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A look at challenged patents and patent lawsuits that are associated with patent trolls or Microsoft's distant proxies that are based in Texas

A round up of news for weekend reading.

News briefs for April 27, 2018.

This week in Linux and open source headlines, Mark Hinkle of Node.js Foundation shares what he's excited for in regards to the platform this year and more. Read on and stay open-source-informed!

What if you controlled all of your personal data instead of a dozen enormous companies? That could happen.

GIMP is a free and open source software for creating and editing image content. The development team has just announced the new stable release GIMP 2.10.0. It’s been almost six years of heavy development since the earlier stable release GIMP 2.8.x back in 2012. So, let's check what's new in GIMP 2.10.0.

In the last article, we covered the basics of Raspberry Pi. We talked about what Raspberry Pi is and how it can help make amazing projects. In this article, I'll talk about the parts of Raspberry Pi board. So let's get started!

Dave wraps up the shell-script L33t generator: Last time, I talked about what's known informally as l33t-speak, a series of letter and letter-pair substitutions that marks the jargon of the hacker elite (or some subset of hacker elite, because I'm pretty sure that real computer security experts don't need to substitute vowels with digits to sound cool and hip).

Google has released on Friday a new stable Chrome OS update for Chromebooks, adding new mitigations for the Meltdown security vulnerability, as well as numerous new features and improvements.

Shuttleworth took specific aim at rival Linx vendor Red Hat noting that a user of the older Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.x (RHEL) operating system could run the system through Ubuntu's Physical to Container (PtoC) tool and end up with a RHEL LXD container running on a modern Ubuntu kernel. A key reason why an organization might do that, according to Shuttleworth, is due to the fact that the older RHEL releases don't have kernels that have been patches for the recent spectre and meltdown CPU flaws.

It’s important to learn the necessary Systemd commands to start, stop, enable, and disable units from the command line. Spending a lot of time at the command prompt can be tiring, though, so Chkservice was created to help ease the strain of these managerial tasks. Chkservice uses Ncurses to offer a quick overview of your Systemd units. With administrative privileges, you can start and stop those units at will, all without typing a single systemctl entry.

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver has been finally released. Here is a quick recap of new features and the download links for Ubuntu 18.04.

In this edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look three governments turning to open source, open sourcing driverless car safety practices, a school district developing an open source curriculum, and more.

Real-Time Linux (RT Linux) has been a staple at Embedded Linux Conferences for years... as RT prepares to be fully integrated into the mainline kernel, a wider circle of developers should pay attention. In particular, Linux device driver authors will need to ensure that their drivers play nice with RT-enabled kernels.

The new stable LTS version of Ubuntu, Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver, was released on 26th of April 2018. Some of the new features of Ubuntu 18.04 include: new default desktop GNOME 3.28, better boot speed, new "minimal installation" option, new default applications, Linux Kernel 4.15 and others. This guide will list for you some selected things to do after installing Ubuntu 18.04.

Arch Linux is one of the best Free and Open Source distributions of Linux. In this article you will learn step by step how to do the Minimal Installation of Arch Linux in order to reduce the download and setup type and get you started as fast as possible.

Once upon a time the idea of upgrading the Linux kernel sent fear through the hearts of many a user. Back then, the process of upgrading the kernel involved a lot of steps and even more time. Now, installing a new kernel can be easily handled...

In my day job, I spend a lot of time wrangling data from various sources into human-readable information. While a lot of the time this just takes the form of a spreadsheet or some type of chart or other data visualization, there are other times when it makes sense to present the data instead in a written format. But a pet peeve of mine is copying and pasting. If you’re moving data from its source to a standardized template, you shouldn’t be copying and pasting either. It’s error-prone, and honestly, it’s not a good use of your time. read more

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 tutorial shows the installation and configuration of MongoDB on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

Six years after the release of GIMP 2.8 (yes, time flies when you're having fun), the GIMP 2.10 open-source and cross-platform image editor and viewer application was officially announced on Friday.