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FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol. It was written by Abhay Bhushan and published in 1971. FTP is supported by all the operating systems and browsers.

ARM chip manufacturer Qualcomm and open source Linux vendor Red Hat have partnered to develop 64-bit ARM servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

The Vivaldi development team, through Ruarí Ødegaard, has announced today the availability of the first snapshot build, for public testing, of the upcoming web browser since the release of the third Beta.

The Document Foundation today announced the release of LibreOffice 5.1.1, the first minor release of the LibreOffice 5.1 family, with a number of mostly bug fixes over the last major release, version 5.1.0 which was released on February 10.

This is a very basic guide showing how to clone git packages, how to install the programs and how to amend them. It is aimed as a nudge in the right direction for people wanting to get into Linux software development

Free licensing offer if you convert from Big Red. Pic In an aggressive move, Microsoft has told Oracle customers: migrate to SQL Server 2016 and Redmond with give you free licensing for the lifetime of the product plus technical support.

Today we will show you how to install ProjectSend on a Centos 6 VPS using Apache web server and MySQL database. ProjectSend is an open source file and image sharing application that allows you upload files and assign them to specific clients that you create yourself!

MariaDB is a community-developed fork of MySQL and aims to be an enhanced, drop-in replacement for it. The following tutorial will guide you through the steps to install MariaDB 10.0 on CentOS 6.

Since the release of the Linux Steam client, Linux gamers have had a greater range of choice. Today, more than 1,900 games are available for download, with another 100 on their way. This compares well with OS X, which currently sports 2,900 downloadable titles.

The upcoming release of OpenBSD's latest and greatest comes with plenty of upgrades and improvements -- plus the sound of music….

I had the pleasure of speaking with another developer today about their Linux sales, and this time it was Lurler from AtomicTorch Studio.

Google has joined Facebook's Open Compute Project and proposed a new design for server racks that could help cloud data centers cut their energy bills.

RaspEX developer Arne Exton announced a new, special build of the RaspEX Live CD distribution optimized for the new Raspberry Pi 3 single-board computer.

Microsoft loves Linux enough to strangle it to death with patents while the media isn’t paying attention and instead telling us that Microsoft is now a buddy or “pal” of GNU/Linux

Last month, D Ruth Bavousett wrote about creating sheet music with the Lilypond "music engraving program," and it got me thinking about MuseScore—which she also mentioned in the article, but in passing—and what a powerful tool it is for musical notation. Therefore, in an a continuation of an unofficial musical notation series, I present to you MuseScore, the open source WYSIWYG sheet music creation suite. read more

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

This is our 6th post on understanding first level directories in /. Knowing these folders in detail or at least what each is meant for will help you understand Linux/Unix in whole...

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.