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Ubuntu Touch is still considered a young platform, so there aren't many native applications available for it. The guys from the unofficial app store for Ubuntu, the uApp Explorer, have put together a list of desired applications for this mobile operating system, and there are at least a few surprises among them.

This month marks a milestone for me. It's been five years since I started working in—and learning from—an open organization. read more

We've just been informed by Martin Wimpress, the main developer and leader of Ubuntu MATE, about the general availability of a spin off project from Ubuntu MATE, called Ubuntu Pi Flavour Maker.

Every release the Fedora Design team collaborates with the Fedora community to release a set of 16 additional backgrounds to install and use on Fedora. The Fedora Design team takes submissions from the wider Fedora Community, then votes on the... Continue Reading →

Let's get this put to bed now: At the grade school level, girls are far and away better at most technological challenges than are boys. I've seen it for years; I've lived it for years. Where is the failure? It resides in the adults in a girl's life who tell her she shouldn't be wasting her time with computers and that she should start wearing skirts and dresses instead of jeans and that damned three button pullover shirt. Some will go so far as to point out the lack of female presence in the technology workplace as proof. Well yeah...there is a smaller female representation. That's because mommy and school career counselors are channeling her into roles "more suited to her gender" and their preconceived ideas of her abilities.

The developers behind the GnuCash Project were happy to announce this past weekend the immediate availability for download of the tenth maintenance release in the GnuCash 2.6 series.

Web Server, Database & Scripting Language are the building blocks of web based software like WordPress, Drupal, Joomla and OpenCart.

The Calibre eBook reader and editor has been upgraded today and it looks like this is the last release for this year. It's not a major update, but it does come with a very important feature.

Interested in keeping track of what is happening in the open source cloud? Opensource.com is your source for news in OpenStack, the open source cloud infrastructure project. read more

It seems like Mozilla is trying its hardest to alienate some of its users and has decided to provide Netflix HTML5 video support for the Windows platform only.

Vagrant 1.8 has been released. Comes with support for linked clones and snapshots.

The developers of the Debian-based SparkyLinux computer operating system had the great pleasure of announcing the release and immediate availability for download of SparkyLinux 4.2.

The Linux Foundation's "World without Linux" series about the significance of open source software has concluded with a video clip featuring Linus Torvalds in cartoon form.

Valve is on fire and has released a new update for the Steam Beta client, continuing to fix some issues with the Steam controller and with the In-Home Streaming function.

Unfortunately, and after years of development in every part of the free software that we enjoy, there are still two primary types of software package available in GNU/Linux systems. The one is the .deb type which is used by Debian and Debian-based distributions like Ubuntu, Mint, and Elementary, and the other is the .rpm type which is used by Fedora, openSUSE, Mageia, and CentOS. Fortunately, there's a workaround for this as we can try to transform the one type to the other.

Will help catalogue attempts to limit information. After a three-year campaign, the IETF has cleared the way for a new HTTP status code to reflect online censorship.

The results are in! The Fedora Elections for the F23 release cycle of FESCo, FAmSCo, and the Council concluded on Tuesday, December 15th. The results are posted on the Fedora Voting Application and announced on the mailing lists.

When the folks who make the Raspberry Pi made good on their plan to release a multi-core version of the tiny computer with 1GB of RAM earlier this year, I saw it as the perfect opportunity to put the single-board Linux box to work in our company's network operations center.

Commell’s Linux friendly “QE-E71” COM appears to be the first Intel Core based Qseven module. It supports both 4th Gen Haswell and 5th Gen Broadwell CPUs.

2015 was another great year for open source technologies and communities. Before we close this chapter and look to 2016 for what's next, let's take stock of how many open source projects readers contributed to this year. Whether you contributed as a software developer, designer, bug tester, documentation writer, community booster, or other part of a team, your contributions matter.