[ad_1] Fundamentally, all major software, even open source, was designed before image-based containers. This means that putting software inside of containers is fundamentally a platform migration. This also means that some programs are easy to migrate into containers, while others are more difficult. I started working with image-based containers nearly 3.5 years ago. In this…

[ad_1] When I started using the vi text editor, I hated it. I thought it was the most painful and counter-intuitive editor ever designed. But I’d decided I had to learn the thing, because if you’re using Unix, vi was everywhere and was the only editor you were guaranteed to have access to. That was…

[ad_1] Read: Now we will learn how to build a Git server, and how to write custom Git hooks to trigger specific actions on certain events (such as notifications), and publishing your code to a website. Up until now, the focus has been interacting with Git as a user. In this article I’ll discuss the…

[ad_1] Back in 1998 when I discovered Linux and open source, I never would have believed that I would make a career out of this. Back in those days I didn’t have a clue about what I wanted to do, but I knew I wanted it to involve technology in some way. Since those dim…

[ad_1] When you donate money to charities, do you call them a month later and ask them what they did with the donation? Probably not. If you give to a particular charity regularly, then you might read the organization’s annual report or quarterly newsletter to see how things are going. We want to know the…

[ad_1] Why settle for boring numbers and static graphs to describe your open source project when you can dynamically display the movements and activity within your project? Gource is an amazing and flexible tool that can be used to display activity from your repositories using a video visualization that people love. Gource can be redistributed…

[ad_1] Openness has become the new standard for content and software across a variety of initiatives in higher education. Open source software, open education, open educational resources, open access publishing, open analytics, open data, open science, and open humanities have matured to challenge, even dominate, the global educational landscape. Those of us working with open…

[ad_1] Facebook has supported animated images for a while, but what do you do when you can’t find the right GIF for your situation? For example, until recently, there was not a single image related to my home state Odisha or anything related to my people or language. Facebook and Twitter users generally depend on third-party…

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[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]…