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Valve officially pins down a launch date for its Linux based Steam Machine game console.

In this article I will explain how to create a file that works like a USB drive -- without the "physical" side of a USB disk. The advantage of making such a file is that you can make it encrypted; as a result, nobody will ever be able to see what's in it unless they know the passphrase.

In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at the adoption of open source databases, Creative Commons licensing to Open edX courses, SSH coming to Microsoft Windows, and more! Open source news: May 30 - June 5, 2015 read more

Why were two OpenStack companies acquired on the same day, and what does that mean for the future of OpenStack?

In today's open source roundup: A head to head comparison of the Moto 360 and the Apple Watch. Plus: Facebook Lite announced for Android. And Valve introduces the Steam Controller on YouTube.

A consideration of how differently the consumer PC software market may have turned out if GNU and the Free Software Foundation had built free/"open source" software to replace MS-DOS and Windows, rather than Unix.

Fedora Leadership nominations open Jan Kirik, the Fedora Program Manager as of this week, announced the call for nominations for positions on FESCo, the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee and for one of the elected postions on the Fedora Council, our... Continue Reading →

Valve has revealed some details about the upcoming Steam Link, the small device that will let you play your favorite PC games on the TV with the help of streaming technology. And, from the looks of it, one of the recommendations is to have at least Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.

Taiwanese device manufacturer Quanta is already showing off a prototype of a PC stick with a Core M chip; the Quanta NH6.

It's in 'the fabric of everything we do,' exec says HP Discover What's the latest enterprise IT company to proclaim its love of open source? HP, that's who – or, more specifically, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, one of two companies that will emerge once HP splits this November.…

The problem: As mobile devices continue to proliferate, the Internet of Things keeps growing immensely, and more users and new data are pushed across telecom networks every day, network operators must invest in expanded facilities. The revenue from mobile applications is tied to number of devices/consumers not amount of data consumed. As time goes on, average revenue per user will remain flat or even decrease as  data demand will increase significantly over time. read more

Dell just release a pair of low-end consumer notebooks with Ubuntu preinstalled. Here's a review of the 14 inch model.

As far as we know, the $143,000 in donations which can’t be found by the Ubuntu Community Council is still missing. As far as we know, the Ubuntu Community Council still considers Jonathan Riddell, a leading developer in Kubuntu circles, persona non grata for bringing up the issue of missing funds and Canonical’s intellectual property policies. As far as we know, the Kubuntu Council responded with a collective “bite me” to the Ubuntu Community Council in rejecting Riddell’s ouster and standing behind him.

At my public library job, I run into people from all walks of life. read more

It takes something truly egregious to make me write an out and out rant. This article succeeded in spades.

The Elive development team announced the immediate availability for download and testing of version 2.6.6 Beta of the Debian-based Elive Linux distribution built around the Enlightenment desktop environment.

Intel announced the first embedded quad-core 5th Gen Core CPUs and shipped its first “Braswell” processors, and AMD tipped its 6th Gen A-Series SoCs. The Computex show held this week in Taiwan was mostly about new tablets and notebooks, but chip news rose to the fore as well. The biggest news arrived before the show […]

The famous, open-source CentOS Linux distribution that is derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux is now available for 32-bit (i686) hardware architectures.

GitHub has revoked an unknown number of cryptographic keys used to access accounts after a developer found they contained a catastrophic weakness that came to light some seven years ago.

The most important thing that the British War Office learned about cryptography was how to keep a secret: Enigma was broken at Bletchley Park early enough in World War II to change the course of the war—and of history.