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In this week's Top 5, we highlight a Linux story, an open source story, open hardware with Sonic Pi, a wrapup of the LibreOffice Conference, and an intern's idea goes global.

Initial Allocation of One Million US Dollars Today Mozilla is launching an award program specifically focused on supporting open source and free software. Our initial allocation for this program is $1,000,000.

As Cinnamon 2.8 approaches official release later this month, the developers have made the pre-release version available to early adopters. If you are eager to try it, there are two different options. Mint users can install it through the package manager. Otherwise, you can build it from source.

Enjoy quiet while it lasts, penguins, Mir, Unity 8 on way Review Ubuntu 15.10, Wily Werewolf, continues Canonical’s recent Ubuntu tradition of delivering, well, nothing earth shattering.…

If you know a professional designer who is contributing time to an open source project, chances are they fall into one of these three categories, explained Garth Braithwaite, who spoke Monday at the All Things Open conference: read more

Rather than the full Five Things in Fedora This Week, I’ve just got one — as you may have seen by now, while we hoped to sign off on the Fedora 23 final release yesterday for availability next week, the... Continue Reading →

One of my favorite things about the keynotes at All Things Open this year was that attendees didn't have just one great speaker to listen to each morning—we had a few. I enjoyed hearing multiple stories and many insights from dynamic speakers all in one sitting. This article is a summary of two keynotes: Mark Skarpness, Director of Embedded Software, Open Source Technology Center at Intel Isabel Jiminez, Distributed Systems Engineer, Mesosphere Mark spoke about one of my new passions, the Internet of Things, and Isabel spoke about my all-time favorite passion, contributing to open source communities and getting paid to do so. read more

Linux and professional multimedia tools don't exactly go together, and while we can use some great and very capable audio workstations like Ardour, there aren't many audio mixers that DJs can use for their performances. If however you are a Linux user and you don't want to resort to other operating systems every time that you need to play some music, here are your choices.

One of the world's largest scientific organization is using OpenStack to understand what makes up everything in our universe. CERN runs one of the most collaborative scientific projects on Earth, responsible for producing enormous amounts of data on a routine basis to make Nobel prize winning discoveries such as the Higgs boson has some pretty unique computing requirements. read more

Cross-platform mobile development business now pitches to Java developers. Xamarin, the company co-founded by Mono inventor Miguel de Icaza to enable cross-platform mobile development with C#, has acquired RoboVM.…

Aaeon unveiled an “OMNI” line of rugged, Linux-ready panel-PCs with modular I/O add-ons, starting with a Bay Trail “OMNI-2155” with a 15.6-inch touchscreen. The OMNI-2155 is the first in a line of modular, customizable OMNI touchscreen panel-PCs from Aaeon, an embedded focused subsidiary of Asus. Like Aaeon’s recent 10.1-inch ACP-1104 panel-PC, the 15.6-inch OMNI-2155 runs […]

Several versions of self-encrypting hard drives from Western Digital are riddled with so many security flaws that attackers with physical access can retrieve the data with little effort, and in some cases, without even knowing the decryption password, a team of academics said.

Advantech’s “UNO-1252G” is a rugged IoT gateway that runs Linux on an Intel Quark, and offers isolated serial and DIO ports, plus mini-PCIe expansion.

Picat is a new logic-based programming language. In many ways, Picat is similar to Prolog, especially B-Prolog, but it has functions in addition to predicates, pattern-matching instead of unification in predicate heads, list comprehensions and optional destructive assignment.

The Linux-dominated home automation business is still a fragmented free-for-all, but it’s also beginning to consolidate, with far fewer startups in 2015 compared to recent years. This month we saw several major product announcements from established players related to Linux. First, Google’s Nest Labs announced the first device partners for its Weave home automation protocol […]

While I read Opensource.com article "Goodbye Henry Ford, hello open organization," a line describing traditional organizational structures as "rigid and slow to adapt" with "silos and lack of communication" caught my eye. Those words could well describe the PK-12 education sector, where I spent many years. read more

Time to get serious with LXD Canonical has kicked out its container management architecture for the suits with Ubuntu 15.10.…

Are you interested in using Docker to change the way you develop and package Linux application? You're not alone. read more

This tutorial will show you how to control the pins of the parallel port of your PC on Linux from within a small C program. In this example, we switch just a few LED's on and off, but the same technology can be used to control relays to switch devices with high power consumption on and off for home automation.

Because "cloud" means different things to different people, and because OpenStack tries to be all those things, individual OpenStack deployments can look very different from one another depending on many criteria. The "big tent" conversation, which has been ongoing in the OpenStack community for some time, strives to provide all of the answers for all of OpenStack's large audience. read more