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Aaeon’s “Boxer-6914” PC runs Linux on an Atom D2550, and offers 16 serial ports, six USB ports, SATA, CFast, dual GbE’s, and optional wireless. Aaeon’s Fedora Linux ready Boxer-6914 is quite similar to the Boxer-6614 it released earlier this year, but it lacks the external heatsink, and adds a lot more serial ports, as well […]

No date? No problem. In case you have nothing planned as 2015 dovetails into 2016 on the final day of this month, Ubuntu has you covered. According to an article in Softpedia, the first alpha for Ubuntu 16.04 — bestowed with the release name handed down by The Mark as “Xenial Xerus,” for those of you keeping score at home — will be released on December 31, just in time for the lighted ball to fall in Times Square before the strains of “Auld Lang Syne” waft through the air. Enjoy the holiday!

In 2014, cloud hosting provider DigitalOcean decided to encourage contribution to open source software projects, so they sponsored Hacktoberfest. More than 500 participants completed the challenge by making at least 50 commits to projects. This year, DigitalOcean wanted to focus on improving projects. read more

Windows 10 IoT Core Pro lets thing-makers opt-out of security updates Microsoft's released a new flavour of Windows 10.…

The new Enlightenment E20 Desktop has just been released. The Enlightenment project consists of the Enlightenment Window manager (which was started in 1996), the EFL library that contains graphic, widget, network, and other basic desktop functions and some applications that are based on EFL like a terminal emulator, a video player, and an IDE. In this tutorial, I will show you how to install the E20 Desktop on the current Ubuntu 15.10.

Just as well considering all the new OSs it's putting out there Apple has open-sourced its Swift programming language, used to write apps for its ecosystem of products.…

In the area of technical support?, it’s nothing new, but it’s the first time I can recall seeing it integrated in the control center of a Linux distribution. And the integration, like almost every aspect of what I’ve seen on Deepin 15 alpha 2, is smooth.

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the serious business of stickers in open source culture. I shared the Rules of Sticker Club, criteria stickers must meet to make it onto the limited space of a laptop.

ownCloud is a self-hosted open source file sync and share server. Like "big boys" Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, and others, ownCloud lets you access your files, calendar, contacts, and other data. You can synchronize everything (or part of it) between your devices and share files with others.

The Taiwanese pioneering fabless semiconductor company MediaTek Labs announced the general availability of the latest addition to its LinkIt portfolio, the MediaTek LinkIt Smart 7688 development platform.

Birthdays mark time. They ask us to look back—at our accomplishments and stumbles, our histories and their invaluable lessons. They also encourage us to look forward—to our dreams and goals, our futures and the promise they hold.

In today's open source roundup: LinkedIn updates its Android app with a Facebook-like feed and interface. Plus: Steve Ballmer wants Android apps on Windows phones. And is Apple moving Android users to iOS?

By the time I was 23, I was a veteran software developer and the father of two adorable girls. I had designed, written, and managed other developers through the creation of a medical practice management system written in little known, now forgotten, 4GL. What I learned in that process was not to get yourself locked into a product that cannot be run on any operating system (OS)/hardware combination that might become popular.

Machine learning, cloud, and IoT among the top tech predictions for 2016.

32-bit Google Chrome Linux binaries will no longer be available starting in March 2016. Chromium, the open source alternative, is not affected.

A couple of weeks ago, a Chief Digital Officer (CDO) of one of the largest mobile telecommunications companies in the world asked me how a large organization such as hers should think about organizing itself to maintain control over costs and risks while still giving their global organization the freedom to innovate.

And it's pretty easy to install via a command line. How-to The Let's Encrypt project has opened to the public, allowing anyone to obtain free SSL/TLS certificates and set up HTTPS websites in a few simple steps.

Opera Software, through Aneta Reluga, announced yet another update for the Opera 35.0 web browser, build 2064.0, which is still in the developer channel for GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows operating systems.

Tom Haines is the director and co-founder of 3Dami, a nonprofit educational program in the UK that focuses on teaching 3D animation to teens with ages ranging from 14 to 18 years old. It's a seven-day program in which students produce their own animated films from concept to final viewing. read more

Chromebooks have proven to be incredibly popular devices, with many getting high star ratings and reviews from customers on Amazon. But a recent report by the Electronic Frontier Foundation suggests that Google is tracking the Internet browsing of students who use Chromebooks.