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Today KDE releases its first Long Term Support edition of its flagship desktop software, Plasma. This marks the point where the developers and designers are happy to recommend Plasma for the widest possible audience be they enterprise or non-techy home users. If you tried a KDE desktop previously and have moved away, now is the time to re-assess, Plasma is simple by default, powerful when needed.

Linux containers are helping to change the way that IT operates. In place of large, monolithic virtual machines, organizations are finding effective ways to deploy their applications inside Linux containers, providing for faster speeds, greater density, and increased agility in their operations. read more

If you were to design a client operating system with the goal of being used by two billion people, what would it look like?…

Fedora 24 ships with PostgreSQL 9.5, a major upgrade from version 9.4 that is included in Fedora 23. The new version 9.5 provides several enhancements and new features, but also brings some compatibility changes, as it has been very common between... Continue Reading →

It is important for an inclusive society to keep educational resources open and accessible, regardless of one’s background, wealth or disability. Therefore, high quality and free open source accessibility solutions are important to deliver equal STEM education for all. — … Continue reading

Globalscale’s “EspressoBin” network switching Pico-ITX SBC offers Marvell’s dual-core, Cortex-A53 Armada 3720 SoC, plus 2x GbE, 1x WAN, SATA, and mini-PCIe. Globalscale Technologies and its hardware partner Marvell, which have previously collaborated on products such as the Armada 370 Mirabox, have joined forces on a Linux-fueled EspressoBin network switching single-board computer. The EspressoBin is based […]

ArgonBoards has launched two Linux-driven SBCs for IoT gateways: an i.MX6 SoloLite reference board and an open source QorIQ LS1021A SBC. India-based embedded manufacturer VVDN Technogies, which owns RadiumBoards, the makers of products such as the HD Camera Cape for the BeagleBone Black and MIPI Camera Board for the Wandboard, has also launched a single-board […]

"Do I want to play with this open source thing?" This was the question most people asked 20 years ago when I started reviewing PostgreSQL bug fixes and assembling like-minded database colleagues to help start the PostgreSQL Global Development Group.

Arduino LLC and Arduino Srl have settled their legal disputes, and will reunify under an Arduino Holding company and a not-for-profit Arduino Foundation. At the World Maker Faire New York, the Arduino LLC (Arduino.cc) and Arduino Srl (Arduino.org) organizations announced they have signed a settlement agreement concerning the legal dispute that has, for the past […]

Although ROS stands for Robot Operating System, it is really a framework that sits on top of an existing operating system such as GNU/Linux. Packages are provided for Ubuntu Linux to help get your robot up and rolling.

Most of the time when I start a project, or spin up a virtual server, it's done in my own basement "server farm". Not too many years ago, if I wanted those services to be public, I'd simply port-forward from my static IP into my personal machines. Or, perhaps I'd set up a name-based virtual host as a reverse proxy if I needed to expose a Web app.

The Git distributed revision control system is splendid in a multitude of ways but one -- keeping a good history of patches and commits. Pish tosh, you say, for Git remembers everything! Yes, it does, until you rebase. To solve this problem, Josh Triplett, built a new tool called git-series, which he described in his talk at ContainerCon North America.

In an actual production environment, our customers often have a complicated application running environment that includes a hybrid architecture, a hybrid distributed system, and so on. Also, our customers prefer a unified container cloud platform and always use Kubernetes as a framework of Mesos. This article can help you to set up Kubernetes on a Mesos cluster on a hybrid architecture.

There are a number of different models and versions of the Raspberry Pi computer. But which one is best for your project? Here's a summary of the main models available: read more

Dubbed Linux.Mirai by researchers; the trojan works with the SPARC, ARM, MIPS, SH-4, M68K architectures and Intel x86 computers.

One of the interesting projects where the Raspberry Pi can be applied is in cars not equipped with onboard diagnostics version 2 (or OBD-II).

American information security company Zerodium is currently offering payouts of up to $1.5 million for original and unreported vulnerabilities with fully functional exploits on major operating systems, software and/or devices. With this figure, exploits on iOS 10 can be the most profitable of payouts...

The Mintbox Mini has been received a major hardware upgrade and it is now called Mintbox Mini Pro. The Linux machine comes at a price of $395 and features an all-metal casing which eliminates the need for a cooling fan. Significant bumps having been given to the storage, RAM, processor, wireless, and other hardware components.

Open-minded folks from tech, business, education, and many other fields will convene to hear about the fantastic things happening in the open world, from software to hardware and beyond.

Out with the New, and in with the Newer!

There was a show a few years back called, "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition". The premise of the show was to find families who needed their house