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Linux Mint is one of the most popular Linux distributions. It's known for its simplicity, stability and ease of use. Linux Mint recently released Linux Mint 17.3 'Rosa' with many improvements, new features and updated software that make it more stable and reliable. In this article you'll know what's new in this release and how you can get it.

Last week we published an article regarding the ongoing feud between the Android-x86 and Console OS projects, and it looks like there is an intense debate in the community. Since we already know what the Android-x86 leader thinks, we also had a talk with the CEO of Console OS Inc. to get his side of the story.

Whereas most other Amlogic S905 boxes have adopted the typical cost down approach, MINIX has done the reverse and built what they believe will be the number one Android box on the market. Their newest device, the NEO U1 is expected to surpass their own high-end flagship model – with more features at a lower price.

Linux Mint 17.3 "Rosa" Xfce arrived with its KDE counterpart and it’s the last one in the 17.x branch of the famous operating system.

I closed my LinkedIn account tonight. It was the last social media account I had, and I just couldn’t see the point of keeping it open. I’ll explain why later in this post, but the gist of it is that I’m finally free of all social media services.

And good riddance to all of it too! Social media is a bottomless abyss of time wasting nonsense, and I’m glad I deleted all of my social media accounts.

Toyota, the world’s largest auto company, announced at CES two days ago that it will use the Ford Motor Company’s SmartDeviceLink, or SDL... The company released SDL as an open-source package three years ago...

New bits mean it really might be the year of Linux on the (virtual) desktop Version 4.4 of the Linux kernel has been finalised and released into the wild.…

In this article, I am going to focus on the hardware, software, and configuration issues that we need to resolve to set up a Linux-based music server as part of the home music system. Specifically, I'll look at the Raspberry Pi, Cubox-i, and Fit-PC as options for hosting your digital home music system. read more

In this guide, we will explain how to install YOURLS on an Ubuntu 14.04 VPS with MariaDB, PHP-FPM and Nginx. YOURLS stands for Your Own URL Shortener. YOURLS is an open source self-hosted application build with PHP which allows you to run your own URL shortening service.

The Ubuntu Touch operating system is also going to provide support for encryption of user data; developers have revealed.

Linux Kernel 3.12.52 was released yesterday with improvements and bug fixes. The kernel updates bring more security and stability. If your system has 3.12 series kernel and you can not wait for 3.12.52 officially available then you can upgrade to 3.12.52 in Ubuntu/Linux mint from here.

The guys over Unvanquished, a free and open-source FPS game for GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows operating systems have just returned from their Winter holidays and released the first Alpha build for 2016.

This week we spoke with Andy Randall, GM for the networking business unit at Metaswitch, on how the company looks at the importance of open source as telecom operators move towards virtualization.

Tails, a live operating system that aims to preserve users’ privacy and that helps people use the Internet anonymously, has been upgraded to version 18.2 and is now ready for download.

The ever-repeated parrot statement from the copyright industry is that "authors must be paid". This ignores the existence of Wikipedia and about three billion smartphones, and is therefore simply false.

GNOME 3.20 is still a couple of months away from a stable release, but it looks like more features are being added, like the new support for airplane mode keys.

As many people will have received a Raspberry PI 2 for Christmas this guide shows how to set it up, including steps on what other things you will need, how to connect it up, how to install the operating system and a little bit about Raspbian.

The Linux Mint team, through Clement Lefebvre announced the final release of Linux Mint 17.3 "Rosa" Xfce edition.

One of the props that I picked up to decorate DNA Lounge at the first Cyberdelia was an old payphone. It wasn't hooked up for the first party, but just in time for the second party, it now runs Linux.

If you ask me, the 140 character limit is not Twitter’s biggest problem. The worst thing about Twitter to me is the poor quality of interaction that happens on that social media service. I’ve always regarded Twitter as the lowest of the low when it comes to social media services.