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After months of collecting ideas and holding open discussion across our community, we have united around a simple statement of what we want to achieve: A world in which everyone has control over their digital life and enjoys freedom and privacy. This is our vision.

The teenager who grabbed headlines earlier this week for hacking a fake game listing on to Valve's Steam store says there are "definitely" more vulnerabilities to be found in the popular game distribution service. But he won't be the one to find them.............

KDE today announced the general availability of KDE Plasma 5.6.2, the second maintenance release in the stable KDE Plasma 5.6 series of the acclaimed desktop environment.

Attackers can easily bypass the patch to exploit a vulnerability that allows them to escape from the Java security sandbox.

This guide shows you how to use the pacman command line package manager and is written for users who use an Arch based Linux distribution such as Manjaro

A survey from Datas IO shows on-premise or private-cloud distributed databases like MongoDB beating public cloud alternatives as NoSQL database adoption continues.

Also in today's open source roundup: Five Linux distros that break the mold, and Google releases the largest Android security update.

While modern GNU/Linux distributions don't require any use of the terminal, or any knowledge of the bash to offer 100% of their functionality and usability, it is often the case that doing things from the terminal is preferred for a set of reasons.This post is aimed at the people who just want to perform practically useful tasks right from their terminal without having to learn much about command lines.

Introduction We’re trying to focus more on developer experience in the Red Hat ecosystem. In the process we’ve started to incorporate the Vagrant tool into our standard offerings. As part of that effort, we’re seeking a shared folder solution that doesn’t... Continue Reading →

Arduino LLC debuted a $35 IoT focused MKR1000 board, supported with an Arduino IoT site, and soon, an Arduino Create code editor and Arduino Cloud platform. At Arduino Day this week in Berkeley, Calif., Arduino LLC’s cofounders Massimo Banzi, David Mellis, and Tom Igoe hailed the company’s new MKR1000 board as combining the functionality of […]

The conversation around "open" in higher education has been happening for some time—but as open source has become mainstream in the software industry the conversation in the educational space has exploded. From universities offering degree programs in open source software, to MOOCs from top tier colleges providing open enrollment courses, to universities around the world creating their own open source software projects, open is rapidly becoming a standard in higher ed. read more

There's the Internet of Things -- DVRs, refrigerators, and cars -- and then there's the Internet of civic things -- electrical power grids, oil and gas production facilities, and highway traffic management. Linux has a role to play in both.

Jess Portnoy is a prolific PHP developer and open source geek with lots of helpful data and web data on SourceForge and GitHub. I was vaguely familiar with Jess's work from various tech talks that she's given, which usually attracted my attention because of her affiliation with the web multimedia platform Kaltura. read more

Nest is dropping support for one of its products on May 15. More than just dropping support, the product will cease to work entirely. The product isn’t one of Nest’s branded lines – it’s not the thermostat, the smoke alarm or the Nest Cam. Instead it's the Revolv smart home hub. Nest acquired Revolv in 2014 and stopped selling the product – which was one of the early home automation hubs – almost immediately.

In 2014, an East Texas jury ordered Google to pay $85 million to SimpleAir, a "patent troll" company with no business beyond enforcing its patents. It was a massive victory for the company, which claimed that Google's use of push notifications in Android phones infringed its US Patent No. 7,035,914.

In this story, Microsoft is the cunning spider and Linux the intended victim, the fly. Everyone knows how the story begins. 'Will you walk into my parlour?' said the Spider to the Fly.

VIA’s “Mobile360 HMI” flat panel starter kits run Linux or Android on VIA’s own 1GHz Cortex-A9 based WM8980 SoC, and offer WiFi and touchscreen options. VIA Technology’s “Mobile360 HMI” flat panel display starter kits appear to have been showcased at Embedded World in late February, but came to our attention in a recent design win […]

The open-source effort, which is backed by Cloudera, Intel, eBay and others, is seeing early adoption, as organizations aim to gain the upper hand on attackers.

For the first time, Linux Torvalds speaks at an embedded Linux conference: "Many changes have been invisible. Even I don't see all the uses of Linux."

In this tutorial we will cover the steps needed for installing Habari with Nginx on a Debian 8 VPS. Habari is a free and open source blog engine written in PHP that currently supports MySQL, SQLite and PostgreSQL for the database backend.