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Attention, Android programmers: Your latest version of Android is ready to start working on.

If there is one area in which open source has never suffered it is a lack of events. From your big professional conferences right down to your friendly, local meetups, there is just something so delightfully fun about getting together in person to share ideas, learn from each other, and have fun. One of the most popular types of event are unconferences, and there are more and more of them cropping up all over the world. read more

No bling, just minimal surfaces. Apps, though... Review The Linux world is full of spin-offs, clones and branded distros. The most famous lineage is Mint, based on Ubuntu, which is in turn based on Debian. What's less common is entirely new distros, starting from zero and building their own stack.…

After over a decade of ownership of the product, Google announced just a few weeks ago that they will be closing the shutters for good on Picasa, a cross-platform photo viewer and organizer with basic editing capabilities. In the official announcement, Google has set March 15 as the end of support for the desktop client, with changes to the accompanying web album hosting service set to roll out later in the spring. read more

Google released a preview of the upcoming Android N release, featuring multi-window support, improved notifications, and better Doze power saving. Alphabet-owned Google released the first of five planned developer previews for the upcoming Android N, available as an over-the-air (OTA) download for Nexus devices leading up to a third quarter release. Hiroshi Lockheimer’s announcement of […]

Four years ago (last leap day to be specific), the first Raspberry Pi was released. And on February 29, 2016, the third version made its debut.

Virtualization plays a key role in cloud computing. IBM Power Virtualization Center (PowerVC) is a new virtualization management tool that's built on OpenStack and designed to simplify the management of virtual resources in Power Systems environments, and thus improve administrator productivity.

The $89 uCRobotics “Bubblegum-96” SBC has a 1.8GHz quad-core Cortex-A53 Actions S900 SoC, 2GB RAM, 8GB eMMC, onboard wireless, and 96Boards compatibility.

Attention, Android programmers: Your latest version of Android is ready to start working on.

While Linaro slings data center ARM chips into new developer cloud Qualcomm and Red Hat are busy porting the latter's enterprise-friendly flavor of Linux to Qualy's upcoming 64-bit ARM server processors, we learned today.…

The developer preview edition of the next Android, which features a native side-by-side app mode, will be out later today.

Openshot is one of the most important and widely-used open source video editing software tools out there. Being very simple to use, powerful enough, and free of charge, this video editor has managed to build a large community of enthusiastic users around it who waited for the release of the second major version of their favorite software with anticipation for years. Now that the release was made available.

I saw Moriel Schottlender give a talk about this topic at linux.conf.au 2016 in Geelong last month and asked her to submit an article about it. When you watch her talk video and read her article, you'll see why I couldn't take proper notes to write about the talk, so I'm glad she contributed her story directly to us instead. —Rikki Endsley   read more

Bridge the gap between books and videogames by creating an interactive novel or choose-your-own-adventure with Python and pygame

Over the past several weeks, Mozilla has been running an educational campaign about encryption. We believe it’s essential for everyday Internet users to better understand the technology that helps keep the Web a more secure platform. So far, we’ve explored encryption’s … Continue reading

It's an open-source switch OS for clouds OCP Summit Put down your coffee gently. Microsoft will today release a homegrown open-source operating system, based on none other than Debian GNU/Linux, for network switches.…

Collaborating on scholarly research projects can sometimes become complicated and disorganized. For example, using Flickr for sharing and commenting on images while communicating via email and editing documents together in Google Docs works, but it places information about the research in way too many places. read more

The most popular integrated development environments, Eclipse and Visual Studio, are coming together.

Congatec’s “Conga-IC170” is a Linux-ready thin Mini-ITX board with 6th Gen dual-core Intel Core CPUs, up to 32GB DDR4-2133, and a wide-range power supply. Congatec, which was early to announce COM Express modules based on Intel’s 14nm, 6th Generation Core (“Skylake”) processors, has now rolled out a thin Mini-ITX Skylake board. The 170 x 170 […]

security researchers say there are other options, like “de-capping” the phone’s memory chip to access it outside the phone (which Snowden has also mentioned), or resetting the phone’s internal counter so that you can guess the passwords as many times as you want. Those techniques are hard and expensive and could destroy the phone, experts say — but have worked in the past.