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"You open the box and there are 40 tablets inside, there is a BRCK inside and on the BRCK there is a Linux [open-source] server - so we can locally cache educational content, and serve it up to the tablets." ... The plan is to hand out 17,000 tablets to pupils in their final year of high school, and swap teachers' chalkboards with smart interactive boards targeting especially the poverty-stricken township and rural schools.

The TrueCrypt whole-disk encryption tool used by millions of privacy and security enthusiasts is safer than some studies have suggested, according to a comprehensive security analysis conducted by the prestigious Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology.

Hello, open gaming fans! In this week's edition, we take a look at Valve brings open source gaming console, Knight Squad and Hard West games launch, SteamOS performance concerns, and more. Open gaming roundup for November 14 - 20, 2015 read more

Members of the popular Patreon crowdfunding site for makers and artists who had accounts that were open before the beginning of October are now receiving threatening emails demanding payment of one Bitcoin (about $325 U.S) or else personal information such as Social Security number, tax id, tax forms, name, address, and credit card details will be made public.

In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at FCC rules for wireless router firmware, open source wheelchairs and insulin, motivators for open source programmers, and more! Open source news roundup for November 14 - 21, 2015 read more

Paul Smith, vice president and general manager of Red Hat‘s (NYSE: RHT) public sector business, has indicated that government agencies continue to explore open source software to drive innovation, Executive Gov reported Nov. 11.

By now all Ubuntu Phone users should have received the new Ubuntu Touch OTA-8 software update, so the time has come for us to bring you up to speed with the latest developments.

The fourth episode of the World Without Linux animated series created by Amelia Lorenz, a beautiful and talented graphic artist working for Disney, has just been published online on Linux Foundation's YouTube channel.

Geekbuying’s $109, open-spec “GeekBox” mini-PC includes a removable SBC that runs Android and Ubuntu on an octa-core RK3368, and can plug into a carrier.

Unity 8 is coming to the Ubuntu desktop flavor, but there is still a lot of uncertainty in the community about when it will actually happen, not to mention that there are quite a few users who don't really understand what it is all about. We hope that this article will help clear some misunderstandings.

In the upcoming release of CodeWeavers CrossOver Linux 15 we will see many new and exciting changes over the current CrossOver 14 edition that's available now.

We want to delight our readers with yet another blog post from the "Watch" series of articles, and this time is going to be a lot of fun because it involves Ubuntu Phone devices and an old-school FPS game.

In this guide, we will explain how to install CandyCane on an Ubuntu 14.04 VPS with MariaDB, PHP-FPM and Nginx.

Bodhi Linux 3.1.0 that was released in August this year had an issue. While connecting to an encrypted wireless network, there was not any automatic prompt for password. The bug lead users to confusion and frustration. That's why Bodhi Linux Team has fixed the bug by releasing an unplanned version Bodhi Linux 3.1.1.

Wine developers have just revealed that version 1.8 RC1 of their application has been released, which means that a new major stable version is just around the corner.

D-Link’s Linux-powered, WiFi-enabled “Komfy Switch with Camera” also includes a cloud service, sensors for temperature, humidity, and CO2, and IFTT support.

ClusterHQ CEO Mark Davis discusses the Docker storage opportunity and how his company's open-source Flocker technology fits in.

In this slide show, eWEEK takes a look at some of the highlights of the DockerCon EU event.

In this week's Top 5, we highlight a Linux story, an indoor digital heater that uses computing power, the Opensource.com annual holiday gift guide, 3 open source alternatives to Google Maps API, and our big open sticker article including rules and tips for adding stickers to your stuff.

Of all the beverages out there, one stands out among the rest. Tea. read more