Showing all newswire headlines

In today's open source roundup: Chrome OS users often own more than one device. Plus: DistroWatch reviews Ubuntu 15.04. And VLC 1.3.2 has been released for Android.

The latest OpenStack release brings bare metal support, better identity federation, and new object storage support to the popular open-source cloud.

The developers of Terraria have recently commented on a reddit post, and they mentioned Linux is still planned for the game.

Kubuntu 15.04 boasts the new Plasma 5 interface and additional updated software but you may want to be careful before you rush into an upgrade. While the new upgrade might give you a slicker UI, you may also be left with more problems.

The new Robolinux 7.9.1 release, 'Apex X12 Privacy & Security!', which has two more privacy and security applications added into all eight Robolinux GNOME, KDE Xfce and LXDE 32-bit and 64-bit 7.9.1 variants: the Invisible Internet Project (I2P) and RootKit Check. For the last three months Robolinux has been building an arsenal of privacy and security applications into all eight of its operating systems. These new versions are a direct result of our users asking for more privacy and security applications. Robolinux version 7.9.1 also added rcconf which allows you to remove any unnecessary memory-resident services from running when you boot up Robolinux. The result is Linux will run even faster. In addition, 7.9.1 also has the newest VirtualBox 4.3.26 and Firefox 37.0.1.

LEMP is a combination of the operating system and open-source software stack. The acronym LEMP came from the first letters of Linux, Nginx(engine-x) HTTP Server, MySQL/MariaDB database, and PHP/Perl/Python. In this tutorial, let us see how to install lemp stack on Ubuntu 15.04, and its previous versions such as Ubuntu 14.10, 14.04, 13.10 etc..

With a new version of Debian recently released, it's an exciting time for users who long for newer applications and cutting-edge features. But for some users, the new release is a cause for concern.

Today May 1, has been released a new installation image of Arch Linux.

This tutorial explains how to build nginx with the latest version of the Google PageSpeed (nginx_pagespeed) module on Debian Jessie. The PageSpeed module applies web performance best practices to pages, and associated assets (CSS, JavaScript, images) and therefore speeds up your web site and reduces load times.

I recently had the opportunity to interview David Strauss about how Pantheon uses containers to isolate many Drupal applications from development to production environments. His upcoming DrupalCon talk, PHP Containers at Scale: 5K Containers per Server, will give us an idea of the techniques for defining and configuring containers to get the most out of our infrastructure resources. read more

Network bridge is a hardware equipment used to interconnect two or more Layer-2 network segments, so that network devices on different segments can talk to each other. A similar bridging concept is needed within a Linux host, when you want to interconnect multiple VMs or Ethernet interfaces within a host. That is one use case of a software Linux bridge.

The Fedora 22 Beta release for aarch64 and POWER secondary architecutres has arrived, with a preview of the latest free and open source technology under development. Take a peek inside!

When you're interested in learning a new technology, sometimes the best way is to watch it in action—or at the very least, to have someone explain it one-on-one. Unfortunately, we don't all have a personal technology coach for every new thing out there, so we turn to the next best thing: a great video. With that in mind, if you're interested in Docker (and these days, who isn't?), here are five great videos to get you started with the basics you should know. read more

Visual Studio Code aims to be a powerful and streamlined IDE that lets developers build and debug modern, platform-independent Web and Cloud applications, as well as to develop Node and ASP.NET apps.

Google has developed a new extension for its Chrome browser that aims to stop people from falling prey to phishing sites. The free Password Alert extension stores an encrypted version of a person's password and warns if it is typed into a site that isn't a Google sign-in page, according to a blog post on Wednesday. It will then prompt a person to change their password.

The Arma developers have confirmed that an external team is working on the Linux version, and that it won’t be native.

Simplicity Linux 15.4 is now available for download in Netbook and Desktop editions, both available in 32 and 64 bit versions. It is based on the excellent LXPup and uses their implementation of LXDE as the desktop environment. The 32 bit kernel is the 3.14.20 kernel and the 64 bit kernel is the 3.17.20 kernel.

Microsoft has released a preview build of Windows 10 Internet of Things Core for the tiny ARM-Cortex-powered Raspberry Pi 2 and the MinnowBoard Max, a computer driven by an Intel Bay Trail Atom.

Remember a couple years back when Canonical was showing us how you could transform your phone into a full-fledged Ubuntu PC? That was a more of a concept, but it's 2015 and that hasn't been made possible yet, at least not by Canonical. Microsoft just demoed the same thing with its Windows phone.

Razer is taking pre-orders for its $100 “Forge TV” Android TV gaming player, with options including a gaming controller, keyboard, and PC streaming service.