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Android lead security engineer Adrian Ludwig has announced that a patch has been released to manufacturers to fix a vulnerability in the Linux kernel that was said to also affect Android devices. But there are some differences in the evaluation of the vulnerability which was announced a few days back by the Israel-based firm Perception Point.

In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at an open letter to GitHub, the new Brave browser, open source software aids African vaccines, and more! Open source news roundup for January 16 - 22, 2016 read more

Google chief executive Eric Schmidt is on the record as dismissing the importance of privacy. But when an Oracle attorney disclosed in court on January 14 that Google has made US$31 billion from its Android operating system, of which US$22 billion is profit, Google was quick to ask that the document revealing this fact should be sealed.

One feature that has been missing from Chrome OS, for quite some time, is the ability to take screencasts. Why has this been an issue? Because Chrome OS doesn't support the Java plugin used by most of the available screencast tools. That all changes, with the likes of Snagit. Why is this important? Screencasts are a great tool to help train users. Even though Chrome OS might well be one of the most user-friendly platforms on the planet, you might have web-based tools that aren't so easy to use (tools that could greatly benefit from a screencast).

Linux Foundation chief executive Jim Zemlin has made a disappointing response to the reports about changes in the by-laws of the Foundation designed to prevent community representation.

The recent news that the Linux Foundation had changed its policy on community representation caught many people by surprise. Most of the first reactions seemed assume that it was done to somehow promote corporate interests over community interests.

But is that really why the policy was changed? Or was it done to avoid an influx of Social Justice Warriors?

A shell company that sued dozens of computer peripheral makers has quickly dropped Newegg house brand Rosewill from its list of defendants. The motion to dismiss, filed yesterday, comes just days after Newegg's lawyers filed notices of their appearance in the case.

The Linux Foundation’s board has always been weighted heavily in favor of corporations and money, with a large majority of the foundation’s board being elected by member corporations. The nine platinum members, who pay $500,000 yearly in membership dues, elect up to ten board members (or one each for up to ten directors), the sixteen gold members elect three, and the more than 250 silver members elect only one. Until last week, individual members, who pay $99 in annual dues elected two members to the board, not enough to influence foundation policy in a vote, but enough to give the community some say in the decision making process.

Adlink announced a pair of computer-on-modules with the same Braswell CPU and memory options, but on two different form factors with slightly different I/O. Adlink’s newly announced “LEC-BW” and “Q7-BW” are the Pentium N3710 and Celeron 3000 series 14nm “Braswell” processors. Both modules share the same processor options and the same memory of 8 GB […]

Sometimes a security "hole" is really a tiny security "leak."

It has been a while since we last heard something from the Chromixium Linux project, an operating system based on Ubuntu Linux and designed from the ground up to look like Google's Chrome OS.

Red Hat chief executive Jim Whitehurst has published a book called The Open Organisation which, it is claimed in a promotional video, mirrors the way Red Hat operates.

SteamOS has been out for quite some time, and now we also have Steam Machines in the wild, but it looks like AMD video cards continue to be a problem for this platform.

What a nice way to finish a week - three pieces of really good news all in one announcement! Kali Linux (the successor to BackTrack), well known as one of the premier distributions for digital forensics and penetration testing, announced a new release. This by itself already qualifies as very good news.

In this week's Top 5 articles of the week, we highlight five interviews with presenters of this year's Southern California Linux Expo—SCaLE 14x. Of the 19 total interviews and articles published on Opensource.com for this series, the most popular topics were: Kubernetes, Docker, patents, DevOps at scale, strace, and OpenStack for beginners.

Canonical's Ubuntu operating system serves as the "brains" for DJI Manifold, a new, high-performance embedded computer for drones that reduces processing time and optimizes real-time data analysis.

Mailpile is an open source mail client that focuses on encryption and users privacy. Mailpile makes the PGP setup easy, it allows you to create PGP keys directly in the email application and send PGP encrypted messages. In this tutorial, I will guide you trough the Mailpile installation on Ubuntu 15.10. We will install Mailpile as a web-based client with Nginx as a reverse proxy.

The year was 2005: I was just out of high school and living on my own. My sister and her husband came to visit, and on my way out to work one morning while they were in town, my brother-in-law asked me if he could use my computer. I knew he was good with computers, so I didn't mind. Then, he asked me what I use my computer for most of the time. Basic use: World of Warcraft and Firefox. read more

uNav, a turn-by-turn GPS navigator and map viewer for Ubuntu Touch, has been upgraded once more, and a number of features have been improved.

Verizon has joined ONOS, an open source Linux Foundation collaborative project for building an SDN-based networking platform for telecommunications service providers.