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When it comes to developing a new open source software project, most developers don't spend a lot of time thinking about brand strategy. After all, a great idea, solid code, and a passionate community are what really matter when you're getting a project underway. read more

What licenses do the "big" projects use? What are the community implications? These questions came to mind after I saw Martin Fink, Hewlett Packard Enterprise CTO, give a great keynote at Linuxcon Europe in Dublin last year. After discussing license evolution in the free and open source license community, he began his wrap-up with the following: read more

Today, the Internet we love and treasure is facing serious threats. Issues like mass surveillance and walled gardens, along with calls to weaken online security, increasingly endanger the Internet’s openness. Most recently, we saw the FBI ask Apple to circumvent … Continue reading

Hello, open gaming fans! In this week's edition we take a look at support for the new open standard API, Vulkan, as well as, new games and expansions out this week for Linux. Open gaming roundup for February 14 - 20, 2016 Vulkan Support for Vulkan is growing, starting with Steam who recently added Vulkan support to their latest Beta of SteamOS. Canonical is also planning on Vulkan support for their Mir By Ubuntu 16.04. So, what is Vulkan and what does it mean for gaming on Linux? read more

Even more upgrades for your Raspberry Pi. Check them out!

Inpired by Amiibos, Tony DiCola makes NFC-enabled papercraft blocks that can be used to build inside Minecraft

Now it just has to convince the other IoT foundations A new non-profit foundation dedicated to creating open standards for the Internet of Things (IoT) has launched.…

In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at IBM's Quarks IoT development tool, the rise of open source textbooks, open source release of Google's TensorFlow Serving, and more. Open source news roundup for February 13 - 19, 2016 read more

From solar power packs and ePaper displays to near-field 3D gesture control, here are ten unmissable add-ons for your Pi.

Apple has been served with a court order at the FBI's request, demanding that it assist the government agency with unlocking an iPhone 5C that was used by Syed Rizwan Farook. Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, killed 14 and injured 24 in an attack in San Bernardino, California on December 2, 2015.

The Raspberry Pi Foundation continues to push the limits of single-board computing. This month, it has added experimental OpenGL support to its Raspbian OS.

In this week's Top 5 articles on Opensource.com, we highlight low-cost, DIY, open hardware farming equipment; open source issue tracking tools; free and open source music making programs; a look inside the Secret Lab hackathon; and a new column on the site about how to build a business with open source.

Fedora is a big project, and it’s hard to keep up with everything. This series highlights interesting happenings in five different areas every week. It isn’t comprehensive news coverage — just quick summaries with links to each.

In the first part, I presented the fundamental ideas behind Docker containers and how exactly they work. In this second part, we will proceed with the installation of Docker and its management as a service in our system. We will prepare our system so that in the next part we can create a personal notepad using the WordPress content management system (CMS) or the Dokuwiki which is a wiki software that doesn't require a database.

Canonical and Meizu will launch the most powerful Ubuntu phone ever, the Meizu PRO 5 Ubuntu Edition, at Mobile World Congress.

Working with other artists and creatives, I'm constantly amazed—and, to be frank, a little horrified—when I look at their project directories. So frequently, they're riddled with files that start with the same name, but with numbered with suffices like -v1, -v2, -v3-FINAL, -v3-FINAL3, v3-FINAL3-real, -v3-FINAL5-please_will_it_ever_end, and so on. read more

The Linux Foundation has published the list of keynote speakers and 124 conference sessions for its April 4-6 Embedded Linux Conference and OpenIoT Summit. The annual North American Embedded Linux Conference, co-located with a new “OpenIoT Summit,” will take place this year in San Diego, Calif. from April 4 through 6. This is the ELC’s […]

Realistic images of 3D objects—that can be viewed from any angle, and in a variety of lighting conditions—are something of great value to artists, designers, architects, scientists, and many others. The problem is that they often lack the equipment, skill, or both, to produce them. Enter POV-Ray, open source 3D image rendering software. read more

2016 is a special year for many FLOSS projects: KDE has its 20th birthday while Free Software Foundation Europe and VideoLAN both have their 15th birthday. All these call for celebrations! This year KDE has come together with Qt, FSFE, VideoLAN and KDAB to bring you QtCon, where attendees can meet, collaborate and get the latest news of all these projects.

Canonical and Meizu will launch the most powerful Ubuntu phone ever, the Meizu PRO 5 Ubuntu Edition, at Mobile World Congress.