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This week we’re celebrating Mozilla’s 15th anniversary.  How can you help us commemorate 15 years of a better Web? Read about it Check out http://www.mozilla.org/contribute to read 15 facts about Mozilla, our biggest milestones and how you can join the … Continue reading

Using tools available in digiKam, you can simulate a number of effects, including bleach bypass. This effect produces a desaturated high-contrast image. Creating the bleach bypass effect in digiKam is done in two simple steps.

Is your project open source enough? Are you? Are you doing enough for your communities? Accusations like these are getting thrown around more and more, often in the simple form, "X isn't really open." It's a question we've even asked ourselves from time to time when we post stories on opensource.com—is this a real example of openness? But what is "open enough?" And does it really matter?

Project Zomboid a game that has been in development for some time now due to some rather unfortunate drawbacks is finally nearing it's next release!

One of the smallest fully featured ARM microcomputers on the market, can the CuBox justify its top-end price?

Steve McIntyre and the Linaro Enterprise Group recently analyzed Ubuntu and Fedora software packages to see what software was still relying upon hand-written Assembly code. This was done to see how much real Assembly is being used, to see what the code was used for, and whether it was worth porting to 64-bit ARM / AArch64 / ARMv8...

Fifteen years ago, Netscape released the code to its browser suite as open source and created the Mozilla project. Today, Mozilla is pioneering the web as a mobile device platform and teaching the world how to create content

Build and run windows apps without using Windows

In this edition: catching up with the releases that happened over the long Easter weekend, including Mageia 3 beta 4, Scientific Linux 6.4 and Bodhi Linux 2.3.0

Simon ponders the continued explosion in the sales of tablet devices, and wonders how it can all be turned to good

When Linux is usually stable, sometimes a process just wants to mess up and hangs around unwelcomely. It just ignores your request to close up. And here are the 4 killer (literally) commands you can use to show who is the real boss when the aforementioned case happens:

There's a lot of activity in the MySQL ecosystem currently. Andrew Hutchings takes a look at MySQL and the various forks and spinoffs to give an overview of where MySQL's community and close competition is currently at

The latest version of Adobe's HTML based code editor adds word wrap and the ability to hide line numbers in the editor window. Other improvements include a new extension installation system

For Valve's forthcoming Linux-based Steam gaming console the first packages are starting to emerge within a package repository on the SteamPowered web-server...

On Saturday, a federal court in New York ruled in summary judgment within the case of Capitol Records v. ReDigi. The court decided that no, users do not have the right to resell digital music files, as doing so violates existing copyright law. ReDigi, the judge found, is also liable for secondary copyright infringement and likely will have to pay damages.

We have talked recently about the significance of integrating the Node.js language with the powerful M database, particularly in the space of healthcare applications. The efficiency of Node.js combined with the high performance of M, provides an unparalleled fresh approach for building healthcare applications. Here is how you can try this today:

Join us as we delve into this fledgling fad and ask whether such low-cost hardware can persuade you to put down your Kindle, Nook or Kobo and give them a shot.

The lead developer behind the Hawaii Desktop Environment now believes that their Qt Quick 2 desktop is now in a usable state for Wayland and can run fine on the Weston compositor...

Although security issues are familiar to most PC users, the potential for hacking and malware in embedded devices like ATMs, medical devices, and smart cars is less understood. In this guest column, VDC Research VP Chris Rommel presents evidence that consumers are starting to fret about the security risks posted by their increasingly interconnected lifestyles. [...]

When I was in college, there was a rich kid down the hall who had a computer with 16MB of RAM. Before you scoff, you need to think back to 1993.