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The spotlight is back on Drupal with the 8.0.0 release. The successful launch is a testament to the hard work put in by members of the Drupal community, but Drupal 7 still has a huge install base and likely will for many years to come. To support Drupal 7 development, let's take a look at a testing platform built exclusively for the platform. Red Test is an open source integration testing framework aimed at making life easier for Drupal developers. read more

Alexander Wolf from Stellarium, the world's best free, open source and cross-platform planetarium software, proudly announced today the release and immediate availability for download of Stellarium 0.14.2.

I have mixed emotions about ReactOS. It's open source. It's freely available. But, its goal is to be binary-compatible with Windows! ReactOS is not a Linux operating system. In fact, it doesn't share the UNIX architecture at all. It looks like Windows NT, and it behaves much like Windows NT. It's just odd!

PowerUp Toys has launched a smartphone controlled airplane drone with an open Linux SDK on Kickstarter, letting you stream video to a Google Cardboard HMD. Most of the drones on display at CES cost many hundreds, if not thousands of dollars. But the biggest benefit of drones — putting a camera in the sky — […]

This guide shows how to download Youtube videos for watching offline, which is great when you are on a train or a plane with limited or no internet access. This guide introduces a command line and gui tool.

Open source software has made huge strides in a short time. But do platforms like the cloud, IoT and Android help or hinder the mission of free and open source code?

In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at Linux coming to more cars, open source firmware on Linksys routers, the push for open access journals in Europe, and more. Open source news for January 2 - 8, 2016 read more

One of the most interesting features that are going to land for GNOME is called fwupd, and it should be available in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS as well.

FreeFileSync is an Open-Source and cross platform tool to compare and sync files and folders. It's a very useful tool as you can compare two folders at different locations with FreeFileSync. You can update two folders and updation will copy all the new files from one folder (source folder) to another (target folder).

I have noticed several questions (ask.openstack.org,stackoverflow.com ) regarding mentioned ongoing issue with mongodb-server and nagios when installing RDO Kilo 2015.1.1 on CentOS 7.2 via packstack. At the moment I see a hack provided bellow which might be applied as pre-installation step or a fix after initial packstack crash.

If you’ve been following the news about ad blockers, you might have heard about Forbes asking its readers to turn off ad blockers to access its content. Apparently the site promised to provide an “ad light” version of its site that provides less ads or something like that. Well one guy, Brian Baskins, turned off his ad blocker and promptly got some pop-under malware on the Forbes site.

In this week's Top 5 articles of the week, we highlight the best open source games of 2015, Linux music listening, 10 projects to fork in 2016, 10 cool tools for the Docker community, and one man's story of rescuing older computers and rehabilitating them with Linux.

Daqri has upgraded its augmented reality Smart Helmet, which now runs Linux on a 6th Gen Intel Core M7 processor, and includes an Intel RealSense camera. Daqri first announced its Daqri Smart Helmet in Sept. 2014, and rolled it out to aerospace, construction, oil & gas, and other industrial firms for pilot programs shortly thereafter.

It looks like the Ubuntu Touch team added more impressive improvements and new features to the upcoming OTA-9 software update for Ubuntu Phone devices.

Growing up with Windows, it seemed there was always something wrong with my family's computer. Our PCs didn't stay new for long. Yet, as annoying as it was to load each installment of the King's Quest series by copying data from five or so 5.25-inch floppy disks, I did appreciate being able to easily access the inner depths of our PC while learning BASIC and some C. read more

Semi-seasonal stocking filler was caught up in Oracle's Android fight Comment While you were starting to think Christmas thoughts in November, Google quietly slipped out a pre-seasonal gift of its own: OpenJDK for Android N – the next edition of its smartphone operating system.…

Panasonic will use Mozilla's open source, Linux-based Firefox OS on its DX900 smart TV, showing that Firefox OS remains relevant as IoT grows.

Programming languages and technologies that were developed by industry and Internet giants – specifically to meet the unique challenges they faced operating at massive scale – have been open sourced and are now being adopted by regular-sized enterprises for everyday use.

Today we would like to introduce you guys to an upcoming development SBC called Chirimen, which is currently developed by Mozilla, the company behind the world's famous Firefox and Thunderbird software products.

As a student, getting involved in open source is a great way to improve your programming skills. From my experience, it can even help kickstart your career. But where do you begin? And how do you get involved? read more