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Low-level x86 hassles may hold up next Kernel release The world may be on the threshold of another Linux Kernel release. Or it might not.…

Redmond's latest can't quite crack five per cent market share Windows 10's growth has slowed, according to StatCounter Global Stats.…

Samsung debuted two Android phablets, teased a round Tizen watch amid rumors of a “Z3? Tizen phone, and touted a $100 million investment in Tizen for IoT.

It is funny how many times you use your full-blown PC as a terminal to another computer (which is quite often not as capable as the terminal computer). If all you need is a remote display and keyboard, a Raspberry PI would be enough. One of the newer Pi 2 boards would be even better.

While it has been long known that American telecommunications companies worked closely with the spy agency, newly disclosed N.S.A. documents show that the relationship with AT&T has been considered unique and especially productive. One document described it as “highly collaborative,” while another lauded the company’s “extreme willingness to help.”

Modern life has become increasingly dependent on software systems. Many daily used devices rely on Free Software for their basic functionality or additional services. TV sets, ATMs, smartphones, media centers and in-flight entertainment systems are examples of how Free Software has been pushing the boundaries of current technology. This is achieved by using well-proven solutions, developed in a collaborative, open, and trusted way. The Workspaces, Applications, and Frameworks delivered by KDE are representatives of the empowerment Free Software provides to our lifes.

Mozilla wants to make private browsing truly private... It’s available in the Firefox Developer Edition on Windows, Mac and Linux, and Firefox Aurora on Android, Mozilla said...

The strangest, and largely overlooked news, coming out of the tech sector this week is Dell's Microsoft betrayal. This isn't the first time that the PC maker strayed. Linux joined the product stable long ago...

Disk space filling up can really mess your systems up, especially if the root partition gets to 100%. And that can happen when you least expect it. In fact, that's generally when it does happen. So, the question is, when you're under pressure to get a critical system or application back online and that "no space left on device" message keeps slapping you in the face, what do you do?

Today the Gnome desktop turns 18. To celebrate, we created a list of reasons to use it.

In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at new tools for Docker, Kali Linux 2.0, and more! Our weekly news roundup typically goes out every Friday. We're trying something new, to capture more news in the roundup, by publishing it on Saturday. Open source news roundup for August 8 - 15, 2015 read more

Hello, open gaming fans! In this week's edition, we take a look at the progress around the 3D graphics and compute API Vulkan, Ubuntu developers improving Nvidia drivers, new games out for Linux, and more. Open gaming roundup for August 9 - 15, 2015 read more

Want to manage your SUSE Linux servers whether they're on x86 servers, mainframes, and/or the cloud? You can do that now.

In this week's Top 5, our readers loved stories about LibreOffice 5, Priyanka Nag' My Linux Story, a tutorial for the KDE file manager Dolphin, patent trolls, and our interview with Jerome Petazzoni of Docker.

Touchjet’s Android-based, quad-core “Touchjet Wave” media player attaches to the top of your TV and IR scans your gestures to approximate touch control.

With Windows 10 snooping on your every keystroke, it's time to consider an alternative: the Linux desktop.

Use this roadmap to find IBM developerWorks articles that will help you learn and review basic Linux tasks. And if you're also pursuing professional certification as a Linux system administrator, these articles can help you study for the Linux Professional Institute Certification (LPIC) exam 101 and exam 102. This roadmap is organized according to the 43 objectives in the 101 and 102 exams, which you are required to pass for LPI level 1 certification.

Alicia Gibb has a passion for hardware hacking—she founded and is currently running the Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA). Also a member of the ADA Initiative Board, Defensive Patent License Board, and the Open Source Ecology Board, she got her start as a technologist from a combination of backgrounds: informatics and library science. Alicia formerly worked as a researcher and prototyper at Bug Labs where she ran the academic research program and the R&D lab. Her work is fascinating and she graciously agreed to this interview. read more

Since the Oracle's acquisition of MySQL, a lot of MySQL developers and users moved away from MySQL due to Oracle's more closed-door stance on MySQL development and maintenance. The community-driven outcome of such movement is a fork of MySQL, called MariaDB. Led by original MySQL developers, the development of MariaDB follows the open-source philosophy and...

MongoDB is a NoSQL database that offers a high performance, high availability, and automatic scaling enterprise database. Data is stored in a "document" structure in JSON format (in MongoDB called BSON). MongoDB was first introduced in 2009 and is currently developed by the company MongoDB Inc. This tutorials shows the installation and configuration of MongoDB on Ubuntu 14.04.