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Students power this open source high school

I suspect that many of your days in high school looked something like this: An adult teacher stands in the front of a square room, lecturing or drawing, with a flood of facts…

The personality of a Linux-loving teen

At my public library job I work in Takoma Park, Maryland, I talk with several hundred youth every week. I try to boost their curiosity, guide them in their wonderings and…

Linux certification, governments on open design principles, and more

Open source news for your reading pleasure. August 30 - September 5, 2014 In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at the UK government and its…

Organizations coming together like a puzzle

Can this free software company secure the future of Linux for the city of Munich?

There are many solved problems in open source. Groupware is not one of them. How else would you explain the number of migrations that fail on average in groupware? The Swiss…

Bringing new security features to Docker

In the first of this series on Docker security, I wrote "containers do not contain." In this second article, I'll cover why and what we're doing about it. Docker, Red Hat, and…

What happens when a non-coder tries to learn Linux

I wanted to learn Linux, so here's my account of what I did to achieve that goal. To give you some idea of what it means to me to learn more about Linux: When I was at OSCON…

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