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Telecommunications provider Tele2 will use Canonical's Ubuntu-based open source OpenStack platform, BootStack, for telecom services.

For the past four days, including during the hour that this post was being prepared on Thursday morning, a major security certification organization has been spreading TeslaCrypt malware—despite repeated warnings from outside researchers.

Swift 2.2 includes support for Swift on Ubuntu Linux 14.04 and 15.10.

The Cub Linux (previously Chromixium OS) developers have just announced that the RC build of the upcoming 1.0 version of the operating system is available for download.

FriendlyARM’s “NanoPi M1” SBC runs Linux on a quad-core, Cortex-A7 Allwinner H3, and offers HDMI, four USB ports, a microSD slot, and 40-pin Pi expansion. Guangzhou, China based FriendlyARM has further accelerated the race to the bottom in the low-cost, open-spec hacker board market, delivering a NanoPi M1 SBC that costs a mere $11.

The new kid-friendly mBot from Makeblock is marketed as a Science, Technology and Mathematics (STEM) educational learning tool.

Earlier this month, the White House released a draft of an open source code policy for public review which would require agencies to share code with each other and with the public, but some experts are concerned about possible security implications.

The BBC has begun shipping its open source “Micro:bit” — a microcontroller based IoT hacker board for UK schoolkids running ARM Mbed. The BBC announced its open source, Internet of Things-focused Micro:bit hacker board for British schoolchildren a year ago, and revealed full specs in June. After some considerable delays pushing past the scheduled October […]

File transfer between Linux systems (and perhaps all POSIX systems in general) is in some ways a neglected subject. The arcane protocols in common use are far from secure, and the SSH replacements offer too much power and complexity.

Red Hat reported $2.05B in annual revenue for fiscal year 2016, a new mile stone for an open source company, which reflects open source hybrid cloud growth.

The GStreamer 1.8 open-source multimedia framework has been released today after several months of hard work, and it appears to be a major release with dozens of new features.

MySQL Cluster is designed to provide a MySQL compatible database with high availability and low latency. The MySQL Cluster technology is implemented through the NDB (Network DataBase) and NDBCLUSTER storage engines and provides shared-nothing clustering and auto-sharding for MySQL database systems. In the shared-nothing architecture, each of nodes has its own memory and disk, the use of shared storage such as NFS, SANs is not recommended and supported.

While the entire BSD world has been buzzing over Ubuntu's BSD release, the FreeNAS project has been busy releasing version 9.10 as a major precursor to version 10.

Python code posted down-here utilizes NeutronClient V2 API. It creates neutron router for particular tenant, interface to private sub-net and gateway to external flat network. As usual posting was inspired by question been posted at ask.openstack.org. Code is intentionally simplified to become understandable by people without strong python development background.

Looking for an open source alternative to Dreamweaver or another proprietary HTML/CSS editor? Let's round up some of your options. Not all that many years ago, pretty much every webpage on the Internet was, at some level, designed painstakingly by hand. It was tough, and before CSS really took hold and became well supported across most common browsers, it often involved hacking a layout together by using HTML tables in a way that they were never really envisioned to support. read more

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The maintainer of the LXDE and LXQt community editions of the Arch Linux-based Manjaro has proudly announced the release of Manjaro Linux LXDE 16.03.

A new flaw in Samba and Windows Server Message Block protocol gets predisclosure bug branding, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.

Swift has landed on Linux. Repeat: Swift has landed on Linux The latest iteration of Apple's open-source programming language Swift has taken its first major step towards Linux support.…

Starting with an upcoming 14nm “Kaby Lake” CPU, Intel will shift to three Core generations per fab process step, instead of two. The “tick-tock” strategy Intel has been using for the last decade with its Core microprocessors has come to an end. Typically, Intel increases the fabrication density in a “tick” generation, such as 5th […]