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Welcome back to the GPG series, where we are exploring how to make use of GPG with other applications to secure and protect your data.This installment will cover key creation, key revocation certificate creation, and sending the public key to... Continue Reading →

Glen McArthur, one of the developers working on the AV Linux project, a GNU/Linux operating system dedicated to audio and video professionals, published a video recently to show the world what's coming in AV Linux 2016.

On January 20, Andreas Gal, former CTO of Mozilla, the company behind the popular open source browser Mozilla Firefox, announced in a blog post that former Mozilla CEO and Javascript founder Brendan Eich had launched a browser called Brave. "Brendan is back to save the web," Andreas wrote, and I quickly went to the Brave GitHub repository and cloned the repository to build a binary from source so I could check out what Brave was all about.

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We first found out about Project Astoria after some discovering the Android subsystem files on a build of Windows 10 Mobile. Now, in the latest Redstone build of Windows 10 desktop similar files have appeared which suggests the OS will have access to a Linux subsystem also. The files, LXCore.sys and LXss.sys was discovered...

It is finally here! The first point release of the Linux 4.4 LTS kernel series, which was announced by Linus Torvalds on January 10, 2016, arrives today for GNU/Linux distributions that already adopted it.

This article is the second part of our Install OSSEC on Ubuntu 14.04 tutorial.

The oldest long-term supported Linux kernel branch finally reaches end of life next month, but before going into the deepest darkest corners of the Internet it just dropped one more maintenance release.

Hello, open gaming fans! In this week's edition, we take a look at Atari Vault, GOG.com, and more new games out for Linux. Open gaming roundup for January 23 - 29, 2016 read more

We reported the fact that this year will be an exciting one for Linux Mint users, as project leader Clement Lefebvre revealed the fact that there might be a new look and feel for the upcoming distribution.

In this second part, we'll show you the ins and outs of building both a file and web server.

The developers of the OpenELEC (Open Embedded Linux Entertainment Center) open-source and cross-platform media center operating system announced the release of OpenELEC 6.0.1.

I've been waiting for this for many months, and Valve has finally fixed their Steam store filters to allow you to view only Upcoming games on SteamOS & Linux.

After the Ubuntu 15.10, all the Ubuntu members are preparing the for the next big release i.e. Ubuntu 16.04 'Xenial Xerus'. All Linux users especially Ubuntu users are curious to experience the 16.04. But it's taking shape and Ubuntu members including Ubuntu MATE have released Alpha 2 of Ubuntu MATE 16.04. You can test it out and send feedback to developers to help them shape it better for you.

Each of these app development frameworks supports HTML5 or JavaScript as well as CSS, and is open source with at least some version of a free app. If you’re developing Android-based games or complex apps with extensive cloud integration, you’ll probably want to seek out native application development tools. These range from the Java-oriented Android SDK and Android Development Tools (ADT) Eclipse plugin to game-oriented engines like Corona to commercial enterprise platforms like the cloud-oriented Monaca toolsuite.

Looks like the 2013 game Tomb Raider is heading to SteamOS & Linux according to new information popping up on SteamDB.

At FOSDEM this weekend KDE is announcing our newest project, KDE neon. Neon will provide a way to get the latest KDE software on the day its released. More than ever people expect a stable desktop with cutting-edge features, all in a package which is easy to use and ready to make their own.

We are proud to announce Neptune 4.5 the 5th service release to the Neptune 4.x series. This version comes with some core updates to the system including LTS Kernel 3.18.25, Systemd 227, libc6 2.19, Mesa 10.5.9, Alsa 1.0.27 and more. For the first time we also offer a testing version of our Plasma 5 version based on Plasma 5.5.3 as seperate ISO download. The usual software Updates like Chromium updated to version 46 and Icedove to 38.5 are also included. We replaced TrueCrypt with VeraCrypt which is compatible with TrueCrypt Containers.

In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at Gizmo from The New York Times, GitLab's new features, OneOps continuous app lifecycle management software from Walmart, and more. Open source news roundup for January 23 - 29, 2016 read more

When configuring saving settings for the JPEG format in the Saving Images section of the Configure digiKam window, you can choose between medium and high chroma subsampling, or disable it altogether. chroma_subsamplingBut what is chroma subsampling and what does it do?

The creator of Gary's Mod and Rust, one of the most successful titles on Steam, has said that if he could do it all again, he wouldn't have supported the Linux platform. Gary Newman is the creator of Gary's Mod and Rust, and this is not the first time he took a jab at the Linux port and the Linux community. He said on a few other occasions that the Linux port for Gary's Mod was causing him grief and that it wasn't worth it. He pretty much said the same thing about Rust on Linux.