Category: OpenSource

  • The best way to develop software with effective security

    [ad_1] Casey will be speaking at LinuxCon Berlin on October 4. Regardless of the level at which you’re doing your programming, security is going to get in the way. No amount of application abstraction or modern development process seems capable of shielding developers from the barriers raised by security. It’s pretty hard not to hate…

  • Unity 5.5 on Linux, Halcyon 6, and more gaming news

    [ad_1] In this month’s open gaming roundup, we take a look at the Unity 5.5 Linux beta and some exciting new releases for Linux and SteamOS. Open gaming roundup for September 2016 Unity 5.5 beta comes to Linux The Linux developers at Unity have shipped their first Unity editor build from a unified codebase: the…

  • SDN and NFV integration, updated API documentation, and more OpenStack news

    [ad_1] Are you interested in keeping track of what is happening in the open source cloud? Opensource.com is your source for news in OpenStack, the open source cloud infrastructure project. OpenStack around the web There is a lot of interesting stuff being written about OpenStack. Here’s a sampling from some of our favorites: read more [ad_2]…

  • Top 5: Disk space management on Linux, Container orchestration with Kubernetes, and more

    [ad_1] In this week’s top 5, we highlight a guide to Logical Volume Management on Linux, container orchestration systems, successful project manager tips, writing with bibisco, and a new My Linux Story. Top 5 articles of the week 5. Dear younger self, here are four tips for reaching your goals Daniel writes to his younger self…

  • 4 command-line graphics tools for Linux

    [ad_1] Images and the command line. They seem an unlikely pair, don’t they? There are people who’ll tell you that the only way you can manipulate and view graphics is with GUI applications like GIMP. For the most part, they’re wrong. Command-line image tools do much of what their GUI counterparts can, and they can…

  • The must-have features for Perl 6

    [ad_1] Perl 6 came out in general release around Christmas 2015, and since then I’ve heard a lot of questions about it, both from people in and out of the Perl community. Jeff Goff is a longtime member of the Perl community and a good friend who’s been heavily involved in Perl 6 development, so I…

  • 7 things you need to know for WordPress development

    [ad_1] WordPress never fails to surprise the web development community. Over time, it has evolved into one of the best Content Management Systems (CMS) out there. And currently, it powers more than 25% of the web. Besides its popularity, WordPress is also known for usability and an easy-to-develop environment. Some basics WordPress is an open source…

  • A Linux user's guide to Logical Volume Management

    [ad_1] Managing disk space has always been a significant task for sysadmins. Running out of disk space used to be the start of a long and complex series of tasks to increase the space available to a disk partition. It also required taking the system off-line. This usually involved installing a new hard drive, booting…

  • A brief history of Drupal from 1.0 to 8.0

    [ad_1] Drupal began as a forum for a few friends to monitor their shared Internet connection, which “was expensive and being spliced between them,” according to Jared Whitehead’s The rise of Drupal and the fall of closed source. Today, it’s one of the most popular content management systems out there, competing with powerhouses like WordPress. So, what has the Drupal…

  • How do you get programmers to join your project?

    [ad_1] This month on The Queue, josephj from LinuxQuestions.org asks: How can I get programmers to join our project? I inherited a project coded in $programming_language when the original developer quit and no one else stepped forward. It is currently hosted on GitHub and has a GPL 3 license. It’s a tool I use every…