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Mozilla is a proud supporter of research carried out by Caribou Digital, the UK-based think tank dedicated to building sustainable digital economies in emerging markets. Today, Caribou has released a report exploring the impact of the global app economy .

Embedian’s “SMARC-T4378” module runs Linux or Android on TI’s Cortex-A9 AM437x SoC, and features up to 1GB RAM, 4GB eMMC, dual GbE, and an optional carrier. The SMARC-T4378 appears to be the first SMARC form-factor computer-on-module to be based on the Texas Instruments Sitara AM4378 system-on-chip.

DevConf.cz 2016 is taking place this weekend in Brno, Czech Republic. Over the years, DevConf has become the largest Linux and open-source oriented events in Central Europe. Head over to Brno to mingle with over a 1000 developers, open source advocates, and users.

The UNICEF Innovation Fund seeks to support open source software projects that are creating or improving technology like blockchain, 3D printing, wearables and AI.

This tutorial will guide you through your very first configuration of an SSL website with Lets Encrypt certification. Let's Encrypt is a new SSL authority that provides free SSL certificates.

We all know by now that there's a lot of Ubuntu Phone convergence work in progress happening as we speak, and with each new OTA update, Canonical's mobile devices are turning into full-fledged and usable desktops.

Last week one of the founding fathers of personal computing, Marvin Minsky, died at age 88. It so happened that I’d been reading about some of Minsky’s work at MIT in Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy. Levy recounts how in 1961 Minsky encouraged and supported some of the first human encounters with real t read more

Learn how to get WebKit built and running on a Linux system to develop browsers

One of the most exciting starter activities to do with a Raspberry Pi is something you can't do on your regular PC or laptop—make something happen in the real world, such as flash an LED or control a motor. If you've done anything like this before, you probably did it with Python using the RPi.GPIO library, which has been used in countless projects. read more

Android Pay now refuses to play ball on a rooted handset Google's crackdown on rooted Android devices continues. Citing security reasons, Google doesn’t want rooted 'Droid phones to use mobile payments via the Android Pay infrastructure.…

Chinese SBC seller FriendlyARM published a new video on their YouTube account to show us that the Ubuntu MATE operating system runs flawlessly on the NanoPi 2 SBC attached to a capacitive touch LCD.

If you’re an existing Kali 2 user, you can upgrade to Kali Rolling by running the commands given in the following code block.

Welcome back to the GPG series, where we are exploring how to make use of GPG with other applications to secure and protect your data.This installment will cover key creation, key revocation certificate creation, and sending the public key to... Continue Reading →

Glen McArthur, one of the developers working on the AV Linux project, a GNU/Linux operating system dedicated to audio and video professionals, published a video recently to show the world what's coming in AV Linux 2016.

On January 20, Andreas Gal, former CTO of Mozilla, the company behind the popular open source browser Mozilla Firefox, announced in a blog post that former Mozilla CEO and Javascript founder Brendan Eich had launched a browser called Brave. "Brendan is back to save the web," Andreas wrote, and I quickly went to the Brave GitHub repository and cloned the repository to build a binary from source so I could check out what Brave was all about.

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We first found out about Project Astoria after some discovering the Android subsystem files on a build of Windows 10 Mobile. Now, in the latest Redstone build of Windows 10 desktop similar files have appeared which suggests the OS will have access to a Linux subsystem also. The files, LXCore.sys and LXss.sys was discovered...

It is finally here! The first point release of the Linux 4.4 LTS kernel series, which was announced by Linus Torvalds on January 10, 2016, arrives today for GNU/Linux distributions that already adopted it.

This article is the second part of our Install OSSEC on Ubuntu 14.04 tutorial.

The oldest long-term supported Linux kernel branch finally reaches end of life next month, but before going into the deepest darkest corners of the Internet it just dropped one more maintenance release.

Hello, open gaming fans! In this week's edition, we take a look at Atari Vault, GOG.com, and more new games out for Linux. Open gaming roundup for January 23 - 29, 2016 read more