Open Source Software News

So Psychsoftpc is now offering consumers a choice of which Windows Version they want installed on their machines, Windows 7 or Windows 8. If they prefer Linux, Psychsoftpc offers a choice of Debian, SUSE or Ubuntu.

NextStep4it has a nice little tutorial on setting up a local CentOS yum mirror using reposync.

I'm sure many of you have heard the term LAMP before A- standing for Linux Apache MySQL and PHP.

On March 15, 2013, ComputerWeekly.com, the "leading provider of news, analysis, opinion, information and services for the UK IT community" published an article by Bryan Glick entitled: Government mandates 'preference' for open source .

The third official release of, the popular Mandriva fork, Mageia is now available.

BMO Capital Market's Keirstead noted some industry concerns that growth expectations maybe be too high for companies adopting Linux.

But if you're determined to donate your time and talents, there are some things you can do to get off on the right foot.

We've talked a lot about running multiple operating systems on the same computer-whether it's Windows and Linux , Windows and OS X , or something else -but what happens when it's time to get rid of one? Here's how to delete Windows or Linux from your system after you've dual-booted them.

There's a reason why enterprise companies "get" Linux and open source. It's not just because of the security and reliability - it's for the software.

This does exactly the same thing to prevent code execution on a per memory page basis.

The Arduino Yun has been unveiled as the first of a family of wifi products that combine Arduino with Linux by using a system on a chip running Linino, a customized version of OpenWRT.

It uses KVM and supports Debian and CentOS Linux running on Google platform. Google Compute Engine offers a RESTful API for managing resources such as disk, images, and instances.

Pyocr is an optical character recognition tool wrapper for python. That is, it helps using OCR tools from Python.

Soon after logging, the problems, started to appear. 1 - I needed to install python 2 - I needed to install TCL.

OpenGEODE is a tiny open-source SDL editor that is developed for the purpose of providing an easy to use and free state machine editor and Ada code generator to the TASTE toolchain from the European Space Agency, running in combination with ESA's ASN.1 "Space Certifiable" ASN.1 compiler.

Curious to see what all the ElasticSearch hubbub is about? Wanna see it in action without a lot of elbow grease? Then look no further, friend - in less than 60 seconds, I'll show you how to install ElasticSearch on an AWS AMI .

This preface to the highly-anticipated 3rd edition of Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, 3rd Edition contains Stephen Rago's current Introduction, his Introduction from the 2nd edition, and also W. Richard Stevens' original Introduction from the 1st edition.

After three Nights of Xubuntu, the Xubuntu team is able to present you a quick overview of some of the planned features and improvements for Xubuntu 13.10. Enjoy! On the software side, apt-offline will be included in our default installation after a few cycles of preparing and writing documentation for it.

The table must have Hash key named `path` and Range key named `name` 3. Define environment variables for AWS key - `AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID` and `AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY`. At the moment only the configuration by environment variables is supported.

In just a few weeks, on June 7, IBM's DB2 will mark the 30th anniversary of its launch - which cemented the relational database's role as a cornerstone of the enterprise for many.