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Updated java-1.5.0-ibm packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 Supplementary. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact.

Project CARS from Slightly Mad Studios has been confirmed to be heading our way. We will be getting some AAA racing!

Oracle will no longer be supporting Glassfish Java Enterprise Edition Server business users.

Today in Open Source: Celebrate the diversity of Linux. Plus: An easy way to customize Android, and a tour of Ubuntu Touch 1.0

I wasn't sure if you had had enough of Metro: Last Light yet, so I quickly made a GOL Cast of it to show you the incredible world of post-apocalyptic Moscow. I also decided to shoot some mutants with a shotgun while I was at it, though the situation got pretty hairy.

LXer Feature: 7-Nov-2013

This is a description of a long and involved process which shows how difficult and frustrating it can be to have a VoIP modem running, free of problems. Originally appearing in LXer forums, it has now been updated and expanded.

Ubuntu 13.10 has been hit by a problem that is affecting more and more users and that renders the operating system almost useless.

There’s a major issue with SSH’s default behaviour. You are only connected with the remote machine after you’ve manually entered the password which rules it out for any tasks you want to run unattended. Or does it?

I recently covered the release of Dropbox platform and my thoughts on the impending cloud storage lock-in. I was also fortunate enough to run across what the guys over at NimbusBase are doing over the weekend. They seem to be the answer to the open API for mobile and web applications, providing a cross-cloud storage layer and a GPL reference implementation while they do it. I also penned a few thoughts on their model.

Presto is a distributed SQL query engine developed in-house at Facebook that they use for scouring their 300+ petabytes of data at the social network company. Facebook uses Hadoop clusters but Hive and other existing open-source tools didn't provide the low-latency results the company wanted, so a team set to develop Presto.

Axiomtek and Nexcom each announced Linux-friendly 3.5-inch single board computers built with dual- or quad-core Intel Atom E3800 (Bay Trail-I) system-on-chips. The Nexcom EBC 355 and Axiomtek CAPA841 SBCs each feature dual gigabit Ethernet ports, dual Mini-PCI Express slots, and dual display capabilities with HDMI, VGA, and LVDS interfaces, plus support for extended temperature operation.

gpodder.net is a libre web service that allows you to manage your podcast subscriptions and discover new content. If you use multiple devices, you can synchronize subscriptions and your listening progress.

I am a community moderator for opensource.com as well as a mother, a librarian, and a former public school teacher. When I began writing for this site over two years ago, it was due to my son's education and how both private and public schools were largely neglecting digital technology, global citizenship, and digital literacy.

In this post I want to show the steps you must follow to have a Development Environment for Android in your Linux distro.

It was one year ago today that Valve first made available the Steam Linux beta! While Phoronix was exclusively covering Valve's Linux developments in the months prior, it was on 6 November 2012 that Valve began rolling out the Steam Linux beta to selected participants.

Ten years ago today, Bill Nottingham announced the release of Fedora Core 1 to the newly minted Fedora Announce list. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Fedora, we’re going to be doing a monthly series of retrospectives and features about the Fedora Project – starting with a look back at Fedora through the eyes of the Fedora Project Leaders(FPLs).

Android's Achilles Heel is not Google, but vendors who pack their devices chock-full of dodgy software. That's the conclusion reached by North Carolina State University researchers led by Xuxian Jiang, who has spent some time analysing Android security.

The Project CARS racing simulation video game out of Slightly Mad Studios has been confirmed now as a title that's coming to Linux via Valve's SteamOS.

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) still has a long way to go, but Canonical has just revealed some information about the packages that are going to be updated.

While we're celebrating today the Steam Linux client turning one year old since Valve's external beta program, the Fedora Project is also celebrating today but its ten year birthday.