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It looks like Ubuntu Edge will reach the $32 million goal that Mark Shuttleworth set to begin building the hybrid smartphone PC. But will it have a market? Could it replace the traditional PC?

Richard Stallman’s suggestion for people who want to compromise on the issue of firmware.

NSA chief Keith Alexander said his agency had implemented a "two-man rule," under which any system administrator like Snowden could only access or move key information with another administrator present. With some 15,000 sites to fix, Alexander said, it would take time to spread across the whole agency.

Samsung continues to signal it intends to blanket the mobile operating system landscape just in case something goes awry with Google’s (GOOG) Android OS or Chrome browser, and even if its Tizen open source initiative with Intel (INTC) goes nowhere. The Korean manufacturer, taking a page from rival Apple’s (AAPL) book, is launching its first ever developers’ conference. Here are details.

If you are reading this article then it is highly likely that you are already a Linux user. This article explores why we feel the need to play the game "My distro is better than your distro".

Researchers have spotted the first in-the-wild apps to exploit a critical Android vulnerability allowing attackers to inject malicious code into legitimate programs without invalidating their digital signature.

The Linux Career IT Skills Watch brings to you the updated statistics, which refer to the period between May and Jun 2013. The results of LinuxCareer.com research reflect up to date, approximate IT skills demand leaning towards the Linux and Unix environment. The biggest drop was made by the LPI certification, which seems to be losing ground in comparison to other major certification providers. The reason for this could be the generic nature of the LPI certification, which does not appear to be very appealing for many employers right now.

The 15th year of OSCON (Open Source Convention) kicked off last night with an opening reception at the Expo Hall. This year's theme is Everything Open. And, the tracks reflect that: business, cloud, geek lifestyle, community, open hardware, tools & techniques, mobile, programming languages like PHP, Python, Perl, Java, and Javascript, and much more.

Ultimately, using a NoSQL database will have an impact on the adoption of Free Software Web applications that use such a database. If you are trying to develop a Web application, that’s something to think about.

In the wake of the recent revelations that America's National Security Agency is spying on all and sundry, is it time for the Linux community to take another good, hard look at the NSA-developed Security Enhanced Linux?

Akademy 2013 in Bilbao, the Basque Country, Spain wrapped up on Friday, 19 July. According to one long-time KDE contributor, it was "A most awesome event."

There are a lot of people complaining about lousy software patents these days. I say, stop complaining, and start killing them. It took me about fifteen minutes to stop a crappy Microsoft patent from being approved. Got fifteen minutes? You can do it too.

Red Pitaya has launched a Kickstarter campaign to build an open source Linux-based measurement and control single-board computer. The $359 Red Pitaya, which can replace thousands of dollars worth of test equipment, will initially ship with smartphone apps for oscilloscope, spectrum analyzer, waveform generator, frequency response analyzer, and PID controller functions.

Today in Open Source: Hacker steals user info from Ubuntu forums. Plus: Did ad blockers destroy The H? Canonical needs money for an Ubuntu phone

The IAB wants you to know that if you don’t let online advertisers follow you around when you’re surfing, then you’re scum, a criminal and probably a traitor to your country. At least, that would seem to be the thick of it from reading their latest in a series of diatribes against Mozilla published last Tuesday on their website under the heading “Has Mozilla Lost Its Values?”.

Who says you need millions for a supercomputer? Not Adapteva, which has started shipping its $99 Parallella single-board parallel processing board.

Samsung is hiring Linux and open source professionals as never before. That may come as little surprise given the company's investment in Google (GOOG) Android tablets and other mobile devices, but it also suggests that the Linux Foundation was right when earlier this year it proclaimed soaring demand—and remarkably high pay rates—for people with open source talent.

You are new to Linux, you are searching for a simple method to convert your videos or your music to fit your Mobile’s resolution or your player’s supported formats. You are tired from using the terminal and commands to convert your music, videos and films and searching for a simpler alternative to do repetitive boring tasks for you ? You are trying to find an application that covers the power of ffmpeg with a simple graphic user interface ?. You have arrived to the right place !

Linux wireless networking, Gluster and Ceph distributed storage, the OpenStack cloud and much more are on the agenda for this year's LinuxCon/CloudOpen North America conference, whose program the Linux Foundation has announced. Here's a look at some of the highlights that the channel can look forward to at the event, which will take place in New Orleans Sept. 16-18.

The Walking Dead is a television show based on a long-running comic book about the survivors of a zombie apocalypse. When our protagonists aren’t being killed by zombies (Dale, T-Dog), killed by humans (Andrea), dying of natural causes (Lori), losing limbs to zombies (Herschel), or losing their tenuous grasp on sanity (Rick), they’re teaching us valuable lessons on how to better run your office. No, seriously.</p>