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It's been just over a year since Oracle first released an OpenStack version tailored for its namesake Linux distribution, and on Tuesday it followed up with a key update reworked specifically for today's containerized world.

By offering big data services in its Azure cloud on Linux, Microsoft is sending several important messages to customers.

Enjoy quiet while it lasts, penguins, Mir, Unity 8 on way Review Ubuntu 15.10, Wily Werewolf, continues Canonical’s recent Ubuntu tradition of delivering, well, nothing earth shattering.…

If you know a professional designer who is contributing time to an open source project, chances are they fall into one of these three categories, explained Garth Braithwaite, who spoke Monday at the All Things Open conference: read more

Antergos 2015.10.18 has been released. Notable changes include Cnchi v0.12.24 and GNOME 3.18 (default iso).

Rather than the full Five Things in Fedora This Week, I’ve just got one — as you may have seen by now, while we hoped to sign off on the Fedora 23 final release yesterday for availability next week, the... Continue Reading →

Ubucon will take place on Jan 21-22, 2016. With Mark Shuttleworth giving the Ubucon keynote, the event will be structured as a traditional conference with presentations, demos and plenaries on the first day and as an unconference for the second one. There will also be two tracks grouping sessions by theme. The Users track is intended for those interested in learning about the non-tech, day-to-day part of using Ubuntu, as well as how to contribute to Ubuntu as an advocate. The Developers track will cover the sessions of interest to the amateur/professional developer, including topics like app development, IoT, convergence, cloud and more.

One of my favorite things about the keynotes at All Things Open this year was that attendees didn't have just one great speaker to listen to each morning—we had a few. I enjoyed hearing multiple stories and many insights from dynamic speakers all in one sitting. This article is a summary of two keynotes: Mark Skarpness, Director of Embedded Software, Open Source Technology Center at Intel Isabel Jiminez, Distributed Systems Engineer, Mesosphere Mark spoke about one of my new passions, the Internet of Things, and Isabel spoke about my all-time favorite passion, contributing to open source communities and getting paid to do so. read more

Spoiler alert! Don't read this if you did not watch the third episode of the fifth season of Homeland, an acclaimed American television series that airs on the Showtime network.

Linux and professional multimedia tools don't exactly go together, and while we can use some great and very capable audio workstations like Ardour, there aren't many audio mixers that DJs can use for their performances. If however you are a Linux user and you don't want to resort to other operating systems every time that you need to play some music, here are your choices.

This season’s large Free/Open Source software (FOSS) conference, which is hosted near Red Hat’s headquarters, becomes an event that is all about Microsoft, by far the biggest foe of FOSS

One of the world's largest scientific organization is using OpenStack to understand what makes up everything in our universe. CERN runs one of the most collaborative scientific projects on Earth, responsible for producing enormous amounts of data on a routine basis to make Nobel prize winning discoveries such as the Higgs boson has some pretty unique computing requirements. read more

Cross-platform mobile development business now pitches to Java developers. Xamarin, the company co-founded by Mono inventor Miguel de Icaza to enable cross-platform mobile development with C#, has acquired RoboVM.…

Well, it looks like Canonical employees have started a new trend, to tease Ubuntu users with the latest convergence features.

Canonical chief Mark Shuttleworth has just announced that the next release of the Ubuntu GNU/Linux distribution will be named Xenial Xerus. And so the question arises – what will he do for release names after he reaches the end of the English alphabet?

Aaeon unveiled an “OMNI” line of rugged, Linux-ready panel-PCs with modular I/O add-ons, starting with a Bay Trail “OMNI-2155” with a 15.6-inch touchscreen. The OMNI-2155 is the first in a line of modular, customizable OMNI touchscreen panel-PCs from Aaeon, an embedded focused subsidiary of Asus. Like Aaeon’s recent 10.1-inch ACP-1104 panel-PC, the 15.6-inch OMNI-2155 runs […]

Earlier today, Canonical's ?ukasz Zemczak sent his daily report to inform us all about the latest work done by the Ubuntu Touch developers in preparation for the upcoming OTA-8 software update.

Chances are, if you work at a big company, you have to work with the beloved Windows and - unlike home - you don't have sudo - er, I mean admin-permissions. If you are a vivid Linux-user at home, it may feel like you're lost without your favourite Linux tools.

However, there's a lot of Free Software / Open Source software for Windows to make you feel more at home. Below I will present a list of the tools I use from time to time. Remember, it's just a list of software I use which I hope you say "Nah, I never heard of that!", that's the goal of this article. It's not meant as a recommendation of any kind, or saying that it's better, or to start a discussion about an utopic world in which you are free to use any OS you like at work.

As advertised officially, in addition to the comprehensive OpenStack services, libraries and clients, this release also provides Packstack, a simple installer for proof-of-concept installations, as small as a single all-in-one box and RDO Manager an OpenStack deployment and management tool for production environments based on the OpenStack TripleO project.

Ubuntu MATE 15.10 (Wily Werewolf), a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu that's using the beautifully crafted MATE desktop environment, has been released and is now available for download.