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Due to its vulnerability to hacks and exploits, many of the Windows and Linux users describe Windows as a very unsafe operating system. However, one Israeli security organization is claiming to work towards to change the impression of Microsoft's software that people have in their mind.

Legal woes (and cracked licence keys) cause dev favourites to throw in the towel. Iron Speed, a firm which provided a rapid application development tool for creating .NET apps, is shuttering itself thanks to "litigation with a patent troll", according to a letter sent to customers by co-founder and chairman Alan Fisher.

Amidst all the news about Ubuntu Touch, Snappy, and other various products, we finally get to see something about the progress made by developers with X applications running natively in Mir and Unity 8.

Turn lxlauncher into a useful application menu.

In today's open source roundup: Is the Asus Flip or the Acer 11.6 Chromebook a better buy for Linux? Plus: Five reasons why Ubuntu is so popular. And the status of Wayland and Mir in Manjaro Linux 2015.08 "KDE-Next."

Things are looking up for those of us who think we might like using a tablet if only we could find one with a real honest-to-goodness operating system like good ol’ GNU/Linux. There are a couple of Linux based tablets in the pipeline now — with one already taking preorders for a second-round limited production run.

Team Peppermint is pleased to announce a respin of our latest operating system, Peppermint 6, with full UEFI, GPT and Secure Boot support (64-bit edition only), and a new version of Ice (our in-house site-specific browser framework) that now supports the Firefox web browser as well as Chromium and Chrome.

Fritzing is a new open source PCB designer that supports Linux systems. Its power stems from its user-friendly interface, drag n drop features, pleasing visuals, and comprehensive views. To me, it looks very much like Autodesk's 123D Circuits and also works very similarly to it too, so this is very positive to say the least.

Ubuntu is now the most used Linux operating system out there, both for desktops and in the cloud, and there are some good reasons why that is true. We'll go through a few of those reasons.

As we all of us know that Chrome is the modern Web Browser from Google, which allows end users to surf Internet fast and safe.

Are we on the cusp of seeing dramatic changes in the way governments operate by publishing and consuming open data? Mark Headd, Developer Evangelism at Accela seems to think so. He'll be leading a panel discussion at the All Things Open conference in October about open data and wants to explore just that—how open data is changing government, both institutionally and operationally. read more

The Federal Communications Commission is considering new restrictions that would make it harder for users to modify Wi-Fi routers, sparking controversy and an apparent misunderstanding over the FCC’s intentions.

While researching my article about Python Turtle Graphics for Opensource.com, I came across Bryson Payne's new book, Teach Your Kids to Code. It's extremely well written, and I believe it's one of those rare volumes that's great for anyone wanting to learn to code. The title belies the fact that this book can be used by children, parents, teachers, and even college students. read more

"This return to Microsoft has consequences and open issues, both for Open Source advocates and for the City of Pesaro, that have had little or no coverage at all so far"

OpenELEC, an embedded operating system built specifically to run the famous KODI (former XBMC) media player hub, has been upgraded once more and it's now at version 6.0 Beta 5 and is now ready for download and testing.

Interested in keeping track of what's happening in the open source cloud? Opensource.com is your source for news in OpenStack, the open source cloud infrastructure project. read more

In this article we will cover the steps needed for installing ZPanel on a CentOS 6 VPS.

Mark Greaves from the Peppermint project had the great pleasure of announcing the release and immediate availability for download of the first respin of the Ubuntu-based Peppermint OS 6 Linux distribution.

It's easy to laugh-and-point at Samsung over its latest smart-thing disaster: after all, it should have already learned its lesson from the Smart TV debacle, right? Except, of course, that wherever you see “Smart Home”, “Internet of Things”, “cloud” and “connected” in the same press release, there's a security debacle coming. It might be Nest, WeMo, security systems, or home gateways – but it's all the same. Why? Let me introduce someone...

HandyLinux, a Linux distribution based on Debian and a heavily modified Xfce desktop, has been upgraded to version 2.2 and is now available for download.