Open Source

Acer R11 Chromebook review—Average Chromebook, awesome emulation laptop

After installing the XFCE desktop environment, the Acer R11 Chromebook becomes a surprisingly usable Linux laptop—passable performance and good battery life

Red Hat kicks off annual Summit by leaning dev-wards

I’m excited for a new Ubuntu release—for the first time in a long time

I haven’t liked Ubuntu for a while, but it looks like Canonical and the Ubuntu community are returning to what made the Linux distribution great in the first place

Raspberry Pi roundup: Conduct your own symphony, play some Atari, and Competitor Corner

Athena Lecturer Award for women researchers goes to Rice prof who really gets robots moving

Kavraki currently planning motions of Robonaut 2, NASA’s robotic assistant at the International Space Station

5 more open source companies to watch in 2017

Startups ad oomph to open source projects like Apache Kafka, KVM and Redis

Lessons learned from the failure of Ubuntu Touch

If we want an open-source, Linux-based mobile platform to succeed, these are the steps we have to take

How to track and secure open source in your enterprise

Your developers are using open source — even if you don't know about it. Here's how to take control and why you need to.

Ubuntu Phone security updates end in June, app store closing

Canonical moves quickly to end support for Ubuntu phones and tablets, and it will shutter the app store at the end of 2017

How to run your small business with free open source software

From alternatives to Microsoft Office to full-blown ERP systems, open source software can provide free options for small businesses that don't have the budget for big-ticket enterprise applications.