To Get Developer Adoption Today You Have To Build a Community

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June 23, 2014

Michael Williams, BIRT Product Evangelist & Forums Manager at Actuate, outlines some key points to keep in mind for building your own open source community.

How to Sync Microsoft OneDrive on Linux

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The Linux Foundation

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June 23, 2014

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 […]

Open-Source Radeon Performance Boosted By Linux 3.16

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Phoronix

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June 23, 2014

Besides the Nouveau driver performance being faster thanks to experimental re-clocking when using the Linux 3.16 kernel, there are also performance improvements to note with some generations of AMD graphics processors.

Steps to Diversity in Your Open Source Group

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OpenSource.com

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June 23, 2014

Coraline Ehmke has developed apps for the web for 20 years. In that time, she’s learned a lot about open source culture and what makes a community of contributors tick. At the Great Wide Open conference this year, Coraline gave a talk about diversity in open source.

Distribution Release: MakuluLinux 6.0

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DistroWatch

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June 23, 2014

Jacque Raymer has announced the release of MakuluLinux 6.0 “KDE” edition, a Debian-based desktop distribution shipping with the very latest KDE desktop: “The long-awaited update to the KDE edition is now over, Stability, speed and beauty is what drives this edition. Based on KDE 4.13.1 and Linux kernel….

Samsung to Unveil its Android Wear Smartwatch at Google I/O Next Week

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The Linux Foundation

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June 23, 2014

Samsung has released a Tizen smart watch in the form of the Samsung Gear 2, but now, according to sources in CNET, the korean hardware manufacturer is due to launch their own Android wear offering next week at Googleâ€™s developer conference, Google I/O.

So why release Tizen and Android? Being a Tizen site we would prefer dearest Samsung to only release Tizen from now till the end of time, but the fact is that Android and Android ware is an immediate revenue stream that Samsung does not want to miss out on. Samsung are thought to be showing an Android Wear smartwatch that uses either their own Exynos range of processors, or possibly some Qualcomm ones, according to CNET sources.

Distribution Release: Netrunner 14

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DistroWatch

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June 22, 2014

Clemens Toennies has announced the release of Netrunner 14, a Kubuntu-based Linux distribution featuring a customised KDE 4.13 desktop and five years of security support: “The Netrunner team today released Netrunner 14 ‘Frontier’ – 32-bit and 64-bit editions. The release follows Kubuntu’s support cycle, giving it a full…

Rackspace Brings the OpenStack Cloud to Bare Metal

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eWeek

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June 22, 2014

An open-source OpenStack effort, known as Ironic, is a key enabler for Rackspace’s new OnMetal offering, which also supports the Docker container model.

9 ASCII Games You’ll Want to Play Again and Again

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Steve Emms

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June 21, 2014

Text-based games often receive little coverage in the Linux press. However, there are some real ASCII gems out there waiting to be explored which are immensely addictive and great fun to play.

Facebook Unveils Open-Source Networking Switch. Sucker Punches Cisco?

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The Linux Foundation

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June 20, 2014

In its ongoing quest to expand infrastructure to support the handling and delivery of massive amounts of data in its social network, Facebook announced that it has created its own networking switch and the software to go with it, and makes it available to public.

Facebook’s own networking hardware, called Wedge, veers significantly away from the black box operations of networking companies such as Cisco, Juniper and Hewlett-Packard, which all enjoy control of a significant portion of the market. The open-source switch comes embedded with an Intel microserver, making it function like a combined switch and server, while its accompanying Linux-based FBOSS operating system is designed to manage the hardware and keep track of its performance. This, Facebook hopes, will make work easier for network engineers.