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In today's open source roundup: Details have come to light about North Korea's version of Linux. Plus: Ars Technica reviews Linux Mint 17.3. And some interesting tidbits about the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge.

Can you get rich with open source software? This is a technical paper on using open source software to create an investment advisory framework. It appears to be primarily intended for cloud implementation, but a link to a reference virtual machine is included.

The Solus Project is proud to announce the release of the first version of its operating system, Solus, on 27th of December, 2015. Solus 1.0 is codenamed Shannon after the longest river in Ireland.

Solus 1.0 is the result of over eight months of work, coalesced from over a dozen contributors, over 2000 package builds, a rewrite of the premier desktop environment Budgie, and more.

Practically none of us, outside those who worked for IBM or Honeywell, knew anything about computers in 1967. Public utilities were just in the process of sending out bills that were essentially keypunch cards — a Stone Age computer storage scheme — with the ever present warning to not “bend, staple, mutilate or fold,” so we knew the computer was already our boss. We also knew what computers looked like, or thought we did, from TV shows like “The Man from Uncle”: gigantic room filling devices loaded with flashing lights that didn’t seem to indicate much of anything. A powerful computer that could be carried in your hand was, well, light years away.

Red Hat quarterly financial results.

Zbigniew Konojacki announced the final build of his 4MLinux 15.0 GNU/Linux operating system.

While reviewing the most-read articles on legal topics in open source on Opensource.com this year, I was reminded of the old maxim: The more things change, the more they stay the same. Readers recognize that the problem of patent trolls is certainly not new, and the Supreme Court hasn’t solved it, but creative legislative solutions to address it remain interesting.   read more

In this article we will guide you through the steps of installing NodeJS, Bower and Gulp on a Debian 8 VPS.

After a long wait and a few delays, the guys over Solus have finally announced the release and immediate availability for download of Solus 1.0 on December 27, 2015.

In this Special Edition of our weekly open source news roundup, we look back at the top news stories in 2015! I looked most closely at news in the areas of business, government, and hardware. There has also been remarkable news about how open source continues to help make a difference and the world a better place. read more

Angae means "Fog" in Korean. The term is widely used in parts of custom code used by the Red Star OS. We will lift the fog on the internals of North Korea's operating system. Our talk will provide information about how privacy is invaded for all users of Red Star OS and how an operating system designed by a totalitarian dictatorship works.

As far as web server performance is concerned, there are many different factors at play, e.g., front-end application design, network latency/bandwidth, web server configuration, backend caching, raw hardware capability, server load of shared hosting, etc. To compare and optimize web server performance under such a wide array of factors, we often perform load test (or […]Continue reading...

North Korea’s homegrown computer operating system mirrors its political one – marked by a high degree of paranoia and invasive snooping on users, according to two German researchers.

This is the BETA release for Linux Mint 17.3 “Rosa” KDE Edition.

The developer who made the excellent uNav GPS Navigation is now looking into the possibility of building a dedicated scope for Ubuntu Touch with the same function.

This article is a brief roundup of GEDCOM compatible software for tracing your ancestry. Dig up a few skeletons or surprises.

Just because you rely on Linux as your server platforms, doesn't mean it's fail proof. There are still steps you can take to ensure your data is safe from prying eyes. One thing you should do is enable two-step authentication for secure shell. This means anyone attempting to get into your server via ssh will have to have both a password and a verification code. This is actually made fairly easy, thanks to the Google Authenticator. Let me walk you through the steps of setting this up.

Open source software—software freely shared with the world at large—is an old idea. A guy named Richard Stallman started preaching the gospel in the early ’80s, though he called it free software. Linus Torvalds started work on Linux, the enormously successful open source operating system, in 1991, and today, it drives our daily lives—literally... if there’s one thing we learned in 2015, it’s that we shouldn’t underestimate the power of open source.

Solus 1.0, a Linux distribution built from scratch that’s using its own desktop environment named Budgie, has been released and it now ready for download.

Apart from its physical form, a smartphone is indistinguishable to a normal computer so why not treat it as such? Even the oldest smartphones out there are considerably more powerful than desktop computers were even 20 years ago. You can install Debian, a version of the open-source Linux operating system on your device. Then just connect it to a monitor, sync up a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse, and you’re good.