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In 20 years of EU digital policy in Brussels, I have seen growing awareness and recognition among policymakers in Europe of the importance of open source software (OSS). A recent keynote by EU internal market commissioner Thierry Breton at the annual EU Open Source Policy Summit in February provides another example—albeit with a sense of urgency and strategic opportunity that has been largely missing in the past. read more

Devs scramble for replacement mimetype data package On Wednesday, Bastien Nocera, the maintainer of a software library called shared-mime-info, informed Daniel Mendler, maintainer of a Ruby library called mimemagic, which incorporates Nocera's code, that he was shipping mimemagic under an incompatible software license.…

This tutorials shows you how to write a Python script to copy data from one DynamoDB to another DynamoDB table on AWS.

This article shows how to install CMake on Ubuntu through the UI and the command line as packages and how to compile latest CMake version.

Identifying vulnerable network daemons for remediation and how attackers find vulnerable resources.

Fwupd, Linux’s number one tool for updating firmware of your hardware, has been updated today to version 1.5.7, a maintenance release that adds various improvements and new features.

In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to use a digital signature in ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors to protect your documents. ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors is a free open-source office suite that contains viewers and editors for text documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.

The GNOME Project officially released today the GNOME 40 desktop environment as the latest and greatest release of this popular graphical environment for GNU/Linux distributions.

Richard Stallman's return to the Free Software Foundation's board of directors has drawn condemnation from many people in the free software community.

The GNOME team announced the release of the GNOME 40 desktop environment with major design changes and many new features.

qBittorrent 4.3.4 open-source and cross-platform BitTorrent client is out today for all supported platforms, including GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows, with various new features and many bug fixes.

GNOME 40 is out now to showcase the latest Linux desktop environment work from the GNOME Project, which includes a number of feature overhauls and improvements.

And now the circle is complete. Sync is here for the wafer-thin Venn intersection of Linux users running the Edge browser and those who are happy to sign in using a Microsoft account.…

The open-source licensing organization is investigating the hack and will then re-do the election.

PINE64 has kicked off today the pre-orders for its PinePhone Beta Limited Edition Linux-powered smartphone from $149.99 USD.

OSPOCon is an event dedicated to creating better, more efficient open source ecosystems. SAN FRANCISCO, March 23, 2020 — The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, along with co-host the TODO Group, an open group of organizations who collaborate on practices, tools and other ways to run successful and effective […] The post The Linux Foundation and the TODO Group Announce Call for Proposals for OSPOCon and the OSPO Landscape appeared first on Linux.com.

Although PNG offers a better image quality compared with JPG, the large size factor is usually a concern for Internet users. This is typically why PNG images are converted to JPG.

The Krita Foundation released today Krita 4.4.3 open-source and cross-platform digital painting software, a maintenance update that brings more bug fixes and performance improvements to Krita 4.4.

When you're scripting with Bash, sometimes you need to read data from or write data to a file. Sometimes a file may contain configuration options, and other times the file is the data your user is creating with your application. Every language handles this task a little differently, and this article demonstrates how to handle data files with Bash and other POSIX shells.

React is one of the most popular and simple JavaScript libraries for building user interfaces (UIs) because it allows you to create reusable UI components. Components in React are independent, reusable pieces of code that serve as building blocks for an application. React functional components are JavaScript functions that separate the presentation layer from the business logic. A