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Fonts, like any other digital asset on your computer, come with their own rules for licensing. When selecting a font, the decision process involves more than choosing between serif and sans serif: understanding how the font is licensed matters too. Though typographers need to be concerned with their rights to modify and extend a given font, even you as an end user should be asking yourself some questions. Do you have permission to use a font in commercial work, or in a public work at all? Can you even share that font with another person? read more

Remember the Nokia devices acquisition? That went well. Not Analysis Microsoft is acquiring Xamarin, a move which goes to the heart of the company's new mobile strategy.…

I haven't written about using my Bluetooth devices on Linux in quite some time. That is good, because it means that they are all just working so there is not a lot to write about. But there have been some interesting and useful developments in Bluetooth support for various Linux distributions recently, so I think it will be useful to run through a survey of Bluetooth devices and Linux distributions.

Create your own Wearable Tech glove that places control at your fingertips

Dell has announced that the Embedded Box PC 3000 Series and 5000 Series, furthering the partnership with Canonical by providing this hardware with Ubuntu.

Phytec has spun a Linux-supported, 50 x 41mm PhyCore-i.MX7 COM with -40 to 85°C support, also available as part of a sandwich-style PhyBoard-i.MX7 Zeta SBC. NXP’s low-power, Cortex-A7 based i.MX7 system-on-chip, which includes a Cortex-M4 MCU for real-time processing and motor control, appears to be heading for the same popularity as the i.MX6. Size matters […]

In parallel with Microsoft's efforts, an open source version of .NET named Mono was created by Ximian, an open source company founded by Miguel de Icaza and Nat Friedman. Ximian was acquired by Novell in 2003, and Novell was bought by Attachmate in 2011. Attachmate laid off all Mono staff shortly after the acquisition, and de Icaza and Friedman founded Xamarin later that same year to continue their work with Mono.

You've done it: you've taken your own personal utility, library, or web application and placed it on GitHub as free and open source software for all the world to see. Maybe you wrote this software to fill a personal need, or maybe you've always hoped that it would reach more people. One thing's certain: it's always been yours, and yours alone—but the moment you pushed that code for the first time, your baby left the nest. What comes next is up to you. read more

Intel has debuted Android-based smartphones that can run a Debian-based open source GNU/Linux environment for the desktop on an external monitor.

As an alternative operating system, Linux has always found ways to co-exist with Windows. However, I realized recently that I had gone four years without any installation of Windows in the house. I had to wonder: is Windows support even necessary in 2016?

Canonical today announced on its social networking accounts that the company behind Ubuntu Linux won two more awards during Mobile World Congress 2016.

This tutorial shows the installation of the latest PostgreSQL 9.5 version on Ubuntu. We will use the official repository from postgresql.org, so you can update your server easily in future and get direct updates and patches from the database vendor. The steps have been tested with Ubuntu versions from 12.04 until 15.10.

Learn how to query databases and manipulate data by using basic SQL commands. You can use the material in this tutorial to study for the LPI 102 exam for Linux system administrator certification, or to learn for fun.

Embrace, extend, eat Microsoft has bought its long-time partner Xamarin for an undisclosed sum.…

Suppose you have a text file in which you want to change multiple lines of text to something else, but without using a text editor. When it comes to finding and replacing a multi-line string pattern, Perl's regular expression based pattern matching comes in handy.

My open source story began during my first year of college when I joined Mozilla's Firefox Student Ambassadors (FSA) program.

In this tutorial, we will learn how to install Miniflux on an Ubuntu 14.04 VPS with PHP-FPM and Nginx. Miniflux is an opensource, self-hosted minimalist web-based RSS reader optimized for readability.

The Linux Foundation has announced OPEN-O, an open source SDN and NFV project for the telecom community.

The Linux Mint forum database was being sold on January 16, a full month before the users were made aware of a breach.

Team Tiny Core is proud to announce the release of Core v7.0