Over the weekend the Debian project put out a call, over Twitter, for UEFI horror stories as their developers begin to take a more serious look at Debian & UEFI, with the creation of a UEFI team. As part of their work they have asked for a list of all known broken UEFI implementations so that they can try to find workarounds, or at the very least document their brokenness.

Driver woes have held Radeon graphics cards back on Linux, but AMD's hoping its forthcoming software can give it an edge.

As laid out by the plans last month, GCC 5 has become the default compiler within the Debian "Unstable" archive. Matthias Klose posted the announcement today about GCC 5 being the default and the libstdc++6 ABI changes.

Not only have more vendors started to incorporate open source, but there are more vendors rising out of open source.

The DebConf content team is pleased to announce the schedule of DebConf15, the forthcoming Debian Developers Conference. From a total of nearly 100 talk submissions, the team selected 75 talks. Due to the high number of submissions, several talks had to be shortened to 20 minute slots, of which a total of 30 talks have made it to the schedule.

Real or perceived shortcomings in software offerings keep too many users away from the free OS

I am speaking for my employer, Canonical, when I say you are not violating our policies if you use Ubuntu with Docker in sensible, secure ways. Some have claimed otherwise, but that’s simply sensationalist and untrue.

Ubuntu Software Center has been removed from the default install of Ubuntu MATE 15.10 There, I've done it. It will not feature in Ubuntu MATE 15.10 Alpha… - Martin Wimpress - Google+

The developers of the lightweight desktop environment Enlightenment (used in various Linux distributions) announced their 0.19.7 release.

It's never been harder to install Linux. Don't believe me? Just cast your mind back 10 years. Back then, it was just a matter of downloading an ISO, burning it to disk, pressing "next" a few times, and hoping you weren't unlucky enough to have a Broadcom WiFi card. And if you didn't fancy burning…

As of last nightly (2015-07-23), Firefox for Linux is using Gtk+3 instead of Gtk+2.

The rate of development for the Linux kernel is unprecedented, with a new major release approximately every two to three months. Each release offers several new features and improvements that a lot of people could take advantage of to make their computing experience faster, more efficient, or better in other ways. The problem, however, is…

Linux is a free computer operating system that started as a college project 24 years ago and has been built upon by countless volunteer programmers around the globe ever since.

GNOME Flashback 3.16/3.17 packages landed in Debian testing and Ubuntu wily. GNOME Flashback is the project which continues the development of components of classic GNOME session, including the GNOME Panel, the Metacity window manager, and so on. The full changelog can be found in ...

Slightly less than one year ago, the Debian community had an extended discussion on whether the FFmpeg multimedia library should return to the distribution. Debian had followed the contentious libav fork when it happened in 2011, but some community members were starting to have second thoughts about that move.

In today's open source roundup: Is it time to remove Adobe Flash from your Linux computer? Plus: Adobe recently updated Flash to version 18.0.0.209. And how to remove Flash from your Linux computer.

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They'd like Canonical to make still more changes to licensing

We are updating our Intellectual Property Rights Policy to clarify the relationship between this policy and the licences of the constituent works in Ubuntu. Specifically, we are adding a single clause which states: