Showing all newswire headlines

This flaw isn't nearly as bad as first reported, but Linux administrators still need to fix it.

Cory Doctorow is good with words. He just prefers stringing them into sentences, not subroutines. "I was a software developer," he says. "I'm much better at writing science fiction novels. Like, seriously."

This is an overview of the KDE Plasma desktop for beginners. It describes widgets, panels, activities, navigation and some of the tools that are provided as part of the desktop including akregator and kontact.

A fresh Opera stable update has been released, but it’s a really small one. The developers have made some changes to get Netflix running, although they still haven’t made things easy.

Mirantis's OpenStack training courses surged in popularity in 2015, a likely sign of increasing adoption of the open source cloud computing platform.

Facebook is rolling out a new feature on its Android app that will let mobile users access the social network anonymously over The Onion Router network, or Tor.

We have just been informed by Lukasz Zemczak from Canonical about the latest work done by the Ubuntu Touch developers in preparation for the upcoming OTA-9 software update for Ubuntu Phones.

Also in today's open source roundup: MAC address scrambling is coming to Linux. And Wine 1.8 has been released.

Information about Remix OS and its apparent issue with GPL and Apache surfaced last week, but its developers have taken some steps to correct that issue.

Contribute to open source! It’ll look great on your resume! It’s gratifying work! You may have heard people make these statements, or ones similar to them, numerous times throughout your career. They’re not wrong—contributing to open source is a rewarding endeavor in multiple dimensions—but, when software engineers advise other software engineers to contribute to open source they usually mean code contributions. This is a fair assumption to make, but the reality is that there are numerous opportunities to contribute to open source without writing a single line of code. read more

Survey data from SUSE shows that companies want to build OpenStack private clouds but are concerned about lack of skills and vendor neutrality.

Four ways the mobile market will shift in the year ahead.

When you create an LXC container, it will have the default username/password set up. The default username/password will vary depending on which LXC template was used to create the container. For example, Debian LXC will have the default username/password set to root/root. Fedora LXC will have the root password set as expired, so it can be set on the first login.

Carl Sagan once said, "We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology." Katrina Hayes is clearly an exception to that—she uses her knowledge and skills to great effect to debug code. Katrina took time from her busy schedule prior to her presentation, Logging in the debugger's toolkit at the upcoming ScaLE 14X to talk to Opensource.com. She talks to us about her surprisingly minimal use of tools and a bit about her debugging process. read more

The most interesting part of running Ubuntu on the Nexus 4 is the ability to check out the progress being made on convergence. Here's a short video I recorded to give you a taste of the current state of Unity 8 on the desktop.

Exploit takes a long time to cook Windows, but gives hackers a menu of evil options Shmoocon Foxglove Security bod Stephen Breen has strung together dusty unpatched Windows vulnerabilities to gain local system-level access on Windows versions up to 8.1.…

IRC, short for Internet Relay Chat, is a great way for individuals and teams to communicate and work together. Although there are new apps like Slack that mimic it, IRC itself has been around for decades. It’s a time-tested system with a... Continue Reading →

Audio when working can be an important factor when it comes to productivity and focus. Heres a clever little tool so you can get the best from your music.

Oracle today announced the release of the VirtualBox 5.0.14 open-source and cross-platform virtualization software for all supported operating systems, including GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows.

CIO of the Federal Communications Commission shares how he creates a culture of openness, diversity, and bottoms-up empowerment.