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While Linaro slings data center ARM chips into new developer cloud Qualcomm and Red Hat are busy porting the latter's enterprise-friendly flavor of Linux to Qualy's upcoming 64-bit ARM server processors, we learned today.…

Eclipse Che, the newest open source IDE from the Eclipse Foundation, combines Docker containers and the cloud to support programming in any language.

Have you ever wondered how to access the internet anonymously or protecting your privacy against internet surveillance! without the effort of setting up a VPN and relay connections. Tails Linux distribution is a quite good choice for you.

The developer preview edition of the next Android, which features a native side-by-side app mode, will be out later today.

Openshot is one of the most important and widely-used open source video editing software tools out there. Being very simple to use, powerful enough, and free of charge, this video editor has managed to build a large community of enthusiastic users around it who waited for the release of the second major version of their favorite software with anticipation for years. Now that the release was made available.

I saw Moriel Schottlender give a talk about this topic at linux.conf.au 2016 in Geelong last month and asked her to submit an article about it. When you watch her talk video and read her article, you'll see why I couldn't take proper notes to write about the talk, so I'm glad she contributed her story directly to us instead. —Rikki Endsley   read more

Mozilla provides 21 security advisories for its Firefox 45 browser. New features in the browser include improvements to the Firefox Hello communication tool.

Bridge the gap between books and videogames by creating an interactive novel or choose-your-own-adventure with Python and pygame

Over the past several weeks, Mozilla has been running an educational campaign about encryption. We believe it’s essential for everyday Internet users to better understand the technology that helps keep the Web a more secure platform. So far, we’ve explored encryption’s … Continue reading

Also in today's open source roundup: Why is Microsoft releasing SQL Server for Linux? And what do Linux users think about SQL Server coming to their favorite operating system?

It's an open-source switch OS for clouds OCP Summit Put down your coffee gently. Microsoft will today release a homegrown open-source operating system, based on none other than Debian GNU/Linux, for network switches.…

Collaborating on scholarly research projects can sometimes become complicated and disorganized. For example, using Flickr for sharing and commenting on images while communicating via email and editing documents together in Google Docs works, but it places information about the research in way too many places. read more

The most popular integrated development environments, Eclipse and Visual Studio, are coming together.

Congatec’s “Conga-IC170” is a Linux-ready thin Mini-ITX board with 6th Gen dual-core Intel Core CPUs, up to 32GB DDR4-2133, and a wide-range power supply. Congatec, which was early to announce COM Express modules based on Intel’s 14nm, 6th Generation Core (“Skylake”) processors, has now rolled out a thin Mini-ITX Skylake board. The 170 x 170 […]

The dd command stands for “data duplicator” and used for copying and converting data. It is very powerful low level utility of Linux which can do much more like ...

security researchers say there are other options, like “de-capping” the phone’s memory chip to access it outside the phone (which Snowden has also mentioned), or resetting the phone’s internal counter so that you can guess the passwords as many times as you want. Those techniques are hard and expensive and could destroy the phone, experts say — but have worked in the past.

For years, the benefits of open source code development have been self-evident to the software development community: Transparency leads to collaboration, and collaboration leads to better and more secure code. The scientific community is just starting to understand these benefits. read more

We believe that by now many of our readers are aware of the fact that last month the Linux Mint project was the unfortunate victim of a hack.

Digital-first businesses are turning to open source technologies as a source of innovation.

Warns Java may not see 30th birthday if 'corporate drones' prevail Java evangelist Reza Rahman has left Oracle, to help save Java.…