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LXer Feature: 04-May-2014

The first week of May and the summer heat has arrived here in Phoenix. In the Roundup this week we have Keith Curtis learning to love Heartbleed, Google's Web Designer comes to Linux, Red Hat acquires Inktank, a nice Konqueror vs Firefox review (Konqueror was the first native Linux browser I used when I switched years ago), the new Firefox 29 looks a lot like Chrome if you ask me, the FCC chairman does nothing to instill any confidence in me and it being May 4th I hope you have a Happy Star Wars Day. Enjoy!

The Perfect Server - CentOS 6.5 x86_64 (Apache2, Dovecot, ISPConfig 3) This tutorial shows how to prepare a CentOS 6.5 x86_64 server for the installation of ISPConfig 3, and how to install ISPConfig 3. ISPConfig 3 is a webhosting control panel that allows you to configure the following services through a web browser: Apache web server, Postfix mail server, MySQL, BIND nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, Mailman, and many more. Since version 3.0.4, ISPConfig comes with full support for the nginx web server in addition to Apache; this tutorial covers the setup of a server that uses Apache, not nginx.

The high correlation between science fiction fans and techies reaches its zenith with the BBC show Doctor Who. But who knew that showing off one’s inner Time Lord could actually be a winning career move? Last fall at the Embedded Linux Conference Europe in Edinburgh, Scotland, Red Hat engineer John “Warthog9? Hawley demonstrated a robot based on Doctor Who’s robotic dog K-9. His treadwheel bot runs Angstrom Linux on Intel’s open spec, Atom-based MinnowBoard single-board computer, the forerunner of the new MinnowBoard Max.

Via Technologies has been so consumed with its ARM-based Wondermedia and Via Elite system-on-chips recently that one forgets that the Taiwan-based company was known for years for designing low-power x86 processors like the Eden and Nano. Here, Via keeps it all in the family by spinning an AMOS-3003 industrial computer based on its circa-2012 EPIA-P910 pico-ITX SBC, which in turn is built around Via’s dual-core Nano X2 E-Series CPU and VX11H media system processor (MSP).

I know I’ve been posting these reminders for a while now, but this is the last one, since it’s also the last few days in which voting is open for the different sessions proposed for Flock (Fedora’s annual planning and development conference, in Prague this August). Fedora contributors can vote on the Fedora Elections page. Of course, it’s best if you can actually attend, but even if you won’t be able to, it’s helpful to vote on topics which you really think we need to be talking about.

LXer Feature: 27-April-2014

In the LXWR this week we have the founder of OpenBSD creating a fork of OpenSSL in the wake of Heartbleed, Out Of The Park Baseball 15 is released for Linux, Ken Starks asks what you would do to improve Linux, the death of net neutrality is coming and should Microsoft open source Windows XP? The question has been asked before and my opinion is yes they should..but they won't. Enjoy!

Last month, we looked at using Python and Flask to handle the Twitter OAuth process and build requests to obtain tokens. We’ve used Twitter in these tutorials because of the large amount of easily digestible data available. However, since Twitter adheres to the standards set out by OAuth 1.0, the code we’ve used to sign and build requests can be modified to work with any third- party API using the same standard without a great deal of work. For years PHP has been a mainstay of template generation, but now with well-documented frameworks such as Flask, Sinatra and Handlebars, the ability to use powerful scripting languages greatly improves our ability to make great web services.

Nvidia will award 50 of its 2.3GHz Tegra K1-based “Jetson TK1? SBCs to winners of a “CUDA Vision Challenge,” but all entries must be received by April 30. Nvidia unveiled the $192 Linux-based Jetson TK1 single-board computer, touted as the “world’s first embedded supercomputer,” in January, and demoed its use in a self-driving Audi. The board’s Tegra K1 SoC integrates four ARM Cortex-A15 cores, a 192-core Mobile Kepler GPU, and an ARM7 power management core.

Sitting incongruously among the hangars and laboratories of NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley is the squat facade of an old McDonald’s. You won’t get a burger there, though–its cash registers and soft-serve machines have given way to old tape drives and modern computers run by a rogue team of hacker engineers who’ve rechristened the place McMoon’s. These self-described techno-archaeologists have been on a mission to recover and digitize forgotten photos taken in the ‘60s by a quintet of scuttled lunar satellites.

Not FOSS related but of interest to our readers I think - Scott

In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we look at the French government's open source aspirations, open source seeds, and more.

Intel announced a fanless mini-tower “NUC” mini-PC for thin clients, equipped with a 5-Watt Atom E3815 SoC and a new custom expansion interface. The Linux-compatible Intel NUC Kit DE3815TYKHE is Intel’s first fanless member of its NUC (Next Unit of Computing) family of mini-PCs. The computer is also available as a single board computer (SBC) called the NUC Board DE3815TYBE.

The Perfect Server - Ubuntu 14.04 (Apache2, PHP, MySQL, PureFTPD, BIND, Dovecot, ISPConfig 3) This tutorial shows how to prepare an Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr) server (with Apache2, BIND, Dovecot) for the installation of ISPConfig 3, and how to install ISPConfig 3. ISPConfig 3 is a webhosting control panel that allows you to configure the following services through a web browser: Apache or nginx web server, Postfix mail server, Courier or Dovecot IMAP/POP3 server, MySQL, BIND or MyDNS nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, and many more. This setup covers Apache (instead of nginx), BIND (instead of MyDNS), and Dovecot (instead of Courier).

Q: I'm nervous about keeping my online banking safe on my regular PC. Should I buy a Chromebook and use it just for that?

A: Cheap laptops running Google's Chrome OS have a lot going for them as long as you don't need conventional, disk-based apps and rarely lack for bandwidth. These $200-and-up models ignore Windows and Mac viruses and update and back themselves up automatically.

It come as no surprise that we are facing a crisis in education, with children being taught to use computers but not understand them. Despite a need for change being identified, the situation does not appear to be improving.

Beatrice Martini is the Event Manager at Open Knowledge. With a successful event behind her, the Open Knowledge Conference in Geneva (2013), she is now organizing the Open Knowledge Festival in Berlin that will take place July 15 - 17.

From March 31 to April 4, Free Software desktop hackers from many of the largest desktop projects (including GNOME, KDE, Unity and LXDE-Qt) met to collaborate on specifications and tools to improve application interoperability between the desktops. Clarified standards are expected not only to improve the experience of running applications designed for one desktop inside of another, but also to provide a clearer picture of what is required from third party application developers approaching the Free Software desktop for the first time.

The Heartbleed bug has cast a bright and not entirely flattering light on the open-source movement’s incentive model. When a crucial and ubiquitous piece of security code like OpenSSL — left vulnerable for two years by the Heartbleed flaw — can be accessed by all the world’s programming muscle, but only has one full-time developer and generates less than $2,000 in donations a year, clearly something is amiss. But then there’s Linux.

Deploying an open source enterprise cloud just got a little bit easier yesterday with the release of the newest version of the OpenStack platform: Icehouse. To quote an email from OpenStack release manager Thierry Carrez announcing the release, "During this cycle we added a new integrated component (Trove), completed more than 350 feature blueprints, and fixed almost 3000 reported bugs in integrated projects alone!"

When the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) opened last year, Carolyn Fox covered it's progress after one month in her article:Review of the new Digital Public Library of America. In it she explained that the purpose of the Library is "to provide a large-scale, national public digital library of America's archives, libraries, museums, and cultural institutions into one portal."

How to install Roundcube on your ISPConfig3 server on CentOS 6 This tutorial has been created for those who have installed The Perfect Server - CentOS 6.4 x86_64 [ISPConfig 3] and wish to have alternative webmail application - Roundcube. You may still able access to Squiremail as this Roundcube installation will not overwrite the Squirremail.