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We have been working hard over the last four months to smooth off the rough edges, add useful new workflows, make Plasma even more beautiful and build the foundations for the future.

This article details the circumstances behind my switch away from proprietary operating systems and my switch to Linux. Like many, I switched out of frustration with other operating systems and not directly because of Linux's open source model. I developed my passion for that after the switch was made. read more

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and its community fork, CentOS, offer 10-year life cycle, meaning that each version of RHEL/CentOS is updated with security updates for up to 10 years. While such long life cycle guarantees much needed system compatibility and reliability for enterprise users, a downside is that core applications and run-time environments grow […]Continue reading...

The first instance of a court in Germany (and perhaps anywhere) addressing GPLv3 occurred in a decision by the Regional Court of Halle in July 2015. read more

I freely admit I learned about this app from my wife. In fact, I saw a few nostalgic posts on her Facebook timeline and investigated where they came from. It turns out she had installed an app called Timehop.

LetsEncrypt is an initiative being sponsored by several different organizations including Mozilla and the Electronic Frontier Foundation following from recent privacy discussions in various communities last year. The key goal is to provide free, easy encryption via free SSL certificates... Continue Reading →

November was an extra busy month on Opensource.com. We published 91 articles and had 756,947 page views, which beat our previous record of 692,826 set back in June. We completed our LISA15 interview series, and we ran an Open Food & Beverages series. We had 15 new authors, and 64% of our content was contributed by members of the open source community.

The OpenSSL Software Foundation patched four vulnerabilities in the cryptographic software library on Thursday, likely marking the last time that two older versions of the library will receive updates. The group announced back in December 2014 that it would cease support for two of OpenSSL branches, 1.0.0 and 0.9.8 at the end of the 2015.

Keeping in-step with the clones. Visual Studio Code is a new, lightweight, cross-platform and open source code editor that you can download for free at http://visualstudio.com.

An “AON” Kickstarter project is pitching a $4,500 and up, Pi-based industrial 3D printer with dual FDM extrusion heads and a 18 x 18 x 25-inch chamber.

This tutorial shows the steps to install Legrand communication software to monitor a directly connected UPS, for example with a USB cable. This software allows you to manage the server and possibly others with the RS.

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When my journey into the world of open source began in the mid-90s, the easiest way to get installation media was to buy CD sets from online stores and have them shipped to you. Being interested in experimenting with different operating systems, I always bought the giant bundle that included all the distributions. Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, SUSE, and several now defunct distributions were include for me to play with, but the bundles also came with installation discs for the various BSD distributions (FreeBSD, NetBSD, and later, OpenBSD). read more

As 2016 approaches, many of us are thinking about how fast 2015 flew by. To capture a snapshot of the year, we've launched the 2015 Open Source Yearbook, a community-contributed collection of the year's top open source projects, people, tools, and stories.

Hello, open gaming fans! In this week's edition, we take a look at OpenMW gaming engine new release, Zotac Steam Machine review, Rocket league to launch, and more.

Final Farewell for Fedora 21 Fedora produces new releases approximately every six months — targeted at May and October. We always have two currently-supported releases, the latest and “n minus one”. We also have a one-month overlap after a new... Continue Reading →

Google released a preview of its Cloud Vision API for tasks like identifying objects and faces, plus a Linux demo that runs on a Raspberry Pi-based robot. Some of the image analysis wizardry used by Google services, such as Google Photos, is now available to developers. Google is offering a free limited preview of its […]

In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at Apple releasing Swift 2.0 as open source, Raspberry Pi Zero vs. C.H.I.P., and more! Open source news roundup for November 29 - December 5, 2015 read more

So you decided to use metrics to track your free, open source software (FOSS) community. Now comes the big question: Which metrics should I be tracking?

In this week's Top 5 articles of the week, we highlight a My Open Source Story, open source LEGO projects, a story of 3D animation and movie-making, ownCloud favorites, and practical uses for LibreOffice.