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Several versions of self-encrypting hard drives from Western Digital are riddled with so many security flaws that attackers with physical access can retrieve the data with little effort, and in some cases, without even knowing the decryption password, a team of academics said.

The new Ubuntu GNOME 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) has been unveiled by its developers and is now ready for download. The latest version of this Ubuntu flavor comes with the newest GNOME 3.16.x packages, but it can be upgraded to GNOME 3.18.

Advantech’s “UNO-1252G” is a rugged IoT gateway that runs Linux on an Intel Quark, and offers isolated serial and DIO ports, plus mini-PCIe expansion.

Picat is a new logic-based programming language. In many ways, Picat is similar to Prolog, especially B-Prolog, but it has functions in addition to predicates, pattern-matching instead of unification in predicate heads, list comprehensions and optional destructive assignment.

Codenamed 'Wily Werewolf', 15.10 continues Ubuntu's proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution.

This article will provide you with some hints on how to generate random password using shell. Among many other tools which can be used on the Linux command line to generate random passwords such as openssl, mktemp, od or /dev/urandom the specific and easiest tool designed for this purpose is pwgen.

The Linux-dominated home automation business is still a fragmented free-for-all, but it’s also beginning to consolidate, with far fewer startups in 2015 compared to recent years. This month we saw several major product announcements from established players related to Linux. First, Google’s Nest Labs announced the first device partners for its Weave home automation protocol […]

While I read Opensource.com article "Goodbye Henry Ford, hello open organization," a line describing traditional organizational structures as "rigid and slow to adapt" with "silos and lack of communication" caught my eye. Those words could well describe the PK-12 education sector, where I spent many years. read more

Time to get serious with LXD Canonical has kicked out its container management architecture for the suits with Ubuntu 15.10.…

The odd thing was that if you didn’t know that attendance was up, you might’ve thought that the numbers were actually going down. That’s mainly because IT-oLogy, the folks behind the event, spent some extra bucks and rented the entire second floor of the Raleigh Convention Center, which gave them a whopping thirteen meeting rooms to use for presentations, plus the third floor Grand Ballroom — large enough to hold a Learjet, with room left over for a Cessna or two — for the keynote addresses. The later addition meant that the keynotes were no longer SRO, with plenty of room for attendees to spread themselves out and get comfortable.

Are you interested in using Docker to change the way you develop and package Linux application? You're not alone. read more

An overly enthusiastic attempt to upgrade using Debian Unstable has temporarily left me without KDE. As disasters go, it's a small one, since I can easily restore from backup, but until I have time for repairs, I've fallen back on Linux Mint's MATE. The experience is making me aware of all that I miss in KDE.

The new Kubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) has arrived with all the latest packages in the KDE family, including all the updates that have been recently released for the Plasma desktop.

There is a misconception among some people that Docker containers and OpenStack are competitive technologies. The truth is the exact opposite and in fact, Oracle is now providing the best proof yet, by using Docker images as a mechanism to actually install an OpenStack cloud.

In today's open source roundup: Canonical picks the name for Ubuntu 16. Plus: GNOME gets a gaming hub. And The Google Play Store gets a whole new look.

This tutorial will show you how to control the pins of the parallel port of your PC on Linux from within a small C program. In this example, we switch just a few LED's on and off, but the same technology can be used to control relays to switch devices with high power consumption on and off for home automation.

Because "cloud" means different things to different people, and because OpenStack tries to be all those things, individual OpenStack deployments can look very different from one another depending on many criteria. The "big tent" conversation, which has been ongoing in the OpenStack community for some time, strives to provide all of the answers for all of OpenStack's large audience. read more

Limitless beta service due in production, erm, well, last month Docker has hoovered up container hosting outfit Tutum, creating what the cash-packed buyer claims will be a complete platform to build, ship and run distributed applications.…

KDE and ownCloud developer Jos Poortvliet speaks to the DoBots creator about their latest smart home tech

Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) has finally arrived in its stable form, but don't expect to see too much on the desktop side. This new release of Ubuntu has a lot more changes and features on the cloud and server side of things.