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If there is one area in which open source has never suffered it is a lack of events. From your big professional conferences right down to your friendly, local meetups, there is just something so delightfully fun about getting together in person to share ideas, learn from each other, and have fun. One of the most popular types of event are unconferences, and there are more and more of them cropping up all over the world. read more

No bling, just minimal surfaces. Apps, though... Review The Linux world is full of spin-offs, clones and branded distros. The most famous lineage is Mint, based on Ubuntu, which is in turn based on Debian. What's less common is entirely new distros, starting from zero and building their own stack.…

Microsoft's use of open source continues to be a one-way street to drive business Redmond's way.

After over a decade of ownership of the product, Google announced just a few weeks ago that they will be closing the shutters for good on Picasa, a cross-platform photo viewer and organizer with basic editing capabilities. In the official announcement, Google has set March 15 as the end of support for the desktop client, with changes to the accompanying web album hosting service set to roll out later in the spring. read more

Free/Open-source software means that Bangladeshi companies don’t have to be dependent on expensive, foreign technology vendors

Microsoft SQL Server 2016 will support Linux-based operating systems, another open source-friendly move by the company.

Google released a preview of the upcoming Android N release, featuring multi-window support, improved notifications, and better Doze power saving. Alphabet-owned Google released the first of five planned developer previews for the upcoming Android N, available as an over-the-air (OTA) download for Nexus devices leading up to a third quarter release. Hiroshi Lockheimer’s announcement of […]

Four years ago (last leap day to be specific), the first Raspberry Pi was released. And on February 29, 2016, the third version made its debut.

GNOME developer Debarshi Ray shares some very exciting details about some of the major features that are coming to his GNOME Photos 3.20 application this Spring as part of the GNOME 3.20 release.

Virtualization plays a key role in cloud computing. IBM Power Virtualization Center (PowerVC) is a new virtualization management tool that's built on OpenStack and designed to simplify the management of virtual resources in Power Systems environments, and thus improve administrator productivity.

The $89 uCRobotics “Bubblegum-96” SBC has a 1.8GHz quad-core Cortex-A53 Actions S900 SoC, 2GB RAM, 8GB eMMC, onboard wireless, and 96Boards compatibility.

Attention, Android programmers: Your latest version of Android is ready to start working on.

While Linaro slings data center ARM chips into new developer cloud Qualcomm and Red Hat are busy porting the latter's enterprise-friendly flavor of Linux to Qualy's upcoming 64-bit ARM server processors, we learned today.…

Eclipse Che, the newest open source IDE from the Eclipse Foundation, combines Docker containers and the cloud to support programming in any language.

Have you ever wondered how to access the internet anonymously or protecting your privacy against internet surveillance! without the effort of setting up a VPN and relay connections. Tails Linux distribution is a quite good choice for you.

The developer preview edition of the next Android, which features a native side-by-side app mode, will be out later today.

Openshot is one of the most important and widely-used open source video editing software tools out there. Being very simple to use, powerful enough, and free of charge, this video editor has managed to build a large community of enthusiastic users around it who waited for the release of the second major version of their favorite software with anticipation for years. Now that the release was made available.

I saw Moriel Schottlender give a talk about this topic at linux.conf.au 2016 in Geelong last month and asked her to submit an article about it. When you watch her talk video and read her article, you'll see why I couldn't take proper notes to write about the talk, so I'm glad she contributed her story directly to us instead. —Rikki Endsley   read more

Mozilla provides 21 security advisories for its Firefox 45 browser. New features in the browser include improvements to the Firefox Hello communication tool.

Bridge the gap between books and videogames by creating an interactive novel or choose-your-own-adventure with Python and pygame