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People who belong to the free and open source software community have one trait in common: they are extremely sensitive to criticism of any kind of the software that belongs to this genre. Nothing else can account for the reaction that has been forthcoming after the Washington Post published an article on Linux a few days back, a fairly long and detailed account that in the main cast doubts on the security afforded by the kernel.

Canonical's Alan Pope informed us this past weekend about the general availability of a preview version of the upcoming LibreOffice DocViewer app for the Ubuntu Touch mobile operating system for Ubuntu Phone devices.

Suppose you want to configure a Linux app to send out email messages from your server or desktop. The email messages can be part of email newsletters, status updates (e.g., Cachet), monitoring alerts (e.g., Monit), disk events (e.g., RAID mdadm), and so on. While you can set up your own outgoing mail server to deliver...

The Fermi series of ISO releases marks some very important changes for Chakra: Plasma 5 is the default desktop environment, replacing kde-workspace 4. Calamares a new modern installer which is actively developed, has replaced Tribe, which has served Chakra well over the years but it was becoming very outdated. A new repository structure, which inludes changes aiming at simplifying things for both developers and users. A new display manager, SDDM, which is very well integrated with Plasma 5. New artwork, codenamed 'Heritage' , which is a fork of the very successful Caledonia artwork, together with new wallpapers.

The Solus operating system is moving closer to a stable release and developers continue to make important updates to the Linux distro.

We've just released version 1.2.0 of "8th", our secure, cross-platform development language.

Steam for Linux has been around for three years, and it completely changed the landscape, bringing a lot of games to Linux and signaling to the industry that this OS is ready to become a gaming platform.

LastPass is a cross-platform password management program. While LastPass is a highly rated service, it is proprietary software. And LastPass has recently been absorbed by LogMeIn. If you're looking for an open source alternative, this article is for you.

The formatting of the laptop depends on its assigned purpose. On the US segment, commanding to the vehicle is done using laptops called PCS (Portable Computer System). They run on a linux operating system and are connected to the vehicle 1553 system as remote terminals. There are usually seven PCS laptops deployed throughout the vehicle.

Google has an edge among certain developers, who trust it more than Microsoft. Google has historically embraced the open-source philosophy and released a lot of technology that it's built to the world.

We document a bash script for Redis SCAN, which tries not to overwhelm our production system. This is useful for pruning, migrating keys, archiving content to disk e.g. into a pre-cache to be served directly by Nginx try_files

LimeSurvey is one of the many open source survey applications written in PHP, and uses a MySQL or PostgreSQL database. LimeSurvey is a user-friendly web application that allows users to develop, publish and collect responses to surveys. Users can use rich text in questions and messages using a rich text editor, and images and videos can easily be integrated into surveys. Surveys can be public, or can be strictly controlled through the use of ‘once-only’ tokens for each survey participant.

Since the release of Fedora 22, Fedora began creating Vagrant boxes for cloud images in order to make it easier to set up a local environment for development or testing. In the Fedora 22 release cycle we worked out quite... Continue Reading →

How do you popularise something as nerdy as live-patching a Linux kernel? Well, SUSE seems to have a pretty good idea.

In this tutorial we are going to provide you with step-by-step instructions on how to install NodeBB on a CentOS 7 VPS. NodeBB is an open source forum software for the Node.js platform that is free and easy to use. It is great for powering any kind of community forums, discussion or bulletin boards. NodeBB utilizes web sockets for instant interactions and real-time notifications.

Hello, open gaming fans! In this week's edition, we take a look at a Linux Kernel 4.1 update for SteamOS, Nvidia support for Vulkan, Objects in Space and open hardware, and more. Open gaming roundup for October 31 - November 6, 2015.

Lebanon Public Libraries officials are offering a privacy prize to anyone who attends their screening of the Edward Snowden documentary Citizenfour at the Kilton Public Library on Tuesday evening. Information Technology Librarian Chuck McAndrew has downloaded an operating system called Tails, designed to help users browse the web more securely, onto flash drives free for the taking.

October was a solid traffic month for Opensource.com, with 681,334 page views and 110 articles published. We published 17 articles by first-time Opensource.com contributors, and we kicked off a new community column, My Open Source Story. We reported from All Things Open and the 2015 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, and we started speaker interview series for OpenStack Summit Tokyo and LISA15.

In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at a new release of Docker, R-Hub for R packages, the Raspberry Pi Foundation's acquisition of Code Club, and more! Open source news: November 1 - 7, 2015 read more

Is it possible that Linux can be infected with viruses? Probably, you heard of this in some debates. But here are some facts that you need to know to better understand how Linux is secured and what things can damage a Linux system. See how it is possible that Linux can be too infected and what are the percentages that you're currently with an infected Linux running on your computer.