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Entroware has become the first hardware partner for Ubuntu MATE, meaning that users can now purchase a laptop powered by this operating system.

We've updated our installation media to include all of the latest packages available in the Arch Repos. The most notable updates are our installer, Cnchi v.0.8.0 (released earlier today) and GNOME 3.16. Our Live Install Image includes a fully working GNOME 3.16 environment that you can use before making any changes to your system.

systemd is a suite of system management daemons, libraries, and utilities designed as a central management and configuration platform for the GNU/Linux computer operating system. It provides a system and service manager that runs as PID 1 and starts the rest of the system as alternative to the traditional sysVinit.

Valve is now offering its entire catalogue of games to the Mesa developers in order to reward them for the work they've put into this open source project.

At the Intel Developers Forum in China last week, Intel was discussing some of the latest trends, regarding small computers.

There are so many things to like about XBian; in particular snapshots and rolling releases. It's also the best out-of-the box configured Raspberry Pi 2 Kodi distribution. There are bugs and glitches evident, but these do not distract from the overall experience. For home theatre on the Raspberry Pi 2, XBian is my distribution of choice.

The developers behind HandyLinux, a beginner friendly distribution, have announced the availability of HandyLinux 1.9. The new release is based on Debian Wheezy and mostly focuses on minor improvements and bug fixes over the 1.8 release. The 486 and 686 builds have been merged, removing the necessity of selecting the correct ISO image for one's 32-bit architecture. Installing the Skype VoIP client should now be easier. Plus an upgrade path from HandyLinux 1.8 to 1.9 has been introduced and most users should be able to upgrade using a simple graphical utility. The new release also features a new tool for changing the desktop interface.

elementary is proud to announce the stable release of elementary OS Freya. After a year and a half of development, over a thousand bugfixes, and countless lines of code, we can finally say it’s here.

Freya is the latest version of elementary OS, a design-oriented and open source Linux-based operating system for desktops and laptops. It succeeds Luna which was released in August of 2013.

The team is proud to announce the release of LMDE 2 Betsy MATE. LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) is a very exciting distribution, targeted at experienced users, which provides the same environment as Linux Mint but uses Debian as its package base, instead of Ubuntu.

HandyLinux 1.9 is based on Debian 7 Wheezy, it is powered by a newer Linux kernel version, which is currently used in the development version of the forthcoming HandyLinux 2.0 operating system, which is based on the upstream Debian 8 Jessie distro.

The developers of KDE announced the release of KDE Frameworks 5.9.0. KDE Frameworks are 60 addon libraries to Qt which provide a wide variety of commonly needed functionality in mature, peer reviewed & well tested libraries with friendly licensing terms.

This post is closely related to RDO Juno Multi Node deployment via packstack on Fedora 21 landscape with boxes having different boards and different Ethernet NICs inegrated either plugged into systems. Originally tested on Two Node Controller&&Network and Compute Fedora 21 .

Elementary is proud to announce the stable release of elementary OS Freya. After a year and a half of development, over a thousand bug fixes, and countless lines of code, we can finally say it's here.

Caixa Magica 23 is available. Caixa Magica (Magic Box) is a Portuguese Linux distribution for desktops and servers. The project's early versions were based on SUSE Linux and later on Mandriva Linux, but starting from version 16 Caixa Magica is built from Ubuntu. It features the GNOME desktop environment.

Hello, open gaming fans! In this week's edition, we take a look at the pros and cons of HTML5 in mobile game development, how to build your own game console, and more! Open source and Linux games: April 5 - 11, 2015 read more

After approximately two years of continuous work, the team behind the elementary OS Linux distribution announced today, April 11, the immediate availability for download of the final version of their elementary OS 0.3 Freya computer operating system.

We hear from Softpedia that Chromixium is just about ready for prime time. Well, that may be jumping the gun a little bit. What we really hear is that the distro has now gone from beta to release candidate, and that a honest-to-goodness 1.0 stable version is virtually just around the corner. Trouble is: we’re not sure yet just how far away we are from that corner. Shouldn’t be too far, however. The beta version was only released in February, so these developers aren’t wasting time.

Enable hotkeys(combination of function key and other special key in your laptop) for adjusting brightness on your laptop in Ubuntu. When you install Ubuntu on your laptop then it may happen that hotkeys for screen brightness control are not working. You can enable them by following instruction provided in the article.

KDE announced the immediate availability of KDE Frameworks 5.9.0, a collection of over 60 add-on libraries for the Qt 5.x GUI toolkit that can be used by KDE developers to create applications and core components for the famous KDE Plasma 5 desktop environment.

A supercomputer named Aurora is on track to become the fastest system in the United States and possibly the world... with a 180 petaflops system, Aurora, and a secondary system of about 8 petaflops, called Theta.