21 release is progressing, and in a recent email to the development list, Jaroslav ?ezník (the Fedora Program / Schedule Manager) points out that we are a mere 2 weeks away from the Change Freeze milestone (scheduled for July 7th 2014).

What does it take to be a system administrator? Find out how to equip yourself with the skills you need to start a new career in Linux. Being a system administrator is a sometimes strange and difficult role: nobody knows you exist unless there is a problem, and then it’s instantly considered your fault. Your number one priority is to enable your users or developers unimpeded access to systems you are managing. If there’s a problem it needs to be solved as swiftly and efficiently as possible. You need to see and understand the problems before they come up. Do you still want to be a system administrator? If so, what are the core tasks? How can you become a better system administrator? We’ll be answering all these questions and more over the next few pages, so get your notepads at the ready…

Elon Musk and crew at Tesla Motors made some big waves last week. In case you missed this recent news roundup, it was announced that Tesla is effectively relinquishing their patent portfolio—particularly around charging stations.

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A company that topped the list of obvious casualties in the post-PC era has thrived due to surprising changes to the way it does things. Most especially, how it works with developers.

Coding advanced asynchronous I/O with Python's new high-level streams API.

Debian squeezes more life out of its 'oldstable' branch

Plasma Media Center 1.2 was released as a Christmas gift. Now, we bring to you Plasma Media Center 1.3! As always, we have made sure to make it easier to enjoy your favorite videos, music and photos - both from your collection as well as online sources.

It seems like every day there's a new mobile game that takes the world by storm. Whether it's Flappy Bird or Candy Crush, there's something about simple games that appeals to our need for quick, instant gratification.

The Beaglebone Black is a small, low cost, ARMv7 machine that is capable of running Fedora proper. It is a open-source hardware single-board computer similar in concept to the popular Raspberry PI, but has a faster processor, all for around $45.

Ditch Skype for an open source alternative as we compare some of the best VoIP clients that Linux has to offer. What are the best Linux VoIP clients? We have four we’ve put four of the best to the test to figure out exactly which one wins triumphantly.

Late last month, the Debian project voted to adopt a community code of conduct, a set of guidelines for acceptable participation in its official communication channels. Members agreed to abide by the following principles: Be respectful Assume good faith Be collaborative Try to be concise Be open The project also cemented a formal process for altering the code: only a vote from the Debian general assembly can amend the community's code of conduct. read more

The Adafruit PiTFT has been upgraded to now support touch and motion gestures on top of its current tapping functions

OneDrive (previously known as SkyDrive) is a popular cloud storage offering from Microsoft. Currently OneDrive offers 7GB free storage for every new signup. As you can imagine, OneDrive is well integrated with other Microsoft software products. Microsoft also offers a standalone OneDrive client which automatically backs up pictures and videos taken by a camera to […]Continue reading... The post How to sync Microsoft OneDrive on Linux appeared first on Xmodulo. Related FAQs: How to sync Google Drive from the command line on Linux How to install and run Microsoft Windows for free on Linux How to access Dropbox from the command line in Linux How to back up and restore Gmail account on Linux How to use local storage for CloudStack VMs

This article reviews three top open source business intelligence and reporting tools. In economies of big data and open data, who do we turn to in order to have our data analysed and presented in a precise and readable format? This list covers those types of tools. The list is not exhaustive—I have selected tools that are widely used and can also meet enterprise requirements. And, this list is not meant to be a comparison—this is a review of what is available.

Because Heartbleed is the gift that keeps on giving With developers still struggling to plug vulnerabilities in the open source OpenSSL crypto library, Google has spun off a new fork of the project based on its own, internal work with the code, dubbed BoringSSL.…

Snappy is a minimal application that does one thing — plays videos. Snappy is a super-minimal video player with a neat on-screen display, and that’s about it, here is no other interface in the application.

The Orange Box really is a cloud-in-a-box. But while the hardware is neat, it's the Juju DevOps software inside that makes it special.

Canonical's Ubuntu Linux-powered Orange Box, with its 10 servers in a single container, is the perfect cloud sampler.

Android fans who are hoping Google will debut a new version of the OS at its annual I/O conference in San Francsico next week might be in for a disappointment ... because the company is rolling out a new version this week.