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Also in today's open source roundup: Nokia will release Android phones, and Google will introduce a voice-activated device for the home.

With better security, improved ARM support, and, oh yes, better gaming hardware support, Linux 4.6 is a major update.

When we think about Linux, definitely a back and white terminal will come in the mind, a true Linux user always prefer to work from terminal even for downloading, a command line downloading tool can help user to download anything from internet more quickly,

I’m excited to announce that Alex Salkever joins the Mozilla leadership team today as the Vice President of Marketing Communications. In this role, Alex Salkever will be responsible for driving strategic positioning and marketing communications campaigns.

In the opening OSCON keynote this morning, the founder of Docker, Solomon Hykes, gave us a fantastic birds-eye view of lessons learned from the "firehose" while building a successful open source project. He calls this process: Incremental Revolution.

Screven was asked about Apache Harmony, the open source product that Google relied on heavily in building Android. He saw a big difference between that project and Android.

Two major open source IoT frameworks — the OCF’s “IoTivity” and the AllSeen Alliance’s “AllJoyn” — are moving toward interoperability, and possibly, a merger.

OpenLiteSpeed is a high performance and lightweight HTTP server which comes with a Web Gui administration interface. In this tutorial, I will guide you trough the installation and configuration of openLiteSpeed and PHP 7 on CentOS 7.

In its mission to hunt criminals, the FBI has been keen to hack Tor, the Internet browser that hides your true location... FBI agents are currently trying to subpoena one of Tor's core software developers to testify in a criminal hacking investigation...

Docker was the flame that catalyzed innovation in application development, according to Scott Johnston, senior vice president of product management and design at Docker. However, that success was entirely unforeseen. "I wish I could say that we had a premeditated mindset three years ago when we released Docker," Johnston said in his keynote at last month's Collaboration Summit. "But we did not." Looking back, he sees three main reasons for Docker’s success: Accessibility, Portability, and Openness.

With the two day training classes and tutorials out of the way, OSCON gets cranked up today for the rest of us -- in its new Austin, Texas home.

For those that don't know, or forgot, the new Unreal Tournament does in fact have a Linux version. I check on it now and then and it's really starting to come together.

A security researcher has demonstrated how he could have theoretically emptied an Indian bank's coffers with no more than a few clicks and lines of code.

Back in 2009, our day-to-day life at Planio was writing software for clients. Client work is often fun, but there can also be a feeling that you're stuck on a hamster wheel of endlessly churning through projects, always looking for new customers. We used Redmine, an open source project management tool built using the Ruby on Rails framework, to manage these projects. And then something curious started happening. read more

Cross-site scripting flaw gives evil websites access to local files Google has emailed Android developers advising them to update Android Studio, the official Android IDE, to fix security bugs. Other versions of the JetBrains IntelliJ IDE, on which Android Studio is based, are also affected.…

Contrary to the claims of America's top spies, the details of your phone calls and text messages—including when they took place and whom they involved—are no less revealing than the actual contents of those communications.

Node-RED is a browser-based flow editor that lets users wire together hardware devices, APIs, and online services in new and interesting ways. Node-RED's nodes are like npm packages, and you can get them the same way. And because Node-RED has a built-in text editor, you can make applications as complex as you like by adding JavaScript functions. Because Node-RED is based on Node.js and takes advantage of the event-driven, non-blocking model, it can be run on low-cost hardware like the Raspberry Pi or in the cloud. read more

The Android-based Sony Xperia series is going to get another powerful smartphone soon this year. Sony Xperia XA Ultra, the phone with some amazing specifications, including its 16MP selfie camera and 6" full HD display that lets you capture the selfie in very low light. Moto G4 Plus, released yesterday with 16MP primary camera does not compete with Sony Xperia XA, atleast in terms of camera. Let us see the full specifications of Sony Xperia XA Ultra.

enterprises are ramping up their shift to 100 Gigabit Ethernet, with one in four already implementing it and two out of three planning to adopt it by 2017.

The development of the Tiny Core Linux 7.1 operating system, the first major update to the 7.x series of one of the smallest GNU/Linux distros out there, continues with a second RC (Release Candidate) build.