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The people in charge of network security in corporations, government institutions, hospitals, and other installations that routinely trade in vulnerable information, are increasingly moving to devices such as tokens, smartcards or biometrics to provide an extra measure of safety... As you might expect, vendors of these devices are quickly moving to support Linux.

Craft is a content management system (CMS) designed for publishers who want more control and more powerful performances from their CMS.

Many many interviews were conducted this year by writers and the staff of Opensource.com. Our goal when asking luminaries in the field of open source questions about their businesses, their projects, and their lives was to shine a light on how people all over the world are using open source software, hardware, and other solutions to make things better. Read more about our 10 most-read interviews on Opensource.com in 2015. read more

It’s quite telling though that most microkernel proponents tend not to be kernel developers... In any event, this article will be a concise tour of microkernel myths and misconceptions throughout the ages.

Hello, open gaming fans! In this week's edition, we take a look at updates on Vulkan, an open source emulator for Mac OS X, SparkyLinux GameOver Linux distro, and more! Open gaming roundup for December 26 - January 1, 2015.

The results of our hardware platform poll have been tallied and just as we suspected, FOSS Force readers in large part use every platform available. The poll, which asked what different hardware platforms you use, offered a slate of answers too long to list here. Let’s just say it covered the gamut, from smartphones to desktops, and included separate places to tic for different operating systems.

These "best of" articles offer a nice summary of the past year from a range of perspectives.

One look around the airport waiting lounge or family living room will tell you everything you need to know about where the cloud is headed. Christmas carols drift on by thanks to Pandora, gifts come without having to stand in line at the mall, and those holiday snaps of the family will be stored on someone else’s server. In the next 12 months, software running on clouds will rule our world more than ever—but unfortunately not many of those clouds are powered by OpenStack. read more

Ian Murdock, 42, was best known for his contributions to the Linux operating system, founding the Debian Project, a widely used Linux distribution, while a student at Purdue University in Indiana, where he earned...

In this fortnight's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at the first official release of the Perl 6 language specification, a reading and watching list from the EFF, and more! Open source news roundup for December 19, 2015-January 1, 2016 read more

Deepin 15 is the latest edition of Deepin, a Linux desktop distribution that used to be based on Ubuntu Desktop, but is now based on Debian sid. I’ve been writing about it since the alpha release, so if you’re a regular visitor here, you should already be familiar with Deepin 15.

The Manjaro Linux community announced the release of the Manjaro Linux BspWM Community Edition 15.12 computer operating system.

Solus 1.0 codenamed Shannon, a Linux distribution built from scratch that’s using The GTK-based desktop environment named Budgie Desktop, has been released by Solus Project and is now ready for download. This release ships with the latest version of budgie desktop 10, powered by linux kernel 4.3, introduce the raven sidebar that allow user to manage the notifications, access to the calendar, the sound volume and more..

Hardware projects and the culture of makers in tech continued to grow by leaps and bounds in 2015. At Opensource.com, we published numerous articles about how to build, rig up, and connect something. We also covered new open source hardware that made its debut during the year.

Today we're continuing our "Watch" series of articles with a quite interesting one that we have spotted earlier on the official Twitter account of the Ubuntu MATE project.

Magento is an open source e-commerce software and content management system for e-commerce websites based on the PHP Zend Framework. It uses MySQL or MariaDB as database backend. The Magento development has been started in 2008 by Varien. Inc. In this tutorial, I will show you how to install Magento 2 with Nginx, PHP-FPM, and MariaDB as the database on Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf).

Can it run Linux? Yes, we're just as tired of the Web joke as anyone else, but it is a fair question for some devices—especially gaming consoles, which are basically just computers in a different form factor than what you're used to seeing under (or on top of) your office desk.

After reading the news about Ian Murdock’s death and the follow-up mournings of the greater Debian community I remembered that I actually met him, talked to him, and even email-interviewed him in 2006.

My introduction to open source was pure, geeky coincidence. read more

The development team behind the gorgeous deepin Linux operating system had the great pleasure of announcing the release and immediate availability for download of the deepin 15 OS.