[ad_1] Help us celebrate our six-year anniversary on January 25 by voting in this year’s round of Opensource.com Community Awards. The People’s Choice Award recognizes favorite Opensource.com contributors from 2015. We’ve selected several individuals who have made a significant impact—either by contributing multiple articles, or being involved in a story that resonated with our community and…

[ad_1] This year, SCaLE 14x attendees will have the opportunity to hear Anthony Chow speak on how to get started contributing to OpenStack. Anthony is network engineer with a passion for sharing and promoting technologies that enable community growth. He’s currently working on Docker and OpenStack Magnum. In this interview, Anthony explains what OpenStack is, how it…

[ad_1] I had the chance to talk to Ticketmaster‘s Victor Gajendran who will be attending (and speaking) for the first time at SCaLE 14x this year, which is taking place on January 21 and 22 in Pasadena, California. He’ll speak to attendees about how his company uses open source and how to empower your small teams to be part…

[ad_1] Schuyler St. Leger is one of the superheroes of the maker movement. He’s a speaker, young maker, and was featured in Make magazine. His famous presentation, Why I love my 3-D Printer has received over 300,000 views on YouTube. Schuyler is keynoting at SCaLE 14x, where he’ll talk about open source radio and how…

[ad_1] Being a system administrator is all about understanding what’s going on underneath the hood of the machines you maintain. What really happens when a service runs or a command is executed? One tool to help system administrators keep tabs on how programs are interfacing with the operating system beneath them is strace. To learn…

[ad_1] Hello, open gaming fans! In this week’s edition, we take a look at Superpowers goes open source, Oculus Rift VR headset support for Linux, Interesting talks at upcoming GDC conference, and more. Open gaming roundup for January 9 – 15, 2016 Pick of the week: Superpowers goes open source! Superpowers is an extensible, collaborative HTML5…

[ad_1] In this week’s edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at IBM’s flexible mainframes with Golang, Mozilla keeps FireFox OS in play for IoT, and other news. Open source news roundup for January 9 – 15, 2016 IBM targets flexible mainframes with Golang IBM is making the Go programming language—commonly known as Golang—available on its mainframes. Golang…

[ad_1] In this week’s Top 5 articles of the week, we highlight an interview with Bob Reselman about documentation best practices, the top 10 legal developments of last year in FOSS, two tutorials for Linux and music, and the results of our poll asking which Linux distro do you use? Top 5 articles of the week 5. 7…

[ad_1] If you’re interested in improving your GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) skills and you’ll be attending SCaLE 14x this month, you’ll want to check out Akkana Peck’s talk, Stupid GIMP tricks (and smart ones, too). Peck knows a thing or two about GIMP—she’s the author of Beginning GIMP: From Novice to Professional. In her…

[ad_1] ScyllaDB is designed to be a resilient NoSQL database and is currently in beta testing. It is designed from the ground up to take advantage of multiple core systems and to provide very high performance. Don Marti, techical marketing manager for ScyllaDB, co-founded the Linux consulting firm Electric Lichen. He is a strategic advisor…