Canonical's Snappy package manager is taking its first steps outside the Ubuntu world. As of now, you can install it on Arch, Debian, Fedora and several other popular distros.

OpenSwitch has joined the Linux Foundation's stable of networking projects. This is a significant step. It means the network operating system's development will be driven by community needs, instead of the needs of few private companies.

Version 1.9 of the Rust programming language has been released. Rust is a new language with a small but enthusiastic community of developers.

Do you hate having to remember your password when you want to access a secure Web site? Well, that soon may be a thing of the past.

CentOS 6.8 was released this week. With a number of security and performance updates, it provides a more stable and secure experience for CentOS 6 users.

Following announcements made last year, the Italian army has moved forward with its plan to replace Microsoft Office with LibreOffice.

The conflict between Google and Oracle continues to blaze through the courtrooms.

As the release date for Linux Mint 18 approaches, project announcers have reported that they are no longer shipping live CD images with embedded codecs. Furthermore, they also are dropping support for OEM images with codecs.

The Mozilla Foundation and the FBI recently have clashed over security weaknesses. The FBI is aware of a weakness in the Tor browser that may affect Firefox—it's a weakness the FBI has exploited during an investigation.

April 26, 2016, saw the official release of Firefox 46.0, the latest stable release of the popular open-source browser.

There's a fundamental difference between conferences for community-driven projects and closed-source commercial software.

After two years in development, a beta release of the Devuan distro has made it into the world (Devuan is a registered trademark of the Dyne.org foundation). Devuan is a very Debian-ish distro.

Microsoft recently made a big noise about its love and support of the Open Source community (especially Linux), but while it's making concrete steps toward improving its support for FOSS projects, its motives may not be entirely altruistic.

As part of the "Second Open Government National Action Plan", the federal government is planning to share the source code behind many of its software projects.

It's fair to say that the interests of governments and the FOSS community are not always aligned.

I've written about containers before, and I've waxed lyrical about the multitude of benefits they bring to DevOps and cloud computing.

Switching from Windows to Linux is easier than ever. There was a time when running Linux required a lot of CLI know-how and confidence, but today's graphical environments are extremely user-friendly and responsive.

With Microsoft and Canonical working together on a number of projects, the Internet has been rife with speculation and rumors.

What do you do when the developers of your operating system make a design choice you hate?

Once upon a time, new software shipped with massive manuals the size of telephone directories.