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Congatec has launched a COM Express Type 6 Basic module with AMD’s 12-35W R-Series SoCs, with Linux support and up to 32GB DDR4 RAM with optional ECC. COM Express Type 6 is typically the first form-factor chosen by embedded vendors when debuting new x86 processors. When Intel announced its 6th Gen Skylake Core processors, Congatec […]

Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Canonical and Ubuntu, has announced the name of the new Ubuntu LTS that will launch in April 2016, and it's Xenial Xerus.

Evidently, the news was that the company is looking for more than a few good men and women who know their way around open source software. I use the word “evidently,” because the announcement was made rather subtly and without fanfare near the end of the keynote. It was slipped in as just another note in a talk about how Microsoft is serious about becoming a good open source citizen.

CompuLab announced a $68 “Fit-Uptime” UPS that offers up to three hours of 12V DC backup, designed for its Fit-PCs, Intel’s NUCs, and other mini-PCs. CompuLab developed its Fit-Uptime uninterrupted power supply for its AMD-based, Linux-ready FitPC mini-PCs, especially when used for mission-critical applications in which power outages are not an option. It also works […]

The new Cinnamon 2.8 desktop environment has been pushed into the open as a Beta release. The stable version of the new Cinnamon should be ready by the end of the month, but there is nothing stopping you from trying this right now.

In today's open source roundup: A Datamation writer explains why he prefers Android over iOS. Plus: A review of Dell's Chromebook 13. And a helpful beginner's guide to Linux.

Docker Inc. continues to extend its reach. Tutum's technology enables the deployment of Docker containers to the cloud and even developer laptops.

[Updated: 1:00PM] — AMD’s first SoC version of its R-Series family offers a 25 percent faster CPU, 22 percent faster graphics, plus 12W TDPs, DDR4, and fully open Mentor Linux.

The French government is now seriously looking at implementing open source software in the public sector after a public debate for France’s Digital Republic bill (La République numérique).

Recently, I had the privilege to sit down and interview Martin Wimpress, who among other things is the project lead for Ubuntu MATE. One reason I interviewed him was because I wanted to see what he’d have to say about his work with Ubuntu MATE and the Raspberry Pi, as well as to get a gleaning of his overall thoughts on free and open source software. As you will discover, Wimpress is definitely not a person who’s short on thoughts, or shy about expressing them.

I'd like to share my experiences with Free Software Melbourne, its free software workshop, and, more importantly, what has happened since then because it's kinda cool—it's not what I expected. read more

Red Hat and Black Duck want to make sure that when you run a container, it's really the container you want to run and not a rogue package.

In this tutorial, I will show you how to install mod_security for the fast Nginx web server on Ubuntu 15.04. I will configure ModSecurity as a standalone module and then build Nginx from source to include ModSecurity.

Canonical published details about an important security patch for the kernel packages of Ubuntu 15.04 and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.

Mark Russinovich went into the lion's den of All Things Open, a major SouthEast open-source technology conference, to explain to the Linux faithful how Microsoft is now embracing Linux and open-source software.

Red Hat and Black Duck want to make sure that when you run a container, it's really the container you want to run and not a rogue package.

A little more than two weeks ago, Intel employee and Linux kernel developer Sarah Sharp announced that she would not be working on the kernel any more.

Back in Fedora 15, Fedora introduced a piece of core software called systemd. systemd is a collection of tools for a range of different tasks. Its primary purpose is initializing, managing and tracking system services and daemons in Fedora, both during startup and while the system is running.

Intel employees Tim Rowley and Bruce Cherniak published a very intriguing announcement on the Mesa 3D Graphics Library development mailing list, informing us about thier new software project developed within a small team at Intel.

There have been lots of takes on the raspberry pi, mostly just upping ram, processor and the occasional port change, but many are generally a beefed up pi. Such as Banana Pi. But this one has a spin I have seen in no other.