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The Dutch government is now pushing to have the Open Document Format mandatory in all the administration, a move that would make Microsoft very unhappy.

By default remote root login is disabled in Ubuntu 14.04 / 14.10 & 15.04, means we can not do ssh to Ubuntu machine as root directly. To ssh a Ubuntu machine first we have to login as non-root user and then you can switch or become root user.

Software Freedom Day is a global celebration of free and open source software (FOSS). What will you to on September 19, 2015 to celebrate? We hope you can choose to do many of the options we listed in our poll to help celebrate FOSS on Software Freedom Day, but even if you can only do one that will be a great benefit to the community. read more

We speak to artists and electricians Fred Sapey-Triomphe and Yann Guidon, who make Mons railway station sparkle with a supersized LED installation

Last month I decided to kick off a new Raspberry Pi project, since it's been a bit too long since my last few (See: Christmas lights and Musicbox). read more

Mark your calendars for Oct. 3. The Free Software Foundation — you know, the guys and gals who continue to tirelessly advocate for “free-as-in-freedom-and-beer” technology — is gearing up for its 30th birthday party. The party will feature an address by FSF founder and president Richard Stallman. You can learn more about the event on the celebration page and the RSVP form is open. If you so desire to use a hashtag on social media (though the FSF has this caveat about social media), knock yourself out with #FSF30.

Canonical's David Planella announced a few days ago the there will be an Ubuntu Community Team Q&A with Kevin Gunn, the leader of the team of Ubuntu developers over Canonical responsible for the convergence implementation.

The folks at iTVMediaCenter recently contacted me about their one-stop-shop solution for cord-cutters. For $14.99, they sell a program that consolidates tons of on-line media into a central location so you can watch it on demand. The problem is, it looks like the application does little more than open the same Web sites you can open with a browser.

Allo.com’s new SBC runs Linux or Android on a quad-core, Cortex-A9 SoC, and offers amp/pre-amp, wireless, eMMC, USB hub, and LCD expansion shields. Allo is a Canadian company established in Bangalore, India, where it manufactures VOIP hardware such as digital telephony cards, VOIP gateways, hybrid PBX systems, IP phones, ATAs, UTM security appliances, and SBCs […]

Fedora is a huge project that includes tens of thousands of packaged software. Sometimes you may notice an upstream has released an update that is not yet in the stable Fedora repositories, and in a lot of cases this updated... Continue Reading →

Chap releases Python and Smalltalk-inspired language, complete with shrubbery A Venn diagram describing the overlapping populations of Monty Python admirers and software developers would probably show a very large intersection between the two groups.…

Just a few minutes ago, Fedora Project's Jan Ku?ík informed us all that the Beta build of the upcoming Fedora 23 GNU/Linux operating system has been approved, and it will be seeded to testers worldwide on September 22.

Cloud Media’s “Open Hour Gecko” is an $89, quad-core Android media player with an optimized Kodi 15 app that supports HD audio passthrough and 4K H.264/265.

Buggy bug bag bug will spill software secrets. If you or your organization is running Bugzilla, and you're using email-based permissions, make sure you've updated to the latest version – namely 5.0.1, 4.4.10, or 4.2.15.…

The Italian Defense Ministry, in collaboration with an organization that promotes open source software and standards, plans to switch from Microsoft Office to Libre Office.

A Russian hacker extradicted to the US earlier this year admitted his role in the largest hack in US history. The attack compromised more than 160 million credit card numbers, resulting in hundreds of millions of US dollars in losses.

Red Hat reports that the Ceph community project and Inktank download sites were hacked last week and it's possible that some code was corrupted.

LAMP is a commonly used open source stack for running dynamic websites and web applications. Originally, the acronym stood for the Linux operating system, the Apache HTTP Server, the MySQL database, and the PHP programming language. Over time, LAMP has come to represent a more generic open source software stack for PHP apps. For example, the Apache web server can be replaced by nginx, and the MySQL database server has alternatives such as PostgreSQL.

Canonical's Stéphane Graber has announced earlier today, September 16, that version 0.18 of the LXD next-generation container hypervisor for Linux kernel-based operating systems has been tagged, and it is available for download.

Disney Research has demonstrated an LED-to-LED networking method whereby toys, wearables, mobile devices, and IoT gizmos could communicate with one another. Disney Research has demonstrated an LED-to-LED “Linux Light Bulb” networking technology that would let toys communicate with each other, thereby bringing us one step closer to the reality of Disney/Pixar’s Toy Story. Instead of lip-syncing to the voice of Tom Hanks, however, Woody would argue with Buzz Lightyear with a flash of his eyes.