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Wine 1.9.7 has been released as the seventh milestone towards the next major version of the open-source project designed for Linux users who want to run Windows apps and games.

Incremental improvements more than big headlines, but Azure stays on track. BUILD 2016 Day two of Microsoft's Build conference was focused on Azure, the company's cloud platform, with new features announced and preview features moving to general availability.

DVR && Nova-Docker Driver (stable/mitaka) tested fine on RDO Mitaka (build 20160329) with no issues described in previous post for RDO Liberty. So, create DVR deployment with Contrpoller/Network + N(*)Compute Nodes.

If you are a package maintainer for Fedora, or if you regularly spin up your own versions of RPMs for install on your Fedora system, you have probably gone through the process of updating a package when a new version.

What do you do when the developers of your operating system make a design choice you hate? If your operating system is a proprietary code base, you have only a few choices, and none of them are very satisfactory.

The man who turned Oracle into a Linux power, Wim Coekaerts, has moved to Microsoft.

The Linux Foundation is offering a free class to help open-source developers stay on the right side of intellectual property law.

Aaeon’s four port “FWS-2251” network appliance runs on Bay Trail Atoms and Celerons, and offers three mini-PCIe slots and a SIM slot for WiFi and 3G/4G. Those of you reading this from an Internet café — otherwise known as “a café” — will likely to see a router hidden away somewhere, typically running Linux. In […]

HAProxy or High Availability Proxy is an open source TCP and HTTP load balancer and proxy server software. In this tutorial, I will guide you trough the HAProxy installation and configuration for 3 servers, one load balancer, and two Nginx web servers. We will install HAProxy on a single server and then install Nginx web server on the other servers. HAProxy acts as a load balancer for the Nginx web servers.

For many it seemed like an April Fools joke that came early, but it's not, even though the very serious matter of intellectual property and patents isn't part of the discussion.

When you are using a proxy, the "proxy exception list" (also known as "ignore-hosts list") is sometimes necessary. The proxy exception list basically tells an application or desktop (which uses a proxy) to not use the proxy for particular destinations or websites. The proxy exceptions are needed when you are trying to access web servers on local LAN or those with private IP addresses which are not reachable from outside.

Aaeon’s rugged “Boxer-6638U” industrial PC runs Linux on a 5th Gen Core i3, and offers four COM ports, 9-24V input, and -20 to 60°C operation. Despite the different branding schemes, the “economical” Boxer-6638U is said to be the follow-on to Aaeon’s similarly stripped down, 4th Generation “Haswell” based AEC-6638 box-PC.

Members of the Red Hat Developer Program can now get a no-cost Red Hat Enterprise Linux license.

We will continue our extensive coverage of SBCs and COMs, but will reduce our coverage of end user products and expand our coverage of OSes beyond Linux. In celebration of LinuxGizmos.com's third birthday, and 16 years after I launched its predecessor, LinuxDevices.com, we have decided to make some exciting changes to the site.

Could it really be? Has somebody really decided to develop a Linux distribution using COBOL?

The Arduino is a truly powerful piece of electronics. Small, low power, flexible, and completely open source. Lots of makers and hackers have already figured out that giving their project an Arduino-brain ensures a simple, yet powerful and reliable core.

Calibre developer Kovid Goyal released a new maintenance version of his widely used ebook library management software for all supported platforms, including GNU/Linux.

The official mascot for upcomming release Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Xenial Xerus has been revealed. it available in scalable vector graphic (svg) and Xcf file format, download it now

The anticipated Hyper Light Drifter role-playing game that was first spotted on Kickstarter two and a half years ago, has been finally released today on Steam.

Google pushed out the latest version of Chrome Thursday afternoon, fixing five issues, four of them critical. The update remedies an out-of-bounds read in Chrome's open source JavaScript engine V8, two use-after-free vulnerabilities - one in Navigation and one in Extensions - and a buffer overflow in the libANGLE library.