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Microsoft will have no choice but to give consumers free Windows upgrades once it launches Windows 10 and kicks off its fast-fast-fast tempo, an analyst asserted.

We’ve announced the other day that GNOME 3.16 Release Candidate was made available for testing and that many of its core components, applications, and libraries have been updated. Orca, the default screen reader and magnifier of the GNOME desktop environment has been updated as well with a great number of improvements, bug fixes, as well as updated translations.

This article shows how Gibbon, an open-source management tool has helped International College Hong Kong solve the problem of managing data from multi-site records.

Personal offline wiki is a great place to keep track of these kinds of work. With the help of links, text formatting, images, videos you can organize your work, so that it becomes a great learning resource for your personal use, that you can re-visit whenever you need to review the material.

In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at the 30th anniversary of the GNU Manifesto; Google Code shutting down; a new open source, voice-activated digital assistant; and more.

If you're a movie buff, like myself, then you've probably heard of a little open-source project called Popcorn Time. Effectively, this app serves as a well crafted interface that allows the user to watch a vast selection of pirated films. Once the film is viewed, it disappears without a trace of it having been on the user's machine.

Four different research teams on Wednesday cracked four products-Adobe Flash, Reader, Mozilla Firefox, and Microsoft Internet Explorer-and collectively earned a payout of $317,000 on the first day of Pwn2Own 2015.

This week we celebrated St. Paddy's Day with seven open source developers you should know and kicked off our Open Source in Education series. Join us for this roundup of the best articles from the past week on Opensource.com.

Emoji, the cute Ideograms that are now part of Unicode are now used fairly widely in messaging, especially on mobile devices. However, if you receive a message from someone with an Emoji on it, or view a page online what uses Emoji, the majority OF Emoji appear as a Unicode fallback symbol.

The Fedora Project — mythically known as the “bleeding-edge distro” which only experienced users can use, but which in reality can be used easily by anyone from kids to grandmothers — understands the unique connection between diversity and open source. They are looking for a Diversity Advisor, and they’re seeking your help.

The best Chromebook is also, easily, the most expensive Chromebook. For some people, though, it's worth the money.

So this tutorial will show how to reset a password on Ubuntu Desktop 14.10. It should also work on earlier editions, like Ubuntu 14.04, and even on the upcoming Ubuntu 15.04.

We've all experienced it -- that one app that seems to cause never-ending problems. It'll run for a while and then, out of nowhere, it starts freezing or force crashing. This becomes an even bigger problem when the app in question happens to be in the "must-use" category. What do you do? Do you continue suffering through the data loss and crashes? No, you don't. This is business, and you can't deal with apps that don't behave as needed

Wine 1.7.39 has been released a few hours ago, bringing several new features in DirectWrite and DirectX Media Objects, as well as the usual bug fixes common to each release.

Need to restart your Pi after a system lock-up? Ease strain on the mains connector – install a reset switch!

Canonical recently introduced a new Internet of Things (IoT) platform that uses the Ubuntu Snappy technology to power the connected enterprise, as well as to bind data, processes, devices, and people together, thus remodeling raw data into real-time actionable intelligence.

An user review about the current state of the KDE Plasma 5 on an Arch Linux Workstation.

Aaeon’s rugged, fanless “Boxer-6614″ box-PC runs Linux on a quad- or dual-core Celeron SoC, and offers 8GB RAM, HDMI and VGA, dual GbE, and dual mini-PCIe. According to Aaeon, the Boxer-6614 is a vastly improved upgrade to the Boxer-6613, also called the AEC-6613. Indeed, while that system ran on an Intel Atom D2550, which still […]

As you may be aware, Docker container technology has emerged as a viable lightweight alternative to full-blown virtualization. There are a growing number of use cases of Docker that the industry adopted in different contexts, for example, enabling rapid build environment, simplifying configuration of your infrastructure, isolating applications in multi-tenant environment, and so on.

Some open source texts need to be as accessible, powerful, efficient, and fault-free as a GNU/Linux server. read more