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Over the past several weeks, Mozilla has been running an educational campaign about encryption. We believe it’s essential for everyday Internet users to better understand the technology that helps keep the Web a more secure platform. So far, we’ve explored encryption’s … Continue reading

Also in today's open source roundup: Why is Microsoft releasing SQL Server for Linux? And what do Linux users think about SQL Server coming to their favorite operating system?

It's an open-source switch OS for clouds OCP Summit Put down your coffee gently. Microsoft will today release a homegrown open-source operating system, based on none other than Debian GNU/Linux, for network switches.…

Collaborating on scholarly research projects can sometimes become complicated and disorganized. For example, using Flickr for sharing and commenting on images while communicating via email and editing documents together in Google Docs works, but it places information about the research in way too many places. read more

The most popular integrated development environments, Eclipse and Visual Studio, are coming together.

Congatec’s “Conga-IC170” is a Linux-ready thin Mini-ITX board with 6th Gen dual-core Intel Core CPUs, up to 32GB DDR4-2133, and a wide-range power supply. Congatec, which was early to announce COM Express modules based on Intel’s 14nm, 6th Generation Core (“Skylake”) processors, has now rolled out a thin Mini-ITX Skylake board. The 170 x 170 […]

The dd command stands for “data duplicator” and used for copying and converting data. It is very powerful low level utility of Linux which can do much more like ...

security researchers say there are other options, like “de-capping” the phone’s memory chip to access it outside the phone (which Snowden has also mentioned), or resetting the phone’s internal counter so that you can guess the passwords as many times as you want. Those techniques are hard and expensive and could destroy the phone, experts say — but have worked in the past.

For years, the benefits of open source code development have been self-evident to the software development community: Transparency leads to collaboration, and collaboration leads to better and more secure code. The scientific community is just starting to understand these benefits. read more

We believe that by now many of our readers are aware of the fact that last month the Linux Mint project was the unfortunate victim of a hack.

Digital-first businesses are turning to open source technologies as a source of innovation.

Warns Java may not see 30th birthday if 'corporate drones' prevail Java evangelist Reza Rahman has left Oracle, to help save Java.…

I am just bustin’-at-the-seams happy to announce The New Hope Computer Technology Project here in my small town of Taylor, Texas. After way too many meetings and committees formed to insure viability, Reglue is fully operational and in the midst of installing computers for people who need them most.

In a recent blog post entitled "GPL Fun," ex-Kubuntu release manager and leader Jonathan Riddell talks about a few recent cases of GPL license violations and the continuity of free software ecosystem.

In this tutorial we will explain how to install LiteCart on an Ubuntu 14.04 VPS with Nginx, PHP-FPM and MySQL. LiteCart is a free e-commerce, feature rich e-commerce solution.

BFQ is a block-layer I/O scheduler which greatly improves system responsiveness (up to 15 times) for users of HDD drives.

Android gets patched for 19 new vulnerabilities in its latest security update.

Mattermost is an open source, self-hosted Slack-alternative. Mattermost is modern communication behind your firewall. This Howto explains the installation of Mattermost on CentOS7 using PostgreSQL as a database backend.

Solus is a new independent distribution with a new desktop environment called Budgie. This review looks at Solus and asks the question "are there enough applications available?"

Also in today's open source roundup: Amazon will restore encryption to Fire OS, and get an open source Notes app for Linux inspired by the one in OS X.