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Just in time for the holidays, it's a new release of elementary OS! Freya 0.3.2 is a minor release, mostly focused around solving some issues folks have had with UEFI & Secure Boot, but we've also managed to sneak in some internationalization updates and a couple new features. With the help of incredibly useful tips, advice, and code snippets from Antoni Norman (aka Pinguy), Cody has almost completely rewritten our .iso build system since 0.3.1. We've tested these new builds on 64-bit (U)EFI, and BIOS machines, with and without Internet, with Secure Boot and legacy boot, and everything in between. No more infamous GRUB boot error!

Aimed at variety of embedded, data storage, medical and industrial applications, the CSB502SSD follows Bud Griffin’s successful Kickstarter launch this summer of the PiDrive SSD expansion card. Like the PiDrive, which was offered to backers for $29, or $79 with a 128GB mSATA solid state drive, the CSB502SSD plugs directly into one of the Raspberry Pi’s USB ports.

Canonical's Steve Langasek informed Ubuntu Touch developers that the Ubuntu for phones mobile operating system will support the s390x (also known as IBM System z) hardware architecture for the landing silos.

Welcome back to our continuing series on systemd features. As you've seen in our previous articles, systemd brings more power and flexibility to service startup and management. Some features in systemd we've covered are for compatibility with the old SysVinit.

Drupal, one of the largest open source projects in the world, is a content management system and application framework that powers millions of websites, web services, and mobile applications. Individuals and organizations in every sector use Drupal for everything from simple blogs and micro-sites, to complex intranets and private internal applications, to some of the largest sites on the web, including several top 100 properties.

The Unity game engine has been upgraded to version 5.3, and its developers have made a series of very important improvements to it. Unity is one of the most successful gaming engines out there, and it's being used by too many games to count. Some of the more famous include Angry Birds 2, Pillars of Eternity, ......

In this article you will know more about responsive WordPress themes and also how important these themes are for your site ranking in the search engines. So let’s dive in and discuss responsive WordPress themes.

Like many LJ readers these days, I've been leading a bit of a techno-nomadic lifestyle as of the past few years - jumping from network to network, access point to access point, as I bounce around the real world while maintaining my connection to the Internet and other networks I use on a daily basis.

With less than a week to go before a trial, a class-action lawsuit over the copyright status of "Happy Birthday" has been resolved. Details of the settlement, including what kind of uses will be allowed going forward, are not clear.

For years, people have wondered when Google would combine Android and Chrome OS. That day appears to be coming.

Now that the Linux Mint 17.3 "Rosa" Cinnamon and MATE flavors have been released, the users of the previous version have been given a green light for the upgrade.

Everything is connected around us. This revolution has already started and it will be bigger than previous technology revolutions, including the mobile smartphone revolution. Internet of Things, as many call it today, will fundamentally affect all of us.

ZFS is a combined file system and logical volume manager. The features of ZFS include protection against data corruption, support for high storage capacities, efficient data compression, integration of the concepts of filesystem and volume management, snapshots and copy-on-write clones, continuous integrity checking and automatic repair, RAID-Z and native NFSv4 ACLs. This tutorial will show you how to install ZFS on Debian 8.

In today's open source roundup: Mozilla announces the end of the Firefox OS smartphone, and Linux redditors share their thoughts about it. Plus: Ars Technica reviews Google's Pixel C tablet. And Adobe releases a huge security update for Linux Flash player.

Getting a Linux server hacked and made part of a botnet is easier than some people may think. As two unrelated blog posts published in the past week demonstrate, running a vulnerable piece of software is often all that's required.

The results of our latest poll have been tallied and FOSS Force readers evidently think that Mozilla should keep Thunderbird instead of helping the project find a new home. Mozilla executive chairperson, Mitchell Baker, announced on November 30 that the foundation intended to eventually separate itself from the popular desktop email client it first released in 2004.

Adlink’s “Matrix MXE-1400” is a compact, rugged industrial PC built around a quad-core Atom, with three GbE ports, SATA and CFast, and optional wireless. The Matrix MXE-1400 is the first of a new series of industrial computers that continues Adlink Matrix E series features such as fanless operation, cable-free construction, and ruggedization. The MXE-1400 is […]

A few of weeks ago I got a email from a friend who was attending an education technology conference. In the note he referenced PyGaze, an open source project I might be interested in. read more

Adobe abandoned active development for the Flash Player on Linux a while back and is now only releasing security upgrades. The company just released a massive security update, and it looks like the Linux platform is covered as well.

Yesterday I wrote the article on how to select and install the right theme for your blog or website. No doubt it’s very important to have a good-looking, responsive and best-fit theme for your blog/website. So if you’ve not yet read that article then you can read here. But today I’ll show you how you can make your website more useful for your readers by installing more plugins to your WordPress site. In this article you will know how to install WordPress plugins.