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In this week's Top 5 articles of the week, we highlight our 10 editor's picks from the most popular projects of the year, an open letter to parents on FOSS, what's in a sys admin's toolbox, avoiding burnout at work, and Blender for surgery. 

Now that the Mozilla Firefox 43.0 has landed safely on our computers, the time has come to take a look at some of the upcoming features of the next major release of the popular web browser, Mozilla Firefox 44.0.

Adlink unveiled COM Express Type 6 Compact and Basic modules based on Intel’s 6th Gen Core “Skylake” CPUs, with up to 32GB DDR4 RAM and -40 to 85°C support.

Okay, artists, get those colored pencils sharpened, those brushes cleaned and ready, because you have an assignment — that logo isn’t going to design itself. FreeNAS — “founded in 2005 on the guiding principle that network storage software should be available to the public at no cost and free of license restrictions” according to its site — has initiated a logo contest, urging the community to contribute artwork to become a part of FreeNAS history.

So despite all the browser tools and options that can be deployed and tweaked to give a browser a less unique fingerprint, nothing seems to make any real difference. And from what I’ve seen so far, the more plugins installed and the more options enabled/disabled, the more unique your browser becomes. It’s like getting your phone? number on a “Do Not Call” list.

MEAN.JS is a full javascript stack that contains MongoDB, Express, AngularJS, and Node.js. In this tutorial, I will show you how to install MEAN.JS on ubuntu 15.04. We will install MongoDB from the Ubuntu repository and install Node.js and the npm package manager with the nodesource script.

I spent my career in a school system that had a high number of socioeconomically disadvantaged youth. These young people were talented, but often lacked the resources to afford both computers and software to use at home and to share their work with teachers when they came to school. read more

Is contributor doing it for the LULs Y/N? Input = Y Wikipedia is to put artificial intelligence to the enormous task of keeping the free, editable online encyclopaedia up-to-date, spam-free and legal.…

Short history of Fedora OpenID In March 2013, we introduced an entirely new and rewritten OpenID provider: FAS-OpenID. This has since become the basis for logging in to almost every web service the Fedora Infrastructure runs as well as some... Continue Reading →

It was indeed just 'comedy wallpaper in a techie's lappie' Britain's new Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers will be Windows XP-free zones, the Ministry of Defence has confirmed to The Register.…

We're introducing you today to a DIY (Do It Yourself) HVAC automation system called Pi-Cubes, which is powered by the Raspberry Pi single-board computer, as well as the Ubuntu Snappy Core operating system.

Code has launched a compact “PixiePro” SBC that runs Linux on a 1GHz i.MX6Quad SoC, and offers extensive I/O including WiFi, BLE, NFC, GPS, and 3G. At first glance, $130 may seem a lot these days, for yet another SBC based on the well-worn NXP (formerly Freescale) quad-core i.MX6. Yet, the PixiePro SBC stands out […]

Worried about privacy?, about the websites you visit tracking you, whether you accept their cookies or not?

Panopticlick to the rescue!

This little Linux powered mini PC is capable of doing desktop grade work.

Case marks the first time an ISP has been held liable for user piracy.

The Software Freedom Conservancy is something of an oddity among the myriad technology outfits that exist in the US of A. It fights to keep software free and to prevent people or companies taking advantage of what are perceived to be liberal licensing terms.

Coppermine is a multi purpose, fully featured and integrated web picture gallery script written in PHP which will allows users to organize images and photos. Coppermine Photo Gallery is one of the oldest and most popular web picture gallery scripts.

Cube-Controls has launched a “Pi Cubes” home automation and HVAC kit that runs Ubuntu Snappy on a Raspberry Pi. Having furnished its Kickstarter backers with its Pi Cubes home automation system, Kitchener, Canada startup Cube-Controls has opened sales to the general public. The Raspberry Pi-driven system is designed like a commercial building HVAC automation system, […]

UbuCon's growth, and Canonical's increased involvement, is a sign that the company needs to return to organizing its own live events.

I'm just starting out in the world of development, and many of the projects I'm interested in exploring are written in Node.js. If you're an old hand at such things, you already know that which version of Node you use on a particular application is vitally important.