Open source technologies are great for organizations, but they’re far from perfect. As a matter of fact, many of the open source technologies in use today come with hidden costs and problems.
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Windows 7 or Windows XP, or Linux Mint3
Specs: Pentium M 770 @ 2.13Ghz 1.5gb ram intel 915 chipset and graphics 20gb pata hard drive If i do use XP it will be with the unofficial sp4 from the community which gets updates until 2019 (updates from pos-ready 2009).
GNU Toolchain now accepting donations with the support of the Free Software Foundation
BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA-Thursday, March 9th, 2017-The Free Software Foundation is now accepting donations to support the GNU Toolchain, a collection of foundational freely licensed software development tools. Many pieces of software depend upon the GNU Toolchain, including the GNU/Linux family of operating systems which runs the majority of Web servers, millions of personal devices and the most advanced supercomputers.
FBI investigates CIA leaks, Comey says ‘There is no such thing as absolute privacy in America’
The FBI and CIA are working together on a joint investigation into the Vault 7 document cache published by WikiLeaks that supposedly reveals the CIA’s hacking tools. Many of the companies mentioned in the documents for having exploitable vulnerabilities — including Apple , the Linux Foundation , and Microsoft — have spoken out about the leaks, but it has taken some time for the CIA itself to respond.
Siemens, RS and Arduino link on industrial IoT
An IoT industrial gateway manufactured by Siemens can now be bought from the store.Arduino.cc , making it available for students and makers. RS Components, which is sole supplier for the Simatic IOT2020, has signed a contract with Arduino.cc, enabling the company to market the industrial gateway product to its primary target audience of students, makers, geeks and young engineers.
The latest in Oracle Partitioning – Part 1: Read Only Partitions
Now that Oracle Database 12c Release 2 is available on-premise for Linux x86-64, Solaris Sparc64, and Solaris x86-64 and on the Oracle Cloud for everybody else – the product we had the pleasure to develop and to play with for quite some time now – it’s also time to introduce some of the new functionality in more detail to the broader audience. This blog post will be the first of hopefully many over the course of the next months to specifically highlight individual features of Oracle Partitioning and why we actually implemented it.
VMware Becomes Linux Foundation Gold Member, Pledging Increased Support for Open Source Development
VMware is a global leader in cloud infrastructure and business mobility. VMware has been involved in open source for years, by contributing to existing open source projects as well as open sourcing some of the company’s own code.
OracleVoice: What Drives Linux Guru Wim Coekaerts? Have Fun, Build Things People Will Use
In his long career, he’s found joy working on early database appliances, and later guiding Oracle’s effort to make Linux, the open source operating system he’d played with since his school days in Belgium, its OS of record. Now, “Linux has become the operating system of the cloud,” Coekearts says, so he sees lots more fun on the horizon.
wifiphisher added to PyPI
It is primarily a social engineering attack that unlike other methods it does not include any brute forcing. It is an easy way for obtaining credentials from captive portals and third party login pages or WPA/WPA2 pre-shared keys.
Microsoft releases Skype for Linux 5.0 Beta
While Skype in general is in desperate need of some TLC by Microsoft, the communication solution is still rather wonderful. The cross-platform nature makes it a wise choice for both personal and business use.
Gemini PDA brings back Psion days with Android/Linux pocket PC
Those who remember, or at least know, the good old days of Pocket PCs, PDAs, and, particularly, the Psion Series 5, might get a kick out of this new crowdfunding venture. UK startup Pocket Computer has gone to Indiegogo to present the idea of a sort of revival of that line of devices.
The Opensource.com preview for March
Jen Wike Huger is the Content Manager for Opensource.com. She manages the publication calendar, coordinates the editing team, and guides new and current writers.
White dune
It supports animation, realtime interaction and multimedia . Dune reads VRML97/X3D files, displays, and let the user change scenegraphs/fields.
OBS Studio v18.0
OBS Studio is a free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. Record everything from your monitor/screen, window or camera/capture card and stream to youtube, twitch, etc or save to your HDD as mp4/flv.
OBS Studio (Portable) v18.0
OBS Studio is a free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. Record everything from your monitor/screen, window or camera/capture card and stream to youtube, twitch, etc or save to your HDD as mp4/flv.
Everything You Need to Know About the New PoE Standard
The Standards News Portal is updated on a daily basis to bring you the most important news about standards – how they are created, how they affect you – and who’s doing what to whom. The Standards News Portal was launched in February 2002 and currently contains 8408 categorized, searchable articles, perhaps the largest archive of its type in existence.
How to find all hard links in a directory on Linux
How do I find out all other hard links to the /etc/passwd in /backups/ directory? How can find all hard links to a given file using Linux or Unix command line option? You can use the find command on Linux, Apple MacOS, FreeBSD and other operating systems to find out all hard links. A hard link is nothing but the specific location of physical data.
How to set rsync speed limit from eating all bandwidth with -bwlimit option
In this tutorial you will learn how to setup I/O limit using rsync command on Linux, MacOS, FreeBSD and Unix-like systems. rsync –bwlimit=KBPS src dst rsync –bwlimit=KBPS [options] src dst rsync –bwlimit=KBPS [options] src user@dst rsync –bwlimit=KBPS [options] user@src /path/to/dir rsync –bwlimit=KBPS -a -P /path/to/dir/ user@server1.cyberciti.biz $ rsync –bwlimit=1000 /path/to/source /path/to/dest/ $ rsync –bwlimit=1000 /var/www/html/ \ Use ionice command to set or get the I/O scheduling class and priority for a program such as rsync or your own backup script.
How to display cpu wise usage using top command on FreeBSD Unix operating system
On Linux, I press 1 which show me a breakdown of CPU usage per CPU, but it is not working on FreeBSD. How do I find out the usage of individual CPU core usage using the top command on FreeBSD operating system? From the above output it is clear that I have total 8 core in my system from cpu0 to cpu7 and you can see stats easily.
pylinkirc 1.1.1
PyLink and any bundled software are licensed under the Mozilla Public License, version 2.0 . The corresponding documentation in the docs/ folder is licensed under the Creative Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
element14 wireless Cape
When it comes to development boards, it’s not just about the Arduino and Raspberry Pi. The TI-friendly BeagleBone is there in the mix, too, fighting for your attention.
element14 wireless Cape
When it comes to development boards, it’s not just about the Arduino and Raspberry Pi. The TI-friendly BeagleBone is there in the mix, too, fighting for your attention.
11-year-old Linux kernel local privilege escalation flaw discovered
“Another privilege-escalation vulnerability has been discovered in Linux kernel that dates back to 2005 and affects major distro[s] of the Linux operating system, including Redhat, Debian, OpenSUSE, and Ubuntu. Over a decade old Linux Kernel bug has been discovered by security researcher Andrey Konovalov in the DCCP implementation using Syzkaller, a kernel fuzzing tool released by Google.”
How to add an extra second hard drive on Linux LVM and increase the size of storage
I just bought a brand new 250GB SATA disk and I want to add a new disk to my existing LVM volume to increase its size total size to 500GB. How do I add a disk to LVM and extend an LVM volume on Linux operating system? Linux volume management creates an easy to use layer over physical disks.
Kontron partners with Canonical to enable universal OpenStack-based virtualized services
Kontron , a global provider of cloud and carrier-class integrated infrastructure platforms, announced today the launch of a commercially available SYMKLOUD OpenStack Platform. In collaboration with Canonical, Kontron exercised a complete validation of Ubuntu OpenStack on SYMKLOUD hardware, and will fully support and manage the platform’s life cycle in alignment with each new open source software release, starting with Mitaka.
Drone Software Market by Architecture, Offering, Application,…
Read the full report: The key factors expected to fuel the growth of the drone software market include increasing investments and rising use of drones in commercial and military applications. However, factors such as vulnerability to hacking and lack of industry-wide software standards may restraint the growth of the market.
How to create your own Linux Distribution with Yocto on Ubuntu
In this article, our focus is the creation of a minimal Linux distribution using the Yocto project on the Ubuntu platform. The Yocto project is very famous in the embedded Linux world because of its flexibility and ease of use.
Is it too late to move from Windows XP to Windows 10?
Q: Do you know of a place I could get my 9-inch Dell Computer updated to Windows 10? It has never been used. It has a Windows XP operating system so you know how old it is.
How to enable KVM virsh console access for Ubuntu Linux VM
However, I am unable to use the command: ‘virsh console vm’. How do I setup and enable console access in order to gain shell access on the newly created Ubuntu Linux 16.04 LTS VM? Activating the serial console in the Ubuntu Linux 16.04 LTS guest is an excellent way to log in and solve problems.
Call to adopt free and open source software in Oman
Dr. Salim bin Sultan Al Ruzaiqi, CEO of ITA signed on the sidelines of the conference an agreement with IMTAC company to establish a vertical centre to support the free and open source software. Photo-ONA Dr. Salim bin Sultan Al Ruzaiqi, CEO of ITA signed on the sidelines of the conference an agreement with IMTAC company to establish a vertical centre to support the free and open source software.
Mondo Health Monitor
Full description=Mondo is a system health monitor daemon for GNU/Linux, capable of running specific commands whenever alarm conditions get tripped. Mondo can do things like send e-mails and shut your system down if a fan fails, voltage rails start to go haywire, or your system just seems warmer than it should be.
typtop added to PyPI
TypToP is a password checking scheme that learns from your mistakes in typing login password and let you log in to your laptop with small typos. If you install this software and want to participate in our research study, please fill in this `this short survey `__.
Bolster your resume with the Linux/UNIX Certification Training Bundle
Linux and UNIX operating systems have become increasingly popular in commercial computing environments, consequently administrators for these platforms are very much in-demand. If you want to capitalize on this, then the Linux/UNIX Certification Training Bundle can get you started.
Third free, open source software conference begins at Oman’s SQU
The conference is being organised by the Information Technology Authority and SQU Communications and Information Research Centre. Photo-ONA The conference is being organised by the Information Technology Authority and SQU Communications and Information Research Centre.
Simple Server Hardening
These days, it’s more important than ever to tighten up the security on your servers, yet if you were to look at several official hardening guides, they read as though they were written for Red Hat from 2005. That’s because they were written for Red Hat in 2005 and updated here and there through the years.
Linux Lite 3.4 to Revamp Lite Welcome to Help Windows Users Accommodate Faster
Lite Welcome is that window popping up every time you install Linux Lite on a new computer. Several GNU/Linux distributions use a “Welcome” screen to welcome newcomers and help them better configure their new operating system or access various resources that help them get started faster with the OS.
Ubuntu smart home platform for Raspberry Pi
Canonical, openHAB Foundation and Azul Systems have launched the snap packaging of openHAB 2.0, a free open smart home platform that acts as a control hub for home IoT setups. The smart home software can be used with different hardware ranging from a PC to Raspberry Pi.
Letting Travis keep a secret
More and more packages, be it for R or another language, are now interfacing different application programming interfaces which are exposed to the web. And many of these may require an API key, or token, or account and password.
A conference on supporting the free and open software will open on Tuesday.
Sunaidi 11022Dr. Ali bin Masud Al Sunaidi, Minister of Commerce and Industry will preside over the opening of the third edition of the conference on the Free and Open-Source Software at Sultan Qaboos University. Photo-ONA Sunaidi 11022Dr. Ali bin Masud Al Sunaidi, Minister of Commerce and Industry will preside over the opening of the third edition of the conference on the Free and Open-Source Software at Sultan Qaboos University.
OpenStack for Architects
This book is written especially for those who will design OpenStack clouds and lead their implementation. These people are typically cloud architects, but may also be in product management, systems engineering, or enterprise architecture.