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Linux -- the free, open-source operating system for enterprise, small business, and home computing use -- is not used everywhere yet. However, its user base crosses nearly every industry ...

FBI Director James Comey on Thursday strongly criticized Apple and Google for hardening information stored in smartphones by encrypting data, making it inaccessible to law enforcement even with a court order ...

The Pale Moon Web browser project solves a problem that many Mozilla Firefox users would like to solve. It is a fork of Mozilla's official browser developed by Moonchild Productions that provides users with access to all of their favorite Firefox extensions but eliminates the Australis interface, which some dislike ...

Researchers on Thursday discovered proof-of-concept code that could take advantage of unpatched computer systems, and found evidence of attacks exploiting the BASH Shellshock bug in the wild. ...

One of the essential draws to open-source software should be superior product documentation. Well-written user guidelines are a key strategy that software developers should use to increase an open-source project's growth and user adoption ...

Pi-Top, a Raspberry Pi Model B+ powered build-your-own-laptop kit, soon could enable users to learn computer programming, designing and 3D-printing skills ...

An unplanned convergence of Android apps and the Chrome OS may be setting the stage for a wide-open cross-platform architecture that combines Android and Chrome ...

Home Depot on Thursday said it had excised the malware demon from its computerized payment system after its recent discovery of a security breach in which thieves stole records of 56 million credit cards ...

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A new open source project, PredictionIO, is building the MySQL of prediction ...

Consumers today are in an awkward position. Personal privacy is being wiped out by the Internet. At the same time, new technologies that interconnect our devices with our homes and office environments are offering stupendous advantages ...

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Fedora is perhaps one of the hallmark Linux distributions. It is sponsored by Red Hat, the commercial developer of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Red Hat's investment in the Fedora community is collaborative. Fedora Linux releases often provide RHEL developers with a field test environment that incubates innovative open source software technologies ...

Peach OSI is a new Linux distro that stands apart from the crowd.Its first stable version was just released in June -- yet it displays more performance traits and sophistication than many Linux distros that have been searching for an audience for years ...

Imagine a world where playing Pong and Minecraft gives people the power to program their computers. That world is Kano ...

Open source software is now a force drawing enterprises and developers like a magnet ...

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The Connected Car, Part 2: Wired For Wireless - It's All Business ...

OpenStack, which turned 4 years old this summer, began as a twinkle in Scott Sanchez's eyes. He was determined to turn the fledgling Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform he helped create into a thriving resource for public and private clouds ...

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