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This year has been another great one for open science. At Opensource.com we published several great stories about open science projects that are changing the way we research, collaborate, and solve problems.

The Wine developers have just revealed the new 1.9 development version of the Wine is now available for download, marking the launch of a new branch.

Just as well Azure and Office 365 are growing The last twelve months have been pivotal for Microsoft, the company which once promised to put a PC on every desk but now settles for a vague mission statement about “achieve more”.…

Manjaro 15.12 “Capella” KDE Edition is the latest version of Manjaro Linux built in with KDE Plasma 5.5 as default desktop, has been released by Manjaro Development Team and it now available for download and install on your computer

It has been a while since we've seen any interesting system-wide changes proposed for the upcoming Fedora 24 Linux operating system, but today we can report that the OS will switch to GCC 6 by default.

Congatec announced a “Conga-TS170” COM Express Basic module series based on Intel’s 6th Gen (“Skylake”) Core and Xeon processors, and aimed at high performance “server class” apps. Congatec is introducing a series of COM Express Type 6 Basic modules that are available with a selection of Intel’s 14nm 6th Generation Core (“Skylake”) processors, as well […]

Over a year ago now, I went looking for the best plugins to turn Vim into a full-fledged IDE. Interestingly, a lot of the comments on that post were about how Emacs already has most of these plugins built in, and was already a great IDE. Although I can only agree about Emacs' incredible versatility, […]Continue reading...

The developers behind darktable were very proud to announce the release and immediate availability for download of darktable 2.0.

For this poll we focused on the Raspberry Pi. We’ve been pleasantly surprised by the number of you who read The Raspberry Pi Report, so we thought we’d see just how far into the Raspberry Pi phenomena you dwell. We wondered how many of you already own a Pi, how many are thinking of getting one to tinker with, and how many of you just plain aren’t interested. We were also wondering how many of you might be influenced by the super low $5 price of the recently released Pi Zero.

2015 started with an impressive showing of Linux at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES). And now the year is closing, having delivered some great Linux-powered devices. Here are the 9 that I found most exciting.

A new and refreshed Ubuntu MATE 15.10.1 image has been released for the Raspberry Pi 2 platform, bringing a number of changes and improvements.

Mozilla's promise is that of user choice and respect for user privacy. It's a promise Mozilla is likely to keep in 2016 and beyond.

The Arrow Electronics SF2+ Development Kit, which targets security camera, communications, connected home, and Internet of Things (IoT) applications, is unusual in that it pairs the stripped down uClinux and U-boot with a Microsemi SmartFusion2 (SF2) SoC.

Manjaro Linux developer Bernhard Landauer was very proud to announce the release and immediate availability for download of the first stable version of the Manjaro Linux Deepin Edition.

Fedora Election results Fedora's leadership structure is a mix of appointed and elected positions, with many of the appointed ones selected by other project members active in a particular area.

At the beginning of October I spent a week in Dublin sharing a room at a tiny bed and breakfast with two English students, each with really interesting stories to tell. Why was I there? I received diversity scholarship to attend LinuxCon 2015. I was so excited I didn't even mind the rain on the first day. But how did I get there? read more

PHP is a server-side scripting language used for web development. Recently, the PHP development team announced that the major PHP 7 series has been released and it will become available to the web developers. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install PHP 7 on a Linux VPS.

Network Manager is a feature-rich network configuration service which is used by default in most Linux desktop environments nowadays. It provides automatic configuration of (wired/wireless) network interfaces, as well as VPN, mobile broadband and even Bluetooth connections. Network Manager is smart enough to automatically switch to the best (or the most recent) connection network, and […]Continue reading...

AMD will soon be embracing open source with a new set of gaming tools. Until now, Nvidia’s proprietary GameWorks tools have had the lead over AMD in PC gaming. To counter this, on December 15, AMD announced GPUOpen. The suite will contain open source tools, graphics effects, libraries and SDKs and promises to be a boon to game developers.

Three years ago, I wrote a series of articles titled "Getting Started with 3D Printing" that discussed the current state of the hobbyist 3D printing market from both the hardware and software angles. This is an incredibly fast-moving industry, and a lot has changed since I wrote those columns.