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Also included: Debian developer Kristoffer H. Rose passes, two new distro releases, Apricity OS adds 32-bit, Canonical gets Kubernetes, Snapcraft gets a new release and getting ready for All Things Open.

Today, October 2, 2016, Linus Torvalds announced the release of the Linux 4.8 kernel branch, which is now the latest stable and most advanced one.

Yet another straw on the overloaded camel's back that is systemd.

Beniamino Galvani announced a new stable release of the NetworkManager network configuration tool suite for GNU/Linux operating system, the second for the latest 1.4 series.

Dubbed Linux.Mirai by researchers; the trojan works with the SPARC, ARM, MIPS, SH-4, M68K architectures and Intel x86 computers.

One of the interesting projects where the Raspberry Pi can be applied is in cars not equipped with onboard diagnostics version 2 (or OBD-II).

In today’s article we will install MyBB on a Ubuntu 16.04 VPS.

MyBB is a very popular open source, intuitive and extensible forum software developed using PHP and MySQL.

American information security company Zerodium is currently offering payouts of up to $1.5 million for original and unreported vulnerabilities with fully functional exploits on major operating systems, software and/or devices. With this figure, exploits on iOS 10 can be the most profitable of payouts...

The Mintbox Mini has been received a major hardware upgrade and it is now called Mintbox Mini Pro. The Linux machine comes at a price of $395 and features an all-metal casing which eliminates the need for a cooling fan. Significant bumps having been given to the storage, RAM, processor, wireless, and other hardware components.

Last year, the UK decided to repeal a part of its copyright law that enforced a drastically reduced copyright term for "industrially exploited artistic works" including "works of artistic craftsmanship" — in other words, the industrial design of manufactured objects that are primarily functional, like appliances and furniture. Rather than the full life-plus-seventy term, the copyright on such works was limited to 25 years from the date of manufacturing...

... In any case, the rule was repealed and it was repealed retroactively:

Open-minded folks from tech, business, education, and many other fields will convene to hear about the fantastic things happening in the open world, from software to hardware and beyond.

Out with the New, and in with the Newer!

There was a show a few years back called, "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition". The premise of the show was to find families who needed their house

Gumstix announced two SBCs this week, based on Intel Joule and Curie IoT modules and built to 96Boards CE and IE form-factor specifications, respectively. At Linaro Connect Las Vegas 2016, where earlier this week Linaro’s 96Boards.org announced a new 96Boards IoT Edition (IE) spec, Gumstix announced support for 96Boards.org’s open SBC standards with two new […]

As we know, By default the FreeBSD ISO doesn’t comes with graphical user interface and we need to install manually which is suitable for us.

Canonical has worked with Google to bring its own version of the open source container tool, Kubernetes, to its Linux distribution.

Gumstix announced two 96Boards form-factor carrier boards, based on Intel’s Joule and Curie modules, that can be customized with its Geppetto design tool. At Linaro Connect Las Vegas 2016, where earlier this week Linaro’s 96Boards.org announced a new 96Boards IoT Edition (IE) spec, Gumstix announced support for 96Boards.org’s open SBC standards with two new customizable […]

We're just two months out from the OpenShift Commons Gathering coming up on November 7, 2016 in Seattle, Washington, co-located with KubeCon and CloudNativeCon. read more

Latest major release of Asterisk includes new features designed to make it easier to get up and running quickly

In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at a $5 Linux server, China's adoption of open source software, Plasma 5.8, and more. Open source news roundup for September 18-October 1, 2016 read more

After informing the community a few days ago about the upcoming improvements and new features shipping with the XApps software projects in Linux Mint 18.1, Clement Lefebvre just published the monthly Linux Mint newsletter.