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Some popular Netgear routers contain a security flaw that is evidently easy to exploit and can make users vulnerable to a CSRF attack.

Aaeon’s “UP-GWS01” fanless gateway is built around its quad-core Cherry Trail based UP board, with four USB ports, GbE and HDMI, and optional wireless.

2016 has been an absolute knockout year for Linux gaming, let’s have a little talk about what we have achieved.

Mintbox Technologies announced a $24, open source “Winkel Board” Arduino compatible with ATmega128 and ESP8266 chips, OTA programming, and WiFi, BT, and RF.

Do you want to know more about future release of Linux Mint 18.1 (Serena) ? Kick start our link.

After energy balancing software PowerMatcher was released as open source at Alliander in 2014, I was able to convince more of my colleagues to invest in making more technologies open source. I started the conversation with a question about the Open Smart Grid Platform: "How open is open? Where can I find the code?" read more

There are multiple ways on how to install Node.js on your Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus Linux server. The below steps will show you how to install Node.js using a standard Ubuntu repository, PPA repository, Node.js native setup script and by use of Node Version Manager. The easiest installation is by using standard Ubuntu repository, however it yields lower Node.js version. If you need a bleeding-edge Node.js version you better opt for an automatic installation using the Node.js native setup script.

For many of us, when we look around at the state of computing in 2016, we nod and think, "Yes, today is what I expected when I thought about what The Future would be like." Sure, we haven't got flying cars yet, but today's technology is flashy. We swipe fingers across screens instead of pressing buttons, and I'm told we are all very excited about all of the latest virtual reality headsets and augmented reality gadgets. read more

Black hat hackers are taking advantage of Microsoft PowerShell's capabilities, putting enterprise IT at risk.

Learn how to enable and use the new Fedora feature that allows you to quickly search, select and input emoji using your keyboard.

For beginners to Linux the range of distributions can be daunting. Should I investigate Ubuntu, Arch Linux, openSUSE, elementaryOS, or even try Solus, the best newcomer to the scene? A good way to experiment with Linux distributions and find the one that best fits your needs is to create a bootable SD card or USB drive flashed with the Linux distros. The tools featured in this article make this process simple and safe.

It's an interesting distribution that makes a pretty solid effort toward pulling in new users, yet it is somewhat let down by a bunch of weird defaults and other usability issues that are each small but add up to a less compelling experience overall.

An outline of one week’s news regarding software patents in the United States, with special emphasis placed on key foes and allies of GNU/Linux

Scribus is a robust open source page layout application developed with and relied upon by the open source community since 2001. According to the project's website, Scribus is built for Linux, FreeBSD, PC-BSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, and the program offers CMYK colors, spot colors, ICC color management and PDF creation. The site also touts the application's advanced features, such as vector drawing tools, support for a huge number of file types via import/export filters, emulation of color blindness or the rendering of markup languages like LaTeX or Lilypond. read more

It turns out that the NES Classic Edition is just a little Linux-powered board inside a cute case, and it’s totally possible to build your own tiny Linux-powered computer inside a cute case without spending much more than $60. And by using the Raspberry Pi and freely available software, you can build something capable of doing a whole heck of a lot more than playing the same 30 NES games over and over again.

A new maintenance update of the Cinnamon 3.2 desktop environment has arrived this weekend, versioned 3.2.4, for the upcoming Linux Mint 18.1 "Serena" operating system, but also for users of Linux Mint 18 "Sarah."

The 'Roaring Lionus' Linux 4.9 release is Linus Torvalds final release of 2016 and could well be the last in the 4.x series too with Linux 5.x likely in 2017.

Feral Interactive was proud to inform the media about the upcoming release of the immense DLC pack for the Total War: WARHAMMER turn-based strategy and real-time tactics video game to SteamOS and Linux.

This week in Linux and OSS news, The Linux Foundation's Hyperledger Project continues to grow rapidly as its membership hits 100, Arpit Joshipura comes aboard The Linux Foundation's staff as an OSS networking specialist, and more!

Also included: Fedora community says goodbye to Matthew Williams, Solus gets a new package build system, end-of-life for Fedora 23 and IoT security.