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DROWN is the latest major security vulnerability to affect the open source OpenSSL encryption library, but it's not the same as Heartbleed.

Making a change to open source code can be a rush. Recently I was working on software to provide a console command-line interface for users to interact with the NodeJS API client for HPE's Operations Orchestration product. I realized I needed to use a library someone else wrote to parse all the arguments and display a nice command usage output. Something like this: read more

The month of February kept up with the trend of bigger and better things happening in the Raspberry Pi world. From new games to updates from the International Space Station, things keep moving on for the Raspbery Pi and the Raspberry Pi community.

The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the March 2016 issue.

Develop a program code to add functionality and features to your Pi Glove, bringing interactivity to your fingertips

And is this a bug or a beauty in OpenSSL? Line break Hello, world. Welcome back to Line Break, our weekly column of terrible code readers have spotted in the wild – think of it as a group therapy session.…

The first reason is, because if you don't...I'm telling mom! Now that we have that bit of business out of the way, let's seriously talk about Ubuntu Unity...the much-maligned desktop interface introduced by Canonical in the Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook edition.

Renaming multiple files manually can be a pain and not everyone is comfortable performing such operations from the command line. Below you'll find 3 Linux GUI utilities that should be able to cover most of your bulk renaming needs.

As a hiring manager of systems administrators (sys admins) for the past three years, I know the kind of candidates I'm looking for to join my open source team. My responsibility, of course, is to try to hire the best and brightest from around the world. The candidate's responsibility is to tell me what they've done and how, and what they want their future to look like. I am also looking for that spark. That thing that tells me this candidate is dedicated to the success of open source. read more

JavaScript for the masses Oracle has published the code for its long-awaited open source JavaScript Extension Toolkit (JET) version 2.0.0.…

The ownCloud 9.0 self-hosting cloud server will be officially released in the coming weeks with numerous new features, some of which we have revealed here during the past few months.

"Personalized content" is a phrase so vague that it could mean just about anything. That quality makes it just about perfect for use by a patent troll. This month, the Electronic Frontier Foundation's patent lawyers have honed in on a patent describing a way of "presenting personalized content relating to offered products and services," owned by Phoenix Licensing LLC, a patent-holding company controlled by Richard Libman, an Arizona man who's sued more that 100 companies.

Test Tutorial: In this tutorial, Sean Walberg helps you prepare to take the Linux Professional Institute Senior Level Linux Professional (LPIC-3) exam. In this first in a series of six tutorials, Sean introduces you to Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) concepts, architecture, and design. By the end of this tutorial, you will know about LDAP concepts and architecture, directory design, and schemas.

The Internet of Things is changing the world around us, with new use cases, experiences and technologies emerging every day. As we continue to experiment in this space, we wanted to take a moment to share more details around our … Continue reading

Reaction from the industry pours in The discovery of a serious HTTPS encryption vulnerability, dubbed DROWN, again proves that supporting tired old protocols weakens modern crypto systems.…

The SCO Group vs. IBM lawsuit over Linux and Unix code and copyright looks to be finally over due to SCO's lack of money.

Most everyone reading this, to at least some point, is computer proficient. Whether we’ve written scripts for macros to make our typing tasks simpler, or created entire websites, we perceive our skills as part of our daily lives. Not a big deal. It’s simply the tools we’ve accrued to facilitate our work. Ctrl+A? Nothin’ to it. Ctrl+V? Same same. Vi vs Emacs? Don’t start it.

Mozilla's open source operating system for TVs continues to hold its ground. This week, Panasonic announced a new series of smart TVs that will run Firefox OS.

Now We're the Cool Kids! I wish I could go back and tell eight-year-old me that someday it would be a point of pride that I wrote BASIC programs on a TI-99/4A connected to a black-and-white TV.

Also in today's open source roundup: Transmission 2.9 has been released, and is Microsoft neglecting Linux users of Skype?