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The "If This Then That" site has been around for a long time, but if you haven't checked it out in a while, you owe it to yourself to do so. The Android app (which had a recent name change to simply "IF") makes it easy to manipulate on the fly, and you're still able to interact with your account on its Web site.

Immediately after announcing the release of Linux kernel 4.1.13 LTS, Greg Kroah-Hartman published details about the sixth maintenance version of the Linux 4.2 kernel series and looking at the appended shortlog it is a pretty important one.

Mozilla Festival 2015 was a productive and dynamic event celebrating the world’s most valuable public resource - the open Web. MozFest is also a gathering place for Mozilla community members from around the world and brings together makers, designers and builders........

Red Hat OpenShift 3.1 and Atomic Enterprise Host bring new features to the company's Linux-based open source container strategy, which is based on extending the Docker format.

As many of my regular readers will know, I am a big Ubuntu fan. I spent nearly eight years working at Canonical and my love of Ubuntu has not ceased since I left.

"Software Freedom Day (SFD)" is a worldwide celebration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). Our goal in this celebration is to educate the worldwide public about the benefits of using high quality FOSS in education, in government, at home,........

Old hardware. Laptops in one corner, sitting in a crooked series of piles, some of them just daring someone to try their luck, with one pile looking as if someone, at one time or another, succumbed to that dare. That’s what I found when I arrived at the business warehouse that was donating Reglue a number of laptops and other peripherals — things such as mice, keyboards and 500GB hard drives.

One of my very first jobs in Silicon Valley was to try to help an internet startup get a big juicy contract with the US government (specifically the Department of Defense). The whole process was a disaster of epic proportions, in which I learned a ridiculous amount about government procurement, none of it good.

A new ransomware called Linux.Encoder.1 demands payment from users of open source Linux-based servers and PCs in order to decrypt home directories, Web servers and database files. Ransomware is not something with which users of Linux-based PCs and servers have traditionally had to contend.

Cymmetria Inc., an Israeli start-up whose software lures hackers into cyber traps within organizations' networks has raised around $9 million, the latest sign that investors are flocking to one of cyber-security's hottest trends: deceiving hackers and catching them red handed.

Imagination has launched the fastest 64-bit MIPS Warrior core yet with its P6600, as well as the M6250, the first 32-bit Warrior-M CPU that runs Linux. Imagination Technologies announced the availability of three new processor IP designs based on its latest MIPS Release 6 architecture. Leading the way is the Warrior-P class P6600 — its […]

Opinions vary on whether open source companies can make money, thrive, and truly compete with their proprietary counterparts. As a CEO and co-founder of an open source company, I am frequently challenged to reflect on our strategy, company ethos, and commercial risks we undertake—not only on behalf of the shareholders, but also our employees, partners, and customers. read more

Google has open sourced their machine learning suite of code known as Tensor Flow.

Both Red Hat and Canonical have free enterprise distributions: CentOS and Ubuntu respectively. Until last week, SUSE didn't have any such offering -- at least not officially. Everything changed with the arrival of Leap.

Microsoft is now going after Star Micronics, using threats (with patents) to give Star Micronics paid ‘permission’ to use Linux-based operating systems in its products

In today's open source roundup: Why you should consider using FLAC for audio. Plus: New encryption ransomware targets Linux. And 10 GUI tools for Linux sysadmins.

I've been an avid user of Internet Archive since I found out about it five years ago. Since then, I've used their Wayback Machine to search for fun glimpses at the World Wide Web of yore, but I've also benefited from the Archive as a distribution platform. read more

A busy week for leap forward in Linux distributions

EncFS provides an encrypted filesystem in user-space. It runs without any special permissions and uses the FUSE library and Linux kernel module to provide the filesystem interface. It is a pass-through filesystem, not an encrypted block device, which means it is created on top of an existing filesystem. This tutorial shows how you can use EncFS on Ubuntu 15.10 (Wiley Werewolf) to encrypt your data.

Administrators of Web servers that were infected with a recently released ransomware program for Linux are in luck: There's now a free tool that can decrypt their files. The tool was created by malware researchers from antivirus firm Bitdefender, who found a major flaw in how the Linux.Encoder.1 ransomware uses encryption.