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A new incubating project at the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) promises a more secure Internet that doesn't require monolithic trust hierarchies and centralized certificate authorities. And it could eliminate the need for complex passwords, too.

The RDO project recently re-bumped all their tools to both release and install OpenStack. TI was impressed by all the changes so I wanted to test it, and indeed, it works great now.

CoreOS held its second annual CoreOS Fest event May 9-10 in Berlin, with a satellite event simulcast in San Francisco. CoreOS originally got its start in 2013 as an optimized delivery platform for Docker containers but has evolved to become one of Docker Inc.'s primary rivals, building out its own rkt container runtime.

Arduino Srl’s new “Arduino Industrial 101” SBC includes Arduino circuitry and I/O, along with a soldered-on WiFi module that runs Linino Linux.

Linus Torvalds yesterday released the final code for version 4.6 of the Linux kernel. This release comes two months after the previous 4.5 version and has gone through seven release candidates. “The 4.6 kernel on the whole was a fairly big release - more commits than we've had in a while,” Torvalds wrote in his release notes on the LKML mailing list. “But it all felt fairly calm despite that.”

Canonical published multiple security notices to inform the Ubuntu community about the availability of a new kernel update for their operating systems.

Uruk 1.0 is available. Uruk GNU/Linux is a distribution of the GNU operating system, with the Linux-libre kernel. The distribution is based on Trisquel GNU/Linux.

SeeedStudio has launched a $45 “BeagleBone Green Wireless” SBC with four USB 2.0 ports, 2.4GHz 802.11n WiFi, and Bluetooth 4.1 LE.

Also in today's open source roundup: DistroWatch reviews FreeBSD 10.3's new features, and Linus Torvalds releases Linux 4.6.

On Friday, Oracle's lawyer had asked Bornstein about e-mails in which he had told his colleagues to avoid using any code from a project called GNU Classpath, "because it was covered by an incompatible license." Oracle's point seemed to be that Bornstein and other Googlers only followed licensing rules when it suited them.

This morning, Anderson pulled up the same e-mails about Classpath.

There is no shortage of different ways to deploy and manage application on servers in 2016. For Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu Linux and Canonical Inc. has been advocating for the use of Juju and its system of 'charms' to help manage server application since 2011, with the release of Ubuntu 11.10 the Oneiric Ocelot.

The Raspberry Pi Foundation released a new version of the Raspberry Pi Zero with a camera connector and the same $5 price. The Raspberry Pi Foundation began shipping a new version 1.3 of the $5 Raspberry Pi Zero SBC that adds a camera connector. To hook up the connector to the Raspberry Pi Camera, you […]

cgroup namespace support could be a game-changer for containers

AUSTRUMI 3.4.2 has been released. AUSTRUMI (Austrum Latvijas Linukss) is a bootable live CD Linux distribution. It is based on Slackware Linux. It was created and is currently being maintained by a group of programmers from Latgale region of Latvia. It requires limited system resources and can run on any Intel-compatible system with a CD-ROM installed. The entire operating system and all the applications run from RAM, making Austrumi a fast system, and allowing the boot medium to be removed after the operating system starts.

Debian will put source code, not binaries, in contrib archive of contentious code The ZFS file system has come to popular Linux distribution Debian, but in a way the distro's backers think won't kick up another row over compatibility of open source licences.…

What started off as a quest to evaluate FOSS money management apps ended up revealing an issue with PayPal that plagues even highly funded proprietary money management programs running on that other operating system.

Approximately half a year after its launch, during which every single copy was sold, the $5 computer, Raspberry Pi Zero, makes a comeback with a built-in camera connector.

GNOME To Do is an application that manages a simple set of to-do lists. To Do was built by Georges Stavracas, a frequent contributor to GNOME software including Calendar and Nautilus, during Google Summer of Code. It’s designed to be the best tool to... Continue Reading →

Sailfish derivative targeted at Russian users and regulators A Russian company called is developing its own mobile operating system to rival Android.…

This year, Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) was selected as a host location for the NASA Space Apps Challenge, an annual event where NASA gives a series of prompts and challenges for programmers around the world to complete. Using multiple sets of existing open data, attendees are provided the resources to develop creative and imaginative solutions to complex issues. read more