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If you happen to use popular services like WordPress and Flickr, you’ll be pleased to learn that Mejiro provides a handy link box, where you can specify any number of links to practically any service or resource.

Despite the risks of running an OpenStack hardware business, Canadian startup Breqwtr announced Cloud Appliance 2.0. It provides a curated version of OpenStack.

Robolinux, a Linux distribution based on Debian lets users run Windows applications and is now updated to version 7.9.2. The developers of Robolinux have implemented a technology called Stealth VM that lets users emulate an entire Windows OS inside Linux.

Hello, open gaming fans! In this week's edition, we take a look at OSVR's support of Android, Linux games at E3, and more!

Learn how to keep your system and your online life as secure and private as possible with our digital special.

On June 19, Lennart Poettering announced the immediate availability for download of version 221 of his controversial systemd init system software that it's adopted by more and more GNU/Linux operating systems.

In this tutorial, we will explain how to install GlassFish Server Open Source Edition 4.1 on a Centos 7.1 VPS. GlassFish is an open-source application server project and it’s Oracle’s concrete implementation of Java EE. This guide should work on other Linux VPS systems as well but was tested and written for a Centos 7 VPS.

Node.js is the software that allows you to run Javascript to create amazingly powerful server-side applications by using Google's V8 Javascript Engine. As a Node developer myself, I have always felt frustrated by seeing that Joyent, the company behind Node.s, was extremely conservative in terms of upgrading node to use the latest V8 version; the project was also struggling to get developers to actually contribute to code. This is why Fedor Indutny did the unthinkable: forked node and created IO.js. Today, the two projects are uniting possibly offering developers the best of both worlds

Zettaly’s portable, “Avy” wireless speaker runs Android 4.4 and features a 7-inch touchscreen, 10W speakers, a web cam, and up to 40GB of storage.

CloudBees is leading the Docker integration effort with plug-ins that enable the use of containers as part of a Jenkins continuous integration workflow.

The former community manager for Canonical, Jono Bacon, notes in a very interesting article that it would be a good idea to rebase Ubuntu on Android and be done with it. It might sound like a joke, but it's not.

Power up your own virtual Linux instance on EC2 and run it free for a year.

In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at LinkedIn and Facebook open sourcing tools, IBM giving Apache Spark a boost, and more!

In the two years since the details of the NSA's deep penetration of the Internet infrastructure began to emerge, there has been a major movement afoot among Web companies to encrypt more and more of their resources and services. The latest large property to make this move is Reddit, which by the end of the month will move to an HTTPS-only model for its sites.

Every day, the security team at network services provider Level 3 Communications monitors approximately 1.3 billion security events; mitigates roughly 22 distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks; and removes, on average, one control and command (C2) server network.

Update on Solus Project, One of the Most Interesting Upcoming Operating Systems. It's been quite a while since we got a substantial update for the Solus project, but the developers have kindly obliged, and they have shared the progress they made with the community.

K.Y. Srinivasan is an architect in the Windows Server Division at Microsoft where he focuses on making Linux run well on the Hyper-V hypervisor and Azure cloud environment. In this video he takes us on a tour of his home office in the mountains near Redmond, Washington, and answers our questions about his work space.

A common assumption is that the availability of patents in software affects developers and users in the U.S. but not in the EU. Another is that patent holders in the US are dead set against patent reform. Neither assumption is true.

This week, we highlight NY State's open data portal, how to be a Docker contributor, an exclusive interview with Robyn Bergeron of Elastic, the latest release of Blender and it's cool new features, and and interview with Jen Krieger, an Agile coach at Red Hat.

A new version of the popular Calibre open source and cross-platform ebook library management application has been released a few minutes ago by Kovid Goyal for Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows operating systems.