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Mozilla Festival 2015 was a productive and dynamic event celebrating the world’s most valuable public resource - the open Web. MozFest is also a gathering place for Mozilla community members from around the world and brings together makers, designers and builders........

As many of my regular readers will know, I am a big Ubuntu fan. I spent nearly eight years working at Canonical and my love of Ubuntu has not ceased since I left.

"Software Freedom Day (SFD)" is a worldwide celebration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). Our goal in this celebration is to educate the worldwide public about the benefits of using high quality FOSS in education, in government, at home,........

Cymmetria Inc., an Israeli start-up whose software lures hackers into cyber traps within organizations' networks has raised around $9 million, the latest sign that investors are flocking to one of cyber-security's hottest trends: deceiving hackers and catching them red handed.

Imagination has launched the fastest 64-bit MIPS Warrior core yet with its P6600, as well as the M6250, the first 32-bit Warrior-M CPU that runs Linux. Imagination Technologies announced the availability of three new processor IP designs based on its latest MIPS Release 6 architecture. Leading the way is the Warrior-P class P6600 — its […]

Opinions vary on whether open source companies can make money, thrive, and truly compete with their proprietary counterparts. As a CEO and co-founder of an open source company, I am frequently challenged to reflect on our strategy, company ethos, and commercial risks we undertake—not only on behalf of the shareholders, but also our employees, partners, and customers. read more

I've been an avid user of Internet Archive since I found out about it five years ago. Since then, I've used their Wayback Machine to search for fun glimpses at the World Wide Web of yore, but I've also benefited from the Archive as a distribution platform. read more

A busy week for leap forward in Linux distributions

EncFS provides an encrypted filesystem in user-space. It runs without any special permissions and uses the FUSE library and Linux kernel module to provide the filesystem interface. It is a pass-through filesystem, not an encrypted block device, which means it is created on top of an existing filesystem. This tutorial shows how you can use EncFS on Ubuntu 15.10 (Wiley Werewolf) to encrypt your data.

A federal judge has ordered an immediate halt to the NSA’s controversial phone records collection program, ruling that the program violates the Constitution.

In October I appeared on the 100th episode of The Dave and Gunnar Show, an independent podcast about open source and open government issues hosted by two members of Red Hat's public sector team. We spoke at length about The Open Organization (one of my all-time favorite topics!), and the interview gave me a chance to address an important question. read more

This past weekend, the sixth-annual MozFest — Mozilla’s celebration of the open Web — convened hackers, teachers and organizers from across the globe to address some of the most pressing issues facing the Web today. Together, we explored how we … Continue reading

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

I grew up in the VAX/VMS world. Our student computing system at the college I attended was a VAX 11/785, and when I would later work for the administrative computing department, they had an 11/780 as a test box, and an 11/785 and 8650 cluster doing production work.

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Ghost is a powerful Open Source publishing and blog platform that is beautifully designed and easy to use. Ghost is written in javascript and uses node.js as runtime environment. This tutorial shows the installation of the Ghost Blog software with Apache and SSL on Ubuntu 15.10.

SolidRun launched a Linux-supported “ClearFog” sandwich-style networking SBC with an Armada 38x-based COM, six switched GbE ports, and MikroBus expansion. SolidRun, which is known for its Linux-friendly HummingBoard SBCs and CuBox mini-PCs, has launched a 38x-MicroSoM computer-on-module based on a dual-core Marvell Armada 38x system-on-chip, along with an open-spec companion carrier board aimed at networking […]

In August 2015, IBM announced LinuxONE (www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/47474.wss), anchored by two new Linux mainframe servers that capitalize on best-of-class mainframe security and performance, and that bring these strengths to open-source-based technologies and the Open Source community. Th

A recent Washington Post article entitled "Net of Insecurity" re-bundled old FUD about Linux and the internet's security.

Eleven years ago, Firefox 1.0 was released with much excitement and anticipation. With the help of volunteers, The Mozilla Foundation placed a two-page advertisement in the New York Times. Over the last 11 years, Firefox has been been used by millions of people worldwide, becoming one of the most popular web browsers available to surf the Internet. read more

Fedora 23 KDE Plasma Desktop Spin brings you the best and the latest of Fedora and KDE Plasma Desktop. KDE Plasma Desktop is a modern and a familiar desktop environment for your everyday computing needs. Fedora 23 KDE Plasma Desktop features Plasma... Continue Reading →