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If you haven't heard of 18F, its time to get them on your radar. 18F is a digital consultancy in an independent agency, a startup within the General Services Administration (GSA), and a major advocate for open source and open data. I've been watching and learning more about this group since shortly after its inception in March 2014. read more

Linux creator and open source programmer Linus Torvalds spoke recently about ARM-based laptops, kernel security and more.

The BackBox Team is pleased to announce the updated release of BackBox Linux, the version 4.4! In this release we have some special new features included to keep BackBox up to date with last developments in security world. Tools such as OpenVAS and Automotive Analysis will make a big difference. BackBox 4.4 comes also with Linux kernel 3.19. What's new: Preinstalled Linux kernel 3.19, new Ubuntu 14.04.3 base, Ruby 2.1, installer with LVM and full disk encryption options, handy Thunar custom actions, RAM wipe at shutdown/reboot..

TI has launched a “Processor SDK” based on a mainline LTS Linux kernel, U-Boot, a Yocto file system and Linaro tool chain, initially covering Sitara SoCs. Texas Instruments has introduced a Processor Software Development Kit based on Linux as well as its own TI-RTOS, that will eventually scale across multiple Sitara and DSP processors families. […]

Are you a tidy-tabber or a tab-freak when it comes to using the Internet? Or, maybe you don't even deal in tabs.  Tell us more about your tab situation in the comments below! read more

A real gem of a file manager absent from the standard Ubuntu repositories but sporting a unique feature. That’s DFileManager in a twitterish statement.

Details about the NSA surveillance program unveiled by Edward Snowden are still coming to light, two years after the initial revelations were made. From the looks of it, at least one of the components of the NSA surveillance is being run from Red Hat Linux servers.

In today's open source roundup: A review of Parsix GNU/Linux 8.0. Plus: GNOME Software will get new rating system. And Matthew Garrett is not forking Linux.

But to those of us looking at this from the outside, what we see is a magnificent irony of good code being produced in what can arguably be described as a toxic environment. That in and of itself is a remarkable achievement, but I would argue that the same work — if not better work — can be done in a realm that fostered more cooperation instead of sniping.

Rapid7 is advising HP SiteScope users to run the tool on Linux rather than Windows servers because of a nasty privilege escalation vulnerability.

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome to another Six Degrees column. As usual, get your feedback into the comment box, and within the spirit of this specific column, I hope to see you all at All Things Open October 19-20 in Raleigh. I will be there with many other folks who write for Opensource.com, and I will also be giving a keynote, a presentation, and a lightning talk. read more

“We’ve seen basic researchers learning Linux and cloud computing to keep up with it all,” said Aaron Chang, director of the Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics at UC San Diego. “I’ve had people show up at my door with USB drives filled with data.

The 2015 Indonesia Linux Conference (ILC) that is held in Tegal, Central Java starting from October 10 to 11 is set to exhibits variety of Linux application. One of interesting application is a mobile digital forensic application that have been used by the police to assist investigation by detecting criminals’ phone and sim cards.

Arne Exton, the creator of several free and commercial GNU/Linux and Android-x86 distributions, informed us earlier today, October 11, about a new update for his AndEX Live CD.

The most interesting feature of this drone is the Pixhawk Autopilot System. Based on the technology for the PX4, ST Microelectronics sensors and NuttX real time OS, Pixhawk provides a computerized brain for this drone. The software is similar to Unix/ Linux and offers a large range of autopilot functions.

The main focus of Firejail project is GUI application sandboxing, with web browsers being one of the main targets. I will describe some of the new features available in Firejail, and how to use them to sandbox a web browser such as Mozilla Firefox.

The KDE developers are already considering what they need to do to improve the Plasma desktop after the 5.4.2 launch, and they've shared some of the features that are going to be made available.

Just a few moments ago, Linus Torvalds announced that the fifth Release Candidate (RC) build of the upcoming Linux 4.3 kernel is now available for download and testing.

Youtube-DL is a command line tool, developed in Python to download videos from various popular websites including Youtube, Dailymotion, facebook, photobucket and many others. A list of supported video sites is available here. Youtube-dl downloads videos right from the terminal with simply understandble commands. If you like to work with a terminal then I am sure you'll like youtube-dl.

Some time ago, I covered some of the best IDEs for C/C++ on Linux. Obviously C and C++ are not the only programming languages out there, and it is time to turn to something a bit more specific. If you have ever done some statistics, it is possible that you have encountered the language R.