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The Arduino is a truly powerful piece of electronics. Small, low power, flexible, and completely open source. Lots of makers and hackers have already figured out that giving their project an Arduino-brain ensures a simple, yet powerful and reliable core.

Calibre developer Kovid Goyal released a new maintenance version of his widely used ebook library management software for all supported platforms, including GNU/Linux.

The official mascot for upcomming release Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Xenial Xerus has been revealed. it available in scalable vector graphic (svg) and Xcf file format, download it now

The anticipated Hyper Light Drifter role-playing game that was first spotted on Kickstarter two and a half years ago, has been finally released today on Steam.

Google pushed out the latest version of Chrome Thursday afternoon, fixing five issues, four of them critical. The update remedies an out-of-bounds read in Chrome's open source JavaScript engine V8, two use-after-free vulnerabilities - one in Navigation and one in Extensions - and a buffer overflow in the libANGLE library.

Elxis is powerful open source content management system (CMS ) it is free for use under the GNU/GPL license. This CMS is modern, flexible, easy to use and it comes with many useful multi-lingual features

OpenStack is a huge project with lots of moving parts, and it can be hard to keep up with everything that's going on in the project and how it affects you. The good news is that in addition to the official documentation, there are a number of great resources for continuing your education, from third party training and certification to meetups to many community-contributed tutorials.

pulseaudio-dlna is a lightweight streaming server that makes it easy to stream audio from a Linux computer that uses PulseAudio, to a DLNA / UPnP or Chromecast device in the same network.

Even as the White House is calling on federal agencies to make more use of open source projects, there's also a federal effort under way to reduce the number of vulnerabilities in those products via better code review tools and bug bounties.

Building botnets made up of routers, modems, wireless access points and other networking devices doesn't require sophisticated exploits. Remaiten, a new worm that infects embedded systems, spreads by taking advantage of weak Telnet passwords.

The TODO Group, an industry collaboration around open source software for corporations, has become a Linux Foundation project.

Satya Nadella finally decides to do the right thing by attempting to undo the damage caused since the Novell/Microsoft deal

CrossOver developer CodeWeavers has just informed us about the immediate availability of CrossOver 15.1.0 graphical interface for Wine, for both GNU/Linux and Mac.

Perform two node cluster deployment Controller + Network&Compute (ML2&OVS&VXLAN). Another configuration available via packstack Controller+Storage+Compute&Network.

Xamarin casts off commercial roots. BUILD 2016 Microsoft will make Xamarin tools and code, which enable compilation of Mac, Android and iOS applications using C#, free and open source, said corporate VP Scott Guthrie at the company's Build conference under way in San Francisco.

The Linux Foundation is offering a free class to help open-source developers stay on the right side of intellectual property law.

We reported earlier this month that Dell launched its highly anticipated XPS 13 Developer Edition laptop in US, as well as the worldwide launch of the Dell Precision line of Ubuntu-based workstations.

With Gartner predicting that 70% of new applications soon will be deployed on an open-source relational database, purveyors of proprietary DBMSes surely long for the golden lock-in age of yore.

I have double checked this, and it seems to be accurate. Linux now has 2,000 games on Steam, and that's a pretty healthy milestone.

In this article, an encrypted partition is opened using a secret key which is kept in an usb memory device. An automatic shell script is used to provide a secret key for encrypted volume at boot time.