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Some updates for an extra year then just security fixes. Stand well back: Microsoft has had a bright idea. Rather than royally screwing over people running Windows 7 and 8.1 on new Intel hardware, it's just going to give them a rough ride instead.…

Our Open Organization community gathered for another lively Twitter chat on Thursday, March 17. This time, we discussed "open organizations under the hood"—the nitty-gritty details of daily life in an open organization. Check out the highlights below read more

Hello, open gaming fans! In this week's edition, we take a look at Ink scripting language and Atomic Game Engine going open source, GameWorks SDK 3.1 released by NVIDIA, and new games out for Linux.  Open gaming roundup for March 12 - 18, 2016 read more

DIRB is a Web Content Scanner AKA a domain brute-forcing tool. It looks for existing (and/or hidden) Web Objects, it works by launching a dictionary based attack against a web server and analysing the responses.

Data Modul’s Linux-ready “eDM-COMB-BW6” COM Express Basic Type 6 module supports Intel Core and Xeon CPUs in Skylake, Broadwell, and Haswell flavors. The eDM-COMB-BW6 supports an unusually wide range of Intel processors, starting on the high end with Intel’s latest 14nm-fabricated 6th Generation Core “Skylake” processors.

In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at open source news from Google and Microsoft, the US publishes a draft of new source code policy, and more. Open source news roundup for March 12 - 18, 2016 read more

Many of us are familiar with the package managers in our desktops, such as dnf, apt, yum, and many others. An important part of these package managers is that they are able to find dependencies of software you are trying... Continue Reading →

Adlink has launched a “AmITX-SL-G” Mini-ITX SBC based on 6th Gen Intel CPUs, with multiple SATA, GbE, and video ports, plus PCIe and Mini-PCIe expansion. Adlink is one of the last of the major embedded firms to announce an embedded Mini-ITX board based on the Intel’s 14nm fabricated 6th Generation Core (Skylake) processors, following Congatec’s […]

Allows devs to claw back a few bucks for donating code A New York state senator says open-source programmers should be able to claim back part of their costs for writing free software.…

In the largest developer survey to date, Stack Overflow's programmer community reveal what tools and platforms they use in their daily work.

Need to learn about the basics of cloud computing? The Linux Foundation and edX have a class just for you.

In this week's Top 5, we highlight... well, a lot of Raspberry Pi! Pi Day was on Monday this week, and we made it a week-long series, publishing a new Raspberry Pi project everyday. We also have an honorable mention this week because Jason van Gumster's list of favorite FOSS-related podcasts also hit it big with readers during our Pi Week.

You thought Tim Cook was stubborn? Try his coders Apple's refusal to build a crippled iOS that will help the FBI unlock a killer's iPhone goes far beyond the executive suite. Some of Cupertino's own engineers are refusing to work on the operating system in case they are forced to aid the US government.…

For this article, I'm returning to portable science software on Android. In a previous article, I looked at a program called xcas/giac. This program is an open-source engine that is used to handle symbolic manipulation of mathematical equations. Because it is open source, it has been ported to several different platforms.

Want to be certain that your containers' software is safe and stable? Then CoreOS's Container Image Analyzer 1.0 is for you.

Science fiction ranges from complete fabrications to some surprisingly accurate visions for the future. What tool, device, object, or other item from your science fiction library do you hope, or even expect, to one day find an open source version of? We posed this question to our staff and team of community moderators here at Opensource.com and got back some really creative and interesting responses. Here are some of our favorites: read more

[Update: 12:30PM] — E-con Systems has launched a 70 x 55mm, Tegra K1 based “eSOMTK1” COM with up to 4GB RAM, up to 64GB eMMC, WiFi/BT, and an open-spec “Propus” baseboard. Nvidia’s Tegra K1 has seen considerable adoption in Linux-ready computer-on-modules, including Calao’s 82 x 50mm SMC-NTKE1 SMARC COM, Toradex’s SODIMM-style, 82 x 45mm Apalis […]

The world of electronic music has traditionally been a fairly expensive venture, whether you're paying for expensive hardware or software. Luckily, there are plenty of free apps and open source software to enable people to get creative on the devices that they mostly have anyway. But I wanted to see how far the famously inexpensive Raspberry Pi could be pushed as a music-making machine. Turns out, it can be quite an amazing little sequencer, as long as you know what tools to use and aren't afraid to learn a little something new. read more

With the release of Fedora 24 Alpha just around the corner, it will be the first time for many to get a good look of how the final wallpaper for Fedora 24 will look on their desktop. Masha Leonova from... Continue Reading →

The page load time gets more and more important for websites to provide a better user experience and it is important for the search engine ranking as well. Google has developed the apache module "mod_pagespeed" to optimize and streamline the content delivery of the apache web server which reduces the load times of pages, especially when they use many assets like CSS files, javascript includes and images.