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Enterprise Linux users, awake! Red Hat has finally released Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, and it looks like it's going to run on everything, from the server in the back-room, to datacenters and the cloud.

Here’s something else to blame on last April’s Heartbleed security bug: It smeared the line between security holes that users can do something about, and those we can’t. Getting that distinction right is going to be crucial as we weather a storm of vulnerabilities and hacks that shows no sign of abating.

Technologic is sampling a fast-booting “TS-4740? COM that runs Debian on a 1GHz, ARM9 PXA168 SoC and offers a 25K-LUTs Spartan-5 FPGA and gigabit Ethernet.

Rumor has it that Canonical may release an official variant of Ubuntu Linux based on the open source MATE interface, a fork of the GNOME 2 desktop environment.

Discover how to analyse code for compliance, log and track issues, estimate code debt and much more.

This tutorial will explain the basic steps on how to install LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP or Perl) server in ubuntu server 14.04 LTS. The acronym LAMP is derived from first letters of Linux, Apache HTTP Server, MySQL, and PHP/Perl/Python.

SPACECOM is a new space strategy game coming to Linux in the second half of this year. It is being published by the new publishing arm of 11bit studios (Anomaly, Games Republic) called "11 bit launchpad".

Emmabuntus is a desktop Linux distribution based on Xubuntu. It strives to be beginner-friendly and reasonably light on resources so that it can be used on older computers

When Heidi Ellis took the floor at this year's Professors' Open Source Summer Experience—held May 28-30 at Drexel University in Philadelphia—she wanted her colleagues to understand the extraordinary educational benefits of involving students in open source projects.

I actually got tipped off about Rich Geldreich leaving Valve in early May, but refrained from saying anything until he stated it publicly, and that has now happened.

Linus Torvalds formally released the Linux 3.15 kernel on Jun 8, marking the third major Linux kernel release of 2014. Among the new changes that the Linux 3.15 kernel brings is something known as improved radix treehole searching, which ultimately leads to improved memory management and utilization.

Today KDE released updates for its Applications and Development Platform, the second in a series of monthly stabilization updates to the 4.13 series. This release also includes an updated Plasma Workspaces 4.11.10. Both releases contain only bugfixes and translation updates, providing a safe and pleasant update for everyone.

Making the switch to Ubuntu – or any popular Linux distribution – is more than the mere act of changing operating systems. You must also have apps that allow you to get work done.

Ben Golub, CEO of Docker, told eWEEK that Docker 1.0 is a stable release and will be commercially supported with a number of different support options that his company will provide, including training, architectural review and support. The Docker enterprise support efforts will be complemented by a channel sales program to further expand Docker's reach.

A couple of years ago, I needed an oscilloscope for a fun electronics project I was working on: a 500W Tesla coil. I'd already spent quite a bit of money importing a kit of parts for the project from the United States, so the budget for the scope was pretty tight. read more

In today's open source roundup: A programmers translation guide. Plus: Linux 3.15 released, and an interview with Linus Torvalds.

Drupal is very popular and easy to use open-source CMS (content management system ) written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License.

The Dhanush Wearable Processing Unit is a Linux-ready SoC based on MIPS MicroAptiv and InterAptiv cores, designed for wearables with 30-day battery life. Based in Santa Clara, Calif. and Hyderabad, India, Ineda Systems announced its Dhanush Wearable Processing Unit (WPU) back in April. The system-on-chips have now begun sampling to early customers. A June 4 […]

Black Gnome 14.10 Testing is available. The project goal is to unlock the potential of GNOME 3. As GNOME 3 is rapidly developed and new extensions are created and old extensions becoming obsolete, I will be actively keeping up to the changes with new weekly builds. Black GNOME is not going to be cutting edge at the risk of system crashes, opting for the stable.

Among the enhanced capabilities in the Linux 3.15 kernel is improved suspend and resume performance. The new suspend and resume code "provides a tangible speed up for a non-esoteric use case (laptop resume)," Linux kernel developer Dan Williams told Linux creator Linus Torvalds in a Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML) message.