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Human beings are complicated animals. We are packed with ambitions, fears, desires, anxieties, and other nuggets of the human condition. Of course, the extent and manifestation of these different elements varies from person to person, across cultures, and in different environments. read more

The developers behind the MPlayer-based MPV open-source video player software have announced today the release of the MPV 0.17.0 update for all supported platforms.

I reached out to Canonical to find out the truth behind this move to have my suspicions validated. This had nothing to do with the GUI...or bringing Ubuntu to Windows. What this is all about is bash...the command line. Even though we had pundits speculating that we'd see a full user-mode Linux image running on Windows, the truth is (or so says the Canonical PR folk), this is only commands specific to servers and development.

Now that we've told you about some of the features that are coming to the Linux Mint 18 operating system in the next few months, the time has come to get a glimpse of the new features of Cinnamon 3.0.

Zappix's development of its Visual IVR customer service platform is informed by research showing that 77% of consumers report that valuing their time is the most important element of good service.

Also in today's open source roundup: How Remix OS will eat the world. And goodbye open source, hello free software.

National Instruments LINX v3.0 adds Raspberry Pi and BeagleBone support, enabling its LabVIEW IDE. NI’s Digilent is selling LINX 3.0 kits for the SBCs. National Instruments (NI) sells the science and engineering focused LabVIEW graphical integrated development environment (IDE) as part of its NI Linux Real Time and Windows software stack available on its data […]

The development team of the MythTV open-source media center has announced today the release and immediate availability for download of the MythTV 0.28 update.

Dr. Sean White joins the Mozilla leadership team this week as a Vice President of Technology Strategy. In this role, Sean will help guide and consult on strategic projects across the organization, with an initial focus on emerging technology opportunities … Continue reading

Free and open source software advocates have courageously blazed a trail that is now being followed by those interested in open source for physical objects. It's called free and open source hardware (FOSH), and we're seeing an exponential rise in the number of free designs for hardware released under opensource licenses, Creative Commons licenses,or placed in the public domain.

I still see a surprising amount of confusion from people on what Steam games work on Linux. Hopefully this will help clear it all up.

Are you interested in keeping track of what is happening in the open source cloud? Opensource.com is your source for news in OpenStack, the open source cloud infrastructure project.

The recently released GNOME 3.20 desktop environment is about to get its first point release, but it looks like it just arrives in the main software repositories of Arch Linux.

In this tutorial we will show you how to install Sitemagic CMS with Nginx on a CentOS 7 VPS. Sitemagic is an open-source CMS application written in PHP. It allows web developers to create professional and great looking websites in no time.

A brief review of the capabilities of the new Windows Subsystem for Linux in Windows 10.

If you didn't know already, there's actually an open source Standalone Steam Controller Driver which could make it far more useful outside of Steam.

We reported at the end of last month that Canonical's first ever Ubuntu Tablet device, the BQ Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Edition, is available for pre-order.

This article explains how to configure PureFTPd to use TLS sessions on a CentOS 7 server. Plain FTP is an insecure protocol because all passwords and all data are transferred in clear text. By using TLS, the whole communication can be encrypted, thus making FTP much more secure.

Josh Matthews is a platform developer at Mozilla. He's a programmer who writes Rust code and is active in the development of Firefox. His development experience has led him to enjoy mentoring new contributors in open source projects. read more

FreeBSD makes last major update in 10.x series.