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You probably won't believe this, but Linus Torvalds, father of the Linux kernel, has just posted three astonishing photos bragging about doing fighter jet flights to relax in between Linux kernel pulls.

Two weeks after online retailer Newegg filed a petition complaining about "excessive and unreasonable" delays in getting a final judgment in its patent case, the judge in that case has handed Newegg a big win.

In an order published yesterday afternoon, US District Judge Rodney Gilstrap ruled (PDF) that Newegg doesn't infringe a patent belonging to TQP Development, notwithstanding a 2013 jury verdict that granted $2.3 million to TQP, a "patent troll" with no business other than patent licensing.

Martyn Russell, the developer of the open-source semantic data storage engine for desktop and mobile devices that is heavily used in the GNOME desktop environment, announced the immediate availability of Tracker 1.5.0.

Ubuntu device maker System76 recently said in a blog that it will no longer pre-install Adobe Flash on all laptops and desktops. Why? Because the company deems the software a security risk. System76 is even urging its customers to get rid of Flash altogether.

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware on an Ubuntu 14.04 VPS with Apache, PHP and MySQL installed on it. Tiki Wiki is an open-source Wiki-based content management system and online office suite written in PHP. Tiki Wiki has many collaboration features and it is using the Bootstrap CSS framework which provides modernization to its look and feel.

Clement Lefebvre, leader and main developer of the Linux Mint project, informed us about the immediate availability for download and testing of Linux Mint 17.2 "Rafaela" Xfce Edition Release Candidate.

New not-Windows-10 update to arrive in September. Fear not, you unlucky owners of Windows RT tablets: Microsoft hasn't abandoned you yet. Not entirely, anyway.

Canonical has updated the licensing terms so that it's now fully compliant with GPL (GNU General Public License) after discussions with the Free Software Foundation that took almost two years.

When I talk about open source software the first thing I always mention is community and collaboration. I leave the talk of licenses and software development for later. Everyone understands community, everyone has heard the phrase "two heads are better than one," and everyone has worked on at least one team in their lives. This is why I wanted to get a chance to interview Dawn Foster about her OSCON talk titled Network analysis: People and open source communities. read more

Developers are working to build a simulated Android environment that would allow users to run any kind of Android apps in a Linux OS. This work is still in its infancy, but it's happening and it will be presented at the KDE Akademy 2015 event.

Recently I returned to using a Linux desktop as my primary computing platform, and with that came LibreOffice as part of the default setup. I've been an OpenOffice user for almost a dozen years, but I knew that LibreOffice forked from OpenOffice in 2010. I decided to give LibreOffice a try and I loved it. read more

'You agree to receive automatic updates without notice' Microsoft's "Windows as a service" concept means most users will receive operating system updates, whether or not they want them.…

Feeling burned out? Uninspired? Or, even worse, unemployed? Maybe it's time to update your stagnant skill set to take on cool new projects in your current company, or to make your resume stand out. read more

When I started my new career at Red Hat (as content manager of The Enterprisers Project), Jim Whitehurst's book, The Open Organization, was still two months from its debut. I got my hands on a sneak peek after a meeting in which I suggested there may be some common ideas spanning both the book and a pending (at the time) report The Enterprisers Project was preparing with Harvard Business Review, particularly regarding ideas of collaboration and shared accountability of business transformation initiatives. read more

In today's open source roundup: Watch HBO on your Android device. Plus: LinuxGames.com is shutting down. And The Apotheosis Project game released on Steam.

Adobe released a security update for the Linux version of their Flash player that addresses the zero-day exploits coming out of the "Hacking Team" disclosures. The current Linux Flash Player for Firefox is now Version 11.2.202.491.

IT should be a key advisor on how disruptive technology will disrupt business models in the future.

This tutorial shows how to build the new PHP 7 (Beta) as a PHP-FPM and a FastCGI version on Debian 8 (Jessie). PHP 7 is up to 2 times faster then php 5.6 and 14 times faster then php 5.0 according to the release notes.

This week Dmitri Popov about digiKam. digiKam is an open-source, cross-platform (Win/Linux/OS X) photo management application.

I unequivocally believe that all the talk about desktops and laptops being obsolete is hilariously misguided nonsense. In our mythical race to find The Next Great Thing, people who know better - or at least are given too much credit in the intelligence department - are grasping at straws because, heck, sooner or later they’ll be right about something.