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Ever wondered what it’s like being involved with the Fedora Project? There are many different roles and types of people that help make Fedora what it is. One common form of contributing is packaging. This is when someone takes software,... Continue Reading →

Antergos' Dustin Falgout announced just a few minutes ago that the latest ISO images for the Arch Linux-based operating system are now available for download.

An 11-year-old asks her grandfather how computer games are made and he tells her they're created by programmers "using complex mathematical code." The next thing he knows, she's learning Python on her own, and getting her chums involved too.

We already know that open source gives us better and more secure software. But with the advent of 3D printing, the open source model shows even more meaningful promise in areas like open source bionics.

Could the transactional mechanism that drives Canonical’s IoT-focused Snappy Ubuntu Core help unify Linux and save it from fragmentation? Today, Canonical announced that the lightweight Snappy’s “snap” mechanism, which two months ago was extended to all Ubuntu users in Ubuntu 16.04, can also work with other Linux distributions.

Michael Ducy is a champion for the idea that you should staff your DevOps team with curious, hungry individuals (goats) from within your company, rather than from the outside.

The developers behind the Debian-based antiX Linux operating system have published a brief announcement to inform the community about the availability of the Release Candidate build of antiX 16.

In this tutorial, I will show you how to implement a virtual private network using OpenVPNvpn under the Linux operating system OpenSUSE Leap 42.1. VPN or Virtual Private Network is a secure private network over a public network like the internet. A VPN is a secure tunnel trough the internet which protects your data traffic and increases internet privacy and security. Access to the VPN is restricted by secure authentication methods.

Ahead of a promised early July release, Nextcloud 9, the open-source personal and business private cloud, is now available.

Commell’s 3.5-inch “LE-37F” SBC supports Intel Braswell processors, and offers a pair each of SATA, GbE, and mini-PCIe connections plus four USB 3.0 ports. Like its recently introduced Pico-ITX form-factor LP-176, Commell’s 3.5-inch LE-37A single board computer takes Intel’s 14nm Braswell family of processors for a spin.

"What I didn't expect to happen is that a bunch of people started to ask about porting Snappy to Arch, Gentoo and other Linux distributions," Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu Linux and Canonical, told eWEEK. "We said sure; it's open-source, so why not."

Here is a list of terms, which some new users to Linux might find confusing, along with a description explaining what the terms mean.

Who is the main audience of Ubuntu 16.04 MATE? From my point of view, these are people who started their Linux life a long time ago when GNOME 2 was one of few desktop environments available for Linux distributions. Since then, we have gotten a lot more players and forks on the "market".

Chromebooks are everywhere. Google’s little Linux based PCs have been booming since their introduction several years ago in everything from homes to businesses, and even educational settings. Many users, especially Linux users, can’t get past the fact that the devices are hopelessly hamstrung by their ChromeOS operating system which both cuts down on the number of apps the device can run and makes it dependent on an Internet connection to get anything done.

KDE has announced the general availability of the second point release for its KDE Applications 16.04 series of the software suite used for the KDE Plasma 5 desktop environment.

The Internet and the Web can be open and private if users use the right tools for beating censorship and keeping data secure.

Also in today's open source roundup: The cost of free software, and what does Microsoft's purchase of LinkedIn mean for Linux users?

In this tutorial we are going to show you how to automate system tasks on a Linux VPS running CentOS 7 as an operating system.

ExLight is now based on Ubuntu 16.04 (alias Xenial Xerus) and Debian 8.5 Jessie. I have upgraded the Desktop environment Enlightenment (Beauty at your fingertips) to version 0.20.99.0 (from 0.19.12). I have replaced kernel 4.2.0-16-exton with kernel 4.6.2-exlight. ExLight's ISO file is now a ISO-hybrid, which means that it can very easily be transferred (copied) to a USB pen drive. You can then even run ExLight from the USB stick and save all your system changes on the stick. I.e. you will enjoy persistence! Another big improvement is that ExLight can run from RAM. Use Boot alternative 3 (Copy to RAM). When the system has booted up you can remove the disc (DVD) or USB stick. You'll need at least 2 GB RAM to run ExLight that way.

Adlink’s MVP-6000 is a “value” embedded PC with 6th Gen Intel Core “Skylake” CPUs, three GbE ports, six USB ports, four video ports, and PCI/PCIe expansion. Adlink’s MVP-6000 is the first in a new “value line” series of MVP-branded fanless embedded computers that offer much of the functionality of its MXE line at a lower […]