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Where do the developers in my FOSS community live? For large open source communities where personal contact with developers is impossible, answering this simple question may be difficult.

On Thursday, the Tor Project released its first public beta of Tor Messenger, an easy-to-use, unified chat app that has security and cryptography baked in. If you care about digital security, you should ditch whatever chat program you're using and switch to it right now.

Reuven M. Lerner starts off this issue continuing his pseudo-series on Web performance enhancements. The past few months he has described how to deal with bottlenecks on your systems. Here, he looks at some ways to help suss out those hard-to-find problems before they become showstoppers.

DJI’s $499 “Manifold” development computer for its high-end Matrice 100 drone runs Ubuntu on a quad-core Tegra K1, and is supported with an open SDK.

At the latest OpenStack Summit, held in Tokyo from Oct. 27 to 30, the open-source cloud community gathered to learn about the current OpenStack Liberty release and to plan for OpenStack's next release, code-named Mitaka. No single theme dominated the event, where discussions touched on a wide array of topics, with an emphasis on deployments in Asia, particularly Japan.

Lightweight netbook OS won't be going anywhere. Google is looking to ease fears that its Chrome OS is not long for this world.

The status of the 4MLinux 14.0 series has been changed to STABLE. Major change in the core of the system, which now uses GNU Compiler Collection 5.2.0 to compile programs designed for the i686 architecture. Audacious (audio player), Opera (web browser), SMTube (YouTube browser) and VLC (media player) are now available as downloadable extensions.

In today's open source roundup: How to try Chrome OS free on your laptop. Plus: DistroWatch reviews Ubuntu 15.10. And Linus unleashes Linux 4.3.

Posting bellow via straightforward RDO Liberty deployment demonstrates that Storage Node might work as traditional iSCSI Target Server and each Compute Node is actually iSCSI initiator client. This functionality is provided by tuning Cinder && Glance Services running on Storage Node.

If you attend LISA15 in Washington D.C. this month, you'll want to catch James Mickens' closing keynote, It Was Never Going to Work, So Let’s Have Some Tea. James Mickens has a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan, and he is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Harvard. In the past, he worked in the Distributed Systems group at Microsoft Research. And he's hilarious. read more

Actually, the release of the next Fedora release is on time — tomorrow, if you want to go over to the Fedora Project site and give it a download — but even if it was released “late,” the standard by which a distribution is released on time depends on one thing and one thing only.

The status of the 4MLinux 14.0 series has been changed to STABLE. Major change in the core of the system, which now uses GNU Compiler Collection 5.2.0 to compile programs designed for the i686 architecture. Audacious (audio player), Opera (web browser), SMTube (YouTube browser) and VLC (media player) are now available as downloadable extensions. The way in which 4MLinux handles audio and video files has been greatly improved.

Rescatux is yet another GNU/Linux distribution that is focused on the rescuing of other operating systems. It works in live mode and offers a rich set of tools to address a wide range of problems in Linux and even Windows. What makes Rescatux stand out from the many similarly orientated rescue systems is mainly its straightforwardness. Instead of offering a set of tools that will help you fix your “broken” system, it starts Rescapp right away which is a window that features categorized buttons to address a specific problem.

Chromebooks are not for everyone and those wondering if Chrome OS will meet their needs now have a free method to check it out. All that's needed is a laptop that's not being used and an 8 or 16GB USB stick.

Interested in keeping track of what's happening in the open source cloud? Opensource.com is your source for news in OpenStack, the open source cloud infrastructure project. In this special edition of our weekly OpenStack news, we round up the news and events from the Tokyo OpenStack Summit last week. Our roundup of the developers' listsev will return next week when OpenStack's development community is back in action. read more

Windows XP market share declining less than Win 8.x or 7 If it's the first Monday of the month, then it's time for our monthly look at desktop operating system market share data from StatCounter and Netmarketshare.…

I'm sitting in my living room listening to Thievery Corporation's Babylon Rewound on the home stereo. A lot of this glorious music is coming from the general vicinity of the speakers, but there is a significant part coming from hard to my left, about two meters to the left of the leftmost speaker. read more

It is hard to remember that IBM was not exactly sitting on the sidelines when Linux swept over the datacenter in the early 2000s in the wake of the dot-com bust. Big Blue saw the rise of Linux early on, among its supercomputer customers, and it was unsure how to preserve its revenue streams from AIX and OS/400 systems while at the same time embracing Linux. Here we are 15 years later, and it looks like IBM finally has its Linux act together on Power.

The new Kodi 16.0 Alpha 4 has been released today by its developers and it looks like things are progressing nicely on all fronts.

When a Java program is built, the build environment sets a "target" which is the oldest JRE version the program can support. If you run the Java program on a Linux system which does not meet the lowest JRE version requirement, you will encounter the following error while starting the program.