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In this week's Top 5, we highlight Stephen Walli's 12 memes to explain open source software, an introduction to Picademy, Matthew Tift's thoughts on whether Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) are good or bad for the web, a question from resident-question-asker-and-answer-seeker Jason Baker on what you'll use to deploy your next big application, and an interview with Jess Portnoy, a PHP developer working on the monitoring tool JaM. read more

Apple, Microsoft, are you listening? Interview Which platform will the next billion people on the internet use? Is it more likely to be Microsoft’s Windows squeezed onto low-cost mobile hardware, or a mobile OS given some steroids? Three former Google executives are betting it's the latter.…

Bryan Lunduke is well known in free software circles. He's a writer of books and Network World articles. He co-founded the Linux Action Show and is a co-host of the Bad Voltage podcast. In between hobbies, he has a day job doing marketing for SUSE and serving on the openSUSE board. read more

System engineers in aerospace, defense, automotive, transportation and rail, not to mention embedded software developers across disciplines, will be drawn to the ideas in Dr Bruce Douglass' new book Agile Sy

Adobe has released an update to flash to fix an exploit being used for ransomware attacks. The article indicates there are updates for Linux too.

For this tutorial, we will use the Whale Docker image. The Whale is the official mascot of Docker and the Whale docker image resembles the cowsay program which generates ASCII pictures of a cow in the terminal with a message. It can also generate pictures using pre-made images of other animals, such as Tux the Penguin, the Linux mascot.

A German fellow with the YouTube username Rhymoore shows his PINE 64, the 64 bit single board computer that’s been taking preorders for $15 on Kickstarter, booting the Android based Remix OS on his 4K monitor. Glitches still exist, but those will likely get ironed out.

In my article on how to set up a Linux-based music server at home, I mentioned that I have two CuBox-i4 cube computers, using the Volumio music system, serving music in my home. read more

NeuroVoider has probably one of the most amusing license agreements around, and the game looks great too. It's a slick new twin-stick shooter RPG, and the developer sent me a key.

The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the April 2016 issue.

Teaching students to participate in open source communities can be difficult. Teaching teachers to teach students to participate in open source communities can be even more challenging. read more

Supposed you wanted to install a device driver for a new graphics card or a network interface card that you purchased, and for whatever reason (e.g., missing kernel driver, outdated driver version, non-common build options), you decided to compile and install the driver module from the source yourself. So you went ahead and downloaded the ...

"OpenSSL now has a well-known and published approach for how it will appropriately inform all interested parties of security advisories," Emily Ratliff, senior director of infrastructure security at The Linux Foundation, told eWEEK. "Even trivial patches must follow the review process."

The Linux Foundation has posted slide presentations from this week’s Embedded Linux Conference, which featured the first ever ELC keynote by Linus Torvalds. In case you missed this week’s North American Embedded Linux Conference and OpenIoT Summit in San Diego, you’ll be happy to know that videos of the live streamed event will be released […]

Axiomtek’s “ICO310” is a Linux-ready, DIN-rail field controller and IoT gateway, featuring a Braswell CPU, -20 to 60°C support, IP40, and PoE PD. Axiomtek bills its ICO310 as the industry’s first field controller with PoE PD (Power over Ethernet Powered Device), which lets you power the device over one of its dual GbE ports. The […]

'Insider' update includes Linux along with new Skype, dark theme and more. Microsoft's latest "Insider" Windows 10 preview Build 14316, includes the Windows Subsystem for Linux along with a flurry of other new features.

In the following article we’ll explain how to install SOGo on Ubuntu 14.04. SOGo is a fully supported and trusted groupware server with a focus on scalability and open standards.

We've just been informed by Ruarí Ødegaard of Vivaldi about the immediate availability for download of the first minor point release in the stable branch of the web browser.

Canonical has released an update that patches four bugs that, including one that could cause an attacker to execute code. Ubuntu users have been notified of a reasonably pressing update to install that addresses four security issues, though none are remotely exploitable. The bugs affect Ubuntu 14.04 Long Term Support (LTS), which gets five years of coverage.

Hackers are using malware which targets Linux to build botnets to launch distributed denial of service (DDoS attacks) security researchers have warned.