As our devices deliver a glut of digital images — whether from our smartphones, tablet PCs or desktop units — the need to process, catalogue and edit all those photos becomes more pressing than ever. But not everyone wants or needs the high-grade image editing software that Adobe offers through its Photoshop application. So what does a regular Joe with an interest in image editing do if he doesn’t want to hand over bucks for a powerful image editor? 

Mentioning open source to a typical consumer will no doubt result in puzzled looks or a reference to that "free stuff." Even in some business circles, the open source concept may only be synonymous with an alternative computer operating system known as Linux. On the software development side of the...

Fusion.io has acquired UK-based ID7, developer of the open source SCST Linux SCSI Target Subsystem. It is expected that ID7's expertise will be applied to increasing the capabilities of Fusion.io's ION Data Accelerator...

The latest version of the command line virtual machine provisioning tool Vagrant adds a provider system so it can work with AWS and Rackspace as well as VirtualBox. It also adds a commercial plugin for VMware Fusion 5...