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(This is a review of the new independent Solus with the Budgie DE, not of the old Debian-based SolusOS with GNOME 2.) Budgie looks slick, but there are a bunch of small usability issues that add up to make for a somewhat frustrating user experience in conjunction with niggles from GNOME 3. Also, the software selection is a bit sparse, but that can definitely change over time.

Support for version X to X+2 upgrades coming in Fedora 24. Red Hat senior quality assurance engineer Adam Williamson has revealed that the Fedora community is trying to deliver what it's calling “N-1” upgrades whereby it becomes possible upgrade from version X of Fedora to version X+2 without having to first install version X+1.

The Document Foundation announced the first meeting of the LibreOffice Indian community in 2016.

Yes, you can run Windows 7, but only on hardware fit for Windows 10. In a stunning example of consensus-building, Microsoft has somehow persuaded the big names of silicon that it would be better for all concerned if they quietly euthanize Windows 7 and 8.1.

At the 14th annual Southern California Linux Expo (a.k.a., SCaLE 14x), Dru Lavigne will discuss common "gotchas" associated with creating and maintaining documentation, and she'll talk about available open source tools. She'll also provide an overview of Sphinx, an open source documentation generation system originally created for the new Python documentation.

The past year was a bustling year for Fedora. Fedora 22 and 23 were released, and with their releases, all of the different sub-projects of Fedora have been doing their share of contributing to the overall success of Fedora.

MyPaint developer Andrew Chadwick reports that his MyPaint free, open-source and cross-platform digital painting software reached version 1.2.0 for all supported operating systems.

We've been informed by Roberto J. Dohnert, CEO of Black Lab Software, about the roadmap for the development of the Black Lab Linux operating system during the entire year of 2016.

Pixie is an open-source web application, based on PHP and MySQL that will help you quickly create your own website. Pixie has been designed to be simple to use and easy to develop for.

This year, SCaLE 14x attendees will have the opportunity to hear Anthony Chow speak on how to get started contributing to OpenStack. Anthony is network engineer with a passion for sharing and promoting technologies that enable community growth. He's currently working on Docker and OpenStack Magnum.

Nvidia recently launched a new Beta driver, 361.18 , for the Linux platform, and it only brought support for a couple of new GPUs. It turns out that it also had a fix regression that affected KDE, and that's it's actually crashing people's PC with at least a couple of games.

Goodbye Docker on CentOS. Hello Ubuntu! My Journey to becoming more productive!

The combination of Google's Summer of Code program and students working on numerous KDE projects during it  has served as a long and successful tradition for KDE. KDE, being a big organization with a large community associated with it and hosting many projects of different facets provides a lot of opportunities for students to participate in this program and to contribute to an open-source project that they are interested in.

In this tutorial we will cover the steps needed for installing Observium on an Ubuntu 14.04 VPS. Observium is a PHP/MySQL-based network observation and monitoring system which supports a wide range of hardware platforms and operating systems

Fedora developers are currently discussing the possibility of a new upgrade method for future versions of the operating system that might allow users to skip a certain Fedora release and upgrade to the most recent version available.

I had the chance to talk to Ticketmaster's Victor Gajendran who will be attending (and speaking) for the first time at SCaLE 14x this year, which is taking place on January 21 and 22 in Pasadena, California. He'll speak to attendees about how his company uses open source and how to empower your small teams to be part of a large, effective whole. Find out more about his talk, Lessons learned (the hard way) by doing DevOps at scale, in this interview. read more

This article is a fascinating summary of the current debates within the Bitcoin open source developer community around the future direction of this virtual currency.

Today we have the pleasure of introducing you guys to an alternative computer operating system to the already popular Remix OS that everybody is talking about these days.

Long-awaited CPU in build systems, SDN gear for now AMD is at last officially shipping its 64-bit ARM-based server chip, the Opteron A1100 aka Seattle. This wee beastie packs a load of networking and storage interfaces, and is seemingly eyeing up hyper-converged boxes in data centers.…

While Arch’s taking of the gold wasn’t much of a surprise, given the distro’s commanding performance in the qualifying poll, round two results below the top slot were a little different from what we expected. Elementary OS took second place, with 502 votes, just three percentage points behind the winner. In the qualifying round, Elementary wasn’t even offered as a poll choice and only made the final round due to a write-in campaign from the Elementary community.