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Linux is as secure as ever. The real security hole lies with some of Linux's administrators and users.

On Monday Ken Starks published an article on Internet access in his neck of the woods, which is outside the Austin city limits. That got me wondering how much most of you spend each month to have the ability to read articles on FOSS Force, watch the latest episodes of your favorite TV shows and check in with your friends on your favorite social network.

Docker is nothing more than a handy container. But for a lot of use cases, it's opening up amazing new possibilities for making development and deployment work together more closely than ever. It's an open source project designed to make it easy to create lightweight, portable, self-sufficient containers of an application, allowing that containerized application to run just as easily on a massively scaled cloud as it does on a developer's laptop. For projects like OpenStack, it's a new way of deploying applications as an alternative to (or on top of) a virtual machine, while potentially using fewer system resources in the process.

iRobot has begun shipping a Linux-based telepresence robot, featuring a 21-inch videoconferencing screen and camera, and autonomous navigation via LIDAR. iRobot announced its Ava 500 telepresence robot last June, and says it is now shipping it in North America and Europe. We’ve seen some evidence that the 21-inch Cisco Telepresence EX60 tablet, which forms the […]

Your friends are going on about Arduino, you know that Raspberry Pi isn't actually a baked good filled with fruit, and you've been following along with Open Hardware Week. But where do you start? How do you teach yourself the basics? Here are some great starter projects for beginners, ranging from simple electronics projects involving batteries and tape to open source beehives.

Google on Wednesday released a developer preview for Android Wear, a day after announcing the project, which Android head honcho Sunder Pichai teased at SXSW earlier this month. The preview, which includes a software development kit, an Android emulator and a preview support library, is for development and testing only -- not for production apps.

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Having recently co-authored a book about building things with the Raspberry Pi (Raspberry Pi Hacks), I've spent a lot of the last couple of years talking about this credit-card-sized Linux computer and seeing fun things people have used it for. Originally designed for education, the Raspberry Pi was inspired by 1981's BBC Micro, also created for education. But when it was released, what makers saw was a very small computer, perfect for putting in all kinds of projects due to the abilities it has crammed into such a small space. Here are a few of my favorites:

This week I look at the growth of OpenStack jobs, the beautiful combination that is Trove and Cassandra and the pros and cons of a multi-vendor cloud strategy.

There is more to open source than software, hardware and the creative commons. Open source can also be seen as a guide for living life that is based on principles that go back to antiquity. Openness and sharing aren’t only for computers, electronics and creative writing.

New Android apps and updates were blocked from appearing in Google's Play Store on Monday, after a hacker attacked Google's app publishing system.

In today's open source roundup: Amazon might release a Chromecast style streaming media player. Plus: GOG.com readies support for Linux games, and will OpenFL replace Flash?

IBM Rational Developer for AIX and Linux Version 9.0 allows you to use a single project to develop, build, test, debug, and performance tune your application across multiple systems at the same time. Mike Kucera describes the features that enable distributed development.

When it comes to networking, and software-defined networking in particular, open source rules.?

Aaeon announced a 95 x 95mm COM Express Type 6 module based on AMD’s G-Series SoC, featuring GbE, dual display support, 10 USB ports, and five PCIe lanes. Like Aaeon’s recent EMB-KB1 Mini-ITX motherboard, the company’s new “COM-KB” computer-on-module builds upon AMD’s Embedded G-Series SoC. Other COM Express Type 6 modules equipped with the G-Series […]

So, this is massive news and yet another reason why games not having a Linux version should become a thing of the past. Epic Games has announced Unreal Engine 4 with Linux support and not just in exporting, the toolkit will be native too.

Motorola Mobility announced a round-faced Moto 360 smartwatch, based on Google’s new Android Wear platform and due this summer. As expected, LG was first up to announce a smartwatch based on Google’s wearable platform, formally announced yesterday as Android Wear. But later in the day, Motorola Mobility stepped up with its own Android Wear smartwatch […]

Open-source programming language gets a major update that will shape enterprise IT development for the next several years.

LinuxSecurity.com: Updated php packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 and 5.6 Long Life, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9 Extended Update Support. [More...]

You have been waiting for long 2 years!

With the coming release of next long-term support version of Ubuntu 14.04 just a month away, many of you already looking for downloading of your own ISO image of the system. Yes, that's the next version, codenamed Trusty Tahr.