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Richard Stallman, GNU and the Free Software Foundation have not always been as radical and averse to compromise as some supporters of open source software and the Linux kernel have contended.

Sabayon 15.06 is a modern and easy to use Linux distributionbased on Gentoo, following an extreme, yet reliable, rolling release model.

This is a monthly release generated, tested and published to mirrors by our build servers containing the latest and greatest collection of software available in the Entropy repositories.

In this release we focused also our attention on a big restyle. Yes you heard it well.

Red Hat is adding new web development tools, dynamic languages and databases, and support for multiple language versions and, oh yes, Docker container support.

Scilab is a free and Open Source software for numerical computation providing a powerful computing environment for engineering and scientific applications.

Canonical has used a variety of content management systems throughout the years, including Drupal and Zope, and a large number of our websites have run on WordPress; in fact, many still do. Our developer portal was one of these standard WordPress instances, which worked well enough for a simple website that didn't get very heavy traffic, but we began to outgrow it. read more

Encrypted email has long been a complicated problem to solve, but a combination of Internet titans and innovative startups are working to make it practical for real people.

The latest Aquaris E5 HD Ubuntu Edition from the Spanish company BQ is now available for purchase on the official website. This latest Ubuntu phone was announced just a couple of weeks ago and it's finally here.

Editing in Kdenlive is done both in the monitors and in the timeline. Your initial cuts are made while reviewing your footage and placing clips into the timeline in the order that you want your movie to be seen. Once the initial cut is done, though, most of your time will be spent in the timeline. It doesn't take long to get comfortable working in the timeline, but it does take a little bit of work to get efficient. read more

Even as the US government bids adieu to Clipper Chip, an infamous episode that influenced the cryptography debate for years, there is renewed focus in a number of quarters that it should not repeated. read more

A significant portion of my second year college work dealt with psychology of the senses. Color plays a powerful role in how we perceive, interpret and react to an event, a situation or an environment. Both Microsoft and Apple have spent millions on volumes of research and focus groups. Do you think that the dominate shades of blue in Windows, or the close proximity Apple keeps with grey, silver and metal, is by haphazard design?

Among the myriad vendors in the Software Defined Networking (SDN) landscape, Cumulus Networks has managed to carve out a niche as a leading innovator of open source-based technology. Helping to lead Cumulus Networks is co-founder and CTO Nolan Leake.

Not exactly a big push, reviving concerns that it's in trouble WWDC 2015 Apple didn't so much launch as absent-mindedly nudge its HomeKit smart home technology this week at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC).…

In the world of open-source projects, Imad Sousou, General Manager of Intel's Open Source Technology Center sees Linux and OpenStack as the two largest projects. Intel is a leading contributor to both projects and is more aware than most of the differences and similarities in the two communities. Sousou also sits on the Board of Directors for both the Linux Foundation and the OpenStack Foundation

Free Electrons has posted free detailed training materials for its course on building an embedded Linux project on a BeagleBone Black SBC using Buildroot. Last November, Linux training firm Free Electrons posted free training materials for a three-day training course on building an embedded Linux project using Yocto Project and OpenEmbedded. Now, the company has […]

How to install and configure Fail2Ban on your Ubuntu server. Fail2Ban is the most famous application that can prevents dictionary attacks on your server.

Jason has a career in movies, television and the gaming industry, supplying voice talent for those mediums. Although Jason has a successful career in Hollywood, his true passion is using perfectly good computer components and combining those parts with his environmentally-friendly plastic cases and the Ubuntu operating system in order to produce an amazingly functional computer.

In Fedora 22, one of the new features from the Cloud SIG is a project called Tunir. It is a very simple system which can be used to test Fedora Cloud images, or it can be used to test any normal software project using the Cloud images or bare metal systems.

Here is a guide for things to do after installing Elementary OS Freya to get a more polished desktop.

Version 2.0 to have free, open compiler and standard library. WWDC 2015 Apple will release version 2.0 of its Swift programming language as open source.

Because you're a reader of Linux Journal, you probably already know that Linux has a rich virtualization ecosystem. KVM is the de facto standard, and VirtualBox is widely used for desktop virtualization. Veterans should remember Xen (it's still in a good shape, by the way), and there is also VMware (which isn't free but runs on Linux as well).