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A federal judge has ordered an immediate halt to the NSA’s controversial phone records collection program, ruling that the program violates the Constitution.

In October I appeared on the 100th episode of The Dave and Gunnar Show, an independent podcast about open source and open government issues hosted by two members of Red Hat's public sector team. We spoke at length about The Open Organization (one of my all-time favorite topics!), and the interview gave me a chance to address an important question. read more

Let me introduce you to Chalet OS. The web site of this operating system says that their main target audience is fresh Linux converts who come to the Linux world from other operating systems. Isn't it the same audience that Zorin OS is aiming at? I was baffled and intrigued!

Finally! The first ever official Cinnamon edition of the acclaimed Fedora Linux computer operating system has been announced today, November 10, 2015.

For today's "Watch" series of articles, we've prepared a very nice video compilation, courtesy of The Linux Foundation, containing several video tours of Linux kernel developer work spaces.

This past weekend, the sixth-annual MozFest — Mozilla’s celebration of the open Web — convened hackers, teachers and organizers from across the globe to address some of the most pressing issues facing the Web today. Together, we explored how we … Continue reading

The antivirus software company Doctor Web has issued an alert about a new form of crypto-ransomware that targets users of Linux-based operating systems. Designated as "Linux.Encoder.1" by the company, the malware largely targets Web servers, encrypting their contents and demanding a ransom of one Bitcoin (currently about $500).

Interested in keeping track of what's happening in the open source cloud? Opensource.com is your source for news in OpenStack, the open source cloud infrastructure project.

I grew up in the VAX/VMS world. Our student computing system at the college I attended was a VAX 11/785, and when I would later work for the administrative computing department, they had an 11/780 as a test box, and an 11/785 and 8650 cluster doing production work.

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Ubuntu developers are working on a new feature for Ubuntu called click lock. This is already present in Windows systems, but it looks like no one figured how to integrate it in Linux systems.

Ghost is a powerful Open Source publishing and blog platform that is beautifully designed and easy to use. Ghost is written in javascript and uses node.js as runtime environment. This tutorial shows the installation of the Ghost Blog software with Apache and SSL on Ubuntu 15.10.

SolidRun launched a Linux-supported “ClearFog” sandwich-style networking SBC with an Armada 38x-based COM, six switched GbE ports, and MikroBus expansion. SolidRun, which is known for its Linux-friendly HummingBoard SBCs and CuBox mini-PCs, has launched a 38x-MicroSoM computer-on-module based on a dual-core Marvell Armada 38x system-on-chip, along with an open-spec companion carrier board aimed at networking […]

In August 2015, IBM announced LinuxONE (www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/47474.wss), anchored by two new Linux mainframe servers that capitalize on best-of-class mainframe security and performance, and that bring these strengths to open-source-based technologies and the Open Source community. Th

Linux developer Linus Torvalds says perfect security in the open source OS is not possible, so developers should not distract themselves believing they can implement it.

In today's open source roundup: AnandTech has a detailed review of Google's Nexus 5X Android phone. Plus: A video overview of what's new in Cinnamon 2.8. And DistroWatch reviews Fedora 23 Workstation.

Actually, setup down here was carefully tested in regards of Mitaka Milestone 1 which hopefully will allow to verify solution provided by Bug #1365473 Unable to create a router that's both HA and distributed. Delorean repos now are supposed to be rebuilt and ready for testing via RDO deployment in a week after each Mitaka Milestone

Canonical says LXD, its open source container virtualization solution for Ubuntu Linux, outperforms VMware ESX and KVM, while also offering functionality not available from Docker.

The Curiosity rover has been on Mars since 2012, and it’s been responsible for a lot of the cool and interesting information we got from the Red Planet since then. As it turns out, it’s remotely controlled with a help of a Linux machine from Earth.

A recent Washington Post article entitled "Net of Insecurity" re-bundled old FUD about Linux and the internet's security.

The open source OpenSUSE Leap OS is a new community-supported Linux distribution derived from SUSE Linux Enterprise.