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In today's open source roundup: The Linux Foundation encourages users to install Linux on their Chromebooks. Plus: Five important trends in open source. And a review of the Nexus 6P phablet.

A Tasty Slice of Awesome

I love the flavor of raspberries, but quite honestly, the seeds gross me out.

GitHub embraces the FIDO standard and aims to get Yubico U2F keys into as many developer hands as it can.

Rdesktop is an "open source client for connecting to Windows Remote Desktop Services." This post covers how to install and use it as well as how to configure Windows to accept rdesktop connections, and how to open an RDP connection to the same Windows machine from Linux.

Kid3 is an audio tag editor for KDE with support for editing tags in files such as MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, MPC, MP4/AAC, MP2, Speex, TrueAudio, WavPack, WMA, AIFF and WAV.

The discovery of a sizeable Linux botnet may be worrying some new converts to the open-source OS.

This isn't a story about me finding open source—this is about how open source software chose me. read more

Calculate Linux announced the release and immediate availability of the Calculate Linux 15 operating system based on Gentoo Linux.

I'll preface this by reminding everyone that I've been a huge fan/supporter/advocate of Linux since the mid- to late '90s. That being said...

What are microservices? Have you heard the phrase "microservices" used in a discussion of modern application development and wondered what it's all about? read more

Despite Microsoft’s continued assault on Linux and on Android (using software patents, which it still discreetly lobbies for), some figures in the media are perpetually peddling the Microsoft-serving lie that ‘Microsoft loves Linux’

Everyone's friends now. What are we saying? Always were Google and Microsoft have called a truce in their years-long patent wars, agreeing to dismiss the multiple suits they have pending before courts in the US and elsewhere.…

OpenShot Studios have announced today that their upcoming OpenShot 2.0 open-source video editor software will be released soon for the GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows operating systems.

As containerization goes mainstream, many are finding new applications and use cases for container technology. Jan Pazdziora, senior principal software engineer at Red Hat, faced the limitations of traditional Docker when he wanted to containerize FreeIPA. This led to creation of his Docker-freeipa open source work. read more

So about those automatic Windows updates ... Windows 7 users were left scratching their heads on Wednesday when a mysterious garbled patch appeared in Windows Update, origins unknown.…

In a recent blog post, The Linux Foundation, through Amanda McPherson, announces a report that strives to answer the following question: "What does it cost to build world's technology infrastructure?"

I recently read an article on Opensource.com that had me thinking about personality traits those of us in open source share. Certain kinds of people are attracted to open management structures. I've explored this through other lenses, and I keep coming back to the idea that many of these traits are traits I would attribute to leaders. read more

The Free Software Foundation has announced Libiquity's Taurinus X200 laptop has met its strict requirements for being a free-software computer, including replacing Intel's Management Engine firmware.

Industrial Shields has launched an expandable 10.1-inch “HummTouch” panel PC that runs Linux or Android on an i.MX6 DualLite SoC-based HummingBoard SBC. Barcelona-based Industrial Shields has followed up on its earlier Raspberry Pi-based Touchberry Pi touch-panel PC with a HummTouch system based instead on the SolidRun HummingBoard Carrier Pro, which was previously announced as the […]

Microsoft and Google are settling their patent disputes which entrains everything from smartphones to video game consoles. The two companies have agreed to drop over 20 lawsuits they filed in the US and Germany.