[ad_1] A personal web server is “the cloud,” except you own and control it as opposed to a large corporation. Owning a little cloud has a lot of benefits, including customization, free storage, free Internet services, a path into open source software, high-quality security, full control over your content, the ability to make quick changes, a place…

[ad_1] About the author Alex Sanchez – Alex is the social media, marketing, and syndication specialist for Opensource.com. He’s a multimedia storyteller interested in tech, current events, design, and photography. Outside the office, he enjoys travel, film, and gaming. With warmer weather around the corner here in the US, it’s time for gardeners to start making…

[ad_1] Congratulations! You’re ready to ship the latest release of your software package. Now you need to make sure your release notes are in order. Sure, you could just slap “bug fixes and performance improvements” on the box and call it a day, but that doesn’t really tell your users anything. Release notes are for…

[ad_1] I had a brilliant opportunity to interview Suresh V. Shankar, founder of Crayon, at Slush Singapore 2016. At the conference, he spoke about his experience—and the difficulties he faced—as an entrepreneur. He also talked about how he overcame them. Suresh sold his previous company, RedPill Solutions, to IBM in 2009. However, his entrepreneurial journey…

[ad_1] It is now pretty well accepted that open source is a superior way of producing software. Almost everyone is doing open source these days. In particular, the ability for users to look under the hood and make changes results in tools that are better adapted to their workflows. It reduces the cost and risk…

[ad_1] If you’ve spent a fair amount of time working on the command line, chances are you’ve tried out a terminal multiplexer. These helpful tools let users easily switch between applications in the terminal, save sessions to come back to later, and manage connections to many machines at ones from one location. When it comes…

[ad_1] In this edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at IKEA’s spherical garden, the US Department of Defense’s Code.mil site, and more. Open source news roundup for February 19-March 4, 2017 Space10 releases open source plans for spherical garden Growing your own food in an urban environment requires innovative solutions…

[ad_1] About the author Gordon Haff – Gordon Haff is Red Hat’s cloud evangelist, is a frequent and highly acclaimed speaker at customer and industry events, and helps develop strategy across Red Hat’s full portfolio of cloud solutions. He is the author of Computing Next: How the Cloud Opens the Future in addition to numerous…

[ad_1] For the past year, I’ve been teaching students how to build and program robots using the LEGO Mindstorms EV3 platform. From the outset, I wanted to find a way to use Scratch and other open source programming languages to extend the capabilities of the platform. That search led me to BrickPi, a Raspberry Pi…

[ad_1] In modern days, software systems are continuously becoming more complex. At the same time customer’s expectations regarding, for example, response times and availability are higher than ever before. As you know, services that perform poorly could drive customers to your competitors’ offerings. Thus, system failures and poor performance usually have a significant negative impact on a company’s…