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Want to get the most out of Linux Mint, one of the most popular of the Linux desktops? Then read on!

Icehouse, the newest version of the leading open source cloud OpenStack, is now ready for users.

People assumed that open source software is somehow magical, that it's immune to ordinary programming mistakes and security blunders. It's not.

For those times when you absolutely must still run Windows XP, one safer way of doing it is to run XP in a virtual machine using the Oracle VirtualBox hypervisor on Linux Mint.

The companies know what to do about Heartbleed now. Here's what you, as an individual, need to do now.

By now, you've heard about the giant Heartbleed security hole in OpenSSL, the extremely popular Secure Socket Layer/Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS) library that's used by almost all BSD, Linux, and Unix servers. What you may not know is that, like a ticking time bomb, that same bug may be within your cloud.

A new OpenSSL vulnerability has shown up and some companies are annoyed that the bug was revealed before patches could be delivered for it.

Canonical, the Ubuntu Linux and Juju Development/Operations (DevOps) program parent company, is turning Juju into a tool that makes setting clouds up a drag-and-drop operation.

The new release of the commercial version of the popular NGINX Web server looks like it will bring great performance improvements.

Recognizing that it can't keep up with the Dropboxes of the cloud storage world, Canonical elects to shut down its Ubuntu One file service.

Installing Linux Mint on an XP PC is something any Windows power user can do.

Months after adopting the Red Hat Enterprise Linux clone CentOS, Red Hat is starting to unveil its CentOS plans.

You've known Firefox since its birth as the alternative Web browser company. Now, under the rule of the new CEO Brendan Eich, it wants to be known as your smartphone operating system.

When it comes to networking, and software-defined networking in particular, open source rules.?

At Google's Pwnium hacking competition, two new security exploits in Chrome OS were demonstrated, while at Pwn2Own a Chrome Web browser problem was found that also impacted Chrome OS. All three problems have now been patched.

There are many ways to measure whether an open source project is gaining meaningful traction. Here how’s OpenDaylight’s doing it.

Based on the open-source ownCloud Community Edition, ownCloud 6 Enterprise Edition offers the cloud's flexibility with on-premise business data control.

Want a good-paying Linux job, but don't have the skills? The Linux Foundation is setting up a new program of online classes for you.

In a surprising move, Red Hat will enable users to run .NET applications and SQL Server on its OpenShift Platform-as-a-Service cloud.

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols think Microsoft going to Android, via its Nokia phone proxy, is a genius move. My ZDNet compadre Matthew Miller disagrees! Let the fight begin!