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This is a step by step guide showing how to install Ubuntu on Windows 10 using Virtualbox, including the Guest Additions.

The Linux Foundation recently put up a funny video showing what life might be like without Web search. It's tagline was "A world without Linux is hard to imagine." It also added, "A world without Linux would mean a world without the Internet."

The Werewolf is coming soon. Robolinux has been making a name for itself as a slick Linux distro for those looking to run a virtual machine.

This July, the OpenStack community celebrated five years of open cloud collaboration. It's now a global community of more than 500 organizations and 30,000 individual members across 166 countries. OpenStack has nearly four million lines of code and powers the clouds of some of world's largest brands, including AT&T, Disney, PayPal, and Walmart. read more

Here we have "GALPon minino" another Linux distribution that is based on Debian and designed for computers older than 10 years or more. The distro comes with LXDE Desktop Environment and a set of applications that fulfills the day-to-day needs of the users without slowing down the machine.

At the request of our readers, we've created the following tutorial to teach all Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet) users how to upgrade their installations to the Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) operating system.

Interested in keeping track of what's happening in the open source cloud? Opensource.com is your source for news in OpenStack, the open source cloud infrastructure project, in this special Liberty-release edition of our weekly OpenStack news. read more

Valve is reportedly removing games from its store which claim to work for Linux but dont actually work on the Steam OS Platform.

Sam Aaron is a live coder who considers programming a performance. He created Sonic Pi, an open source live coding synthesizer that lets people use code to compose and perform in classical and contemporary styles ranging from canons to dubstep. By day, Aaron works as a research associate at the University of Cambridge. By night, he codes music for people to dance to. read more

Another week has passed for the Solus team, and they've made just a small number of updates. It looks like things are calming down, and we might start to get anxious once more about a possible stable launch.

A large amount of scientific research is published in scientific journals, and there has been a lot of debate around offering open access to these articles, along with the underlying data, software, and methods. There is a new journal that launched recently with the goal of going beyond traditional scientific publishing by encompassing all outputs of the research cycle. read more

We added new drivers printer / copier (Ricoh, Konica-Minolta, Gestetner ... and many others, taken directly from openprinting.org) We still have the same kernel, but we added new drivers for WIFI cards to use new devices that are coming to the market today. We added support for more whiteboards, in particular, support for StarBoard (Hitachi), SmartBoard, Multiclass and Promethean, besides having the system ready to quickly set up a low cost PDI using the Wii Remote. All with their corresponding programs to calibrate the board. There is the category System in the launcher, hidden by default. In order to access it, you need to open any category from the top panel and then press the backspace key (delete).

The OpenBSD Project announced the release of the OpenBSD 5.8 BSD-based computer operating system to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the OpenBSD source tree.

Linux and FOSS have a wide cast of Coopers and Shelbys making high performance versions of mass-produced distros, building on the foundation of one of the “big three” Linux distros to make fire-breathing, pixel-burning distros; distros that are the digital equivalent of vehicles that are more than just for taking the kids to soccer practice or zipping over to the grocery store.

ColorCode is a Mastermind game implementation for KDE and the latest version, 0.8.5, has been modified to use Qt5.

Version 8.5.0 of the popular, open source, free, and cross-platform MKVToolNix project, a graphical software that helps users manipulate MKV (Matroska) files has been announced by Moritz Bunkus.

We've spent the week talking about catalyzing direction and what leaders in open organizations do differently. A lively Twitter chat with Thomas Cameron, Charlene Li, Marten Mickos, Marco Bill Peter, and many others provided outstanding takeaways. Let's look at a few of them to see if we can derive any best practices or new ideas. read more

Ubuntu Phone Music App is the perfect example of platform convergence. It's pretty much the same code running on the phones and on the desktop, but that doesn't mean that it can't be improved, tremendously.

n this tutorial we are going to provide you with step-by-step instructions on how to install Citadel on a CentOS 7 VPS. Citadel is an open source messaging and collaboration platform.

Valve is getting really close to the November 10 launch of the Steam Machines, and it's polishing the SteamOS distro. Only small fixes are landing, but they are important ones.