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Dave Neary manages open source standards at Red Hat, so he thinks a lot about what makes open source communities work and what makes them unique.First, everything we are doing in open source is not...
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As a parent of three (children aged: 10, 7, and 5), I'm eager to share with my kids the values that attracted me to open source and the hacker ethos: sharing and building great things together, taking...
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A few months ago, we profiled open source projects working to make the world a better place. In this new installment, we present some more humanitarian open source projects to inspire you.Humanitarian...
View ArticleCommunity lessons from architecture and urban planning
Dave Neary manages open source standards at Red Hat, so he thinks a lot about what makes open source communities work and what makes them unique.First, everything we are doing in open source is not...
View ArticleGrowing the next generation of open source hackers
As a parent of three (children aged: 10, 7, and 5), I'm eager to share with my kids the values that attracted me to open source and the hacker ethos: sharing and building great things together, taking...
View ArticleFour projects for parents to teach their kids about open hardware and...
Kids are quick learners and have great imaginations. When pursuing an electronic or hardware project with a kid, the most important thing to keep in mind is: keep things playful. As long as their hands...
View ArticleOpenDaylight Helium gets out of the gate
Whether you are deploying applications in containers, VMs, or on bare metal, being able to group related services together into private networks and control the traffic flowing into and out of your...
View Article5 open source projects making the world better you should know
One of the strengths of the open source community has been its ability to bring concentrated effort to bear on big problems. When tragedy strikes, or a pressing need arises, there are groups of people...
View Article5 Humanitarian FOSS projects to watch
A few months ago, we profiled open source projects working to make the world a better place. In this new installment, we present some more humanitarian open source projects to inspire you.Humanitarian...
View ArticleAre you using this highly effective interview technique?
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View ArticleBash prompt tips and tricks
Anyone who has started a terminal in Linux is familiar with the default Bash prompt:[user@$host ~]$But did you know is that this is completely customizable and can contain some very useful information?...
View Article6 pivotal moments in open source history
Open source has taken a prominent role in the IT industry today. It is everywhere from the smallest embedded systems to the biggest supercomputer, from the phone in your pocket to the software running...
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From humble beginnings, Linux has been adopted for everything from low-power electronics to supercomputers running in space. It is able to do this because of its versatility and the openness of the...
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It has been more than a decade since the ifconfig command has been deprecated on Linux in favor of the iproute2 project, which contains the magical tool ip. Many online tutorial resources still refer...
View ArticleAdvance your awk skills with two easy tutorials
Awk is one of the oldest tools in the Unix and Linux user's toolbox. Created in the 1970s by Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger, and Brian Kernighan (the A, W, and K of the tool's name), awk was created for...
View ArticleFour projects for parents to teach their kids about open hardware and...
Kids are quick learners and have great imaginations. When pursuing an electronic or hardware project with a kid, the most important thing to keep in mind is: keep things playful. As long as their hands...
View ArticleOpenDaylight Helium gets out of the gate
Whether you are deploying applications in containers, VMs, or on bare metal, being able to group related services together into private networks and control the traffic flowing into and out of your...
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