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Roundcube is a web browser based mail client & also known as webmail. It provides a GUI ( Graphical User Interface ) where end users can check their mails, can create & manage folders, can use address book to search email ids and lot of other webmail features.

As open source fans, we tend to spend a lot of time curled up in front of our computers. Many of us we work in front of computers during the day, and some of us even work on or with open source projects, too. If you are anything like me, spending an entire day in front of a screen and then spending most of the evening there, too, is not uncommon. Today is a good example: I started work at 8:00AM, and at 8:21PM I am starting to write this article...

Renowned GNOME developer Allan Day talks in a recent blog post published on the GNOME website about the new keyboard shortcut approach for the upcoming GNOME 3.20 desktop environment.

The world of connected devices is upon us and things have never been better. Criminals can access your email account by breaking into your fridge. Your child's toys and your television record your conversations and send them to manufacturers' servers, where criminals are (again) able to access them. Your home thermostat goes HAL 9000 and attempts to set your house on fire. And, now, your lightbulbs won't do the one thing you expect them to do: produce light.

Ubuntu has experienced an internal error. Not “Chrome has experienced” or “Thunderbird has experienced”…Ubuntu has experienced an error. Well holy frickin’ bovine-like carbon-based unit. If I were a novice Ubuntu user and my computer informed me that my entire operating system was experiencing an internal error, I’d be running around in circles with my hands flailing in the air like my remaining hair was on fire. That’s not too far away from the mental state of some of those contacting me. Important homework files are on their computers, as are family photos and documents. It was pure unmitigated panic.

elementary OS Freya 0.3.2 is mostly a bugfix release, with a couple of new features. The most notable refinement takes care of issues associated with booting and installation on computers with UEFI firmware and Restricted Boot (more commonly known as Secure Boot).

In the world of Linux distributions, there are many that are based on Debian and Ubuntu, but those are the only two distro that have fueled a following of derivative distros, Fedora and CentOS have too.

A couple of developers have started to work on bringing FM support to the Ubuntu phones, and they already made some progress, but it's more complicated than it sounds

I have enjoyed reading the stories others have shared about how they got started with open source software, so I thought I'd add mine. It is different in that I came to open source purely for business reasons. While I later embraced the open source way for reasons such as personal freedom and community, my initial exposure to it came from trying to find the best solution to a business problem. read more

Post bellow is addressing the question when AIO RDO Liberty Node has to have external networks of VLAN type with predefined vlan tags. Straight forward packstack --allinone install doesn't allow to achieve desired network configuration. External network provider of vlan type appears to be required

Aaeon’s GENE-BT04 spins Intel’s Bay Trail Celeron SoCs into a 3.5-inch SBC aimed at networking and signage, with four GbE ports and dual HDMI ports. Despite its similar name, 3.5-inch form factor, and Intel Bay Trail foundation, Aaeon’s new GENE-BT04 is significantly different than the GENE-BT06 single board computer announced in September. Whereas the GENE-BT06 […]

Dell and Red Hat are making UEFI firmware updates on Linux much easier, which improves the user experience for open source software fans.

Mycroft is a home automation Linux-based device that promises to change the way we interact with our homes. The guys who are making this hardware decided to show us how it's made.

A few years ago there was a project designed to boot generic laptops so they functioned as Chromebooks. It was a cool project, but unfortunately, the compatibility wasn't great, and it wasn't reliable to use on a daily basis. Although Chromebooks are old news these days, it still would be quite useful to transform aging laptop computers into Chromebooks.

The Mozilla Firefox 43.0 web browser is scheduled for an official release on December 15, 2015, but Mozilla has just started seeding the binaries for all supported operating systems, including GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows.

Linux in space is the subject of the Linux Foundation's latest "World without Linux" video, which highlights how open source software helps power the world we live in -- or, in this case, the things orbiting around it.

Since release 1503 (abrt>=2.1.11-19.el7.centos.0.1) CentOS-7 can report bugs directly to bugs.centos.org. You can find information about that feature at this page. sudo is now capable of verifying command checksums. A Kerberos HTTPS proxy is now available for identity management. NSS no longer accepts DH key parameters < 768 nor RSA/DSA certificates with key sizes < 1024 bits. NSS also now enables TLS1.1/1.2 by default. Various packages now support TLS1.1/1.2 and EC ciphers.

The extent of the hack is not known, however Twitter indicates in the notification that only “a small group” of accounts were affected. According to Twitter: “We believe that these actors (possibly associated with a government) may have been trying to obtain information such as email addresses, IP addresses, and/or phone numbers.”

LetsEncrypt recently entered into a public beta. Thanks to the work of the LetsEncrypt team and Fedora packagers, the official LetsEncrypt client is now available in both Fedora 23 and Rawhide. To learn how LetsEncrypt works or what it is, you can read... Continue Reading →

In a world where PC sales continue to slump quarter after quarter, Chromebooks are one of the few bright spots