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Amongst all the jargon, forks must thrive. The EU's competition authority thinks it has a smoking gun against Google. Consumers suffered because Google’s contracts with phone OEMs prevented the market from creating a better Android, the EU Commission alleged today.

I love RTS games and 8-Bit Armies looks really awesome, the developers have talked about a Linux version, but there's so solid answer. It's time to show how many people want it.

Reputation versus the Amazonian hordes. Cloud killing on-premises kit for enterprise IT providers? Yes if you’re IBM, no if your name’s Red Hat. At least, according to Red Hat.

KDE has had the great pleasure of announcing the release of the final KDE Applications 16.04 software collection for the KDE Plasma 5 desktop environment.

The new cloud platform update integrates management capabilities and benefits from partner offerings including one from Dell.

Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the general availability of Red Hat Cloud Suite and Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8, helping to bridge the gap between development and operations teams at the scale of cloud computing.

It's fair to say that the interests of governments and the FOSS community are not always aligned.

Also in today's open source roundup: Will Microsoft drop Windows Phone for Android? And a gif guide to Android N.

The latest version of the popular OpenStack infrastructure-as-a-service cloud is here and ready to get you up and running.

Only 71 per cent of devices run security-supported versions of Alphabet's OS There's still too many unpatched Android devices, Google reckons: to wit, 29 per cent of mobes and tablets running The Chocolate Factory's operating system are running out-of-date code.…

The Inverse team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of PacketFence 6.0 - a completely Free and Open Source NAC solution for GNU/Linux. This is a major release bringing many new features, enhancements and bug fixes. This release is considered ready for production use.

There are more than a few things that are unusual about Escuelas Linux. For one, although ultimately derived from Ubuntu, it’s not a first generation descendant on the Ubuntu tree, but traces it’s *buntu roots by way of Bodhi Linux. The distro also uses the Moksha desktop, which Bodhi developed after becoming unhappy with the direction that Enlightenment was taking.

Lighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed for speed-critical environments. This tutorial shows how you can install Lighttpd on a Centos 7 server with PHP support (through PHP-FPM) and MySQL support. PHP-FPM (FastCGI Process Manager) is an alternative PHP FastCGI implementation with some additional features useful for sites of any size, especially busier sites. I use PHP-FPM in this tutorial instead of Lighttpd's spawn-fcgi.

SODAQ’s “LoRaONE” is a tiny Arduino-compatible SBC based on an Atmel SAM21 MCU, plus a LoRa radio and a GPS, sensors, micro-USB, and optional Grove add-on. Dutch embedded firm SODAQ (SOlar powered Data AcQuisition) has almost doubled its $22,740 Kickstarter funding goal for its Arduino compatible LoRaONE SBC, aimed at low-power LoRa wireless applications. The […]

If you're looking to teach, tutor, or mentor beginning programmers, you've got your work cut out for you. Different learning styles, varying levels of knowledge, and a subject area that's a moving target all conspire to see you run ragged as an instructor. Luckily, there is help available—lots of help. It comes in the form of open source textbooks, tools, and even games—all created to make being a teacher (and a learner) easier than ever before. read more

Even today, there are still folks who believe there aren't any decent applications for backing up an Ubuntu installation. To remedy this issue, I've put together my personal recommendations for the best Ubuntu backup applications.

I've written about containers before, and I've waxed lyrical about the multitude of benefits they bring to DevOps and cloud computing.

If you're new to server administration and command-line, perhaps you haven't heard of terminal multiplexers or what they do. You want to learn how to be a good Linux sysadmin and how to use the tools of the trade. Or perhaps you're a seasoned administrator already and administer quite a few machines, and want to make your life a little easier. Or maybe you're somewhere in between.

Linux 4.5 seems to have got Intel's Skylake platform (ie, 6th-generation Core CPUs) to the point where graphics work pretty reliably, which is great progress (4.4 tended to lose all my windows every so often, especially over suspend/resume). I'm even running Wayland happily. Unfortunately one of the reasons I have a laptop is that I want to be able to do things like use it on battery, and power consumption's an important part of that.

While the open-source OpenStack cloud platform is software, like all software at the bottom layer it requires hardware to run on. OpenStack vendor Mirantis first announced its Unlocked Appliances initiative in July 2015 as an effort working with hardware vendors to build OpenStack cloud appliances and has been growing the program ever since.