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Investment firm TPG has acquired Intel’s Wind River software subsidiary, which develops the Wind River Linux and VxWorks embedded development platforms. Nine years after Intel announced it was acquiring Wind River Systems for $884 million, the chipmaker quietly sold its software subsidiary to investment firm TPG for an undisclosed sum.

Malware makers, phishers, they really are all out to get you. Here's how to stop them in their tracks.

If you are a Java programmer, chances are that you've either used JavaScript in the past or will in the near future. Not only is it one of the most popular (and useful) programming languages, understanding some of JavaScript's features could help you build the next uber-popular web application. read more

Arch Linux developers created Netctl to make it easy to use Systemd-like commands to enable and disable network profiles you create. Here is how to use Netctl to create wired and wireless profiles and manipulate them to start manually or at boot.

In this tutorial, we will show you step-by-step how to install and configure Plex media server on your CentOS 7 server. Plex is a client-server media software suite. It has two main components, plex media server, and plex player.

It seems my recent article about Valve removing the link to the Steam Machines page caused quite a stir, so Valve have now confirmed their continued support for Linux gaming.

“The creation and development of a body of knowledge about flags of all types, their forms and functions, and of scientific theories and principles based on that knowledge.” —The definition of vexillology, according to the Fédération internationale des associations vexillologiques. read more

Mozilla announced on Tuesday that they are building Firefox Reality, a special edition of its widely-used web browser designed specifically for virtual reality and augmented reality experiences.

How to Generate & Update SSL SAN Certificate in Linux

For Python developers who work primarily with data, it's hard not to find yourself constantly knee-deep in SQL and Python's open source data library, pandas. Despite how easy these tools have made it to manipulate and transform data—sometimes as concisely as one line of code—analysts still must always understand their data and what their code means. Even calculating something as simple as summary statistics can be prone to serious mistakes. read more

Nginx is one of the most popular open source web server software. It is widely used for load balancing, reverse proxying, media streaming and much more. In this guide we will show you how to install Nginx on Ubuntu 16.40. This guide should work on other Ubuntu based Linux VPS systems as well but was tested and written for Ubuntu 16.04 VPS.

Mozilla announced Firefox Reality today, "Bringing the Immersive Web to Mixed Reality Headsets". Firefox Reality is the only open source browser for mixed reality and the first cross-platform browser for mixed reality.

In this series, you will learn about Cloud Foundry and how to get started using it to develop applications. In the first three blogs, we'll cover basic concepts, terminology, a technical overview and architecture, and in the last two blogs we'll learn how to write and push an app to a Cloud Foundry instance.

Kernel team mulls ditching chip architectures nobody used. Linus Torvalds has pulled the trigger and released version 4.16 of the Linux kernel, thereby killing off his own suggestion this release might need an extra week to mature.

Intel announced 18 new 8th Gen “Coffee Lake” chips, including up to hexa-core Core H-series and Xeon M-series CPUs, which are appearing in Linux-ready COM Express Type 6 modules from Seco and Congatec.

Red Eclipse is a fast-paced casual arena shooter game based on Cube 2 engine. Players can play against drones in offline mode or play against other players through networking. Slightly blending to Sci-fi, Red Eclipse features rich environment and fun gameplay.

I love the operating systems revolving around the Linux Kernel. I think it's amazing that something so good comes to the world so cheap or mostly free. You can do tremendous work on this platform, so it begs the question: Why aren't more people using it?

Red Hat's John Terrill informs Softpedia today about the immediate availability of the beta release of Fedora Project's forthcoming Fedora 28 operating system, the latest version of the free and open-source GNU/Linux distribution.

Open source is under attack from new EU copyright laws.

In this tutorial, we will learn how to install Rancher on Debian 9. Rancher is a free and open source project that provides a management platform for Docker containers. Rancher allows us to operate Docker in production at large scale.