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In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at an open source 3D printed bicycle, the Real-Time Linux collaborative project, Google's Accelerated Mobile Pages project, and more. Open source news roundup for October 3 - 9, 2015 read more

The developers of the free, open-source and cross-platform qBittorrent P2P BitTorrent client announced the immediate availability for download of what it appears to be the last maintenance release in the qBittorrent 3.2 series.

Hello, open gaming fans! In this week's edition, we take a look at emulators with Raspberry Pi, SteamOS 2.0, new games out for Linux, and more. Open gaming roundup for October 3 - 9, 2015.

We announced our Twitter contest two weeks ago to give away four two-day passes to All Things Open, a two-day conference exploring open source, open tech, and the open web in the enterprise, which will be held in Raleigh, North Carolina, October 19-20. And now to announce our winners!

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Subrion CMS on a Debian 8 VPS with Apache, PHP and MySQL installed on it. Subrion is a free content management system written in PHP that allows web developers to build websites for any purpose.

Freshly returned from the LinuxCon Europe Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel project, has just published a short continuation of the interview with Dirk Hohndel, Chief Linux and Open Source Technologist at Intel.

Here is a review of CentOS linux not as a server operating system but as a desktop operating system. How does it fare when compared to other favourites such as openSUSE and Fedora.

The LF’s new “Real-Time Linux Collaborative Project” offers better funding, more developers, and tighter integration into mainline kernel development. The Linux Foundation’s announcement at LinuxCon this week that it was assuming funding control over the Real-Time Linux project gave renewed hope that embedded Linux will complete its 15-year campaign to achieve equivalence with RTOSes in […]

This guide lists 8 Linux distributions designed to look like Windows, Android, ChromeOS and OSX. It includes Chromixium, Q4OS, Zorin and MacPup.

Now that Valve has made SteamOS 2.0 the official branch, the developers have also explained how they plan to upgrade the operating systems and with what frequency.

Amazon’s new “AWS IoT” cloud IoT platform offers Starter Kits built around Linux-ready SBCs like the BeagleBone Green, DragonBoard 410c, and Intel Edison. Amazon made its first big Internet of Things play by launching an IoT managed cloud platform for aggregating and processing IoT endpoint data, built around its Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform. Available […]

Concerns over Malcolm Turnbull using his own private email server have been rebuked by the Australian Prime Minister, who said that all parliamentarians use insecure communication methods all the time, most notably, SMS messaging.

The new Humble Weekly Bundle: Nordic Games 3 - Nordic's Staff Picks has arrived and it's mostly about Windows-only games, but a couple of Linux-supported games can be found too for whoever is interested.

When Matthew Garrett, well-known Linux kernel developer and CoreOS principal security engineer, announced he was releasing a [Linux] kernel tree with patches that implement a BSD-style securelevel interface, I predicted people would say Garrett was forking Linux. I was right. They have. But, that's not what Garrett is doing.

In this week's Top 5 articles of the week, we highlight tips for tech writing, how to , the Rasperry Pi Sense HAT, a My Linux Story, and five open source desktop email clients that are alternatives to Outlook.

Just a few moments ago, we were informed by Mr. Lukasz Zemczak about the latest work done by the Ubuntu Touch developers in preparation for the upcoming OTA-7 software update.

As the 2015 CRASH Space Vice President and an alumna of the 2010 CRASH internship program, it's fair to say that I come from a long line of donation box experts. read more

Week 6 of the Open Organization book club is coming to an end, and yesterday's Twitter chat was an awesome way to wrap it up. Making inclusive decisions through transparency and participation is one of my favorite topics (and practices), and we heard some great perspectives I'm excited to share. read more

Linksys has launched a “WRT1900ACS” router that updates the AC version with a faster dual-core, 1.6GHz SoC, twice the RAM (at 512MB), and OpenWrt support. In early 2014 when Linksys resurrected the hackable Linksys WRT54G WiFi router in a new WRT1900AC model, the Belkin subsidiary said the the Linux-based router would also support the lightweight, […]

Torvalds himself is a maintainer of the kernel as a whole, and a question that is repeatedly asked is 'what if Linus gets hit by a bus?"

It's a question that moved a tad closer to reality at the Linuxcon EU event in Dublin. Hohndel said that he had to warn Torvalds while on route to his keynote, when crossing the street to avoid being hit by a bus.