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The specialist firewall Linux distribution IPFire 2.17 - Core Update 89 is available for download now.

Like it or not, during the second decade of the 21st century Ubuntu has been the operating system to watch. This, despite the fact that its gathered a large base of followers who loyally despise it. While it’s true that much of this animosity is deserved, just as much is because we love to hate a big shot, and our jealousy over the success of others is made worse when success comes to those who don’t act according to our plans.

Apache Spark is an open source cluster computing framework. In contrast to Hadoop’s two-stage disk-based MapReduce paradigm, Spark’s in-memory primitives provide performance up to 100 times faster for certain applications. read more

In an e-mail today to the Open Source Software Security (oss-security) mailing list, the maintainer of wireless network client code used by Android, the Linux and BSD Unix operating systems, and Windows Wi-Fi device drivers sent an urgent fix to a flaw that could allow attackers to crash devices or even potentially inject malicious software into their memory. The flaw could allow these sorts of attacks via a malicious wireless peer-to-peer network name.

We are happy to announce the release of Calculate Linux 14.16.

Calculate Linux Desktop, featuring either the KDE (CLD) or the XFCE (CLDX) environment, Calculate Directory Server (CDS), Calculate Media Center (CMC), Calculate Linux Scratch (CLS), Calculate Scratch Server (CSS) are all available for download.

A goldmine of open source code is available to programmers, but choosing the right library and understanding how to use it can be tricky. Sourcegraph has created a search engine and code browser to help developers find better code and build software faster. read more

Adeneo has released an Android KitKat 4.4.4 BSP for the TI Sitara AM437x EVM kit in both a free binary version and a commercial version with source code. Adeneo Embedded’s Android 4.4.4 “KitKat” Reference Board Support Package is designed for use with the Texas Instruments AM437x EVM (TMDXEVM437X EVM). The EVM kit was announced last […]

If you’re creating a new technology or have a business idea beware. Patent trolls are everywhere.

Of all the RAID levels that consumers are likely to use on their home systems, RAID 5 is one of the more exotic choices. While RAID 0 and 1 are pretty straightforward, RAID 5 is a little more complex.

In today's open source roundup: Canonical's browser will be in Ubuntu 15.04. Plus: Should a newbie programmer switch to Ubuntu from Windows? And an Ubuntu user switches to Kubuntu.

Korora 21 MATE has been released. Korora was born out of a desire to make Linux easier for new users, while still being useful for experts. Korora is a Fedora Remix, meaning it ships packages from the default Fedora repositories but also a number of other packages (often ones that Fedora cannot ship directly).

Yes, that's right, the Trinity Bundle game sale from Bundle Stars is back and it includes no more than 10 awesome games for your GNU/Linux distribution, as well as for Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows operating systems.

The next version, or should we say three versions, of Red Hat's community Linux, Fedora, are now in beta.

Ubuntu MATE 15.04 is now available for Raspberry Pi 2, which means that users can download it and use it just like any other OS for this platform.

One of the most unpleasant situations in life is when we have to restore the Grub bootloader in order to be able to boot our Arch Linux again.

The open source, IoT-focused Udoo Neo SBC has won Kickstarter funding. The Neo runs Android or Linux on an i.MX6 SoloX, and has WiFi, BT, and Arduino hooks. Seco’s Udoo project unveiled the Udoo Neo single board computer in prototype form in early March.

To rescue its struggling business, Hewlett-Packard is making a long-shot bid to change the fundamentals of how computers work.

As Linux version 4.0 was released on 15 April, one of the most discussed new features to be included in this release is "no reboot" kernel patching.

Half-Life 2: Update, a community-made mod of Valve's acclaimed Half-Life 2 first-person shooter video game, the sequel to Half-Life, is now available on Steam for Linux.

I have written dozens of user guides over the years and this article lists 76 of these guides showing how to create media, backup systems, dual boot, install Linux, customise Linux and do stuff with the Raspberry PI.