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I'm not exaggerating when I say that Mozilla's Portland coincidental work week was an example of perfect collaboration between staff and community members.

On Thursday, Linux legend Linus Torvalds sent a lengthy statement to Ars Technica responding to statements he made in Auckland, New Zealand earlier that day about diversity and "niceness" in the open source sector.

An open letter to computer makers about how I want an Ubuntu notebook. I want to buy an inexpensive, low to medium-end notebook that comes preinstalled with Ubuntu. I want it to look nice. I want it to cost $300 to $450.

Welcome to the Opensource.com weekly Top 5! Every week, I check out the stats and chatter to see what stories have been most popular with our readers this week. Last week, we filmed a short preview video that we shared on social media to give you a prep for the full-length video that is on our YouTube channel.

In today's open source roundup: Why Apple's Macbooks are popular with some Linux users. Plus: Ars reviews Fedora 21, and should you use Linux or BSD?

Recently, Oddworld announced that the remake of Abe's Oddysee will be released on February 25, 2015 for Linux.

This guide shows how to customise the XFCE desktop environment by adding panels and items, switching the menu system, installing a dash and installing the classy Cairo dock

Free online code repositories such as GitHub provide a valuable collaboration service for enterprise developers. But it's also a trove of potentially sensitive company and project information that's likely to warrant attention from hackers.

For the past few years, cloud has been one of the biggest buzzwords among technology enthusiasts. Whether you want data accessibility across devices or need computation power for your business or even develop applications—cloud can help you.

It's easy to think that Ubuntu developers are usually working only on the next version of the operating systems, but they also put a lot of effort into the distros they already released. For example, an important Unity update has been unveiled now for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.

Add gesture and touch control to your Pi

Many people complain about being able to keep up with all the information that they need to—or think they need to. While for me information overload is impossible, I understand that it can be difficult for others to wean themselves off of the mass of information that faces them.

Load balancing HTTP/HTTPS with Pound on Ubuntu 14.10 Server

Most people stick with Raspbian, but is that really the best OS for your Pi? Find out in this six-page super test!

Once in a while I run into a Linux distribution that surprises me in terms of how much I enjoy using it. MakuluLinux is definitely one of those distros. I found an article about it when I was doing my usual news roundup article for my other blog Eye On Open on ITworld and I was intrigued enough to want to do a full review here on Desktop Linux Reviews.

Ken Starks went under the surgical knife this week, as fellow FOSS Forcer Christine Hall reported yesterday. The short version of this story is that Ken’s surgery was successful — as successful as having your larynx and lymph nodes removed can be — and he is resting well in the intensive care unit.

Over the holidays, Microsoft and friends tried to beat back the rise of Chromebooks. They failed. Badly.

Expansion in DNS means you may struggle to handle email from Chinese or Arabic domains Sysadmins needs to update their code for handling email addresses to meet changes to the global DNS, or they risk losing customers and reputation.…

This document describes how to install a ProFTPd server with OpenSuse 13.2. I will include TLS connections. TLS provides endpoint authentication and communications confidentiality over the Internet using cryptography. TLS provides RSA security with 1024 and 2048 bit strengths.

Mozilla has announced that Firefox 36 Beta is now out and ready for testing. It comes with quite a few changes and improvements, but it also brings some important news for the add-on developers who will have to make some important changes.