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The BBC has begun shipping its open source “Micro:bit” — a microcontroller based IoT hacker board for UK schoolkids running ARM Mbed. The BBC announced its open source, Internet of Things-focused Micro:bit hacker board for British schoolchildren a year ago, and revealed full specs in June. After some considerable delays pushing past the scheduled October […]

File transfer between Linux systems (and perhaps all POSIX systems in general) is in some ways a neglected subject. The arcane protocols in common use are far from secure, and the SSH replacements offer too much power and complexity.

Red Hat reported $2.05B in annual revenue for fiscal year 2016, a new mile stone for an open source company, which reflects open source hybrid cloud growth.

The GStreamer 1.8 open-source multimedia framework has been released today after several months of hard work, and it appears to be a major release with dozens of new features.

MySQL Cluster is designed to provide a MySQL compatible database with high availability and low latency. The MySQL Cluster technology is implemented through the NDB (Network DataBase) and NDBCLUSTER storage engines and provides shared-nothing clustering and auto-sharding for MySQL database systems. In the shared-nothing architecture, each of nodes has its own memory and disk, the use of shared storage such as NFS, SANs is not recommended and supported.

While the entire BSD world has been buzzing over Ubuntu's BSD release, the FreeNAS project has been busy releasing version 9.10 as a major precursor to version 10.

Python code posted down-here utilizes NeutronClient V2 API. It creates neutron router for particular tenant, interface to private sub-net and gateway to external flat network. As usual posting was inspired by question been posted at ask.openstack.org. Code is intentionally simplified to become understandable by people without strong python development background.

Looking for an open source alternative to Dreamweaver or another proprietary HTML/CSS editor? Let's round up some of your options. Not all that many years ago, pretty much every webpage on the Internet was, at some level, designed painstakingly by hand. It was tough, and before CSS really took hold and became well supported across most common browsers, it often involved hacking a layout together by using HTML tables in a way that they were never really envisioned to support. read more

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The maintainer of the LXDE and LXQt community editions of the Arch Linux-based Manjaro has proudly announced the release of Manjaro Linux LXDE 16.03.

A new flaw in Samba and Windows Server Message Block protocol gets predisclosure bug branding, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.

Swift has landed on Linux. Repeat: Swift has landed on Linux The latest iteration of Apple's open-source programming language Swift has taken its first major step towards Linux support.…

Starting with an upcoming 14nm “Kaby Lake” CPU, Intel will shift to three Core generations per fab process step, instead of two. The “tick-tock” strategy Intel has been using for the last decade with its Core microprocessors has come to an end. Typically, Intel increases the fabrication density in a “tick” generation, such as 5th […]

BQ has announced today, March 23, 2016, on their Twitter account that the BQ Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Edition tablet will be available for pre-order next week, March 28.

The first in what will hopefully be many Podcasts from GOL about Linux gaming.

Hedvig's software-defined storage solution is the center of its new CloudScale channel partner program for resellers in the data storage market.

John Donovan, Chief Strategy Officer and Group President, Technology and Operations at AT&T said in his keynote at Open Networking Summit that the company is "all in" in virtualizing its network. In 2015 the company virtualized over 5% of their network, and that was the hardest part as it was laying the foundation for the future. Now they are aiming at 30% in 2016.

In March, the yearly meeting of KDE's Plasma team was held in Geneva, kindly hosted by the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN). In-person meetings provide unique opportunities to work together face-to-face, at high bandwidth to tackle problems together and plan for the future.

Aaeon’s rugged “Boxer-6638U” industrial PC runs Linux on a 5th Gen Core i3, and offers four COM ports, 9-24V input, and -20 to 60°C operation. Despite the different branding schemes, the “economical” Boxer-6638U is said to be the follow-on to Aaeon’s similarly stripped down, 4th Generation “Haswell” based AEC-6638 box-PC.

After yet another six months of hard works, the highly anticipated GNOME 3.20 desktop environment for GNU/Linux operating systems has been officially released today, March 23, 2016.