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Xamarin casts off commercial roots. BUILD 2016 Microsoft will make Xamarin tools and code, which enable compilation of Mac, Android and iOS applications using C#, free and open source, said corporate VP Scott Guthrie at the company's Build conference under way in San Francisco.

The Linux Foundation is offering a free class to help open-source developers stay on the right side of intellectual property law.

We reported earlier this month that Dell launched its highly anticipated XPS 13 Developer Edition laptop in US, as well as the worldwide launch of the Dell Precision line of Ubuntu-based workstations.

With Gartner predicting that 70% of new applications soon will be deployed on an open-source relational database, purveyors of proprietary DBMSes surely long for the golden lock-in age of yore.

I have double checked this, and it seems to be accurate. Linux now has 2,000 games on Steam, and that's a pretty healthy milestone.

In this article, an encrypted partition is opened using a secret key which is kept in an usb memory device. An automatic shell script is used to provide a secret key for encrypted volume at boot time.

The "IANA Transition" took a big step forward this month and we are one step closer to the US government handing control over the DNS and IP numbering to a vaguely-defined group accountable, effectively, to nobody.

Microsoft and Canonical have partnered to bring Ubuntu Linux apps to Windows via the Windows Subsystem on Linux. (No, it's not open source.)

If you have a lot of your services hosted in the Amazon AWS public cloud, and are looking for ways to access your leased AWS resources in a secure way, this article is for you. Initially you started out accessing Amazon AWS over the public Internet. Over time, you have migrated more and more services...

Plug in. Go, go, go BUILD 2016 Microsoft’s love of Linux is extending to its flagship Visual Studio suite.…

Deeplearning4j is an open source, distributed neural net library written for Java and Scala. It is also one of the most active communities on Gitter, the chat service I created. Interested in how they built a thriving open source community, I reached out to get their thoughts on the lessons they learned. read more

First it was the NSA, the FBI and every big city cop shop on the planet insisting we need legislation to force safe, secure and for their eyes only back doors in damn near every device on the planet, presumably including light switches, garbage disposals and dishwashers. Eventually they came to see that doors, hidden or not, are merely temptations for hackers to break on through, and just decided to go on the down low for a while so they could pull a sneak attack later when we least expect it, which is a favorite trick of government types.

Rancher Labs today announced the general availability of its namesake platform Rancher 1.0, which provides tools that enable organizations to easily manage and deploy Docker containers.

Emmabuntüs is a GNU/Linux distribution that's definitely set apart from the crowd, as its developers are motivated less by a love for technology than by a connection with humanity.

Okay, all joking aside, what if I told you that a really great firewall router was possible for under $200?! I’m talking about the kind of box that would allow to do stuff you could never do by simply flashing firmware on a cheap plastic piece you were using previously! I, for one, am done supporting cra@ppy hardware vendors just to save a buck or two.

KDE has a long tradition of providing user interface components beyond the basics that are offered in Qt itself. With KDE Frameworks 5, these have become more easily available for Qt developers who are not part of KDE. Now, with KDE's focus expanding beyond desktop and laptop computers into the mobile and embedded sector, our QWidgets-based components alone are not sufficient anymore.

The openSUSE Build Service (OBS) has a long history dating back to January 2007, when it was first announced.

Brett Gaylor is a Director at the Mozilla Foundation, where he helps helm the current encryption education campaign. He also oversees Mozilla’s Open Web Fellows program, which places open source technologists and activists at leading nonprofits like Amnesty International and ACLU.

It’s not Fedora if it ships on time. After a couple of delays, the Fedora community has announced the alpha release of Fedora 24, the next version of this free and open source Linux distribution. The release also makes Fedora the first distro to offer Gnome 3.20, which was released last week.

Also in today's open source roundup: Is Apple's iPhone SE stealing users from Android? And Xiaomi's 4.3-inch Mi 5 Mini could be an iPhone SE killer.