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Google's new Material Design approach proved to be a real success and now Linux developers are looking to make a new distribution that is capable of adhering to those guidelines, which is actually something new in the ecosystem.

An editorial talking about what you can do for Linux gaming. Including when to buy games, and what distribution to use to make sure you get support.

Beats Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, Elementary Review Linux Mint 17.1 is the first example of what the Mint project team can do when they're focused on their own system rather than on making the latest Ubuntu work with Mint.…

LAMP stack is a popular open source software platform for powering database-driven web applications on Linux. LAMP itself is an acronym for Linux, Apache web server, MariaDB database, and PHP dynamic server-side programming language. This tutorial will present a step by step procedure on installing LAMP stack on Ubuntu server, and also guide you to […]Continue reading... The post How to install LAMP stack on Ubuntu server appeared first on Xmodulo. Related FAQs: How to install LAMP stack (Apache, MariaDB/MySQL and PHP) on CentOS How to install LAMP server on Ubuntu How to secure a LAMP server on CentOS or RHEL How to install LEMP stack (nginx, MariaDB/MySQL and PHP) on CentOS How to run SQL queries against Apache log files on Linux

SUSE, the enterprise Linux company, is working on its own storage solution using open-source Ceph: SUSE Storage.

Starting in kernel 2.6.24, Linux supports 6 different types of namespaces. Namespaces are useful in creating processes that are more isolated from the rest of the system, without needing to use full low level virtualization technology.

Back in May, we wrote about how, despite pretty much everyone agreeing on a (decent, if not amazing) patent reform bill in the Senate, the whole thing got shot down at the last minute. That was when the trial lawyers called Senator Harry Reid, asking him to kill the whole thing, which he did by telling Senator Patrick Leahy that he wouldn't allow the bill to go to the floor for a vote. This came after months of detailed negotiations, getting nearly everyone into agreement on the bill, which would have made life at least somewhat more difficult for patent trolls.

Write code to improve this Pi-powered telescope and you could win one of your own

The Battle for Wesnoth is free, turn-based tactical strategy game that features both single-player and online/hotseat multiplayer combat. The developers have just updated it after a long hiatus.

For a successful open source company, the lack of process control is just a small price to pay in the grand scheme of things

OpenSUSE 13.2 has been released and announced by The openSUSE Project Developer, it now available to download and install on you computer. OpenSUSE 13.2 KDE is defaut desktop OpenSUSE, but there is also a GNOME edition, this release openSUSE Project Developer shipped the latest version of KDE 4.14.

Intrinsyc unveiled an Android 5.0 dev platform for the Snapdragon 810 SoC in phone, tablet, SBC, and COM versions that debut DDR4 and TransferJet tech. Intrinsyc Technologies has released three Android 5.0 development platforms, as well as a computer-on-module, supporting the Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 system-on-chip: Open-Q 8094 System on Module (SOM) — Snapdragon 810 with […]

Linux VMs over 2TB now possible and Cloud Platform gets a scaled-up cleanup Microsoft's just released its November rollup of product fixes to address issues that go back to April 2014.…

The race for Top 5 was tight this week on Opensource.com. Here's the best of the best from the site: November 17 - 21, 2014. Top 5 articles of the week read more

Open gaming roundup Week of November 15 - 21, 2014 Hello, open gaming fans! In this week's edition, we take a look at Google's release of open source Pie Noon, an update of the Steam Client, Super Smash Bros on calculaters, and more! read more

Guadalinex 9 has been released. Guadalinex is a Linux distribution developed by the Council of Economy, Innovation and Science of the Government of Andalucía (Spain) to facilitate the access to information technology for all citizens of the Spanish province. It is largely based on Ubuntu 14.04, with elements from Linux Mint and Debian GNU/Linux. The main edition comes with the Cinnamon desktop, while the "lite" variant, provided for the first time and designed to run on older computers or computers with limited hardware, includes the lightweight LXDE desktop environment.

Python is the popular programming language used on the Raspberry Pi. What makes it so special?

LinuxCertified Inc, a leading provider of Linux training and services, announced its next Hands On Embedded Linux Development class to be held in San Francisco Bay Area from December 6th - 8th, 2014.

How has the ELK stack emerged to become a leading open source data analysis platform?

Get those proposals in: The Call for Papers for the 13th annual Southern California Linux Expo — SCALE 13x, for those of you keeping score at home — ends in less than three weeks from today.