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Bundling – what’s changed, and what’s the big deal? I’ve talked about bundling and unbundling in the previous 5tFTW, and a month ago as well, and we’ve been debating the issues on the Fedora devel list, in a gigantic thread... Continue Reading →

Having just passed its thirtieth birthday, the Free Software Foundation has plenty to celebrate. Having begun as a fringe movement, free and open source software has become the backbone of the Internet, transforming business as a side-effect. Yet for all is accomplishments, the one thing it has not done is capture the popular imagination. As a result, I find myself wondering how free and open source software might present itself in the next thirty years to overcome this problem.

I thought about ignoring this one and letting it slide, but it’s too priceless, too typically Microsoft, not to pass on. It seems that Redmond has been inadvertently infecting Windows computers with ransomware through its MSN website. Not to worry, however. The company is happy to hand you a tool to remove the malware, which is akin to locking the door after the horse is gone, as your files will by then be locked up tighter than a waterproof safe.

The 2015 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC) started out like any other, with a giant room filled with thousands of women with a passion for technology and computing. This year's welcome keynote opened with green lights strobing over a dark room. What a way to highlight the rows and rows of women ready to learn, connect, and join new communities. Telle Whitney, founder of GHC, was first to the podium and offered a heartfelt and sincere welcome message that brought a tear to my eye. She spoke of the women who built GHC from their vision of a better future, where women and men take equal part in technology, and of her diagnosis of an auto immune disease. But she's doing well she says, and thanked everyone for their thoughts and concern. read more

Early builds unbootable on PCs this week, warns Microsoft. Those who downloaded many Windows 10 preview editions will have to upgrade by Thursday or face an unbootable PC.

On October 13, Canonical's Lukasz Zemczak sent his daily report to inform Ubuntu Touch developer and Ubuntu Phone users alike about the latest work done in preparation for the forthcoming OTA-7 software update.

One of the major shifts in technology over the last few years has been the emergence and adoption of NoSQL databases. More and more firms are moving to NoSQL because it’s scalable, distributed, and flexible. Those are all elements that make NoSQL a good choice for today's big data applications.

After a pair of very public disclosures in the last two weeks, Netgear published new firmware for vulnerabilities in its routers that have been publicly exploited.

Siri may be your personal assistant. But your voice is not the only one she listens to. As a group of French researchers have discovered, Siri also helpfully obeys the orders of any hacker who talks to her-even, in some cases, one who's silently transmitting those commands via radio from as far as 16 feet away.

Windows 10 only is not a universal solution. Microsoft introduced the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) this year: applications that run across many device types, provided that they all run Windows 10.

An OpenStack partnership between Mirantis and Netapp brings new storage solutions to Mirantis's open source cloud operating system.

The Liberty release, the second major OpenStack update this year, includes a wealth of new projects and features, while core technologies continue to evolve.

Q4OS, a Linux distribution based on Debian that aims to provide users with a desktop experience that is similar to the one found on older Windows systems, has been upgraded by its developers to version 1.4.3.

Aaeon’s “AQ7-BT” COM runs Linux on dual- or quad-core Bay Trail SoCs, and offers onboard RAM and SSD, rich I/O, PCIe expansion, and -40 to 85°C operation.

We have just received an email from Animesoft International informing us about the availability for the final release of their Ubuntu-based Linux Mangaka Chu distribution.

BeagleBoard.org has provided some new details, including PCIe support, for its dual-core Cortex-A15 BeagleBoard-X15 SBC, which is due by December for $239. The open-spec BeagleBoard-x15 single-board computer was announced in Nov. 2014, with promises of shipments by February. In August when BeagleBoard.org announced the now-shipping BeagleBone Green, the Texas Instruments aligned community organization said that […]

Just in time for the 24th Birthday of the Linux Kernel, the Linux Foundation has released the first episode in a new web video animation series that shows us what a world without Linux might be like. For those who... Continue Reading →

ONOS and OpenDaylight will collaborate within the open source software-defined networking (SDN) space under the guidance of the Linux Foundation, OpenDaylight executive director Neela Jacques said.

Rust is a systems programming language that got it's start in 2010 with Mozilla Research. Today, one of Rust's most ardent developers and guardians is Steve Klabnik, who can you find traveling the globe touting it's features and teaching people how to use it. At All Things Open 2015, Steve will give attendees all they need to know about Rust, but we got an exclusive interview prior to his talk in case you can't make it. read more

In today's open source roundup: An Arch Linux user wonders if it's worth the bother to run it. Plus: Ubuntu 15.10 will ship with GNOME's overlay scroll bars. And Ubuntu phones will be able to run Linux apps.