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In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at the new IoT project from the Linux Foundation, three big corporations releasing open source, and more.

Yes, it happened again, Linus Torvalds has made yet another early Sunday announcement for the next RC (Release Candidate) build of the upcoming Linux 4.5 kernel branch.

Overlapping Mobile World Congress and Embedded World events last week brought news of some interesting new ARM and x86 chips for Internet of Things devices. In this article, I’ll look at several processors introduced at last week’s Mobile World Congress and Embedded World events, that address the growing market for the Internet of Things (IoT), ...

A longer and more detailed analysis of Microsoft’s official takeover of the Mono team (and by extension a so-called ‘company’, whose finances are secret but are linkable back to Microsoft through Ignition Partners)

Hello, open gaming fans! In this week's edition, we take a look at a new release of the Godot game engine, Factorio finally available on Steam, and new games out for Linux. Open gaming roundup for February 20 - 26, 2016 read more

Vesta Control Panel is simple and easy to use open source hosting control panel. It has simple and clean interface and lots of useful features that will help you to host your websites on your VPS. Vesta Control Panel currently can be installed on RHEL 5, RHEL 6, CentOS 5, CentOS 6, Debian 7, Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 13.10 and Ubuntu 14.04 operating systems.

The world's most popular network protocol analyzer, Wireshark, which security experts can use for development, analysis, troubleshooting, or education purposes, has reached version 2.0.2.

What does the future hold for Moore's Law, the consumerization of technology, mass personalization, and more? Two top CIOs share their predictions.

Linux has matured into an excellent platform for artists, photographers, animators, and designers. With inexpensive hardware, free software, and a modicum of talent and inspiration, anyone can create professional-looking computer graphics.

Sequence of hacks required to get going RDO Kilo on Fedora 23 is caused by existence of many areas where Nova has a hard dependency on Glance v1. According to Launchpad Bug 1476770 I can see that for python-glanceclient status is "In Progress". So, to get things working right now only one option is available (for myself of course) . . . .

Timesys released v5.0 of its LinuxLink embedded Linux distribution, adding full Yocto Project compatibility backed by a “Bakery” setup wizard. In recent years, Timesys has aligned its LinuxLink platform with Yocto Project code. Now, LinuxLink 5.0 promises full compatibility, bringing it in line with other major embedded distros. The company continues to provide , as […]

The Map view in digiKam is handy for displaying photos on a map directly in the application. But what if you want to create a shareable and embeddable map with pins that mark all places where you took photos? A simple Bash script and the uMap service can help you with that.

Linux users are chastising Microsoft for not paying enough attention to its Skype software on their platform of choice. They're ticked off that Skype had gone without an update on Linux for over a year and a half, and that the the long overdue upgrade that was rolled out this past Monday broke the client.

Eurotech’s rugged “ReliaGate 10-11” IoT gateway runs Linux on a TI AM3352, offers numerous options, and is supported with an updated ESF 3.3 framework. Eurotech, which is known here mostly for its Intel Atom-based Catalyst computer-on modules, has announced a new version of its ReliaGate Internet of Things gateway. The ReliaGate 10-11 runs on a […]

When a program or a library is packaged as a Deb or RPM package for distribution, a set of metadata files are included in the package. One of them is a "changelog" file, which records in reverse chronological order what changes occurred each time the package has been updated. So if you want to find out what changes are made to the package that you are about to install or already installed, you can view the package's changelog.

On Thursday I had a very brief email discussion with the distro’s project leader Clem Lefebvre — “very brief” because Lefebvre was more than little busy at the time. He and his team are in up to their elbows, working to make sure that everything works and plays well with the hardening they’ve done to Mint’s server, as well as working overtime to find any niggling security issues. In other words, they have it all under control, even as they work to get it more under control.

A Raspberry Pi 3 with WiFi and Bluetooth LE has been spotted on an FCC site. Meanwhile, a MagPi cover advert says the Pi 3 advances to a 1.2GHz 64-bit SoC. The Register spotted a Raspberry Pi 3 design on the FCC wireless test database. The documentation indicates a “Raspberry Pi 3” with 2.4GHz 802.11b/g/n […]

In the past week, the conversation about encryption has reached fever pitch. Encryption, Apple, and the FBI are in headlines around the world.

Cloud Explorer is a open-source Amazon S3 client that works on any operating system.

Details of the next member of the successful Raspberry Pi family have become available as part of FCC testing documents. The Pi 3 finally includes WiFi and Bluetooth LE.