OSS: PC-MOS, Open Source Initiative, ErosCoin, Rackspace

• PC-MOS operating system goes open source (30 years after release)

  These days if you’re using a desktop computer you’re probably running Windows, although there’s also a good chance you’re using OS X or maybe Chrome OS or one of a number of GNU/Linux distributions. But back in the 80s, it’s wasn’t really clear who the dominant players of the future would be.

• MS-DOS variant PC-MOS/386 reborn as open source

  Do you still long to run WordPerfect 5.1, Lotus 1-2-3 4, or Doom on DOS? Well, if you do, there's a new way to revisit the PC world of the 1980s: The newly open-sourced PC-MOS/386 v501. PC-MOS, for those who weren't around in 1987, was a multi-user MS-DOS clone by Norcross, GA's The Software Link. It ran most standard DOS and 386's protected mode applications. I reviewed it back in the day -- although I can't find my article from Computer Digest, a Washington DC regional general interest computer newspaper, I recall it worked well.

• Open Source Initiative, and Open Source Software Movement Celebrate Twenty Years

  The Open Source Initiative® (OSI), the global non-profit dedicated to raising awareness and adoption of open source software, announced today plans for the “Open Source 20th Anniversary World Tour” to run through 2018. Open source software is now ubiquitous, recognized across industries as a fundamental component to infrastructure, as well as a critical factor for driving innovation. Over the past twenty years, the OSI has worked to promote and protect open source software, development, and communities, championing software freedom in society through education, collaboration, and infrastructure, stewarding the Open Source Definition (OSD), and preventing abuse of the ideals and ethos inherent to the open source movement.

• ErosCoin – An open source solution for blockchain payment industries

  Possibly the largest single factor currently holding cryptocurrencies back from mass adoption is their difficulty of use for the average person. While Bitcoin and Ethereum both provide the ability to transfer value quickly and securely without borders, they both suffer from a steep learning curve, which limits interest from merchants, consumers and payment providers, and restricts growth of their platforms. EROSCOIN is setting out to create a new blockchain that is very significantly differentiated from other existing cryptocurrencies, giving the industry a payment solution that can help to expand the ecosystem and expand user adoption.

• 7 years of open source: Cloud Foundry, DiffBlue & Quest

• Rackspace kills discount cloud hosting for open source projects

  Rackspace has announced it will no longer be offering discounts on hosting for open source projects, although it will only apply to new customers rather than those with projects already up and running on the platform.

KDE: Text Input For Every Use, Kdenlive, KDE Promo Activity

• Community goal: Modern and Global Text Input For Every User

  A few months ago, I had the opportunity to give a talk on Input Methods in Plasma 5 at Akademy 2017 in lovely Almería in Spain. If you were interest in my talk but were unable to attend, there's now video (complementary slides) available courtesy of the Akademy conference team. Yay!

• Past days in Kdenlive

  Since last update, several missing features & stability update made it to the development branch, you can follow the progress on our 17.12 blocking issues.

• KDE Promo Activity Report – September 5, 2017

Ninite – Install Or Update Multiple Apps Together On Windows

One big problem with Windows is searching and installing software. Here we do not have a Play Store like Android or an App Store like IOS. We have to manually go to the software’s website, download it and install it.

today's howtos

• How to Monitor and Detect Modified Files using Tripwire IDS on Ubuntu 16.04

• Compiling and Installing ModSecurity for Open Source NGINX

• How to Enable or Disable SELinux Boolean Values

• Upgrading to Kubernetes 1.8 with Kubeadm

  Kubeadm is the tool that ships with Kubernetes to manage your cluster’s lifecycle; it’s designed to be used any time you need to do something significant to your cluster. Kubeadm 1.8 brings new features to the table, and we recommend checking out the the repository for all the latest development.

• Hosting a WordPress site on AWS at low costs

• How to Lock User Accounts After Failed Login Attempts