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Anaconda will not accept a password that’s less than seven characters. And no, a password that’s the same as the username, even if it’s more than seven characters, will not fly. If it contains the username in some form, that won’t fly too. In fact, if it’s deemed weak, Anaconda will not let you go past that step.

To realize the full potential of location-based smartphone apps, they should be built to support offline mode and original map graphics. Creating a custom offline map is the best choice. We were faced with this challenge as well, and the solution we came up with was creating a separate library for this purpose. That is how I developed the m?AppWidget code library.? We recently decided to open source it, and now mAppWidget is available to anyone in need of a mobile custom offline map solution. read more

darktable, one of the best open-source applications for editing RAW files under a Linux kernel-based operating system has been updated recently with a great number of changes, several bug fixes, RAW support for more cameras, white balance presets from several Panasonic cameras, as well as new standard/enhanced matrix and noise profiles.

Voyager 14.04.4 is available. Voyager Live is an Xubuntu-based distribution and live DVD showcasing the Xfce desktop environment. Its features include the Avant Window Navigator or AWN (a dock-like navigation bar), Conky (a program which displays useful information on the desktop), and over 300 photographs and animations that can be used as desktop backgrounds.

Python is an open-source high-level programming language and at the same time, it is user-friendly. It can be used on many different platforms. Today we will show you how to install the latest version of Python from source on your Linux VPS.

Dennaton Games and Devolver Digital have just released the awesome Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number game on Steam for Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows operating systems, but it appears that many users have some issues with keyboard and mouse, as it would appear that the game grabs both peripherals but does nothing with them.

In today's open source roundup: A new code of conflict might put a gag on Linus Torvalds. Plus: DistroWatch reviews Korora 21, and is Apple getting too much credit for the Apple Watch?

I love my latest Android device (see the March 2015 issue's Open-Source Classroom column for details), but for some reason, it won't automatically connect to my Bluetooth headset. When I turn on my headset, I want it to connect to my Android device so I can start using it right away.

French IPTV provider Free unveiled a “Freebox Mini 4K,” claimed to be the first Ultra HD Android TV set-top box, based on a new Broadcom Cortex-A15 STB SoC.

After taking a year off so that the nonprofit behind the event could concentrate on launching the Great Wide Open conference in Atlanta, the POSSCON developer's conference will return to Columbia, South Carolina on Tuesday and Wednesday, April 14th and 15th. Last year, regular attendees of POSSCON were urged to attend the Atlanta event instead. This year's event will take place at various venues in the Vista, Columbia's arts and entertainment district.

SingleHop has acquired Server Intellect, a major Microsoft Hyper-V hosting provider, to expand its cloud hosting offerings beyond the VMware niche.

The Fedora 22 Alpha release has arrived, with a preview of the latest free and open source technology under development. The GNOME Shell notification system has been redesigned and subsumed into the calendar widget; the terminal now notifies you when a long running job completes; the login screen now uses Wayland by default; installation of GStreamer codecs, fonts, and certain document types is now handled by Software, instead of GNOME PackageKit; the Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT) now features better notifications, and uses the privacy control panel in GNOME to control information sent.

Couldn't help but notice that the Internet of Things was taking center stage at Mobile World Congress this year, and people are beginning to pay more attention. Look for lots more action over the next 12-18 months.

The thing is, here in the FOSS world we have absolutely no way of knowing how many people might be using a particular distro. There are no licenses to sign, and companies using Linux aren’t required to take inventory to make sure they’re staying in compliance. So while Microsoft and Apple can give us a pretty accurate figure for the number of times their operating systems have been legally installed in the last few months or so, we can’t. Unlike Windows, Linux doesn’t require users to sign draconian EULAs. Unlike Apple, our distros aren’t performing all of the installs themselves on machines they manufacture.

Being a hardcore developer who cares deeply about software, and having worked for local government for the past eight years, I have pondered this question often. On the one hand, a running philosophical theme is that programming is the new literacy, and because software permeates every aspect of our lives, programming amounts to expressing knowledge, just like writing does. read more

Fedora 21 Workstation added the ability to log in and run a Wayland session from the login screen (GDM), leaving the login screen itself running using the older X protocol. […]

A tall man with deep-set eyes and a close-cropped beard, Mr. Hammerbacher stood recently in front of a white board filled with an amalgam of computer and genetic code, speaking of “Linux clusters” and “gnarly C code” — standard terms in the language of computing — but the main subject was biomedical science. Mr. Hammerbacher also discussed “neoantigens” and “gene variants,” and the data-driven hunt to find and understand the rogue cell clusters of cancer.

SageTV was a cross-platform media center application and digital video recorder tool for Windows, Mac, and Linux computers. I say “was” because Google acquired the company in 2011 and used the technology for its Google Fiber TV service. Now SageTV could be making a comeback: the company’s founder has announced that within a few months Google will open source the SageTV platform.

The flaw, now identified as CVE-2014-8889, was found inside the Dropbox SDK (software development kit) for Android and could have potentially enabled an attacker to insert an arbitrary access token, to give the attacker access to user information.

IBM built a proof-of-concept exploit that it calls "DroppedIn" to test the impact of the vulnerability. Using the exploit, IBM found that 76 percent of the apps that it analyzed that leverage the Dropbox SDK were at risk from the flaw.

MaraDNS is a small, free and lightweight Domain Name Server. It is an alternative open-source DNS server, which acts as a caching, recursive, or authoritative nameserver. It is remarkably easy to configure and available for Linux and Windows platform.