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Cutter is an open source program that uses the FIN-ACK-RST packet technique described above to abort TCP/IP connections routed over the firewall or router on which it is run.

Securing Big Data is complex, and few enterprises are doing it correctly. That was the central message of a recent chat with Brian Christian, CTO of Zettaset, which sells a Hadoop orchestration platform. But Christian offered more than criticism of Big Data security practices. He also explained how his company aims to address the issues, and why security for the open source Hadoop cluster infrastructure could become a new driving force in the channel.

After the announcement of Football Manager 2014 coming to Linux, the first signs of the the upcoming Linux versions of Garry's Mod and Painkiller Hell & Damnation appeared in the Steam database.

The Wine development release 1.6-rc1 is now available.

While the Linux 3.10 kernel hasn't even been released yet and won't be out for a couple weeks -- and it boasts a great number of new features and functionality -- the Linux 3.11 kernel will be even better. Here's what we know so far...

Serious Sam 4 has been confirmed to me by the developers that it will come to Linux and won't be a delayed release!

For today’s computing platforms, ease of access and openness is essential for web based communications and for lean resourced IT Management teams.

I arrived a few minutes early to the main hall of the Oregon Convention Center in preparation for Drupalcon's opening keynote by Dries Buytaert. A random mix of music chosen by the community via Twitter using the #DrupalRadio hashtag played through the hall as people filed in with anticipation.

The £25 computer is celebratred its first anniversary a few months ago – here’s to a year’s worth of magnificent, unique and exciting achievements

Firefox browser in Linux uses 2 search engines by default, DuckDuckGo in the address bar and Yahoo Search in the search bar. However, many people still prefer Google over these 2 search engines. One work-around method is to use "!g", "!i" with DuckDuckGo to get the result from Google for normal searches and image searches. But if you still want to change the default search engines of Firefox in Linux Mint 15 to Google search, here is how to do so:

Bugs in the original Mageia 3 ISO have been found, causing the development team to release new images that fix the issue

This summer, the Slackware Linux distribution will celebrate its twentieth anniversary. Here's a list of ten reasons why Slackware is still the perfect choice on servers, desktops and workstations.

In computing, an inode is a data structure on a traditional Unix-style file system. An inode stores basic information about a regular file, directory, or other file system object.

What is the most telling about these recent scandals are who are NOT on the list. I dare someone to show me one, "truly" free and opensource project that is on the government spy list. You can't count Google or Apple, both are trying to rein in opensource products and make them their own.

Open source software is not only about programming code. There exist a vast amount of different organizational structures that facilitate the development and diffusion of open source software. In this article, I explain the main types of organizations within the open source community.

"The reason I so vehemently dislike statements about Fedora being ‘just a testing ground for RHEL’ and ‘not a real community distro’ is that we’ve got an amazing team of volunteers who belong to the community outreach program, and when they hear that, it is incredibly demoralizing.

Three golden nuggets from the Southeast LinuxFest: "RPi+", video editing, and spam tips.

The fifth release candidate to the Linux 3.10 kernel is now available. Unfortunately, the changes merged in the past week continue to be too great to be to Torvalds' liking. The Linux 3.10-rc5 changes are scattered throughout the various subsystems to address various outstanding problems, but Linus hopes the 3.10-rc6 and later RCs will only be about fixing serious regressions.

It's been over one year of waiting for Xonotic 1.0. The popular open-source game's 1.0 release still isn't here, but Xonotic 0.7 has been released this weekend. Xonotic 0.7 brings forward a lot of in-game updates, including a new QuakeC compiler. Xonotic 0.7 features "massive" updates to the game modes, animation blending improvements, more competitive features, mapping updates, better handling of in-game messages, and more.

For the past week on Phoronix since the public debut of Intel's Haswell processors there has been a lot of coverage. The CPU performance is generally great but the Haswell Linux graphics support is still a work-in-progress even though its performance has already evolved a lot. This Sunday there are some extra Core i7 4770K benchmarks.