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Manjaro leader Philip Müller informed the media about the release of Manjaro Linux 16.06 Pre1.

All interested students are encouraged to begin working with the KDE community. The KDE GSOC guide is a good place for students to start before beginning to create their proposals. The KDE community creates software in teams; students should find a team working on software they want to help with, get to know team members, familiarize themselves with the code-base, and start fixing bugs.

Amazon will restore disk encryption features to Fire OS, its Android-based operating system for tablets, improving data security and privacy.

GREP is a command line search utility or tool to filter the input given to it. Grep got its name from ed editor as g/re/p (global / regular expression / print).

uTox is a lightweight client for the Tox software which connects users with friends and family over an insecure network. It supports Windows, Linux, Mac OS and Android platforms. This tutorials shows the installation and setup of uTox on Ubuntu and Fedora.

Also in today's open source roundup: Steam gaming by Linux users continues to fall, and Android devices are at risk for clickjacking malware.

Immediately after announcing the release of Linux kernel 3.14.63 LTS, kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman published details about the ninety-ninth maintenance build of the long-term supported Linux 3.10 kernel series.

I've somewhat followed the RPG Maker program over the years to see it evolve into a tool some decent games have been made from, and now it looks like RPG Maker MV will come to Linux.

T-Platforms unveiled a “SF-BT1” module and “Tavolga Terminal” all-in-one PC based on it, which run Linux on a dual-core, MIPS P5600-based Baikal-T1 SoC. Imagination Technologies announced the Debian Linux ready, 21.5-inch Tavolga Terminal TB-T22BT all-in-one, as well as a SMARC-based “SF-BT1” COM that powers it.

Sometimes it's necessary to change function semantics inside the kernel, and then find and update all users of that function to match the new semantics. Such changes can result in huge patches going into the source tree, affecting hundreds of files.

Wow this I did not expect. Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II and the expansions are showing signs that they will come over to Linux & SteamOS!

One of the benefits of the ownCloud architecture is that it scales from small installations, such as a Raspberry Pi for 1-10 users, to up to 500,000 users and a petabyte of storage running in a powerful cluster setup. Together with research organizations CERN and AARnet, we've been collaborating to bring this to a new level—breaking through the petabyte barrier together. read more

Deviantart artist Sylvia Ritter has recently started a new project to create wallpapers for Ubuntu phone and tablet devices, inspired by all the Ubuntu Linux releases.

When I think about what makes SageMath different from other math software systems, it's one of the most fundamental things about it: SageMath was created by the very people who use it every day. These researchers, teachers, computer programmers, and engineers are the ones who fully understand computational problems because they live them. read more

We put four graphical SSH clients under the microscope to see which one came out on top with regards to the best service and most useful features.

Manjaro Linux is a sleek Linux distribution based on one of the most popular Linux, Arch Linux. Manjaro Linux comes in all major Linux desktop environment such as, XFCE, KDE, MATE, Gnome and Net-Edition for advanced users.

KDE Plasma 5 is one of the main desktop spins in Fedora. It’s under heavy development and a lot of things are changing. There are plenty of new features, bug fixing, and optimizing code. It’s an expansive desktop environment with... Continue Reading →

The Sonar GNU/Linux team was proud to announce the release and immediate availability for download of the first release of the open-source operating system in 2016.

The WINE developers and community have typically been hard at work to fix issues, particularly with big AAA games. Usually with a bit of a wait before we see enough supported libraries for the title to function properly. Now it appears a Linux user has already managed to get the latest Doom Alpha running on WINE.

I've been looking forward to trying out Balrum since seeing it on a crowdfunding site some time ago, and now it has had a day-1 release on Linux I got a chance to play with it.