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GnuPG is a piece of cryptographic software embedded in numerous online solutions in the world, including email clients, and it's an indispensable part of our online experience. That also means that it's underfunded and maintained by a single guy who is ready to give up. Fortunately, the online community has responded to his plea and that reaction was amazing.

ARM unveiled an ARMv8 Cortex-A72 CPU for mobile said to be twice as fast as the -A57, plus a faster new Mali-T880 GPU and CoreLink CCI-500 interconnect.

DevConf.cz, in the beautiful city of Brno, Czech Republic is one of the most popular free software conferences in the region. It brings together hundreds of developers, enthusiasts, and engineers to discuss and collaborate on new technology.

OPENPediatrics (OP), a free online education and best practice sharing community for pediatric clinicians worldwide, has launched a new library of openly licensed medical animations and illustrations, making them available for non-commercial educational use.

Raises $150,000 as netizens rush to back encryption and privacy software Werner Koch is looking at a big (and well deserved) payday after pulling in over $150,000 to fund the continuing development of his crucial open-source GNU Privacy Guard encryption tools.…

This is a review of Linux Mint 17.1 which is probably as good as it gets for people who like a traditional desktop Linux distribution. It has lots of nice little touches, is clean, polished and stable.

Wireshark is one of the best network protocol analyzer. It is used for analysis, troubleshoot network to find security issues. Wireshark 1.99.2 is an experimental release with new features to test for wireshark 2.0.

Ken Rugg, Founder and CEO of Tesora, discusses what's next for the Trove database project in the OpenStack cloud.

A “Deep-SCINI” submersible with Linux-based Elphel cameras discovered surprisingly diverse life under the Antarctic ice shelf — and rapidly melting ice.

Games giant Valve says it will release details about a promised successor to the OpenGL graphics API at a conference in San Francisco next month.

Join Aaron Newcomb and Randal Schwartz this week to speak with Boudewijn Rempt about Krita. Krita is a FREE digital painting and illustration application. Krita offers CMYK support, HDR painting, perspective grids, dockers, filters, painting assistants, and many other features.

Writing can be hard. Focuswriter is a neat word processor available in Fedora that provides a user experience to minimize all these cat-related distractions, allowing you to focus on what you need to write.

DataStax has acquired Aurelius, maker of the Titan graph database, to add graph database capabilities to its big data platform, which is based on Cassandra, the NoSQL open source distributed database.

Early in 2014, we launched our company Tesora as the OpenStack Trove company focused on the open source database-as-a-service project. This wasn’t, however, a brand new open source company. We began our life as ParElastic, developing a proprietary engine that could transparently scale-out MySQL.

The snow won't stop falling this winter and it's been so bad in New England many folks haven't been able to get to work where the work is piling up like the snow in your driveway. If your company uses cloud services, you could continue to operate even when you can't make it to the building.

Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet) is scheduled to launch in April and just a few weeks of development are left, which means that Linux Kernel 3.19 is the most likely candidate for implementation in the distro.

Adafruit creatives Noe and Pedro Ruiz hack video goggles to make a 3D-printed Google Glass-like attachment

The first hurdle to his proposal comes on February 26, the date on which the FCC is expected to vote on the new rules. This is probably already a done deal, as it’s unlikely that Wheeler would’ve penned yesterday’s piece for Wired if he wasn’t confident that he already has the support of his fellow commissioners. So, the question is, what happens next?

Bodhi Linux 3.0 Reloaded RC 2 is a linux distribution based on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS featuring Enlightenment 19.2 desktop environment and EFL/Elementary 1.12.2.

Data Modul’s fanless, Pico-ITX “eDM-pITX-BT” SBC runs Linux on Intel’s Bay Trail SoCs, ranging from a single-core 1.5GHz Atom to a quad-core 2.4GHz Celeron. The company says it developed the eDM-pITX-BT “in cooperation with a long-term partner, a leading manufacturer of industrial computers. In addition to its passively-cooled soldered Intel processor, the board features up […]