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A round up of the major news stories in the Linux world.

Whether you’re using the Evolution groupware client for work or personal email, you very well might need to add a layer of security to your communications.

In this week's Top 5, we highlight an open source 3D printed violin; a poll asking which of these two prominent boards, Raspberry Pi or Arduino, is best for beginners; one grandpa's Raspberry Pi project day with his grandkids; 6 open source architecture projects to check out; and a poll in honor of GIMP's 18 years since the release of version 1.0.

Network switches are common these days. You can even find quite a few designed for home use. But you can also build a virtual switch using a network bridge in Fedora. Maybe you have a complex home network requirement. You might want to firewall some systems.

Title: Destress Your Mail Server with Postfix Troubleshooting Tips: Part 23 JunLearn more

Apache Solr is an enterprise-class open source search platform written in Java which enables you to create custom search engines that index databases, files, and websites. This tutorial will show you how to install the latest Solr version on Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus). The steps will most likely work with later Ubuntu versions as well.

This page of SBC descriptions and spec summaries accompanies our 2016 Hacker SBC Survey, which polls the popularity of 81 Linux friendly, open-spec SBCs. Summaries of each of the 81 single board computers in our 2016 Hacker SBC Survey appear below, in alphabetical order. In addition, a convenient table comparing summary specs of all 81 […]

Humanitarian and development aid is about helping people suffering from both short-term and long-term problems. These problems can be natural (e.g., droughts, floods, and earthquakes) as well as man-made (e.g., poverty, war, and oppression). A recent example of a humanitarian crisis is the refugee situation in Europe, and the disorder in Syria and its surrounding region. read more

This doesn't mean the nagware is working: selling PCs running anything is now a slog Microsoft's sometimes hard-ball tactics to get people running Windows 10 look like they're working.…

A cross-platform reader to tempt you away from SaaS

The company blames co-founder Frank Karlitschek starting a new competing company, Nextcloud, for the move. OwnCloud's parent German division remains open.

Crooks breaking into enterprise networks are holding data they steal for ransom under the guise they are doing the company a favor by exposing a flaw. The criminal act is described as bug poaching by IBM researchers and is becoming a growing new threat to businesses vulnerable to attacks. According to IBM's X-Force researchers, the new tactic it is a variation on ransomware.

Title: Apply for Free Training and Certification With The Linux Foundation’s 2016 Scholarship Program2 JunLearn more

In this series, I’ll look at a few tips that the Postfix documentation recommends to get the most out of your MTA build and process emails more efficiently. Not all scenarios will apply to your build of course, but -- as with all things -- understanding various scenarios should help improve your ability to troubleshoot in the future.

Companies and organizations need to help to establish, build and sustain open source projects for the long term to accelerate innovation while reducing their R&D costs. To be successful, though, open source projects must possess a level of sophistication...

Frank Karlitschek, co-founder and former CTO of ownCloud, announced he's forking the popular IaaS cloud program into "Nextcloud."

Everybody is a beginner sometime. And for new users to GIMP, the GNU Image Manipulation Program, starting out with a new interface can be daunting, especially when you downloaded it just because you wanted to make a few simple modifications like cropping or resizing an image.

It will be eighteen years this weekend since GIMP, the GNU Image Manipulation Program, hit version 1.0 on June 5, 1996, and over twenty since the open source project first became generally available to the public. In that time, it has come a long way in both the expansion of features and in usability, and for many users across Linux, Windows, and Mac machines alike it has become their preferred image editor.

The out-of-the-box distro that's ideal for newcomers to Linux

For the past few years at Red Hat, we've been grappling with the challenges of growing an open organization and sustaining our culture along the way. One tool we've been developing and testing is the Open Decision Framework, a collection of best practices for applying open source principles to business projects and decisions.