[ad_1] The words I hear some clients ask when they first see my Linux set up is: “Is it that Unix thing?” If they know it well enough to ask that question, I’m usually on the verge of going full geek mode. Before I impart words of wonder and inspiration, I think about how awesome it will be to…

[ad_1] If you’ve been following Opensource.com and the Open Organization Ambassadors there, then you’ll know that I’ve been working to help Greenpeace internalize the principles of an open ethos. But to do this, we’ve had to distill this ethos into a few concrete principles, actionable items the organization can more easily grasp. On its journey…

[ad_1] As a computer science professor, I’m often asked by parents how they can prepare their children for jobs that haven’t been invented yet. I call them cyborg jobs, inspired by the 2010 Wired article Clive Thompson on the Cyborg Advantage. Cyborg jobs combine tech-savvy humans with technology in all its forms to do more…

[ad_1] ElectroSmash just released an open hardware guitar amplifier called the 1Wamp. Designed as a small and portable 1 watt amplifier loaded with all the features of big amps, the project was fully developed using only open source tools—like KiCAD, a design suite to create schematics and layouts in any platform.   Photo by Ray Rodriguez, CC BY-SA 4.0…

[ad_1] ElectroSmash just released an open hardware guitar amplifier called the 1Wamp. Designed as a small and portable 1 watt amplifier loaded with all the features of big amps, the project was fully developed using only open source tools—like KiCAD, a design suite to create schematics and layouts in any platform.   Photo by Ray Rodriguez, CC BY-SA 4.0…

[ad_1] In this article, I’ll explain how to get started with QtCAM, open source Linux webcam software. QtCAM has more than 10 image control settings, displaying frame rate achieved, color space switching, and extension settings. With these features and its user-friendly interface, QtCAM might be the right choice for your Linux webcam software needs. QtCAM source…

[ad_1] Atlassian, parent company of popular chat service HipChat, started in 2002 with just two people. Thirteen years later, there are more than 1,300 of us spread around the world. That kind of growth forced the need for us to organize our open source efforts around a single point of contact, establish a rhythm in the…

[ad_1] The year was 2003. I was an underpaid accountant-turned-IT-professional, and father to two children under the age of four. The idea of using Linux was intriguing, but it wasn’t until I had a chance to experience it while taking a class on Long Island for work that I was fired up enough to try it out.…

[ad_1] Reading Jim Whitehurst’s The Open Organization, you can hear the voice of a leader on a mission. Achieving a well-described personal transformation to become the Red Hat CEO, Whitehurst chronicles his leadership journey of the last few years, increasingly believing that the “open organization model” he encountered (and then further developed with other Red…

[ad_1] In this article, I am going to focus on the hardware, software, and configuration issues that we Linux laptop users must confront in order to really enjoy that wonderful digital music on our hard drives. Some background Let’s say you have a laptop running a late-model Linux distribution (Fedora, Ubuntu, openSUSE, Arch Linux, Linux…