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Smartphone maker and display manufacturer Samsung is believed to launch a pair of smartphones in early 2017, each with a bendable OLED display. Codenamed “Project Valley,” the bendable smartphones won’t be Samsung’s new flagship devices, and are believed to be angled more as an experiment by the company to test the waters of user response to bendable screens. While not bendable, Apple’s 2017 iPhone is expected to pack in a curved OLED display with an edge-to-edge, bezel-free design, similar to that of Samsung’s Galaxy S7 smartphone.

So how do open source developers and companies make money? Here’s a look at different open source business models, and examples of companies and organizations that have successfully endorsed them.

The Debian project is pleased to announce the fifth update of its stable distribution Debian 8 (codename jessie). The Debian Project is an association of individuals who have made common cause to create a free operating system. This operating system is called Debian GNU/Linux, or simply Debian for short.

The Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC) has unveiled its new supercomputer system, the first of its kind on the continent. Named Lengau, which is Setswana for Cheetah, the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) said this is the fastest computer in Africa.

As an operating system, Firefox OS has undergone a massive transformation in the past 24 months – it’s far more than just a web browser nowadays. But now Mozilla is looking to take Firefox to the next level by using it as a hub for a plethora of Internet of Things projects.

Open is at the core of ProudCity, a web platform that “lets municipalities easily launch and manage government digital services all in one place.

With a number of security and performance updates, it provides a more stable and secure experience for CentOS 6 users. The CentOS Project currently is shipping version 7 of its operating system, but older versions all the way back to 5 are still supported. However, as CentOS is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), it depends on the parent product for many of its important fixes and security patches.

Today, May 30, 2016, we would like to introduce our Linux readers to an upcoming edition of the Arch Linux-based Manjaro Linux operating system designed for gamers.

With containers, that collapses to minutes or seconds and can be run on one development workstation. The readily available repositories of useful container images multiply developer productivity, much like open source does, but without the trouble of doing a build.

BONNIE JO MOUNT/THE WASHINGTON POST/GETTY IMAGESRECENT HEADLINES WARN that the government now has greater authority to hack your computers, in and outside the US. Search warrants granting permission to hack get issued using vague, obtuse language that hides what’s really happening, and defense attorneys rarely challenge the hacking tools and techniques in court. Although federal and state judges have to submit a report to Congress tracking the number and nature of wiretap requests they process each year, no similar requirement exists for hacking tools.

What’s more, with some studies showing the majority of private cloud deployments are on OpenStack, OpenStack certification is now an extremely hot commodity in the job market.

Christian Grail gave a talk at OSCON 2016 titled: “How to convince your manager to go open source. I thought the perspective was going to be from the user side but it was from the employee side, about convincing your manager to open source the projects at your company.

With better security, improved ARM support, and, oh yes, better gaming hardware support, Linux 4. You won’t find the biggest news about the latest Linux kernel release, 4. Greg Kroah-Hartman, senior Linux kernel developer, has overseen major security improvements in the latest Linux update.

Cinnamon is one of the most popular desktop environments for Linux computers, with many folks using it instead of Unity and other available desktop options.

Why did Linux, the Unix-like operating system kernel started by Linus Torvalds in 1991 that became central to the open source world, succeed where so many similar projects, including GNU HURD and the BSDs, fail?   maurusone/iStock/Thinkstock One of the most puzzling questions about the history of free and open source is this: Why did Linux succeed so spectacularly, whereas … Read More