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Early access to the upcoming Cinnamon 2.8 is available for people interested in beta-testing and helping the team squash bugs before the official release. Cinnamon 2.8 will be officially released and announced at the end of the month. It should not be considered “stable” until then.

Finally after the wait of approximately six months, wolf sharp teeth are ready to catch your computer with its extreme power. Ubuntu 15.10 'Wily Werewolf' has been made available to download with new features, alot improvements and fixes. Let's see what features this wolf has hunted down for us.

The following tutorial will teach anyone how to install the recently released Ubuntu 15.10 operating system on their PC or laptop. Dubbed Wily Werewolf, Ubuntu 15.10 arrived on October 22, 2015.

Tempest is the OpenStack official test suite. Its purpose is to run tests for OpenStack API validation in an OpenStack cluster, in order to know how healthy our cloud is. It is also used as a gate for validating commits into the OpenStack core projects—it will avoid breaking them while merging changes.

In this tutorial we are going to provide you with step-by-step instructions on how to install EspoCRM 3.7.2 with Nginx on an Ubuntu VPS. EspoCRM is an open source Customer Relationship Management web application that allows you to see, enter and evaluate all your company relationships regardless of the type. It is designed to be fast, simple, and customizable.

Hello, open gaming fans! In this week's edition, we take a look at the Linux-based gaming console DragonBox Pyra, a new Pick of the Week, Linux games, and more. Open gaming roundup for October 17 - 23, 2015 read more

On servers and clouds, this new Ubuntu springs forward to take a big bite.

In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at the U.K. moving away from proprietary software, France voting to adopt more open source, a new version of BeagleBoard hitting the market for Christmas, and more news. read more

Yesterday Ubuntu 15.10 was made available to download with some new features, improvements and updated apps. If you've upgraded to Ubuntu 15.10 then this article is going to show you 10 things/tweaks that you need to do to make your Ubuntu more handy and fruitful.

Navstik Labs showed off its Linux-based “Flyt” commercial drone autopilot, while 3DR opened up its Solo quadcopter’s hardware add-on spec to developers. 3DR Solo It’s been a busy week for drones. While the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) community argued over the merits of FCC regulations proposed this week that would require U.S. UAV owners to […]

We've just been informed by Mr. Martin Wimpress from the Ubuntu MATE project that he and his team are in talks with the Lubuntu Linux developers to port the operating system to the Raspberry Pi 2 single-board computer (SBC).

Despite the numerous advantages presented by cloud computing, security is still the biggest factor holding back more widespread adoption by businesses. A recent survey by AlienVault found that an overwhelming 90 percent of organisations are still concerned about cloud security.

Back in March, we noted that Wikimedia was suing the NSA over its mass surveillance program under Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act. This is the part of the law that the NSA uses to justify its "upstream" collection -- which lets the NSA partner with backbone providers like AT&T and tap their fiber lines at entry/exit points from the country and sniff through all the traffic. The problem in many lawsuits concerning NSA surveillance is that it's been difficult for the plaintiff to satisfy the requirements necessary to get "standing." That is, can the plaintiff prove that he/she/it had rights violated by the program.

At the start of the week I announced that work had begun on Moksha’s new control panel we are calling Swami. Today I am happy to share that the first two modules for Swami are ready for alpha testing:

In the 1960s and 70s, technically savvy enthusiasts sought to game telecommunications systems to make free calls, keeping telecom engineers on their toes.

In this week's Top 5, we highlight a Linux story, an open source story, open hardware with Sonic Pi, a wrapup of the LibreOffice Conference, and an intern's idea goes global.

Initial Allocation of One Million US Dollars Today Mozilla is launching an award program specifically focused on supporting open source and free software. Our initial allocation for this program is $1,000,000.

As Cinnamon 2.8 approaches official release later this month, the developers have made the pre-release version available to early adopters. If you are eager to try it, there are two different options. Mint users can install it through the package manager. Otherwise, you can build it from source.

The File Manager is just one of the many community maintained applications on Ubuntu Touch and a new version has been recently released and made available for upgrade.

Open source cloud and IaaS services are the focus of the latest expansion of the Linux Foundation's membership, which now includes Agenda Open Systems, Apprenda, Doky.io, Exablox and Rausch Netzwerktechnik GmbH.