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Two big open source conferences are coming up next week, while this week an automaker said it doesn't have to pay attention to the GPL and the man credited with inventing email passed.

In this part, we will start using Docker images and create containers in a practical way. In other words, we will create a web-based, advanced personal notepad that runs on top of DokuWiki or WordPress. You can choose whichever you are comfortable with.

Opera introducing a new feature to its desktop web browser will improve the web browsing experience for many users. A new native Ad-blocking integration comes with the development release of Opera desktop web browser.

The popular Calibre eBook reader and converter software sees yet another maintenance release, version 2.53, which brings in a bunch of new features and several other improvements.

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are more frequent, bigger and more damaging than ever before a new report by internet security firm Verisign has warned.

We are happy to announce our twelfth update of Manjaro 15.12 (Capella)! This update includes an important OpenSSL update (including many packages which depend on it), kernels updated, GTK2, cryptsetup as well as the latest version of Mozilla Firefox, Chromium and Wine.

In this week's Top 5, we highlight open source alternatives to Google's Picasa for organizing your photos, a cutting-edge math tool for the classroom called SageMath, ownCloud's collaboration with CERN and AARNET to reach it's next milestone, and a two-part series that examines SourceForge Media's recent past and future plans and the considerations ownCloud CEO Frank Karlitschek had to make when selling his first startup. read more

Microsoft and the GNU/Linux and open source world may seem to be at peace, but deep tensions persist between Linux fans and the closed-source company.

96Boards.org’s SBC specs gained two SBCs this week: the Consumer Edition-style uCRobotics “Bubblegum-96,” and the Enterprise Edition-style “LeMaker Cello.” Prior to the Linaro Connect Bangkok event this week, two SBCs broke cover that comply with Linaro’s 96Boards spec for open source, ARM-based Linux and Android boards. The Bubblegum-96 is a Consumer Edition (CE) SBC that […]

Web APIs have become ubiquitous in the industry, but many organizations are struggling to create platforms that are attractive and engaging to developers. Creating an API that developers want to use is not a simple task—it requires mindful planning and implementation, as well as some careful thinking about communication with the client developers. Additionally, the API needs to be designed with the developers in mind—developer experience is the first priority. read more

The free security certificate effort backed by the Linux Foundation achieves a major milestone with one million free certificates, but are all those free users actually secure?

The Obama administration is seeking public comments on its open source policy.

It’s been a big month for Microsoft and open source. The company joined the Eclipse project and open-sourced some plug-in code. It announced SQL Server will be made available for Linux (presumably for the benefit of Azure). It now has a range of Android apps available. The news keeps flowing in, and plenty of people are impressed by the efforts.

A router designed to ease the use of multiple devices through a virtual private network is the latest hardware project to receive the Free Software Foundation's official blessing.

The maintainers of the Manjaro Linux LXQt operating system, a community flavor of the well-known Arch Linux-based operating system, have announced the release of Manjaro Linux LXQt 16.03.

We get a lot of rain in the Pacific Northwest, especially in the winter. But temperatures are also pretty mild, which gives us plenty of opportunity to get outside. Once we're outside—provided that we're paying attention—we can see and hear much of nature's subtle beauty that is too easy to miss while running errands or commuting. For example, we northwesterners often see drops of water clinging to branches and glowing as they refract the light. read more

Bruce Dubbs from the LFS (Linux From Scratch) and BLFS (Beyond Linux From Scratch) projects has announced the availability of the LFS 7.9 and BLFS 7.9 maintenance releases.

In the course of my job at Red Hat, I work with a lot of servers. Many of them are a mix of reproducers for customer environments and production boxes. Some of these are dedicated boxes, but there are also plenty of virtual... Continue Reading →

Gwyther runs a community website for LARPers called Larping.org and has a side business selling foam-tipped arrows that are popular with LARPers. He got sued in October by a company called Global Archery, which claims that Gwyther's arrows business violates two patents it owns and also illegally uses its trademark. Last month, Gwyther, strapped for cash, went public with the dispute.

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