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Can the development model that is used to build Linux be extended for the life sciences? A new collaborative project will aim to answer that question.

The new commercial Web server product bundles high availability and enterprise features on top of an open-source core. Nginx Plus provides a bundled package that delivers additional enterprise capabilities to organizations, including application health checking, load balancing and high availability.

Leading provider of open-source support and tools is acquired by Rogue Wave Software. What does it means for enterprise software development and support?

There were two updates for a stable Linux kernel yesterday. Is the process too fast? Linux Kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman has a plan to slow it down.

The open-source Mozilla Firefox Web browser has its roots in the Netscape browser that has long since faded from active use on the Web. Firefox has evolved significantly over the years from that historical base to become a leading light in the development of new Web technologies. That evolution has accelerated significantly since 2011, when Mozilla moved to a rapid release process with new browser updates coming approximately every six weeks.

The open-source FreeBSD operating system is often in the shadow of its open-source cousin, Linux. FreeBSD is, however, a mature and stable operating system that is now quite literally at the very core foundation of what makes the Internet work. Global DNS and dot-com Top Level Domain operator VeriSign is among FreeBSD's users and is now aiming to help advance the open-source project through new sponsorship.

This past week, two important updates were issued for PHP, providing both security and bug fixes. Like many things in the open-source world (and technology in general), there isn't just one version of PHP that is currently in use—in fact, there are now at least three main stable releases, including PHP 5.5, 5.4 and 5.3. The new security updates are for the 5.5 and 5.4 branches.

The open-source Linux operating system is widely deployed on enterprise server infrastructure, but it also has a place on the desktop, as well. While many in the Linux community have long speculated on when "The Year of the Linux Desktop" would finally arrive, the reality is that there is no single such entity as THE Linux Desktop. The Linux desktop ecosystem is diverse, with multiple options and choices to suit different user needs and user preferences.

When it comes to Web development, Adobe's Dreamweaver (originally from Macromedia) is a well-known and widely deployed tool. Like most of Adobe's commercial tools, it doesn't run on Linux. While historically Adobe's tools haven't been widely available for Linux users, a new era seems to be starting.

The Red Hat-sponsored community Linux distribution maps a new path forward that could help it provide more targeted solutions for desktop, cloud and server users. Members of the open-source Fedora Linux Project gathered at the new Flock conference in Charleston, S.C., from Aug. 9 to 12 to discuss the future of their Linux distribution.

Mozilla is now out with its Firefox 24 browser as a beta release, providing developers and early adopters with a preview of technologies that will become generally available for consumers in the next six weeks.

Internet research and security services firm Netcraft is now reporting that across the nearly 717 million Websites it has surveyed this month, Apache serves 46.96 percent of them. That is the first time that Apache's share has fallen below 50 percent since December of 2009. At its height—in November of 2005—Apache held a 71 percent market share.

Single sign-on (SSO) mechanisms offer the promise of users having a single credential (the sign-on) in order to log into multiple sites and services. When it comes to the Web, there are multiple sources of identity to power SSO, and open-source browser vendor Mozilla wants to be one of them. - See more at: http://www.eweek.com/blogs/security-watch/mozilla-expands-pe...

Canonical, the lead commercial sponsor behind the open-source Ubuntu Linux operating system, is on a mission to raise $32 million in 30 days, to build 40,000 Ubuntu Edge next-generation smartphones. It's an effort that just received the backing of financial news media giant Bloomberg LP. Will other enterprises buy into the effort?

Google's Android mobile operating system has emerged to become a dominant force in the smartphone landscape. Sitting at the core of Android is Linux as well as a long list of open-source technologies. Many people mistakenly think that Android itself is all open source, but the harsh reality is that from a usable handset perspective, it's not always open source and an incident this week proved that fact beyond any shadow of a doubt.

The open-source Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is out this week with the Flex 4.10.0 update, which I consider to be a major new release of the Flex project. The Flex Framework for rich Internet application development continues its evolution beyond Adobe's confines as adoption and interest grows.

Mozilla adds new social-sharing features, issues 13 security advisories and deploys a mixed-content security capability to limit the risk of mixing un-encrypted data with secured content.

Linux kernel developers have selected a new long-term kernel that could serve as the basis for enterprise Linux distributions as well as consumer electronics devices. Greg Kroah-Hartman tells us all about it.

The WiFi Pineapple is a small-form-factor Linux device that can discretely fit in a security researcher's bag, enabling the researcher to unobtrusively conduct a penetration-testing exercise. At a presentation in the Wireless Hacking Village at DEF CON, a researcher cut out the middle of a large textbook and hid the Pineapple inside.

Nearly two weeks ago, the Apache Software Foundation updated its namesake Apache HTTP webserver with new 2.0.65 and 2.2.25 releases.

What was noticeably absent was an update to the current leading edge - Apache 2.4.x

That's no longer the case as Apache has now released Apache 2.4.6