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One would think that with the popularity and success of free and open source software (FOSS) in recent years, there would also be an emerging model for contributor engagement and retention. One might even imagine a participation standard exists—improved through an ongoing collaboration of projects invested in sharing best practices over years. Yeah no. read more

Over the years, I've heard some people claim that Linux is finally ready for the masses. I would suggest that outside of a completely locked down OS such as ChromeOS (which is Linux powered), no OS is genuinely ready for the masses. Instead, it has been my experience that the masses should stick to tablets and Chromebooks.

Although some companies have embraced the world of free software with open arms, there are many who haven't. NVIDIA is one name that comes to mind. Its reputation in the Linux world is far from stellar, but maybe its recent actions will help mend some bridges.

Variscite unveiled a 43 x 23mm “DART-SD410” COM that runs Linux or Android on a 64-bit Snapdragon 410 with 2GB RAM, 16GB eMMC, and -25 to 85°C support. Like Qualcomm’s earlier Snapdragon 600, the quad-core 1.2GHz Cortex-A53 Snapdragon 410 has drawn considerable interest from embedded board vendors. Now Variscite has come along with a bite-size […]

The Mobile World Congress 2016 in Barcelona is not only about IoT, Ubuntu Touch or the cloud for Canonical. It's also about a small little robot powered by Snappy Ubuntu Core that seems to be gathering a lot of attention.

Linux Mint is one of the best and popular Linux distros available today, but if you have downloaded and installed the operating system recently you might have done so using a malicious ISO image. Here's why: Last night, Some unknown hacker or group of hackers had managed to hack into the Linux Mint website and replaced the download links on the site that pointed to one of their servers offering a malicious ISO images for the Linux Mint 17.3 Cinnamon Edition.

In Linux every activity is monitored and logged in to their respective logs in /var/log folder. The depth of log information is dependent on the log configuration we did it in /etc/logrotate.d and we have to rotate them all the time to control how much space they use.

Cyanogen Inc. has announced a new feature for the upcoming Marshmallow version of its commercial Android skin, Cyanogen OS. The company is launching the "Mods" platform, a way to build apps "directly into the OS." The platform's biggest participant is none other than Microsoft, which has built Skype, Cortana, OneNote, and Hyperlapse apps for Cyanogen's platform.

The latest edition of Antergos features support for the ZFS file system during installation, which makes it the first (desktop) Linux distribution that I am aware of with ZFS as a file system option during installation.

After the Linux Mint issues that have occurred in recent days in brings to light the importance of checking the ISO image against the checksums provided on the distribution's website. This guide shows you how.

In some situations when executing a command or a Linux shell script we may require some manual intervention. The yes command is simple built-in command which will help you remove this manual intervention stuff in your scripts. The yes command is a cousin of echo command both print what we given. Only difference is echo will print only once, but yes will print until we intervene. Below are some examples which will come handy when simulating yes/no in scripts/commands

Here's how to be sure you're OK and what to do if you have been burnt.

Suppose you have a list of files on a remote host, some of which already exist locally. What you want is to transfer only those files that are not found locally. If you blindly run scp with wildcard, it would fetch all remote files (existing as well as non-existing files), and overwrite existing local files. You want to avoid this.

Have you been looking for Fedora stickers? We have good news for you. Fedora stickers now available Fedora has partnered with UnixStickers to bring you high-quality stickers that show your love for Fedora.

This is our second post on compression and archiving series. Today we will see how to use gzip and gunzip commands with examples. Gzip(GNU zip) is a compress tool which is available in most of the Linux/Unix based operating systems.

The leader of the Android-x86 project has just announced that he has entered a partnership with Jide Technology, the creators of the already famous Remix OS.

A lone hacker who duped hundreds of users into downloading a version of Linux with a backdoor installed has revealed how it was done.

The Linux world is extremely dynamic; a lot can happen within a year so it’s interesting to see where these desktop environments stand today and where they'll be by year's end.

OpenStack vendor Mirantis today is announcing a new deal that will bring OpenStack Public cloud technology to the Middle East and Africa (MEA). Mirantis is partnering with the Saudi Telecom Company (STC), which is the largest telecom provider in MEA, providing services to over 100 million customers across nine countries.

Internet connection speed is something that we always check at our homes and offices. The most common method that we use is by visiting a speed test website like speedtest.net. The problem using these web based speed tests is that it does not allow you to schedule the speed test at regular intervals, e.g. as a cronjob and you can't use them on headless servers. One application that can solve this problem is “speedtest-cli”. This application allows you to check your internet speed using the command line.