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Redmond's latest can't quite crack five per cent market share Windows 10's growth has slowed, according to StatCounter Global Stats.…

The Kodi development team announced a few minutes ago, August 16, that the first maintenance release of the Kodi 15.0 "Isengard" open-source media center software is now available for download for all supported platforms.

Samsung debuted two Android phablets, teased a round Tizen watch amid rumors of a “Z3? Tizen phone, and touted a $100 million investment in Tizen for IoT.

FreeBSD, an operating system for x86, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, PC-98, and UltraSPARC architectures, has been upgraded to version 10.2, which brings this development cycle to an end.

A roundup of recent reports about Windows 10, which is akin to Windows Vista in many ways

It is funny how many times you use your full-blown PC as a terminal to another computer (which is quite often not as capable as the terminal computer). If all you need is a remote display and keyboard, a Raspberry PI would be enough. One of the newer Pi 2 boards would be even better.

While it has been long known that American telecommunications companies worked closely with the spy agency, newly disclosed N.S.A. documents show that the relationship with AT&T has been considered unique and especially productive. One document described it as “highly collaborative,” while another lauded the company’s “extreme willingness to help.”

Modern life has become increasingly dependent on software systems. Many daily used devices rely on Free Software for their basic functionality or additional services. TV sets, ATMs, smartphones, media centers and in-flight entertainment systems are examples of how Free Software has been pushing the boundaries of current technology. This is achieved by using well-proven solutions, developed in a collaborative, open, and trusted way. The Workspaces, Applications, and Frameworks delivered by KDE are representatives of the empowerment Free Software provides to our lifes.

The OCaml system is the main implementation of the Caml language. It has an advanced type system, offers a powerful module system, automatic memory management, and adds full-fledged object-oriented layer.

KaOS is a Linux distribution built from scratch that makes use of a customized KDE desktop environment, and that follows a rolling release model. An upgrade images of the distribution has been released and is now available for download.

Mozilla wants to make private browsing truly private... It’s available in the Firefox Developer Edition on Windows, Mac and Linux, and Firefox Aurora on Android, Mozilla said...

The strangest, and largely overlooked news, coming out of the tech sector this week is Dell's Microsoft betrayal. This isn't the first time that the PC maker strayed. Linux joined the product stable long ago...

Disk space filling up can really mess your systems up, especially if the root partition gets to 100%. And that can happen when you least expect it. In fact, that's generally when it does happen. So, the question is, when you're under pressure to get a critical system or application back online and that "no space left on device" message keeps slapping you in the face, what do you do?

A text editor is always the best friend of any developer. Every developer passes most of his/her time programming with text editor. So that text editor has to be unique and friendly at the same time. Then I remember Atom, one of the most handy text editors. The latest version Atom 1.0.7 released recently with some tweaks into find & replace.

Today the Gnome desktop turns 18. To celebrate, we created a list of reasons to use it.

FFmpeg is the command line, cross-platform tool to record, convert, compress and stream audio/video files. Although the command line is easier to use for experience users but for new it's iron ball to chewing. Why not use GUI for FFmpeg? WinFF. WinFF is a GUI tool to convert and compress each file that FFmpeg can convert.

In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at new tools for Docker, Kali Linux 2.0, and more! Our weekly news roundup typically goes out every Friday. We're trying something new, to capture more news in the roundup, by publishing it on Saturday. Open source news roundup for August 8 - 15, 2015 read more

Leon Jacobs, one of the developers of Emu-OS anounced the release of Beta version one of Emu-OS. This release now supports more console/workstation emulators.

It's hard to believe that The GNOME Project started its life 18 years ago, but that's the truth and its developers are preparing to celebrate the occasion.

Hello, open gaming fans! In this week's edition, we take a look at the progress around the 3D graphics and compute API Vulkan, Ubuntu developers improving Nvidia drivers, new games out for Linux, and more. Open gaming roundup for August 9 - 15, 2015 read more