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The Krita developers have announced the release and immediate availability for download and testing of the second Beta build of the upcoming Krita Animation Edition digital painting software.

Here's some cash. Please come and use our beta Google has unveiled the next gen of its Cloud SQL service, a hosted version of the MySQL database.…

GNU/Linux developer Arne Exton released new kernel packages for Ubuntu/Debian-based distributions.

In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, Mozilla announces new content blocker and ends Firefox OS, the Edge browser's JavaScript engine source released, and more. Open source news for your reading pleasure. December 6 - 11, 2015 read more

The Arch Linux developers published a brief announcement on the project's website to inform all users of the lightweight and highly customizable computer operating system about some modifications in the KDE packages.

An analysis of Red Hat as an investment and it's current stock price from September of this year.

Hello, open gaming fans! In this week's edition, we take a look at the new release of Unity 5.3, high performance gaming mahcine PINE64, new games for Linux, and more. Open gaming roundup for December 5 - 11, 2015 read more

Learn how to customize your Linux shell environment and write simple bash functions. You can use the material in this tutorial to study for the LPI 102 exam for Linux system administrator certification, or to learn for fun.

ROS 2.0 will support the growth of the ROS community by making it much easier to work with small embedded systems, teams of multiple robots, and robots that require real-time control... BMW chose ROS for its autonomous driving research, though: they appreciate its popularity, its stability and reliability based on a large user base, the fact that it makes it easy to collaborate, and its open source nature.

ownCloud was proud to announce that they will start a collaboration with the tech giant Western Digital to bring self-hosted cloud storage solutions powered by ownCloud for home users.

In this guide, we will explain how to install Gogs on an Ubuntu 14.04 VPS with MariaDB and Nginx as proxy server.

Ubuntu app developer Marcos Costales had the great pleasure of announcing the general availability of a new update for his awesome uNav GPS navigation app for Ubuntu Phone devices.

In this week's Top 5 articles of the week, we highlight open source tools for music makers, GPLv3 in court in Germany, Raspberry Pi projects for students, a review of PC-BSD, and a visually impaired man's story as a Linux user.

On December 9, Microsoft released a Linux certification: Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA) Linux on Azure. You know what's even more amazing? Microsoft created this certifcation with the help of the The Linux Foundation. Maybe dogs and cats can live together!

This important step in broadening the technology integration between Microsoft and the open-source community is another sign that this is not your or Bill Gates' Microsoft. Why would Microsoft do this? Well, it's not because Microsoft has become Google+ buddies with Linus Torvalds.

Echobox has launched a high-end, portable “Explorer X1” Android music player, with a 3.5-inch screen, quad-core RK3188, TI DAC and amp, and earphones.

The Wine developers are now working to provide more up to date packages specific for some of the major distributions out there, which should make it easier for users to get their hand on the bleeding edge stuff.

Chromebooks have been red hot sellers on Amazon for quite some time now, and that success has also happened in the classroom. Many schools have opted for Chromebooks over more expensive laptops or iPads from Apple, and that doesn’t sit well with Apple CEO Tim Cook.

Janam’s Android-based “XM70” rugged mobile handheld has a 3.5-inch screen, 1GHz Cortex-A8 SoC, WiFi, BT, and a Zebra SE4500 1D and 2D barcode scanner. Last year, Woodbury, NY based Janam Technologies LLC added Yocto Project-based Linux support to its Windows Mobile-ready XG Series barcode scanners. Now, it’s expanding beyond Windows Mobile to Android with its […]

This time I'm going to look at LXDE, and I think the difference will be clear - LXDE is focused on being lightweight and low overhead but still easy to use and configure.

In June this year, Apple raised more than a few eyebrows at its WWDC conference with an announcement about Swift. Just a year before, Apple had released Swift, a new programming language. It was a big deal--a much simpler language for faster development. Swift was a major competitive advantage for the company, making it easier for teams to build new apps for Apple devices. So Apple's decision to give it away to everyone as an open-source project puzzled many attendees. Why would Apple share such an asset with the world, including its competitors? Was Apple really going to carry out its plan? Yes, on December 3rd, Apple did exactly that.