An architecture whose specifications are public. This includes officially approved standards as well as privately designed architectures whose specifications are made public by the designers. The opposite of open is closed or proprietary.

When a developer creates a new application, he must start writing it very early in the Ubuntu development stages to be able to get his application in the official Ubuntu repositories (Universe) or else the only way he can provide that application to the current Ubuntu release is through a PPA - which is not easy discoverable by the users.

Q4Wine is a qt4 GUI for W.I.N.E. It will help you manage wine prefixes and installed applications.

If you're like most Ubuntu users, you were a bit confused when Ubuntu 10.04 dropped a few months ago. This was because the window navigation buttons were moved to the top left corner of all Ubuntu desktop windows.

AMD announced another improved version of its ATI Catalyst Linux display driver, available for both x86 and x86_64 architectures.

digiKam offers several features that can improve photos containing under- or overexposed areas. For example, the Exposure Blending tool lets you merge multiple shots with different exposures into one perfectly exposed photo. But what if you have just a single image?

Today EFF and the Tor Project are launching a public beta of a new Firefox extension called HTTPS Everywhere.

In this article I will introduce you to a few of the commercially-supported open-source network security options currently available in the marketplace today. With open-source networking you can enjoy the benefits of lower costs, greater security, flexibility, extensibility and full enterprise support.