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Unless you've lived under a virtual rock since 2003, you have probably heard of Linden Lab's baby, Second Life at some point. The online virtual world, where you can literally pretty much do anything, might not be at the peak popularity it once experienced but there is still plenty going on. If you're a Second Life user (or resident, as they like to put it) or looking to become one, here's how to install a Linux client.

The Linux Foundation released an Automotive Grade Linux Unified Code Base distribution featuring GENIVI components, and announced new members including Ford. The Linux Foundation’s Automotive Grade Linux (AGL) working group has released an AGL Unified Code Base (UCB) distribution for open source Linux-based in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) systems. The Yocto Project based distribution combines elements from […]

In the first day of each month, the Arch Linux developers release of a new ISO image of the fully customizable Arch Linux operating system, bringing the latest software updates released during the month that just passed.

Samsung unveiled a new Tizen Smart TV UX with SmartThings IoT hub connectivity and a universal remote, while Roku announced 4K smart TVs. We still prefer the flexibility of combining a dumb TV with smart devices rather than buying a smart TV, but the latter are becoming more compelling as they add increasingly sophisticated Linux-based […]

Ian Murdock, a free software and open source programmer who founded Debian GNU/Linux at a time before the Free Software Foundation supported Linux, has died.

Work-in-progress at "ugly" stage for now. 32c3 There's a long way to go before it becomes an “anyone can do this” hack, but games console tinkerers fail0verflow have replicated their PlayStation 2 work, getting Linux to run on Sony's PlayStation 4.…

Ben Hutchings has announced the immediate availability for download of Linux kernel 3.2.75 LTS (Long Term Support).

FTP is a very insecure protocol because all passwords and all data are transferred in clear text. By using TLS, the whole communication can be encrypted, thus making FTP much more secure. This article explains how to set up ProFTPd with TLS on an Ubuntu 15.10 server, how to add an FTP user and to use FileZilla to connect securely with TLS.

RDO deployment bellow has been done via straightforward RDO Kilo packstack run demonstrates that Storage Node might work as traditional iSCSI Target Server and each Compute Node is actually iSCSI initiator client. Notice that Glance,Cinder,Swift Services are not running on Controller.

Google's next Android mobile operating system, Android N, will use OpenJDK, the open source Java implementation, rather than Oracle's proprietary Java environment.

Aaeon’s “EPIC-BT07” SBC runs Linux on Bay Trail CPUs and offers multiple display, GbE, USB, and COM ports, plus mini-PCIe and stackable PCI-104 expansion. The Aaeon EPIC-BT07 appears to be aimed at bringing updated features to the PC/104 Consortium’s well worn EPIC SBC form factor.

In today's open source roundup: failOverflow demonstrates Linux running on the PlayStation 4. Plus: Microsoft's Cortana is available for Cyanogen OS. And Valve adds more improvements to the Steam Controller in a new beta.

"Never waste a crisis", Rahm Emanuel is said to have said (). And, publishers—including Linux Journal—have one now. According to PageFair and Adobe, the number of people blocking ads on their browsers has passed 200 million, worldwide, increasing annually by 42% in the US and 82% in the UK.

Ford and Mazda join the effort as first Unified Code Base distribution is announced.

2015 was the year Linux and open-source software took over the IT world, but many open-source and proprietary software fans still haven't figured it out.

The famous hacking group fail0verflow has just released the modified Linux kernel that allowed them to run a Linux distribution on PlayStation 4.

We have met the machine, and we LIKE™ it Having conquered the relatively simple matter of an organic intelligence, Mark Zuckerberg is now trying to master artificial intelligence – or, at least, create a snoopin', cookin' 'n' facial recog 'bot for his house.…

We’re going to pretend like we’re AM disc jockeys from the golden days of top 40 radio and countdown the top nine stories that appeared on FOSS Force last year. Along the way, we’ll offer a bit of commentary, and maybe remind you a time or two that things were much different way back in 2015.

The field of computer graphics has continued to prove itself as fertile ground for getting kids interested in code and technology. It isn't just about the extremely gratifying feeling of creating cool-looking visuals on a computer. Since so many digital content creation programs (especially open source ones like Blender) feature built-in scripting support, it's a natural avenue for fostering curiosity in code and software development. read more

There's a long way to go before it becomes an “anyone can do this” hack, but games console tinkerers fail0verflow have replicated their PlayStation 2 work, getting Linux to run on Sony's PlayStation 4. However, as they told the Chaos Computer Conference in Germany, their work is only useful on an older PS4, because the jailbreak vector, present on version 1.76 of the machine's firmware, is patched on later versions (a new machine would be running 3.11).