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Growing up with Windows, it seemed there was always something wrong with my family's computer. Our PCs didn't stay new for long. Yet, as annoying as it was to load each installment of the King's Quest series by copying data from five or so 5.25-inch floppy disks, I did appreciate being able to easily access the inner depths of our PC while learning BASIC and some C. read more

Semi-seasonal stocking filler was caught up in Oracle's Android fight Comment While you were starting to think Christmas thoughts in November, Google quietly slipped out a pre-seasonal gift of its own: OpenJDK for Android N – the next edition of its smartphone operating system.…

Panasonic will use Mozilla's open source, Linux-based Firefox OS on its DX900 smart TV, showing that Firefox OS remains relevant as IoT grows.

Programming languages and technologies that were developed by industry and Internet giants – specifically to meet the unique challenges they faced operating at massive scale – have been open sourced and are now being adopted by regular-sized enterprises for everyday use.

Today we would like to introduce you guys to an upcoming development SBC called Chirimen, which is currently developed by Mozilla, the company behind the world's famous Firefox and Thunderbird software products.

As a student, getting involved in open source is a great way to improve your programming skills. From my experience, it can even help kickstart your career. But where do you begin? And how do you get involved? read more

Goodbye, Debian 8.1 (Jesse). I tried the distro for several months because RHEL clones (Springdale Linux and CentOS, both 7.0 and 7.1) didn't like my legacy nVidia GeForce 6150 SE in this old desktop and it was a pain to fix that. The system still is good enough to do all the work I need to do and performs reasonably well. Debian seemed like a reasonable alternative.

Ubuntu by itself is a great operating system for both desktop and server, but canonical has a grand plan that seems to neglect its best product.

This article describes how you can monitor your Postfix mail server with the Mailgraph. Mailgraph creates daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly graphs of sent, received, bounced, and rejected emails and also of spam and viruses, if SpamAssassin and ClamAV are integrated into Postfix (e.g. using amavisd-new in the ISPConfig perfect server tutorials). These graphs can be accessed with a browser.

Parted Magic LLC announced the release of the first update for 2016 of their commercial Parted Magic Live CD targeted at partitioning tasks and based on various open source GNU/Linux technologies.

The words I hear some clients ask when they first see my Linux set up is: "Is it that unix thing?." If they know it well-enough to ask that question, I'm usually on the verge of going full geek mode. read more

Western Digital Labs and the ownCloud community are working to bring a consumer grade self-hosted cloud to market.

There's an ongoing impulse among a diversity of developers to be able to compile some or all of the Linux kernel as a library, so that a piece of software could use kernel services and APIs while running under a different kernel entirely, or a different operating system.

Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 820a, a version of its 64-bit Snapdragon 820 SoC targeting automotive applications including IVI and ADAS. Nvidia and Qualcomm showed off new automotive platforms at CES that demonstrate the power of their advanced GPUs to achieve sophisticated computer vision capabilities. Nvidia’s Drive PX 2 platform is aimed at self-driving cars, and […]

This guide will discuss a procedure on how to connect/establish a VPN connection using PPTP protocol on CentOS 7 or Redhat 7 Linux.

Easy when you know how If you're using a PC running Windows 7 or 8 you may be getting a little sick of endless popup screens telling you to upgrade to version 10, and worried about inadvertently installing the upgrade as part of a security update.…

Nvidia unveiled a “Drive PX 2” platform for self-driving cars, an update to its earlier Tegra-based Drive PX automotive mainboard design. Nvidia and Qualcomm showed off new automotive platforms at CES that demonstrate the power of their advanced GPUs to achieve sophisticated computer vision capabilities. Qualcomm’s new Linux- and Android-ready Snapdragon 820a is an automotive […]

AllSeen Alliance Announces New Open Source IoT Certified Devices. The AllSeen Alliance announced at CES 2016 that new IoT devices have received certification for the AllJoyn open source connectivity framework for open IoT.

Google’s own Android TV offering, Nexus Player, didn't gain the same popularity as did its Nexus line of smartphones. Many other companies have also built Android TV devices, but none of them have made any waves in the market. This is going to change with Nvidia Shield Android TV.

Linux developer Arne Exton today informs us about the immediate availability of EXTON Linux MultiBootCD 6-OS Build 160106.