MakePlayLive Releases New Single-Board System Open Hardware Collective Takes on the Big Vendors
Dec 17, 2013The KDE Vivaldi tablet isn’t here yet, but its development team is proposing cooperative businesses and open hardware as the future of free software.
more »The Linux-libre Project Freeing the Linux Kernel
Nov 04, 2013The Linux kernel and its penguin mascot are widely viewed as the symbol of free and open source software. The truth, however, is that the Linux kernel is only partly free.
more »Introducing the Accessible Computing Foundation Assistive Technology
Sep 23, 2013Assistive technologies may be the next major challenge for free software.
more »Replicant: The Struggle for Free Mobile The Struggle for Free Mobile
Aug 26, 2013Most people are under the impression that Android is free software, so why the need for Replicant, a project that describes itself as a “fully free Android distribution”?
more »GNOME Women in Open Source Project The GNOME Outreach Program for Women
Jun 28, 2013The GNOME Outreach Program for Women has seen success that other programs set up to encourage women in FOSS have not. We look at some of the reasons why.
more »Welcome Editorial
May 31, 2013The long anticipated phenomenon of 3D printing, which the futurists have long identified as a potential “disruptive technology,” truly arrived this month with the appearance of the first 3D-printing controversy: 3D printing of cheap hand guns. Pop science prognosticators who have been bleary-eyed over the “promise” of 3D printing seemed caught off guard by the appearance of the first 3D guns. (You mean this wasn’t just for printing heart valves and Ironman exoskeletons?) At last, 3D printing was not just a quirky popular science oddity, but something that could serve as the fodder for moral arguments – by both sides, and a blogosphere seemingly thrilled to have some new material for speech making and hand wringing.
more »Interview: Eben Upton Eben Upton of Raspberry Pi
May 22, 2013After six years of development, founder Eben Upton and the other members of the Raspberry Pi Foundation are finally seeing the results of their efforts.
more »Linux News
Apr 30, 2013News
- Gnome 3.8 released
- Aereo wins battle to stream broadcast TV
openSUSE 12.3 Out
- New browser engine
- Pirates on the run
- Ubuntu reduces non‑LTS support
Projects
- OpenDaylight open source framework
- ASF promotes CloudStack
Issue 220/2019
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Kali Linux 2019.1 Released
The favorite Linux distro of Mr. Robot gets the first update of 2019.
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Linux Foundation Releases a New Draft of OpenChain Spec
OpenChain provides a standard for open source compliance throughout the software supply chain.
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Linux Kernel Continues To Offer Mitigation for Spectre Mitigation
Kernel 4.19 has added another family of Spectre vulnerabilities to its list of mitigating the mitigation.
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SpeakUp Trojan Targets Linux Servers
It’s exploiting a known vulnerability.
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KDE Plasma 5.15 Beta Arrives
Major improvements to software management.
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Canonical Announces Latest Ubuntu Core for IoT
Now offers 10 years of support.
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GitHub Offers Free Private Repositories
Popular source code collaboration site makes a major change to feature set.
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Linus Torvalds Welcomes 2019 with Linux 5.x
Better support for GPUs and CPUs.
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Microsoft Gets an Open Source Web Browser
The company will use Google Chromium web browser as the foundation for its next browser.