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The intersection of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math), open educational resources (OER), and computer programming is the focus of a number of the articles published on Opensource.com in 2015. They highlight a growing interest in all three areas where students, parents, and educators have the opportunity to immerse themselves in education as never before. read more

Ian Murdock was a Linux original. He was the "ian" in Debian, which he founded in 1993 while still an undergrad at Purdue.

CubeCart is a powerful e-commerce shopping cart software solution which has been made to run on servers that have PHP & MySQL support. With CubeCart you can setup an online store which can be used to sell digital or physical products to customers all over the world.

Microsoft’s patent claims against Corel are unsurprising in light of how much money is potentially at stake. If Corel is found to infringe even one of Microsoft’s design patents through even the smallest part of Corel Home Office, current Federal Circuit law entitles Microsoft to all of Corel’s profits for the entire product. Not the profits that can be attributed to the design. Not the value that the design adds to a product. All of the profit from Corel Home Office.

On the Manjaro mail forum, a thread is rating KDE applications into three categories: second to none, decent, and better uninstalled and replaced.

Just prior to his death, Murdock had started sending increasingly erratic tweets from his Twitter account.

Cisco has finally quashed a long-running lawsuit brought by an Israeli patent-holding company called Commil USA. The case took a surprising number of detours, including a trip to the Supreme Court last year that looks almost unnecessary in hindsight.

There are different ways to manage virtual machines (VMs) running on KVM hypervisor. For example, virt-manager is a popular GUI-based front-end for VM management. However, if you would like to use KVM on a headless server, GUI-based solutions will not be ideal. In fact, you can create and manage KVM VMs purely from the command […]Continue reading...

Stephen Ewen announced the release and immediate availability for download of the UberStudent 4.3 computer operating system.

Microsoft has recently been awarded a new design patent that the company used to sue Corel, claiming the company benefited from its technology without authorization.

The news of Murdock’s death was first made public in a blog post on the Docker website. When the page became unreachable at approximately 4:20 p.m. EST, there was a glimmer of hope that perhaps the report had been an error, as the post made no mention of a cause death, nor did it reference disturbing tweets on Murdock’s Twitter account on Monday. However, the page was back online by a little after 5:00 p.m.

The Manjaro Linux community was proud to announce the release and immediate availability for download of the Manjaro Linux i3 15.12 operating system.

This article is a step-by-step guide on how to dual-boot Deepin 15 and Windows 10 on a computer with UEFI firmware.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation's "Stupid Patent of the Month" for December isn't owned by a sketchy shell company, but rather the Microsoft Corporation. The selection, published yesterday, is the first time the EFF has picked a design patent as the SPOTM. The blog post seeks to highlight some of the problems with those lesser-known cousins to standard "utility" patents, especially the damages that can result.

We're extremely sorry to inform our Linux readers that earlier today, December 30, 2015, the founder of the Debian Linux project, Mr. Ian Murdock, passed away.

2015 has been a great year for open source and Linux gaming. The number of Linux games continues to grow, and Steam Machines finally hit the market on November 10. So, with the end of the year closing in, I’d like to give you my picks for the top five open games.

With a heavy heart Debian mourns the passing of Ian Murdock, stalwart proponent of Free Open Source Software, Father, Son, and the 'ian' in Debian.

Just let that settle in. Google appears to be lining up OpenJDK – an open-source implementation of the Java platform – for future Android builds.

Ian Murdock, founder of the Debian GNU/Linux distribution project, has died at the age of 42. His death, announced in a blog post by Docker CEO Ben Golub, came after an apparent encounter with police and a statement posted on Murdock's Twitter feed that he was going to commit suicide, though no cause of his death has been given.

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) is coming along, and it looks like the developers are preparing for the release of the first Alpha version.