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Many of us are familiar with the package managers in our desktops, such as dnf, apt, yum, and many others. An important part of these package managers is that they are able to find dependencies of software you are trying... Continue Reading →

Adlink has launched a “AmITX-SL-G” Mini-ITX SBC based on 6th Gen Intel CPUs, with multiple SATA, GbE, and video ports, plus PCIe and Mini-PCIe expansion. Adlink is one of the last of the major embedded firms to announce an embedded Mini-ITX board based on the Intel’s 14nm fabricated 6th Generation Core (Skylake) processors, following Congatec’s […]

It's still early for Mitaka though the next month will be a very busy one as the release hardens. The final OpenStack Mitaka release is currently set for the week of April 4.

Allows devs to claw back a few bucks for donating code A New York state senator says open-source programmers should be able to claim back part of their costs for writing free software.…

In the largest developer survey to date, Stack Overflow's programmer community reveal what tools and platforms they use in their daily work.

On March 7, the FCC slapped a $1.35 million fine on Verizon in a privacy case, a move that’s being hailed as a victory by some privacy advocates. If so, it would seem to me to be a hollow victory. For starters, the fine is too low to be much of a deterrent against a company which last year had income of over $63 billion. But there is much more wrong with the agreement the carrier reached with the FCC than merely the price tag.

Two long and low quality videos from GDC are now up with Vulkan as the subject, all very interesting with Oxide Games (Ashes of the Singularity) and Valve speaking. I've done some highlights for you.

Q. How can I check if my server is running on a 64 bit processor and running 64 bit OS or 32 bit operating system?

In a world of PCs dominated by Windows and Macs, Dell's line of "Project Sputnik" laptops with Ubuntu Linux have secured a cult following.

From the Slackware changelog:

Thu Mar 17 22:09:16 UTC 2016 Good hello, let's call this Slackware 14.2 release candidate 1.

Need to learn about the basics of cloud computing? The Linux Foundation and edX have a class just for you.

Marius Gripsgård from the UBports team teased the Ubuntu community today on his Google+ page with a photo of the OnePlus X Android smartphone running the Ubuntu mobile OS.

In this week's Top 5, we highlight... well, a lot of Raspberry Pi! Pi Day was on Monday this week, and we made it a week-long series, publishing a new Raspberry Pi project everyday. We also have an honorable mention this week because Jason van Gumster's list of favorite FOSS-related podcasts also hit it big with readers during our Pi Week.

You thought Tim Cook was stubborn? Try his coders Apple's refusal to build a crippled iOS that will help the FBI unlock a killer's iPhone goes far beyond the executive suite. Some of Cupertino's own engineers are refusing to work on the operating system in case they are forced to aid the US government.…

For this article, I'm returning to portable science software on Android. In a previous article, I looked at a program called xcas/giac. This program is an open-source engine that is used to handle symbolic manipulation of mathematical equations. Because it is open source, it has been ported to several different platforms.

Want to be certain that your containers' software is safe and stable? Then CoreOS's Container Image Analyzer 1.0 is for you.

The latest Project Sputnik laptop is the XPS 13 Developer Edition, which shipped last week. With its sleek design, the XPS 13 brings a new, sexy look to otherwise dull Linux laptop designs.

Science fiction ranges from complete fabrications to some surprisingly accurate visions for the future. What tool, device, object, or other item from your science fiction library do you hope, or even expect, to one day find an open source version of? We posed this question to our staff and team of community moderators here at Opensource.com and got back some really creative and interesting responses. Here are some of our favorites: read more

[Update: 12:30PM] — E-con Systems has launched a 70 x 55mm, Tegra K1 based “eSOMTK1” COM with up to 4GB RAM, up to 64GB eMMC, WiFi/BT, and an open-spec “Propus” baseboard. Nvidia’s Tegra K1 has seen considerable adoption in Linux-ready computer-on-modules, including Calao’s 82 x 50mm SMC-NTKE1 SMARC COM, Toradex’s SODIMM-style, 82 x 45mm Apalis […]

Email is arguably one of the most popular and useful functions of a Linux system. Fortunately, there is a wide selection of free email software available on the Linux platform which is stable, feature laden, and ideal for personal and business environments. Send and receive emails, run a mail server, filter spam, administer a mailing list are just some of the options explored in this article.