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The developers of Tiny Core Linux, one of the smallest GNU/Linux distribution in the world, were proud to announce the release of Tiny Core 6.3.

Offering both a systemd and OpenRC edition, the Manjaro developers are giving their users a chance to choose for themselves which init system they would like to run. Manjaro-OpenRC boots fast, runs fast, is stable as the Rock of Gibraltar, and boasts an enormous software collection.

We are informing all Chapeau 20 users that they will have to upgrade to the current stable version of the distribution, Chapeau 21, as soon as possible by following the official upgrade instructions provided the devs.

A hackable “Zymbit Orange” IoT box offers internal RPi SBC, Arduino shield, Atmel Wingboard, wireless, and touch display options, plus cloud-based access. We’ve seen several carrier boards and mini-PCs that extend the Raspberry Pi, including Geekroo’s Fairywren Mini-ITX board, and for the RPi Compute Module, the OpenPi and Calao Pinball mini-PC. None of them, however, […]

Odia Wikipedia is one of the first few Indian language Wikipedia projects celebrating such an old age. The Wikimedia community will gather in Odisha's capital of Bhubaneswar on June 3 to celebrate Odia Wikipedia's 13th anniversary. Get more event details. read more

The Nautilus (Files) open-source file manager used in numerous GNU/Linux distributions has been updated recently as part of the GNOME 3.17.2 desktop environment, the second milestone towards GNOME 3.18.

Synergy works really well, it's simple to use, and is an essential utility if you want to control local computers with a single mouse and keyboard.

A native file browser for USB flash drives will be included in the next version of Android (codename M).

Actually, straight forward install RDO Kilo on Fedora 22 crashes due to relatively simple puppet mistake. Workaround for this issue was recently suggested by Javier Pena. Start packstack for multinode deployment as normal to get files require updates. After first packstack crash update /usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/provider/service/systemd.rb to include "F22" (in quite obvious place) on all deployment nodes

"Time for a new OS... why not try #Ubuntu?" is one of the latest tweets of Dell support.

In this tutorial we will show you how to install ProjectPier on a CentOS VPS with Apache, PHP and MariaDB. ProjectPier is an open source project management and group collaboration software which allows developers and users to create and manage multiple projects online using a web browser.

We reported earlier this week that Mandriva S.A., a French company that handled the Mandriva Linux operating system, was in the process of being liquidated.

In this tutorial, we will explain how to install Lychee on an Ubuntu 14.04 VPS with MariaDB, PHP-FPM and Nginx. Lychee is an easy-to-use self hosted photo management system.

Hello, open gaming fans! In this week's edition, we take a look at Google's Cardboard update, Liftpass for game purchasing, new games for Linux, and more. Open gaming roundup: May 24 - 30, 2015.

Debian 8 (Jessie) was announced only a month ago, and now its developers are preparing the first point update for it and they even have a precise date in mind.

I’ve taken some time to take a look at Warlocks Vs Shadows which is a really great looking 2D side-scrolling action RPG. Available right now natively for Linux.

Oh yeah, now they'll fly off the shelves. Google I/O Apple is winning the PR war with its Watch, but Google thinks an open platform, and some nifty Android Wear software, can give it the edge in the smartwatch world.

Mandriva S.A., the French company behind Mandriva, the distribution that long time Linux users will remember as Mandrake, died this week at the age of sixteen. The announcement came in the form of a notice posted by the company earlier this week. The cause of death was financial hemorrhaging.

WinFF is a tool that uses FFMPEG to convert any kind of video files by using a large number of presets and a ton of other options. It's been around for a long while, so it's time to take a closer look at it and see how it has endured the passage of time.

Welcome to the Opensource.com weekly top 5! Alex Sanchez, the social media guy (and more) at Opensource.com, and I talk about myths in open source and some fun names in the space right now: Hubble, Raspberry Pi, Karma, and Midnight Commander.