[ad_1] This month let’s look at how to break the cycle of doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results. Do you think git blame is the only feedback loop you need? Or hg annotate -u -n. Or svn -x -b…well, you get the picture. What is a feedback loop, anyway? Why is it important?…

[ad_1] Working openly means designing for participation. “Designing for participation” is a way of providing people with insight into your project, which you’ve built from the start to incorporate and act on that insight. Documenting how you intend to make decisions, which communication channels you’ll use, and how people can get in touch with you…

[ad_1] Fragmentation is a longstanding Achilles heel for the Linux desktop. In a world of myriad incompatible distributions, popular apps are typically limited to one or two of the most popular distributions, and the creation of new apps is stifled. The impact of fragmentation on application developers offers a good example of the problem: To…

[ad_1] runC, a lightweight universal container runtime, is a command-line tool for spawning and running containers according to the Open Container Initiative (OCI) specification. That’s the short version. The long version: The governance umbrella created by Docker, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Red Hat, and many other partners to create a common and standardized runtime specification has a…

[ad_1] Read: In the previous six articles in this series we learned how to manage version control on text files with Git. But what about binary files? Git has extensions for handling binary blobs such as multimedia files, so today we will learn how to manage binary assets with Git. One thing everyone seems to…

[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]…

[ad_1] With the presidential election season upon us, I’m often asked whether the U.S. government efforts to encourage use of open source software (OSS) will continue when a new administration comes into office in January. As I’ve written before, there has been a shift, going back almost a decade, away from the debate over whether…

[ad_1] In this week’s edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at the Linux Foundation’s support for virtual switches, what “open” really means, saving the Earth from asteroids, and more. Open source news roundup for August 7-13, 2016 Linux Foundation takes in Open vSwitch virtual networking project The Linux Foundation considers…

[ad_1] In this week’s Top 5, we highlight articles on Linux containers, the Vim text editor, building a Git server, open source project marketing, and advancing your career in open source. Top 5 articles of the week 5. If you build it, they won’t come: Why your project needs better marketing read more [ad_2] Source…

[ad_1] In 1998, I was part of SGI when we started moving to open source and open standards, after having been a long-time proprietary company. Since then, other companies also have moved rapidly to working with open source, and the use and adoption of open source technologies has skyrocketed over the past few years. Today…