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The Budgie operating system has some pretty awesome theming features that are not usually found in other distros, as shown in a recent video posted by the developers.

Not-for-profit open source group The Linux Foundation has announced a new collaborative effort that aims to advance the Blockchain, the technology that powers Bitcoin.

Karanbir Singh from the CentOS team announced the general availability of the CentOS 7 Linux operating system for the ARM hardware architecture.

Immediately after LibreOffice 5.0.4 was released, the developers have already posted information about the first RC for LibreOffice 5.1.0, which is now also available for download and testing.

Alpine Linux is a lightweight Linux distribution based on musl libc and Busybox that’s oriented towards security and less on the overall user experience. A new version has been released and is now ready for download.

In this tutorial we will show you how to install Tine 2.0 on a CentOS 7 VPS with Apache, PHP and MariaDB. Tine 2.0 is an open source groupware and customer relationship management (CRM) application.

Canonical is going to host its first live convention, UbuCon, in just a month. We’re saying first because it’s been a really long time since the previous one.

Like it or not, Google’s open source WebP image format is here to stay. At this point, the only thing holding back widespread adoption on the Internet is browser support. At present, the format is supported in Chrome, Opera, Opera Mini, Android Browser and Chrome for Android. However, with the folks at Mozilla working fast and furious to improve the Firefox experience in hopes of giving Chrome some competition, you can bet that Firefox support for WebP will be coming soon. When that happens, the two other major holdouts, Internet Explorer (now Microsoft Edge) and Safari, will be sure to follow suit.

Express is a NodeJS web application framework. It provides robust set of features and can be used for building single-page, multi-page as well as hybrid web-based applications. Express is a part of the MEAN stack backend.

There are lots of tools for manipulating PNG files. This article provides a roundup of excellent open source tools for optimizing the compression of PNG files, covering both lossless and lossy compression.

Wine is a software for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems that makes it possible to run Microsoft Windows applications on such systems.

Kodi is the best multimedia solution when you want an open source and powerful media hub for your home. A really good Android remote is being worked on so that users can control it much easier.

Google’s software implements a standard called OpenPGP, based on an encryption system that Phil Zimmerman created in 1991: Pretty Good Privacy, or PGP. Despite big promises, these tech giants probably won’t champion end-to-end encryption

The Linux Foundation announced the availability of the final episode in the World Without Linux animated series with which the non-profit organization attempted to promote Linux around the globe.

When the final, stable edition is released, Manjaro Linux 15.12 will be code-named Capella, and the KDE edition will ship with KDE Plasma 5.5, so the following screenshots should give you a sneak preview of that edition of KDE Plasma 5.

Valve wants to improve the support for the Steam Controller and continues to release updates for the Steam Client, bringing important changes.

Recently, I learned about FreedomBox, a personal server that allows you to use the Internet privately or in locations that have bad or no Internet connection.

The team of developers behind the Wine project were extremely proud to announce the final and stable release, as well as the immediate availability for download of Wine 1.8.

In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at reasons to use open source software, betting on open source, cryptocurrencies, a look back at 2015, and—since it's that time of the year—some predictions for 2016.

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