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In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at Apple releasing Swift 2.0 as open source, Raspberry Pi Zero vs. C.H.I.P., and more! Open source news roundup for November 29 - December 5, 2015 read more

Linux Mint 17.3 is a long term support release which will be supported until 2019. It comes with updated software and brings refinements and many new features to make your desktop experience more comfortable to use. Software repositories are very important. We use them all the time when installing new software or performing updates. They need to be fast and reliable. This was a major point of focus in the development of Linux Mint 17.3. Software repositories are mirrored (i.e. duplicated on many servers) all over the world. The main goal of the Software Sources configuration tool is to make it easy to find the best available mirror for you; one that is: reliable and fully up to date; fast and responsive. To find the fastest mirrors, the Software Sources tool now detects your location and starts its speed tests with mirrors near you.

Guild Software announced the release of a new maintenance build for its popular Vendetta Online game, a cross-platform MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game).

So you decided to use metrics to track your free, open source software (FOSS) community. Now comes the big question: Which metrics should I be tracking?

This guide/how to is written from the perspective of a Ubuntu user, but the concept should work across a wide variety of Linux distributions. It has been confirmed to work in Fedora Linux at least, as well as Ubuntu. I am personally using Kubuntu 15.10.

The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the December 2015 issue.

Intel snap is an open source telemetry tool for private, public and hybrid clouds that helps organizations monitor their cloud resources and advances Intel's Cloud for All initiative.

The developers of the Debian-based Robolinux computer operating system have announced the release of Robolinux 8.3 (Raptor) Cinnamon, MATE, Xfce, and LXDE editions, as well as the Robolinux Multimedia Bonanza.

In this week's Top 5 articles of the week, we highlight a My Open Source Story, open source LEGO projects, a story of 3D animation and movie-making, ownCloud favorites, and practical uses for LibreOffice.

Originally based on BSD RCP protocol, SCP (Secure copy) is a mechanism that allows you to transfer a file between two end points over a secure SSH connection. However, as a simple secure copy protocol, SCP does not understand range-request or partial transfer like HTTP does.

The IoT-focused “LinkIt Smart 7688” SBC from MediaTek Labs and Seeed runs OpenWrt on a WiFi-enabled, MediaTek MT7688AN SoC.

Capture screen recordings on windows with ffmpeg and record it for permanent archival with NGINX RTMP module or view it live with VLC.

I love Sonos. There probably are some audiophiles reading this who rolled their eyes at my lack of auditory prowess, but honestly, the speakers sound wonderful to my 1980s-damaged eardrums. Granted, the Wi-Fi-enabled speakers are very expensive, thus limiting my supply.

There are many small form factor personal computers, generally aimed and specific tasks. but the new GeekBox is the first one I have seen with an identity crisis.

As Al Sweigart explains in his article I am already a zygote. Is it too late for me to learn to program?, you're never too old to learn how to program. And we should think twice before being intimidated by folks who say they were programming before they started walking—that doesn't mean they were writing good code. read more

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Renesas unveiled its latest R-Car H3 automotive SoC, with four Cortex-A57 and four Cortex-A53 cores, a PowerVR GX6650 GPU, and ISO 26262 safety compliance. Renesas has announced initial samples of a third generation R-Car automotive system-on-chip. Like the R-Car H2 system announced in early 2013, the R-Car H3 is an octa-core chip using ARM Big.Little […]

I hate telling the story of how I learned to program. In the third grade, a friend showed me a book he found in the school library on making small games in the BASIC programming language. I was obsessed with Nintendo and got hooked on the idea of creating my own video games. I began programming and stuck with it, majored in computer science, and afterward became a software developer and tech book author. read more

Disk vault Bitlocker snubs self-encrypting drives – when's the fix? We know Microsoft can be pretty secretive about its spyware-as-a-service Windows 10, but Redmond has now taken its furtiveness to a whole new level.…

We recently interviewed Jamie Duncan on how he uses Fedora. This is part of a series on the Fedora Magazine where we profile Fedora users and how they use Fedora to get things done. If you are interested in being... Continue Reading →