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The Linux Mint project is alive and kicking, and team leader Clement Lefebvre talks today about the upcoming features in Linux Mint 18.

Cloud milestones—Amazon announcing AWS hitting a $10B annual run rate and OpenStack's 13th release—lead some to wonder who is winning. Both are.

Punters punt pricey Priv so BlackBerry heads for the ~$400 price point BlackBerry's CEO has used an interview with United Arab Emirates outlet The National to announce plans to move the troubled mobe-maker's Android efforts downscale.…

We introduce 'Bourbon' start menu, the brand new default start menu in Q4OS. The two panel 'Bourbon' menu is highly efficient and customizable and features a search line, favorites, history and more options. Q4OS 1.4.9 'Orion' is based on the most recent Debian 8.4 'Jessie' stable version released a few days ago. System packages have been updated and important security patches have been applied. A significant update for the native Q4OS uninstaller fixes the unintentional removal of the 'locales' package. Numerous under the hood improvements is provided as usual.

Software patent abuse would seem to be on the decline if the amount of ink being given to the subject in the open source press is used as a metric. But as the old TV commercial used to ask: Is it live, or is it Memorex?

KDE announced the release and immediate availability of this month's KDE Frameworks 5 maintenance release, version 5.21.0, for the latest KDE Plasma 5 desktop and KDE Applications.

The Manjaro community announced the release of the Manjaro Linux Enlightenment 16.04 Community Edition operating system.

Aaeon announced the NanoCOM-SKU, a Linux-ready, 84 x 55mm COM Express Type 10 Mini module with 6th Gen Intel Core CPUs and three PCIe interfaces. According to Aaeon, the NanoCOM-SKU is the industry’s first COM Express Type 10 Mini computer-on-module equipped with 6th Gen Intel Core “Skylake” processors. This certainly appears to be true, although […]

"I would obviously love for Linux to take over that world too, but it turns out it's a really hard area to enter. I'm still working on it. It's been 25 years. I can do this for another 25. I'll wear them down."

"There will never be another Red Hat" has become a common refrain—one that I've personally raised. In an era when consumers prefer to pay for services instead of software, Red Hat is an anachronism.

We previously published an article on the best open source editors in 2008. Given the length of time that has elapsed, and the new projects that have come forward, it's prudent to update the article. Here's our updated list of the finest open source editors available for Linux. Naturally, it's largely a matter of preference, but it's extremely likely you'll find your ideal editor below.

ubuntuBSD developer Jon Boden is now looking for a way for his operating system to contribute to the Ubuntu community and, eventually, to become an official Ubuntu flavor.

EasyApache is very useful software provided by WHM that can be used to install, modify, update, and validate the Apache web server, PHP, Tomcat, and other components of the web server installed and running on your Linux VPS with WHM/cPanel. In this tutorial we will show you how to to use EasyApache 3 to change the Apache web server or PHP version and install PHP and Apache modules.

Hello, open gamers! In this week's edition, we take a look at Intel's Vulkan Driver progress, the announcement of Hand of Fate 2 for Linux, and Parkitect heading to Steam Early Access. Open gaming roundup for the week of April 3 - 5, 2016 read more

The developer behind Banished, a city builder/survival game coming to Linux has written up their thoughts on Linux. It does make for an interesting read.

A report last year by the GAO found that most consumers have no real idea what kind of a broadband connection they're buying. The report argued that caps, interconnection squabbles, throttling, and other line limitations make it virtually impossible for many consumers (especially the more Luddite-inclined among us) to understand what they're buying, or compare it with competing services. As a result, the FCC this week proposed a new "nutrition label" for broadband that would include not only connection speed -- but any network management, latency, usage caps, overage fees, or other conditions impacting the line.

Last week we told you everything there was to know about the major Calamares 2.2 release, and today it looks like Calamares 2.2 sees its first point release, version 2.2.1.

When you need to demonstrate your desktop activities to someone else, using a screencast (i.e., recording of desktop screen) is far more effective than a textual tutorial or a bunch of static images. For a video tutorial, sometimes you may want to record a particular area of the desktop (e.g., one GUI window), instead of the entire desktop screen. One way to create a screencast of a particular area of the desktop is by using recordMyDesktop.

In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at the new Civil Infrastructure Platform from the Linux Foundation, the White House to mandate open source, solving Asia's traffic problems, and more. Open source news roundup for April 2 - 8, 2016 read more

Now that Canonical is seeding the Ubuntu Touch OTA-10 update to all supported Ubuntu Phone devices, it looks like some issues started appearing.