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If you’ve been waiting for a tablet offering the full GNU/Linux experience, your wait is almost over. Ubuntu announced today that a tablet offering the full “convergence” experience will be available to the public in March. The 10 inch device, dubbed the Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Edition, will be built by the Spanish company BQ, which currently manufactures two Ubuntu phones, and will be sold through BQ’s online store. So far, no information on pricing seems to be available.

Canonical has lifted the veil on its long-promised “convergence” version of Ubuntu, which enables a PC-like experience on a mobile device. Three years after Canonical unveiled its Ubuntu for Tablets platform, shortly after announcing the related Ubuntu Touch stack for phones, the company announced the first tablet to ship with Ubuntu Linux. The Ubuntu version […]

Learn how to write a simple polyphonic synthesiser (and the theory behind it) using Python and Cython

Ubuntu launches the first in a series of converged devices alongside European partner, BQ

Post below addresses several questions been posted at ask.openstack.org In particular, code below doesn't require volume UUID to be hard coded to start server attached to boot able cinder's LVM, created via glance image, which is supposed to be passed to script via command line. In the same way name of cinder volume and instance name may be passed to script via CLI.

Version 2.6, expected in May, will be the last release. Mozilla's Head of Core Contributors, George Roter, has announced the end of development of Firefox OS for smartphones.

Canonical and BQ had the great pleasure to inform Softpedia today about the upcoming availability of the world's first Ubuntu converged device, the BQ Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Edition tablet.

Linux Lite is a lightweight Linux distribution based on Ubuntu LTS (Long Term Support releases. It focuses on being a user friendly Linux distribution so that more and more people use Linux for their daily use. The team recently released Linux Lite 2.8 with some new features. In this article I will walk you through a series of Linux Lite 2.8 screenshots from installation to surfing Internet and more.

After more than a year of development, the container runtime gets a stable, production-ready 1.0 release.

This article is the third part of a four-part series that examines some of the changes in 3D printing that have occurred in the past three years since my first articles on the subject. Because this is Linux Journal, instead of discussing the entire 3D printing world, I'm focusing on the sections of the topic most relevant to open source and open hardware.

Convergence is all the rage in the technology industry nowadays and for good reason -- our handheld devices are insanely powerful. It makes sense to leverage a smartphone or tablet's processor for desktop computing.

"The first 100% open source, enterprise-grade cloud Office Suite" is how Collabora Productivity describes the goal of its recently announced collaboration with Kolab Systems. In fact, the goal has a longer history than the description implies, although its promise of free-licensed groupware has the potential to fill one of the few remaining gaps in open office productivity.

Linux Lite is a great Distribution choice for any general user. This distribution would be great for Linux new-comers who are familiar with Windows software and would adapt quickly to the Linux world. However if you are seeking an actual “Lightweight” environment this distribution may not be for you.

Some thoughts on the South African Cyber Crime and Cyber Security bill.

We recently interviewed Justin W. Flory on how he uses Fedora. This is part of a series on the Fedora Magazine where we profile Fedora users and how they use Fedora to get things done. If you are interested in... Continue Reading →

At the same time, Canonical is finally delivering on its promise to deliver one codebase for all devices. The upshot is you'll be able to use the first Ubuntu tablet, the Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Edition tablet, as a PC as well as a tablet.

Redmine is an open source project management and issue tracking tool based on the Ruby on Rails Framework. This tutorial covers the Redmine 3 installation with Nginx as the web server and MySQL as the database on Ubuntu 15.10 (64 Bit) operating system.

We're excited to finally announce the release of Zorin OS 11 with the availability of the Zorin OS 11 Core and Ultimate editions. With Zorin OS 11, we've focused on improving the overall desktop user experience, from the smallest details to the bigger picture. In addition to shipping new and improved versions of our standard pre-installed applications, we've included new applications to help you get more done in Zorin OS faster, better and more enjoyably. These apps include a built-in Contacts manager, Clocks - which allows you to set alarms, a timer, stopwatch as well as view the time in different parts of the world - and a simple and beautiful new video player.

Canonical and BQ have released the first tablet running Ubuntu, the Linux-based open source OS. It's called the Aquaris M10 Edition tablet and goes on sale in March.

I've been pursuing a research project for the last year or so and have been locating and saving material related to it, as well as doing some of my own writing in the area. I keep that material in a particular folder. That's all fine and good. The problem is that I want the ability to work on the project while I'm at any of 3 different computers--computers that are often located in 3 different locales, some of which are even remote from my LAN. So, how to host the same folder on all three machines, and keep it current with the most recent changes made on any of the 3 computers?