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Fedora 23 Alpha is scheduled to hit the mirrors tomorrow, and Flock our big annual developer and contributor conference, this year in Rochester, New York starts Wednesday.

The entropy of data generated by Linux servers -- which are the backbone of much of the internet -- is, says security expert Bruce Potter, too low... Potter warns that the low entropy problem means that seemingly random numbers could in fact be easier to guess or crack than first thought.

Frank Karlitschek is a free software developer and privacy activist. He'll be speaking at LinuxCon North America in August of this year. His topic, "Open source, safe and secure; A case for leaving data where it is," is very timely given the rash of data breaches we've witnessed lately. read more

Here's what we know about communities: Communities thrive on shared purpose, passion, and commitment. Communities can accomplish more than individuals. Communities require reciprocity. read more

Suppose you want to install an Android app on your Android device. However, for whatever reason, you cannot access Google Play Store on the Android device. What can you do then? One way to install the app without Google Play Store access is to download its APK file using some other means, and then install […]Continue reading... The post How to download apk files from Google Play Store on Linux appeared first on Xmodulo.

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Four years ago, I participated in the WorldSkills Competition. I represented India on the global stage, in the IT Software Solutions for Business category. As part of the competition, I had to build solutions for different business problems using only proprietary office tools. read more

All too often these days, the first time a startup has to deal with a patent issue is when a patent troll attacks them. Or when a prospective investor may ask them how they are protecting their ideas... At no cost, participants can choose two patents from a group of three to five that Google identifies as relevant to their businesses.

Mozilla Firefox users are this week being urged to update to the latest version after an exploit was found being used in the wild which allowed the scooping up of files from users' computers via an ad without leaving a trace behind of the hack.

While the finished tablet isn’t quite ready to ship yet, Jolla has announced it is sending out a handful of pre-production tablets to members of its Developer Device Loan Program... Sailfish is a Linux-based operating system with an emphasis on gesture-based navigation...

HDMI is implemented on just about every piece of sufficiently advanced consumer electronics. You can find it in low-end cellphones, and a single board Linux computer without HDMI is considered crippled. There’s some interesting stuff lurking around in the HDMI spec, and at DEF CON, [Joshua Smith] laid the Consumer Electronics Control (CEC) part of HDMI out on the line, and exposed a few vulnerabilities in this protocol that’s in everything with an HDMI port.

The data scrambling systems used by millions of web servers could be much weaker than they ought to be, say researchers... the entropy of the data streams on Linux servers was often very low because the machines were not generating enough raw information for them.

After a long wait, Ubuntu phones became a reality this year. But now Linux fans outside of Europe and China will be able to try out the newcomer OS for the very first time. Spanish smartphone maker BQ has announced that it is now shipping its Aquarius E5 Ubuntu smartphone across the world.

Depending on the specific programs that will be utilized in the school year, a used computer with a version of Linux installed may be just what a student needs to help with the budgetary concerns. There is almost no reason not to embrace and promote the use of open-source operating systems and software,,,

The world’s top three mobile operating systems may dominate the market by shear numbers but that doesn’t mean there aren’t other alternatives being developed and researched. That’s where Plasma Mobile comes in, a mobile KDE Linux project that’s absolutely free.

Hello, open gaming fans! In this week's edition, we take a look at Alienware's YouTube playlist showing gameplay on the new Steam Machine, AMD working on a Linux graphics driver, new games for Linux, the pick of the week, and more. Open gaming roundup for August 2 - 8, 2015 read more

New court filing says they ALL must go – yes, even the tellies Oracle's lawsuit against Google over Java copyrights probably won't be back in a courtroom again until next year, but in the meantime, Oracle has asked the court to let it expand the scope of its complaint to include events that have occurred since it was first filed in 2010.…

The Internet is barreling down the same road of regulation and not-so-subtle censorship that has turned every other means of mass communication into a centralized and vanilla fountain of useless information. Kinda like television.

Chromebooks are cheap, fast, secure, and work well. Really, what more do you need for your classroom computer?

This week's Top 5: Two exclusive interviews, India's comprehensive open source policy, an introduction to MeowCAD, and on teaching students about open source.

We had a late-breaking problem with the cloud image and some drama with desktop wallpaper and with booting KDE on ARM, but the various groups involved in release logistics wrangled solutions and workarounds, so at today’s “Go/No-Go” meeting, we approved the Tuesday release. If you’re curious, see the meeting minutes for the process that Fedora goes through to make sure the release is ready.