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Luis Ibanez is a senior software developer at Google. In this short talk he explains what he means by "unmanagement" and "unleadership" and how they can change the course of a project. read more

There was great news and there was awful news in the world of Linux and open-source software during 2014.

Microsoft's stats for developers advise them to aim low … in Russian or Spanish Microsoft has revealed a new batch of data about Windows Phone's fortunes, and it seems Redmond's mobile efforts are doing best at the low end of the market.…

In today's open source roundup: Download the latest version of PCLinuxOS. Plus: Is Linux any different on ARM processors? And Android Studio 1.0 has been released.

Written by Alisha Green It was another year full of encouraging news on the open data front in states and municipalities across the country. New open data policies were approved in municipalities of all sizes from coast to coast, existing open data programs matured and sparked new innovations, and there were numerous other open government wins as a result of advocacy efforts. Here's a look back at the year's highlights: read more

Devuan has been created as a clone of Debian minus systemd. Is forking such a massive project such as Debian really a good idea?

BlazeRush had confirmed they were going to do a Linux version, and with no announcement it has landed. BlazeRush is a dynamic arcade racing survival game with no health, no levelling and no brakes!

“Orange Pi,” a new hacker SBC and RPi clone, is available in two models using Allwinner’s dual-core A20 SoC, and a third model that’s based on the quad-core A31. Just in time for our upcoming year-end hacker SBC roundup, Shenzhen Xunlong Software unveiled an Orange Pi board that shares a number of characteristics with the […]

343 people on the mailing list, €3,473 in cash and systemd replacement under way Devuan, the Debian spin-off that will not include systemd has posted its first progress report.…

Business is one of the prime areas of focus on Opensource.com, so naturally we've accumulated a lot of great information over the year about tools for doing business, like project management, customer management, and content management.

OPNFV, the open source software-defined networking and network-functions virtualization project, said development of both code and community will be its focus for 2015.

As the final days of 2014 bring the year to an end, there is already much indication on the horizon for goodness to come in 2015

On Friday, the firm Allegro Software of Boxborough, Massachusetts, released an odd-sounding statement encouraging all its customers to "maintain firmware for highest level of embedded device security."

A roundup of New Products for December 2014.

Tesora and Mirantis have partnered to certify the interoperability of their respective OpenStack open source cloud computing distributions and tools. OpenStack companies Tesora and Mirantis cemented their partnership recently with the announcement that Tesora's Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) platform for the open source cloud operating system is now certified for use with Mirantis's OpenStack distribution.

It’s been quite a while since I last looked at Linux Lite, the last version I reviewed being 1.0.6. Much has changed in Linux Lite since that release and now it’s reached version 2.2. If you aren’t familiar with it, you should know that Linux Lite is a distribution geared toward helping current Windows users transition to the Linux desktop.

More than 12 million devices running an embedded webserver called RomPager are vulnerable to a simple attack that could give a hacker man-in-the-middle position on traffic going to and from home routers from just about every leading manufacturer.

This tutorial shows you how to install phpBB on a Debian Wheezy VPS. phpBB is an Internet forum package written in the PHP scripting language, it is easy to use.

In today's open source roundup: The question of bloat in Linux. Plus: Samsung will release a limited edition Galaxy Alpha phone, and does Oracle Linux have a future?

There was a time when Yahoo strode across the Internet landscape like a giant. Users and media alike waited with bated breath to find out what Yahoo’s next move would be and many of us actually depended on Yahoo to find information on the Internet. But those days are long, long gone and now Yahoo is a pale echo of its former glory.