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Allo.com’s new SBC runs Linux or Android on a quad-core, Cortex-A9 SoC, and offers amp/pre-amp, wireless, eMMC, USB hub, and LCD expansion shields. Allo is a Canadian company established in Bangalore, India, where it manufactures VOIP hardware such as digital telephony cards, VOIP gateways, hybrid PBX systems, IP phones, ATAs, UTM security appliances, and SBCs […]

Fedora is a huge project that includes tens of thousands of packaged software. Sometimes you may notice an upstream has released an update that is not yet in the stable Fedora repositories, and in a lot of cases this updated... Continue Reading →

Chap releases Python and Smalltalk-inspired language, complete with shrubbery A Venn diagram describing the overlapping populations of Monty Python admirers and software developers would probably show a very large intersection between the two groups.…

Just a few minutes ago, Fedora Project's Jan Ku?ík informed us all that the Beta build of the upcoming Fedora 23 GNU/Linux operating system has been approved, and it will be seeded to testers worldwide on September 22.

Cloud Media’s “Open Hour Gecko” is an $89, quad-core Android media player with an optimized Kodi 15 app that supports HD audio passthrough and 4K H.264/265.

Buggy bug bag bug will spill software secrets. If you or your organization is running Bugzilla, and you're using email-based permissions, make sure you've updated to the latest version – namely 5.0.1, 4.4.10, or 4.2.15.…

The Italian Defense Ministry, in collaboration with an organization that promotes open source software and standards, plans to switch from Microsoft Office to Libre Office.

A Russian hacker extradicted to the US earlier this year admitted his role in the largest hack in US history. The attack compromised more than 160 million credit card numbers, resulting in hundreds of millions of US dollars in losses.

Red Hat reports that the Ceph community project and Inktank download sites were hacked last week and it's possible that some code was corrupted.

LAMP is a commonly used open source stack for running dynamic websites and web applications. Originally, the acronym stood for the Linux operating system, the Apache HTTP Server, the MySQL database, and the PHP programming language. Over time, LAMP has come to represent a more generic open source software stack for PHP apps. For example, the Apache web server can be replaced by nginx, and the MySQL database server has alternatives such as PostgreSQL.

Canonical's Stéphane Graber has announced earlier today, September 16, that version 0.18 of the LXD next-generation container hypervisor for Linux kernel-based operating systems has been tagged, and it is available for download.

Disney Research has demonstrated an LED-to-LED networking method whereby toys, wearables, mobile devices, and IoT gizmos could communicate with one another. Disney Research has demonstrated an LED-to-LED “Linux Light Bulb” networking technology that would let toys communicate with each other, thereby bringing us one step closer to the reality of Disney/Pixar’s Toy Story. Instead of lip-syncing to the voice of Tom Hanks, however, Woody would argue with Buzz Lightyear with a flash of his eyes.

Cloudera Cares is a group of employees at Cloudera who give back to the community through philanthropic activities. Alison Yu helps lead Cloudera Cares and the Bay Area Discovery Museum partnership, a project coders will be able to contribute to while at Grace Hopper's Open Source Day codethon this year. read more

AMD is not known for the fact that its driver releases are accompanied by comprehensive documentation and changelogs. For the latest AMD Catalyst 15.9 driver, they revealed too much, and they have sort of confirmed that Alien: Isolation is scheduled to get a Linux port.

Tor Browser is the official internet browser tool of the Tor Network project. This software is aimed at serving users who want to browse in full anonymity, preventing surveillance of any kind. This is achieved by bouncing your communications around a distributed network or relays, making eavesdropping very difficult, if not practically impossible.

The first id Software game is coming to the Steam for Linux platform, after a very long wait, but it's not what you might think. It's actually Keen Dreams, a game developed by the studio all the way back in 1991.

The modern Linux kernel has been growing significantly over the years to support a wide variety of hardware devices, file systems or networking functions. During this time, "loadable kernel modules (LKM)" came into being in order to keep the kernel from being bloated, while flexibly extending its capabilities and hardware support under different environments, without having to rebuild it.

And, erm, the update is actually worse than the old one Microsoft has delivered a minor update to Windows RT, the ARM-based version of Windows 8 which runs on Surface 1 and 2 and on tablets from Lenovo, Nokia and others.…

Academia is an excellent platform for training and preparing the open source developers of tomorrow. In research, we occasionally open source software we write. We do this for two reasons. One, to promote the use of the tools we produce. And two, to learn more about the impact and issues other people face when using them. With this background of writing research software, I was tasked with redesigning the undergraduate software engineering course for second-year students at the University of Bradford. read more

I have seen lots of reviews and comments regarding how SteamOS is changing the face of computing but also many confused perceptions of how it will knock Microsoft off its desktop throne.