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Managing one’s finances is an unavoidable chore in life. You will need to employ it sooner or later — the sooner you try it, the better. Luckily, there is a great open source tool available for all your budgeting needs – GNUCash. It is available in Fedora’s repositories. You can install it using Gnome Software or through the command line.

FrontlineSMS started in 2005 with what seemed like a simple, clear ambition: make a tool that makes it easy for offline communities to communicate. The goal wasn’t innovation or profit, it was simply to get a useful tool into the hands of as many people as possible.

The Apache Software Foundation is excited to invite you to ApacheCon North America, which we'll be holding in Austin, Texas, April 13th - 16th.

Fedora 22 Workstation’s GNOME 3.16 desktop makes almost everything easy using a standard point and click interface. But one of the best reasons for using it is the power you can also get in the Terminal app. There’s a world... Continue Reading →

Today pianist Kimiko Ishizaka and MuseScore.com made their recording and score of Johann Sebastian Bach's collection of solo keyboard music, called the Well-Tempered Clavier, available to the public domain so anyone can download and fork it. read more

The world is about to get another reminder about just how much of the Internet runs on technology maintained by a handful of coders working on a shoestring budget. OpenSSL - the software used by thousands of companies to encrypt online communications - is set to get a security makeover this week:

Hello, open gaming fans! In this week's edition, we take a look at the GCW-ZERO handheld console, first anti-cheat open hardware device, and more.

It’s the follow-up to Intel’s original MinnowBoard, but can the Max take on its ARM-based rivals?

Innovative Integration’s Linux-friendly “ePC-Duo” data acquisition box offers an Intel Core i7 CPU, a Spartan-6 FPGA, dual XMC slots, and dual 10GbE ports.

Axiomtek’s “PICO840? Pico-ITX SBC features a quad- or dual-core Intel Atom, and offers multiple video ports, plus GbE, SATA, serial, USB, and Mini-PCIe I/O.

This article shows how Gibbon, an open-source management tool has helped International College Hong Kong solve the problem of managing data from multi-site records.

In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at the 30th anniversary of the GNU Manifesto; Google Code shutting down; a new open source, voice-activated digital assistant; and more.

Four different research teams on Wednesday cracked four products-Adobe Flash, Reader, Mozilla Firefox, and Microsoft Internet Explorer-and collectively earned a payout of $317,000 on the first day of Pwn2Own 2015.

This week we celebrated St. Paddy's Day with seven open source developers you should know and kicked off our Open Source in Education series. Join us for this roundup of the best articles from the past week on Opensource.com.

Emoji, the cute Ideograms that are now part of Unicode are now used fairly widely in messaging, especially on mobile devices. However, if you receive a message from someone with an Emoji on it, or view a page online what uses Emoji, the majority OF Emoji appear as a Unicode fallback symbol.

The best Chromebook is also, easily, the most expensive Chromebook. For some people, though, it's worth the money.

Need to restart your Pi after a system lock-up? Ease strain on the mains connector – install a reset switch!

Aaeon’s rugged, fanless “Boxer-6614″ box-PC runs Linux on a quad- or dual-core Celeron SoC, and offers 8GB RAM, HDMI and VGA, dual GbE, and dual mini-PCIe. According to Aaeon, the Boxer-6614 is a vastly improved upgrade to the Boxer-6613, also called the AEC-6613. Indeed, while that system ran on an Intel Atom D2550, which still […]

As you may be aware, Docker container technology has emerged as a viable lightweight alternative to full-blown virtualization. There are a growing number of use cases of Docker that the industry adopted in different contexts, for example, enabling rapid build environment, simplifying configuration of your infrastructure, isolating applications in multi-tenant environment, and so on.

Some open source texts need to be as accessible, powerful, efficient, and fault-free as a GNU/Linux server. read more