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On my 21st birthday in 1998, I received a phone call from Richard Stallman, founder of the GNU Project and Free Software Foundation (FSF), to tell me the root password of the GNU Project's web server. read more

For years, people have wondered when Google would combine Android and Chrome OS. That day appears to be coming.

Redmond upgrades upgrade to 'recommended update' Microsoft will download Windows 10 to PCs via "recommended" Windows Update early next year.…

VIDEO: Alan Clark, chairman of the board at the OpenStack Foundation, discusses the progress made at the OpenStack Summit this week.

Solu Machines will soon surpass its Kickstarter funding goal for a smartphone-like mini-PC with a Linux based, cloud oriented OS and a novel UI stack. Kickstarter funding packages start at $388 for the Solu, which would join a fairly short list of mini-PCs with pre-installed Linux, and an even smaller group of ARM-based Linux mini-PCs. […]

Since Hypatia, and possibly before, libraries were not about just books, they are places where both learning and teaching occur. Back in July, the Kilton Public Library in New Hampshire became the first public library to openly enable an encryption tool called "The Onion Router", or "Tor".

After 10 years of development, Melbourne open source company Cyber IT now has a fully mature prisoner interactive learning solution that is in use by four correctional institutions in the country.

Ad giant about to perform mashup we all knew was coming Google is reportedly going to "fold" Chrome OS into Android, effectively killing off a secure, lightweight desktop OS in the process.…

Batman: Arkham Knight was announced for SteamOS and Linux platforms a while back, with the promise of a fall release. As you would expect, that release of the game for these platforms has been delayed.

Free website hosting service 000webhost has suffered a data breach which has placed the service's security practices under scrutiny. 000webhost is a free web hosting service which supports both PHP and MySQL, catering for millions of users worldwide. On Wednesday, the firm told users in a Facebook message that the company had suffered a databreach on its main server.

Google has given Symantec an offer it can't refuse: give a thorough accounting of its ailing certificate authority process or risk having the world's most popular browser-Chrome-issue scary warnings when end users visit HTTPS-protected websites that use Symantec credentials.

'Almost no meaningful contributions' as code goes proprietary. The team behind RoboVM, an iOS compiler of tools for mobile Java applications, says that making its core product open source has not worked and that current and future versions will be proprietary.

Axiomtek’s fanless “CAPA848” SBC runs Linux on an Intel Bay Trail Celeron N2807 processor, and offers up to 8GB of onboard RAM and -20 to 70°C operation.

Conjecture on cracked primes for the Diffie-Hellman asymmetric algorithm is in recent news, suggesting that several nations have broken primes in common use and can read all traffic:

In today's open source roundup: Xiaomi will release two Linux laptops. Plus: A review of the Dell Chromebook 13. And a video preview of Unity 8 in Ubuntu 16.04.

Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth is the direct sequel to the excellent Sid Meier's Civilization V and much more than that. We now take a closer look at the Linux version ported by Aspyr Media, along with the latest DLC, Rising Tide.

This release of GParted includes enhancements, bug fixes and language translation updates. Key changes include: Display list of Logical Volumes in Partition Information dialog, Add ZFS file system detection Add recognition of NVME devices, Prevent hang labeling FAT16/32 if illegal chars in label, Avoid core dump if invalid or non-existent device on command line.

Mention the year of the Linux desktop, and you are guaranteed to get a laugh. The six words have become a catchphrase, with the implication that it will never happen. But, even more importantly, the laughter indicates a change in attitude.

Recently, I drove to the Netherlands for a day to hang out with about half the people who work at Greenpeace International. The meetup actually lasted an entire week, but I only attended Thursday, a day on which newly formed teams gathered to do some bonding and better understand each other's work. We talked about purpose and vision, as it was the first in-person meeting after a rather large re-organization that has been taking place over the last year or so. read more

The first major point release for LibreOffice, the 5.1 branch, is being worked on this weekend during the 1st Bug Hunting Session. This promises to be an important upgrade that should really make a difference.