There’s a long standing argument over the differences between “open-source” software and “free” software. But, a more common error outside of software ...

Australian Defence Force (ADF) and U.S. military personnel work side-by-side in the Air Operations Centre (AOC) during exercise Talisman Saber 07. The U.S. Pacific Command is working with the ADF, ...

This new iteration should appease those who only want free, open-source software included with the distribution. According to the new release's bare-bones website, "The general goal is to provide a ...

This story was originally published Feb. 3, 1998. It is brought to you today as part of our Best of ECT News series. Open source led to a new software development and distribution model that offered ...

Windwos 10 includes a “Windows Sandbox” tool that allows you to run untrusted applications in a protected environment so that they cannot harm your operating system. But it requires Windows 10 Pro or ...

QWinFF is a free open source video converter for Windows 11/10. It is also available for other operating systems including Ubuntu, FreeBSD, and Fedora. It is based on FFmpeg which is a command-line ...

Back in the early 1980s, some programmers were getting concerned about the way that ever-more-restrictive licensing arrangements meant that they couldn't fix broken software or make improvements. One ...

Sometimes you just need a solid software package to get the job done. Here’s a list of my favorite video tools that will help you do just that without emptying your wallet. Sometimes you just need a ...

Development is a creative process. Experience with hackathons and open-source solutions, for example, shows that input from many engineers accelerates progress and makes the final product better.

If you’re a software developer today—or a cloud engineer, or a data scientist, or anyone who works with code—then open source software is like the air that you breathe. But open source wasn’t always ...

Freeware has long reigned as a go-to tool for network managers. Applications such as Ethereal, Multi Router Traffic Grapher () and Snort provide an inexpensive means to monitor devices, traffic and ...

Here is a list of the best free open source document editor software for Windows 11/10. These are basically the free software that let you create and edit different types of documents and come with an ...