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The Web is the platform for game development and we’ll be showing it in action at this year’s Game Developer Conference in San Francisco. Powerful new capabilities continue to emerge and gain mindshare with developers and gamers alike.

Initial release to work on at least four websites. Success? Mozilla is planning an initial release of its new Servo-based new web browser in June, according to a post on the developer mailing list by research engineer Paul Rouget.

I must admit that I don't really follow basketball. But, I do like to engage with folks at work, and every spring I've always felt a little left out when my work colleagues fill out their NCAA March Madness basketball brackets. If your office is like mine, it seems everyone gets very excited to build their brackets and follow the basketball games and play in an office pool.

You all know these old gangster films where a guy uses a knock sequence on a door to get in? Port Knocking is exactly that, just for your server. Installing port knocking on Ubuntu is easy. I will show you in this article how to install and set up port knocking. The steps from this tutorials should work for Debian 8 as well.

OwnCloud is a free Web-based app that provides Dropbox-style file hosting. With the release of version 9 on the horizon, it's a good time to take a look at the improved security features.

A Kickstarter funded “Bela” cape for the BeagleBone Black uses Xenomai Linux real-time extensions to provide analog and digital audio I/O with 1ms latency. There are a variety of audio capes for the audio-deprived BeagleBone Black, such as Element14’s $56 BeagleBone Audio Cape. Yet, the $76 Bela is unique. Developed by the Augmented Instruments Lab […]

I was recently talking to an engineer friend of mine over of a cup of coffee at a conference. His company had been in "DevOps strategy planning" for over six months and they had settled on the task of automating the delivery of their software. He was feeling frustrated—there never seemed to be enough time to get anything meaningful done, he couldn’t tell what others were doing, and a recent conversation revealed that not everyone had the same definition for "automating the delivery of software", much less having the same ideas behind what the word DevOps meant. read more

Second major Linux kernel milestone of 2016 debuts

Although the Raspberry Pi 3 was recently announced, the Raspberry Pi 2 still has plenty of life and is more than suitable for many interesting and useful tasks. read more

Interested in keeping track of what is happening in the open source cloud? Opensource.com is your source for news in OpenStack, the open source cloud infrastructure project. read more

Writing code is so 2013 – you wanna write some hardware instead Pic At the OCP Summit last week in San Jose, California, Intel quickly mentioned it will later this year ship Xeon processors with built-in FPGAs.…

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.6 offers performance and security updates

Improved PS/2 mouse-handling, KVM Hyper-V smarts and Intel's Kaby Lake support all land Version 4.5 of the Linux kernel has been loosed upon a waiting world.…

If your organization manages Linux, AIX, HP-UX or Solaris servers in-house, chances are your system administrators at least occasionally need low-level access to those devices. Typically, administrators use some kind of serial console - for example, traditional serial port, Serial-over-LAN or Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI).

Firefly’s sandwich-style “Reload” version of its quad-core Firefly-RK3288 hacker SBC adds SATA, more HDMI, camera, and USB ports, and more expansion I/O. The Cortex-A17 has seen fairly high adoption in Android media player such as the Tronsmart Orion R28 via Rockchip’s quad-core, 1.8GHz Rockchip RK3288 SoC.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.6 offers performance and security updates

In a shocking move, cyber criminals recently hacked the Linux Mint Web server and used it to launch an attack against the popular distro's user base.

Gneural Network out - now let's teach it some tricks... The GNU free software project has launched version 0.0.1 of its Gneural Network package in response to the “outstanding and truly inspiring” results achieved of late in proprietary artificial intelligence.…

Sleep is an essential part of human life, and parents quickly learn that lack of quality sleep (for themselves and their children) can lead to a whole host of other issues (behavioral, emotional, physical, etc.). But what does this have to do with Pi Day, or with open source? read more

The Federal government is embracing open-source programming with a new pro-open-source development policy.