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Famous fail0verflow hacking group has announced the release of the missing piece that would allow PS4 owners to boot a Linux kernel-based operating system on their gaming console.

Kdump is a kernel feature which is used to capture crash dumps when the system or kernel crash.

Ubuntu Community Manager Alan Pope teased users on Twitter with a photo of Canonical's Ubuntu Touch mobile operating system running on a Sony Xperia T2 Ultra smartphone.

Mozilla, the open source organization behind Linux-based Firefox OS, has announced new plans for IoT device and software development.

The next version of ownCloud, the personal cloud server, adds enterprise-level scalability and collaboration improvements.

After unveiling last month that its Microsoft Azure cloud hosting service now offers support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Microsoft today announces plans to bring SQL Server to Linux.

You'd be hard pressed to find someone who wouldn't agree that design for open source projects in a broad sense (websites, materials, logos, and so on) couldn't use a bit of... finesse. Or perhaps, just a touch more forethought and a good designer on hand. Bermon Painter and his collegues in the field of design and user experience know this all too well and are trying to change the way designers contribute to and participate in open source projects.

We are proud to announce the release of Solus 1.1, the first point release in the 'Shannon' series of releases. Solus 1.1 builds upon the groundwork of 1.0 with subtle refinements and improvements to Budgie, large core and graphics stack improvements, and furthers us on our journey to create something that you can just use, something that just works. Budgie is our flagship desktop environment, developed and designed for the desktop, with every inch of it catering to a desktop workflow.

Linaro released Android Open Source Project code for the octacore HiKey SBC. This is Linaro’s first AOSP build that will be maintained within the AOSP common tree. ARM-backed Linaro, a collaborative engineering organization for developing open source ARM software, announced the new AOSP (Android Open Source Project) release for the 96Boards-compatible HiKey SBC at Linaro […]

Another game I have really wanted to play, but didn't think it would come to Linux. Life Is Strange is a well reviewed story game based on based choice and consequence.

Manjaro leader Philip Müller informed the media about the release of Manjaro Linux 16.06 Pre1.

All interested students are encouraged to begin working with the KDE community. The KDE GSOC guide is a good place for students to start before beginning to create their proposals. The KDE community creates software in teams; students should find a team working on software they want to help with, get to know team members, familiarize themselves with the code-base, and start fixing bugs.

Amazon will restore disk encryption features to Fire OS, its Android-based operating system for tablets, improving data security and privacy.

GREP is a command line search utility or tool to filter the input given to it. Grep got its name from ed editor as g/re/p (global / regular expression / print).

uTox is a lightweight client for the Tox software which connects users with friends and family over an insecure network. It supports Windows, Linux, Mac OS and Android platforms. This tutorials shows the installation and setup of uTox on Ubuntu and Fedora.

Also in today's open source roundup: Steam gaming by Linux users continues to fall, and Android devices are at risk for clickjacking malware.

Immediately after announcing the release of Linux kernel 3.14.63 LTS, kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman published details about the ninety-ninth maintenance build of the long-term supported Linux 3.10 kernel series.

I've somewhat followed the RPG Maker program over the years to see it evolve into a tool some decent games have been made from, and now it looks like RPG Maker MV will come to Linux.

T-Platforms unveiled a “SF-BT1” module and “Tavolga Terminal” all-in-one PC based on it, which run Linux on a dual-core, MIPS P5600-based Baikal-T1 SoC. Imagination Technologies announced the Debian Linux ready, 21.5-inch Tavolga Terminal TB-T22BT all-in-one, as well as a SMARC-based “SF-BT1” COM that powers it.

Sometimes it's necessary to change function semantics inside the kernel, and then find and update all users of that function to match the new semantics. Such changes can result in huge patches going into the source tree, affecting hundreds of files.