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The upcoming release of OpenBSD's latest and greatest comes with plenty of upgrades and improvements -- plus the sound of music….

I had the pleasure of speaking with another developer today about their Linux sales, and this time it was Lurler from AtomicTorch Studio.

Google has joined Facebook's Open Compute Project and proposed a new design for server racks that could help cloud data centers cut their energy bills.

RaspEX developer Arne Exton announced a new, special build of the RaspEX Live CD distribution optimized for the new Raspberry Pi 3 single-board computer.

Microsoft loves Linux enough to strangle it to death with patents while the media isn’t paying attention and instead telling us that Microsoft is now a buddy or “pal” of GNU/Linux

Last month, D Ruth Bavousett wrote about creating sheet music with the Lilypond "music engraving program," and it got me thinking about MuseScore—which she also mentioned in the article, but in passing—and what a powerful tool it is for musical notation. Therefore, in an a continuation of an unofficial musical notation series, I present to you MuseScore, the open source WYSIWYG sheet music creation suite. read more

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This is our 6th post on understanding first level directories in /. Knowing these folders in detail or at least what each is meant for will help you understand Linux/Unix in whole...

If there is one area in which open source has never suffered it is a lack of events. From your big professional conferences right down to your friendly, local meetups, there is just something so delightfully fun about getting together in person to share ideas, learn from each other, and have fun. One of the most popular types of event are unconferences, and there are more and more of them cropping up all over the world. read more

No bling, just minimal surfaces. Apps, though... Review The Linux world is full of spin-offs, clones and branded distros. The most famous lineage is Mint, based on Ubuntu, which is in turn based on Debian. What's less common is entirely new distros, starting from zero and building their own stack.…

Microsoft's use of open source continues to be a one-way street to drive business Redmond's way.

After over a decade of ownership of the product, Google announced just a few weeks ago that they will be closing the shutters for good on Picasa, a cross-platform photo viewer and organizer with basic editing capabilities. In the official announcement, Google has set March 15 as the end of support for the desktop client, with changes to the accompanying web album hosting service set to roll out later in the spring. read more

Free/Open-source software means that Bangladeshi companies don’t have to be dependent on expensive, foreign technology vendors

Microsoft SQL Server 2016 will support Linux-based operating systems, another open source-friendly move by the company.

Google released a preview of the upcoming Android N release, featuring multi-window support, improved notifications, and better Doze power saving. Alphabet-owned Google released the first of five planned developer previews for the upcoming Android N, available as an over-the-air (OTA) download for Nexus devices leading up to a third quarter release. Hiroshi Lockheimer’s announcement of […]

Four years ago (last leap day to be specific), the first Raspberry Pi was released. And on February 29, 2016, the third version made its debut.

GNOME developer Debarshi Ray shares some very exciting details about some of the major features that are coming to his GNOME Photos 3.20 application this Spring as part of the GNOME 3.20 release.

Virtualization plays a key role in cloud computing. IBM Power Virtualization Center (PowerVC) is a new virtualization management tool that's built on OpenStack and designed to simplify the management of virtual resources in Power Systems environments, and thus improve administrator productivity.

The $89 uCRobotics “Bubblegum-96” SBC has a 1.8GHz quad-core Cortex-A53 Actions S900 SoC, 2GB RAM, 8GB eMMC, onboard wireless, and 96Boards compatibility.

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