Firewalld is Fedora’s way to provide dynamic firewall properties in Linux. Thus way changes in the firewall configuration are applied immediately, without the need to restart. Additionally, firewalld supports D-BUS and zone concepts.
Firewalld replaced Fedora’s old firewall mechanism with Fedora 18.
Read more »We are pleased to announce the availability of new Red Hat Storage Server 2.0 features and capabilities that bring enhanced virtual machine storage functionality for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, end-to-end encryption for data at rest and in motion, and enhanced security and data availability.
Read more »KDE has been, for the nineth consecutive year, accepted as a mentor for Google Summer of Code 2013. The KDE project will also be hosting Season of KDE 2013 (more details will come soon).
Read more »Whenever you have to debug virtual host setups in Apache, checking the actual running virtual host configuration is a good first step. This can be done with the -S option used on the Apache binary: It lists all running virtual hosts and performs a syntax check.
Read more »The reasons for doing so are technical as well as philosophical. English and German Wikipedias, as well as Wikidata have been completely migrated, the rest are expected to follow.
Read more »KDevelop is KDE's integrated development environment. Firstly, in this new version you will find brand new integration for Unit Tests, so that you can easily run and debug them while working on your projects.
Read more »phpMyAdmin is popular with both individuals and enterprise users who want a graphical interface for administering MySQL databases. Although the app has an expansive list of features, most people don't use it for much beyond basic tasks such as creating new databases. Here are some features tucked beneath phpMyAdmin's folds that can make you more efficient.
Read more »After many months of constant development, the Debian project is proud to present its new stable version 7.0 (code name "Wheezy").
Read more »Most system administrators have a set of personalized dotfiles like .vimrc and .bashrc. Taking these files with you from host to host and keeping them up2date everywhere can be a quite wearisome task. There are various tools to ease the pain, and I like to shed some light on one of them: dfm – the dotfile manager.
Read more »Today the FSF kicked off a campaign to put pressure on webmasters to make their sites work without requiring nonfree JavaScript. The first target is Regulations.gov, a site the US government uses to take public comments on proposed regulations. Right now, the site requires nonfree JavaScript, requiring citizens to sacrifice their freedom as users to take part in their democracy.
Read more »With API discovery service and a new event framework the latest version of Apache CloudStack, version 4.1, is expanding its capabilities in managing and coordinating cloud infrastructures.
Read more »Developers, makers, and hobbyists looking for a better alternative to Raspberry Pi. Now BeagleBoard.org has taken the wraps off a 1 GHz ARM-based board named the BeagleBone Black (BBB).
Read more »The PostgreSQL Global Development Group announces the release of PostgreSQL 9.3, the latest version of the world's leading open source relational database system. This release expands PostgreSQL's reliability, availability, and ability to integrate with other databases. Users are already finding that they can build applications using version 9.3 which would not have been possible before.
Read more »With current virtualization technologies it is possible to pass through devices from the host to the guest, calld USB pass through. KVM is no exception here, it even works with a USB GSM modem.
Read more »The KDE libraries are being methodically reworked into a set of cross platform modules that will be readily available to all Qt developers. The KDE Frameworks, designed as drop-in Qt Addons, will enrich Qt as a development environment with functions that simplify, accelerate and reduce the cost of Qt development.
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