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GNOME developer Adrien Plazas, maintainer of the GNOME Games project, announced today that the upcoming Librem 5 Linux phone from Purism would ship with the GNOME 3.32 desktop environment by default.

DFRobot has fulfilled KS orders for its Kaby Lake based LattePanda Alpha SBC, and is shipping a model with 8GB RAM and 64GB eMMC without OS that supports Windows 10 or Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. DFRobot’s LattePanda project has fulfilled its Kickstarter orders for its community-backed, Intel 7th Gen Core based LattePanda Alpha after several months […]

SVN is a software versioning & revision control system, that has been around for a while now but is still being used by many. Though in recent years, Git & Git related applications are...

Video: Some see this as a giant leap forward for Microsoft and open source. A few, however, see Microsoft's open-source patent move as just more of the same old, same old.

Seven years ago, we started building Tutanota, an encrypted email service with a strong focus on security, privacy and open source. Long before the Snowden revelations, we felt there was a need for easy-to-use encryption that would allow everyone to communicate online without being snooped upon.

Sometimes you need to revert or change a software package install in Linux. Learn how you can downgrade software for several major distributions in Linux.

The Linux kernel config/build system, also known as Kconfig/kbuild, has been around for a long time, ever since the Linux kernel code migrated to Git. As supporting infrastructure, however, it is seldom in the spotlight; even kernel developers who use it in their daily work never really think about it. To explore how the Linux kernel is compiled, this article will dive into the Kconfig/kbuild internal process, explain how the .config file and the vmlinux/bzImage files are produced, and introduce a smart trick for dependency tracking. read more

When the physical memory or RAM on our system is full, we end to make use of the swap space on our systems. In this article, we will describe a few ways to check for available swap space on your Ubuntu system.

Sometimes, the waiting is the hardest part. So you've picked out an open source project to contribute to. Maybe it's a program you use frequently in your day-to-day life, or maybe you selected it because you knew it was a project with some low-hanging fruit that would be an easy place to start. You went through all of the steps: You cloned the project, read the README, agreed to the contributor guidelines, understood the project structure, made your edit or addition, checked it twice, and then issued the pull request. And then, you waited. read more

In this guide, I’ll show you how to install and configure the latest version Zen Cart on Debian 9, in order to create a free online shopping store. Zen Cart is a free open source e-commerce content management and shopping cart platform.

This article explains how to install the latest Tor in Ubuntu 18.04, and using it as a proxy with various applications.

The instructions include steps for setting up Privoxy, in case you want to use Tor with an application that doesn't support SOCKS5 proxies, manually setting up the proxy in case torsocks fails to launch an application, as well as configuring Tor to use country-specific exit nodes.

The Raspberry Pi Foundation released a new version of their Debian-based Raspbian operating system for the tiny Raspberry Pi single-board computers with various improvements and latest updates.

NEWS ANALYSIS: A decade after claiming that Linux and open-source software infringes on over 200 of its' patents, Microsoft is now pledging its patents to the Open Invention Network in support of Linux.

By joining OIN, Microsoft is legally pledging to make 60,000 patents available to Linux System developers. But it was already subject to a far more powerful obligation.

Developers have created third-party software (free or otherwise) that gives users a GUI to use for interacting with a repository. Here is an overview of a few programs that you can use. This is so you can have an idea of what you can expect from a GUI git client.

WildFly also known as JBoss is a free and open source application server written in Java which implements the Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE) specification. In this tutorial, I will explain how to install WildFly application server on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

That 60,000 patents in your pocket or are you just pleased to see us? Who would have thought it? Not content with signing with LOT Network, Microsoft has taken the next step in patent cuddling and joined the Open Invention Network.…

If you plan on trying something new on your brand new Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ tiny computer, developer Arne Exton announced today the availability of a new version of his Ubuntu-based RaspEX OS featuring the Helium Desktop from BunsenLabs Linux.

Conversational interfaces are unique among the screen-based and physically manipulated user interfaces that characterize the range of digital experiences we encounter on a daily basis. As Conversational Design author Erika Hall eloquently writes, "Conversation is not a new interface. It's the oldest interface." And the conversation, the most human interaction of all, lies at the nexus of the aural and verbal rather than the visual and physical. read more

Katherine Druckman talks to Doc Searls about consumer privacy, Main Street, and heart attacks at Walmart.