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Ian Murdock, 42, was best known for his contributions to the Linux operating system, founding the Debian Project, a widely used Linux distribution, while a student at Purdue University in Indiana, where he earned...

In this fortnight's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at the first official release of the Perl 6 language specification, a reading and watching list from the EFF, and more! Open source news roundup for December 19, 2015-January 1, 2016 read more

Deepin 15 is the latest edition of Deepin, a Linux desktop distribution that used to be based on Ubuntu Desktop, but is now based on Debian sid. I’ve been writing about it since the alpha release, so if you’re a regular visitor here, you should already be familiar with Deepin 15.

The Manjaro Linux community announced the release of the Manjaro Linux BspWM Community Edition 15.12 computer operating system.

Solus 1.0 codenamed Shannon, a Linux distribution built from scratch that’s using The GTK-based desktop environment named Budgie Desktop, has been released by Solus Project and is now ready for download. This release ships with the latest version of budgie desktop 10, powered by linux kernel 4.3, introduce the raven sidebar that allow user to manage the notifications, access to the calendar, the sound volume and more..

Hardware projects and the culture of makers in tech continued to grow by leaps and bounds in 2015. At Opensource.com, we published numerous articles about how to build, rig up, and connect something. We also covered new open source hardware that made its debut during the year.

Today we're continuing our "Watch" series of articles with a quite interesting one that we have spotted earlier on the official Twitter account of the Ubuntu MATE project.

Magento is an open source e-commerce software and content management system for e-commerce websites based on the PHP Zend Framework. It uses MySQL or MariaDB as database backend. The Magento development has been started in 2008 by Varien. Inc. In this tutorial, I will show you how to install Magento 2 with Nginx, PHP-FPM, and MariaDB as the database on Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf).

Can it run Linux? Yes, we're just as tired of the Web joke as anyone else, but it is a fair question for some devices—especially gaming consoles, which are basically just computers in a different form factor than what you're used to seeing under (or on top of) your office desk.

After reading the news about Ian Murdock’s death and the follow-up mournings of the greater Debian community I remembered that I actually met him, talked to him, and even email-interviewed him in 2006.

My introduction to open source was pure, geeky coincidence. read more

The development team behind the gorgeous deepin Linux operating system had the great pleasure of announcing the release and immediate availability for download of the deepin 15 OS.

Plaintiffs say upgrade was never meant for 4S Lawyers in New York have filed a class action lawsuit against Apple, saying that the iOS 9 operating system upgrade slowed their older iPhone 4S handsets into uselessness.…

Community backed, open-spec SBCs vary wildly, from sub-$10 minimalists to octa-core powerhouses. Here we present 64 Linux- and Android-friendly models. In 2015, the number of open-spec, hacker friendly single board computers running Linux or Android has continued to grow while prices have dropped to unprecedented levels. Low-cost boards such as the Chip, Raspberry Pi Zero, […]

Zenphoto is a free and open souce, PHP based content management system (CMS) for creating gallery focused websites. Zenphoto features support for various media formats and integrated blog and custom pages.

The latest release more thoroughly cleans junk files in Firefox, Google Chrome, and localizations. It has important fixes for Ubuntu 15.10 and KDE users. The version in your distribution's repository is probably old, so .deb and .rpm packages are available on the BleachBit web site.

This is the time of year when we look back and go, “Wow. How did this all ever happen?” Or something to that effect. And after about a month of PC-BSD daily use, the verdict so far (subject to appeal) is overwhelmingly positive with a couple of bumps (e.g., someday I will turn off tap-to-click on my touchpad).

2016: a Long Year - I know you're expecting a sarcastic comment about an election year in the US making it seem longer than normal, but no, 2016 is literally a longer year than most.

Five new Linux Kernel releases debuted in 2015, including a major number release

Believe it or not, it would appear that a hacking group that goes by the name of Fail0verflow managed to hack Sony's PlayStation 4 (PS4) gaming console to run a Linux kernel-based operating system.