Fedora Developer Portal announced

Fedora Developer Portal announced

The very same week Fedora 23 is going to be released, the Fedora Project has announced Fedora Developer Portal, a website to help developers working on projects with Fedora as main operating system or inside a virtual machine.

In this new portal they’ll find the guidelines to get an install development tools, language runtimes and databases. They will also learn different distribution and deployment options using COPR and OpenShift.

How to boost Linux performance

How to boost Linux performance

Would you like to improve the performace of your GNU Linux distro? Thanks to its flexibility we can maximize it. There are a lot of ways to do it, such as using Swappines configurations, removing unnecesary kernel modules, setting up the kernel more cleanly…

One of these options is Cache Pressure, which enables maximizing RAM memory to change the way the kernel introduces data blocks in the core memory. Making a few changes, our device’s performance will be improved in every respect: when you run programs, play or any multimedia content…

A Linux botnet launchs DDoS attacks

A Linux botnet launchs DDoS attacks

A botnet made up of Linux computers is generating over 150 Gbps per second denial-of-service attacks (DDoS), which are seriously threatening some companies, since they are much more powerful than infraestructures can usually support.

This botnet is targeting around 20 sites each day, 90% located in Asia. The most common targets are online gaming and educational sites.

The malware feeding the botnet is called XOR DDoS and it was identified in September 2014 for the first time. Now, a the security response team from Akamai Technologies has discovered a new wave of attacks.

CloudOpen Europe 2015

CloudOpen Europe 2015

CloudOpen will be held in Dublin next October 5th, 6th & 7th. This conference organized by The Linux Foundation is designed to provide a collaboration and education space to advance the open cloud.

This event gathers together the Open Source projects, products, technologies and companies that comprise the cloud and are driving the cloud, big data and networking ecosystems.

Today Linux turns 24 years old

Today Linux turns 24 years old

On 17 September 1991 Linus Torvalds uploaded Linux kernel version 0.01 to a FTP in the University of Helsinki. It counted a bit more than 10.000 lines of code.

At that time, he didn’t realize what that shy gesture will mean, since nowadays Linux runs inside a lot of devices we use dialy, such as browsers, smartphones, routers and even intelligent objects.

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