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Mistral’s tiny “Nano SOM” runs Linux or Android on a quad- or dual-core Cortex-A9 i.MX6 SoC, and offers built-in WiF and /BT, plus extensive multimedia I/O. Bangalore, India-based Mistral Solutions, a long-time supplier of hardware and software development kits for TI’s OMAP and Sitara SoCs, will soon ship a tiny new module based on Freescale’s […]

One of the most common questions I receive is "what are the best video editors for Linux?" Usually this question gives me pause since there's no perfect answer. To better address this common question, I've put together the following guide to explore which Linux video editor is best – based on your video editing needs.

Good news for anyone looking to avoid the Microsoft tax: Chinese electronics behemoth Xiaomi is reportedly planning to launch an affordable Linux laptop in early 2016. Xiaomi has made supply chain orders for 750,000 laptops...

The KDE e.V. report for the fourth quarter of 2014 is available (PDF). It features a compendium of all the activities and events carried out, supported and funded by KDE e.V. in that period, as well as the reporting of major events, conferences and mentoring programs that KDE has been involved in.

Interested in keeping track of what's happening in the open source cloud? Opensource.com is your source for news in OpenStack, the open source cloud infrastructure project, in this special Tokyo Summit edition of our weekly OpenStack news. read more

My father got me a computer for graduation with 512MB RAM and a Pentium processor. It came with Windows XP, and I used it to do 2D animation with Adobe Flash. Back in those days, I was looking for my dream job as a 3D artist, and I'd often see job listings that said: "Linux knowledge required." I had heard of Linux, but had never used it, so I decided to learn more. I didn't have the time or energy to take a class, so I started exploring on my own. read more

Do people like OpenStack? Is it easy to use? When we set out to answer these questions, we found arguably contentious talk by Praveen Yalagandula on The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of the OpenStack APIs: An Application Developer's View at OpenStack Summit Tokyo this month. In this interview, Praveen shares how Avi Networks delivers OpenStack solutions to its customers and brings the practitioner's perspective. The talk turned out to be insightful with practical views on OpenStack adaptation and its enterprise readiness. read more

Although it would be nice to believe that cars, home theater systems, computers, and Linux never break, the reality is that they do. read more

Tempest is the OpenStack official test suite. Its purpose is to run tests for OpenStack API validation in an OpenStack cluster, in order to know how healthy our cloud is. It is also used as a gate for validating commits into the OpenStack core projects—it will avoid breaking them while merging changes.

Hello, open gaming fans! In this week's edition, we take a look at the Linux-based gaming console DragonBox Pyra, a new Pick of the Week, Linux games, and more. Open gaming roundup for October 17 - 23, 2015 read more

On servers and clouds, this new Ubuntu springs forward to take a big bite.

In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at the U.K. moving away from proprietary software, France voting to adopt more open source, a new version of BeagleBoard hitting the market for Christmas, and more news. read more

Navstik Labs showed off its Linux-based “Flyt” commercial drone autopilot, while 3DR opened up its Solo quadcopter’s hardware add-on spec to developers. 3DR Solo It’s been a busy week for drones. While the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) community argued over the merits of FCC regulations proposed this week that would require U.S. UAV owners to […]

Despite the numerous advantages presented by cloud computing, security is still the biggest factor holding back more widespread adoption by businesses. A recent survey by AlienVault found that an overwhelming 90 percent of organisations are still concerned about cloud security.

In the 1960s and 70s, technically savvy enthusiasts sought to game telecommunications systems to make free calls, keeping telecom engineers on their toes.

In this week's Top 5, we highlight a Linux story, an open source story, open hardware with Sonic Pi, a wrapup of the LibreOffice Conference, and an intern's idea goes global.

Initial Allocation of One Million US Dollars Today Mozilla is launching an award program specifically focused on supporting open source and free software. Our initial allocation for this program is $1,000,000.

As Cinnamon 2.8 approaches official release later this month, the developers have made the pre-release version available to early adopters. If you are eager to try it, there are two different options. Mint users can install it through the package manager. Otherwise, you can build it from source.

Enjoy quiet while it lasts, penguins, Mir, Unity 8 on way Review Ubuntu 15.10, Wily Werewolf, continues Canonical’s recent Ubuntu tradition of delivering, well, nothing earth shattering.…

If you know a professional designer who is contributing time to an open source project, chances are they fall into one of these three categories, explained Garth Braithwaite, who spoke Monday at the All Things Open conference: read more