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BQ has announced today, March 23, 2016, on their Twitter account that the BQ Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Edition tablet will be available for pre-order next week, March 28.

The first in what will hopefully be many Podcasts from GOL about Linux gaming.

Hedvig's software-defined storage solution is the center of its new CloudScale channel partner program for resellers in the data storage market.

John Donovan, Chief Strategy Officer and Group President, Technology and Operations at AT&T said in his keynote at Open Networking Summit that the company is "all in" in virtualizing its network. In 2015 the company virtualized over 5% of their network, and that was the hardest part as it was laying the foundation for the future. Now they are aiming at 30% in 2016.

In March, the yearly meeting of KDE's Plasma team was held in Geneva, kindly hosted by the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN). In-person meetings provide unique opportunities to work together face-to-face, at high bandwidth to tackle problems together and plan for the future.

Aaeon’s rugged “Boxer-6638U” industrial PC runs Linux on a 5th Gen Core i3, and offers four COM ports, 9-24V input, and -20 to 60°C operation. Despite the different branding schemes, the “economical” Boxer-6638U is said to be the follow-on to Aaeon’s similarly stripped down, 4th Generation “Haswell” based AEC-6638 box-PC.

After yet another six months of hard works, the highly anticipated GNOME 3.20 desktop environment for GNU/Linux operating systems has been officially released today, March 23, 2016.

This is a fairly eclectic selection of interesting books about free and/or open source software. It does not seek to identify the finest books in each area explored. Instead it is a personal roundup of books that piqued my interest this month. They each provide very useful or interesting information.

Excellent news today folks, Feral Interactive have now officially confirmed that Tomb Raider will be coming to Linux "This Spring".

We are excited to announce the release of GNOME 3.20. This latest version of GNOME 3 is the result of six months of development and includes 28,933 changes, made by approximately 870 contributors.

IRC has long been Penn Manor School District's high school sweetheart. read more

UbuntuBSD is a new open source operating system that combines Canonical's Ubuntu Linux with the FreeBSD kernel and the Xfce interface.

This tutorial shows how to set up a high-availability storage with two storage servers (Debian Jessie) that uses GlusterFS. Each storage server will be a mirror of the other storage server, and files will be replicated automatically across both storage nodes. The client system (Debian 8 as well) will be able to access the storage as if it was a local filesystem.

Red Hat announced its fourth quarter and full year fiscal 2016 financial results on March 22, becoming the first pure-play open-source vendor to generate over $2 billion in annual revenue. The move to cross the $2 billion threshold comes just four years after Red Hat recorded its first $1billion year back in 2012.

Also in today's open source roundup: Google will kill its Chrome app launcher for Windows, OS X, and Linux. And Android gets a patch for a critical Linux kernel bug.

Microsoft is pulling off a chameleon’s strategy by pretending that its proprietary software stacks are “open” and therefore eligible for integration in public services

We recently interviewed Giannis Konstantinidis on how he uses Fedora. This is part of a series on the Fedora Magazine where we profile Fedora users and how they use Fedora to get things done. If you are interested in being... Continue Reading →

We presented each tester a set of sample tasks, one task at a time. Throughout the test, we watched each volunteer as they completed the sample tasks, and noted any problems they had with the software. We asked the testers to speak aloud during the usability test, to describe what they were looking for; if they were looking for the “Print” button, they should say, “I’m looking for the ‘Print’ button.” After each set of tasks, we took a “comment break” so participants could share their thoughts about the software and the problems they encountered.

OpenWrt Linux kernel-based operating system for routers and embedded devices, has been updated today to version 15.05.1, the first point release in the "Chaos Calmer" series.

Manjaro Linux has to be one of the best Linux distributions that I have tried in quite some time. It actually makes me happy to use KDE. Also for the first time in ages I have tried a distribution that doesn't really have any real nasty quirks that need resolving before I can use it.