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The world of electronic music has traditionally been a fairly expensive venture, whether you're paying for expensive hardware or software. Luckily, there are plenty of free apps and open source software to enable people to get creative on the devices that they mostly have anyway. But I wanted to see how far the famously inexpensive Raspberry Pi could be pushed as a music-making machine. Turns out, it can be quite an amazing little sequencer, as long as you know what tools to use and aren't afraid to learn a little something new. read more

With the release of Fedora 24 Alpha just around the corner, it will be the first time for many to get a good look of how the final wallpaper for Fedora 24 will look on their desktop. Masha Leonova from... Continue Reading →

The page load time gets more and more important for websites to provide a better user experience and it is important for the search engine ranking as well. Google has developed the apache module "mod_pagespeed" to optimize and streamline the content delivery of the apache web server which reduces the load times of pages, especially when they use many assets like CSS files, javascript includes and images.

For many years, the open source software community has made the distinction between "free as in freedom" (the software can be used or modified as the user sees fit) and "free as in beer" (the software is available at no cost). Some have added a third type of free: "free as in puppy". Like a puppy, adopting open source software has ongoing cost. read more

We reported last year that ownCloud was in talks with WD (Western Digital) Labs to help them develop a community project that would bring a self-hosted cloud storage device in users' homes.

In the face of widespread Internet surveillance, we need a secure and practical means of talking to each other from our phones and computers. Many companies offer “secure messaging” products—but are these systems actually secure? We decided to find out, in the first phase of a new EFF Campaign for Secure & Usable Crypto.

Patents generate a lot of revenue for Microsoft and no matter how much they champion open source, that isn't going to change.

Korora is Linux distribution that aims to make it easier to install and use for new Linux users, while still providing power-users with the tools and openness that they want. Originally, Korora was built on Gentoo, but in 2010, the team redid the whole thing as a Fedora Remix, with the goal of making the system "just work," from first boot. read more

Gordon Lyon from the Nmap project today announced the release of Nmap 7.10.

The US government has made numerous attempts to obtain source code from tech companies in an effort to find security flaws that could be used for surveillance or investigations.

Millions of Android devices are at risk yet again after researchers found a new way to exploit an older vulnerability that was previously patched by Google.

In an exclusive interview with TIME, Cook discusses your privacy, America’s security, and what’s at stake in the battle over encryption

Manjaro LXQt 16.03 has been released and announced by the developers of the Manjaro community. this release shipped with the latest build of the next-generation LXQt desktop environment (LXQt 0.10) and powered by the long-term supported Linux kernel 4.4.x.

Named after the really fast bullet train. Geddit? Google will open-source its super-duper load balancing Maglev tool to developers – a move that will also bolster its own infrastructure developments.…

UNIGINE Corp. announced the release and general availability of version 2.2 of its beautiful 3D game engine UNIGINE for all supported platforms, including Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.

Portwell’s “NANO-6050” Nano-ITX SBC offers a 5th Gen Core CPU, plus SATA, mSATA, mini-PCIe, and dual GbE, and is available in the form of an industrial PC. Portwell’s NANO-6050 is very similar to its Atom E3800-based NANO-6060 SBC, but instead offers a choice of dual-core, 5th Gen Intel Core U-series i5 and i3 processors. Both […]

ClearOS 7.2.0 Final for all editions has arrived! ClearOS 7 is available in three editions: Community, Home, and Business. All editions can be installed from the same ISO, but each edition provides access to different repos with a mix of apps, support, and services to meet different environment needs. This release is the second in the ClearOS 7 series and provides primarily maintenance and bug fixes.

Evince, the open-source document viewer used by default in a GNOME desktop installation for viewing all sorts of documents, including PDF, has just been updated today to version 3.19.92.

The Linux Foundation and edX are offering free training for open source cloud and container technology, such as OpenStack, Docker and Kubernetes.

Sometimes you have to quit cleaning your code long enough to clean your room. The people at the FreeBSD Foundation have already been doing some spring cleaning. They've even called the decorator.