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The $35 computer can transform into a virtual assistant thanks to Amazon’s detailed instructions.

KDE Plasma is the desktop environment that powers Kubuntu, Chakra Linux and openSUSE (among others). This week sees the release of Plasma 5.6, which brings several tweaks and improvements.

CIO of Monsanto talks about the two-way win of open source.

Gumstix has added a customizable carrier board design for Critical Link’s MitySOM-335x COM to its quick-turn carrier board design and manufacturing service.

Good news astronauts! Lifeless Planet is now available in Beta for Linux & SteamOS. Hopefully there aren't too many issues.

One of the oldest and most profitable patent trolls, Uniloc, has been shot down. Its US Patent No. 5,490,216, which claims to own the concept of "product activation" in software, had all claims ruled invalid by the Patent Trademark and Appeals Board (PTAB).

Imagine a situation in which you have a great product to sell and an already planned marketing campaign, but the one thing missing is an eCommerce website to sell your product from.

Following bellow is set of directives allowing to switch Openstack RDO Mitaka to using flat (vlan) external network provider,what allows to work with several external networks via single L3 router. Conversion supposed to be done doesn't depend in any way of how tenants are segregated either VLAN tagged networks or VXLAN (GRE) tunneling.

The 8th annual Open Source Rookies of the Year were recently announced from Black Duck. It's a selection process that takes three or four weeks from start to finish to complete. How's it done? We asked Vice President of Product Marketing at Black Duck, Patrick Carey, to give us a look behind the scenes. read more

Issues can be confidential, moved, or just plain deleted. GitLab claims to have smoothed deployment to Kubernetes and introduced “confidential issues” in the latest release of its code management platform, 8.6.

When a group of talented people get together to create a Linux distribution optimized for use on Chromebooks, a suitable way of giving thanks is to install that operating system on a Chromebook and make a screencast showcasing the operating system at work. Back in December 2015, I did that with the outstanding GalliumOS distro.

Newsbeuter is a command-line RSS feed reader designed to access RSS/Atom feeds in a terminal environment. Used together with a text-mode web browser such as elinks, lynx or w3m, Newsbeuter allows you to read RSS/Atom feeds without any graphical desktop environment, such as on a headless server.

The 'Posh' version of LXLE has been readied and tested since it's last release candidate and in the subsequent days of the update to Seamonkey 2.40, which is a core component of the overall desktop experience provided by the operating system; ensuring performance and compatibility with the suite update was critical before official release.

It's beginning to smell like Vista. So how will Remond clean up this mess? Comment So, Windows 10 isn't the saviour of the PC industry after all – and is beginning to look more like a Windows Vista than a Windows XP.…

The development team behind the Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE) project, an open-source desktop environment that keeps the spirit of the old-shool KDE3.5 desktop alive, have announced the Trinity Desktop Environment R14.0.3 release.

Nearly five years ago, my team at GeorgiaGov Interactive began a journey to migrate our enterprise web platform (hosting over 50 state agency websites at the time) away from a self-hosted model with a proprietary content management system to Drupal 7 and a cloud hosted environment. We were the first state to make such a bold shift, but we weren't the last. read more

Valve pushed version 2.67 of its Debian-based SteamOS Linux operating system for gamers to the Brewmaster Beta channel for early adopters and public beta testers.

In a 2013 survey, 11% of contributors to free and open source software identified as women. But perhaps the future looks brighter? We can answer this question by examining the participation of women in Google Summer of Code, a program that provides a stipend for post-secondary school students to contribute to open source software for a summer.

Venerable net-scan outfit Netcraft has issued what clich? would describe as "a stinging rebuke" to sysadmins the world over, for ignoring HTTP Public Key Pinning (HPKP). Pinning is designed to defend users against impersonation attacks, in which an attacker tricks a certificate authority to issue a fraudulent certificate for a site.

Sergio Schvezov of Canonical announced the release of Snapcraft 2.6 for the upcoming Ubuntu Snappy Core 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) operating system.