Badgeville Brings Gamification to Drupal Communities
It's a classic quandary -- getting people to participate in online communities can be hard, but getting people to participate well in online communities is even harder. To that end, behavioral...
View ArticleCanonical Releases Updated Enterprise Management Solution for Ubuntu Linux
Ubuntu Linux, which started with the tagline "Linux for human beings," was originally an easy-to-use Linux distribution for desktop users. Canonical picked what they considered to be the best of breed...
View ArticlePerforce Aims to Bring Git to the Enterprise
It's no surprise that the pace of technological innovation in the startup and web development world greatly eclipses the pace of technology adoption at most enterprise organizations. Enterprises are...
View ArticleUbuntu Users: Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
The Ubuntu Linux distribution has always been free. It's also always welcomed donations from users. Historically, though, the donation page hasn't been featured prominently on the Ubuntu website. As of...
View ArticleOpenShift, Red Hat’s Platform-as-a-Service, Headed to the Enterprise
Red Hat's OpenShift platform-as-a-service started as a hosted solution for developers. It was, ostensibly, Red Hat dipping its toe into the platform-as-a-service waters. It proved successful enough to...
View ArticleAfter Teasing Its Touch-Friendly Future, Canonical Officially Reveals The...
Ubuntu isn’t exactly a stranger to the mobile space — it started showing off its Ubuntu for Android project in early 2012, but it wasn't about to stop there. Not long after teasing the prospect of a...
View ArticleCeph-Powered DreamObjects Now Ready For Production Use
DreamObjects, DreamHost's scalable cloud storage solution built atop Ceph, is now available to the general public. DreamObjects offers APIs compatible with Amazon S3 and Swift, making data migrations...
View ArticleLibreOffice 4.0 Released Just In Time For Office 365 Refugees
Microsoft Office has long been the dominant office suite. Through the years there have been many contenders rise and fall: WordPerfect, Corel, StarOffice, and too many more to count. Sun Microsystem's...
View ArticleCanonical Unveils Ubuntu For Tablets, Developer Preview Available For Nexus...
Hot on the heels of the announcement of Ubuntu on phones comes Canonical's latest announcement: Ubuntu on tablets. This is, in many ways, a no-brainer: Android and iOS have already demonstrated that...
View ArticleMeet ownCloud 5, The Open Source Dropbox
ownCloud is a free software suite, written in PHP, that provides file storage, synchronization, and sharing. It provides the same basic features of Dropbox or Box.net. It also provides a whole lot...
View ArticleA Look At Karma, A Tiny Wi-Fi Hotspot On A Mission
We wander the streets with tiny computers in our pockets and in our hands. We talk casually to these computers, just like Captains Kirk and Picard talked to the computers on their Enterprises. With the...
View ArticleRackspace Extends Private Cloud Offering With OpenCenter
Rackspace, one of the original participants in the OpenStack project, has spent the last couple of years building a successful cloud business. Along the way, they've continued to contribute to...
View ArticleQloudSync: A Dropbox Competitor Running On 100% Renewable Energy
There is no shortage of cloud-based file storage and synchronization solutions: Dropbox, Box.net, Ubuntu One, and on and on and on. Most offer pretty much the same things. A few niche players offer...
View ArticleCrowdfunding, Micro-Patronage, And The Future Of Free Software
The "free" in Free Software refers to "freedom", rather than cost. It is largely a happy coincidence that Free Software is available gratis. Copyleft licensing certainly helps, but there's no...
View ArticleA Precision Guided Firearm Powered by Linux
I've written a number of times about how ubiquitous Linux has become. It powers supercomputers and cell phones. It's in automotive infotainment systems. It's in medical equipment. It's also now in...
View ArticleRed Hat Announces RDO And OpenStack Partner Program
At the OpenStack Summit today, Red Hat announced RDO, "a freely available, community-supported distribution of OpenStack that runs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora and their derivatives." In...
View ArticleHosting Undergoes Massive Changes As Providers Move Towards Platform As A...
The explosion of infrastructure-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service offerings has greatly expanded the ways in which hobbyists and professionals deploy web sites and web services. For about the same...
View ArticleXen Moving To The Linux Foundation
The Xen project celebrates its 10th anniversary this week. It's also moving to a new home at The Linux Foundation as a Collaborative Project. Just like the Linux kernel, Xen enjoys contributions from a...
View ArticleSpiderOak Unveils Hive, Streamlines Zero-Knowledge Privacy Storage
An old saying states that "security is inversely proportional to convenience." This explains the slow adoption of many important security technologies. HTTPS, the secure version of the HTTP protocol...
View ArticleFedora Project Announces Pidora Remix for Raspberry Pi
The Fedora Project has been supporting Raspberry Pi, the diminutive $35 computer, for some time. Today they're making the Pidora "remix" of the core Fedora distribution available. Like the Raspbian...
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