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4MLinux developer Zbigniew Konojacki informs us about the release and immediate availability of the 4MLinux 25.0 independently developed operating system for personal computers.

Feral Interactive have announced today that Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia will officially release for Linux on Thursday, June 7th. It will be another port powered by the Vulkan API.

Taiga.io is an open source project management system for agile developers, designers, and project managers. It's a beautiful project management tool that can handle both simple and complex projects for startups and software developers. In this tutorial, I will show you step-by-step how to install the Taiga.io project management tools on the CentOS 7 server.

The Xen Developer and Design Summit brings together the Xen Project’s community of developers and power users for their annual conference. The conference is about sharing ideas and the latest developments, sharing experience, planning, collaboration and above all to have fun and to meet the community that defines the Xen Project.

Today we are going to show you how to install Matomo on Ubuntu 16.04. Matomo (formerly known as Piwik) is a free and popular analytics platform currently used by individuals, companies and governments all over the world.

Ubuntu and Debian are two of the most popular Linux distributions in history. Aside from that, they're very closely related, making it hard for new Linux users to sort out the differences between the two.

Microsoft’s acquisition of open source code repository Github has provoked protest from members of the crypto community. Developers of bitcoin core and other blockchains have expressed disquiet at the corporate takeover, with several stating their intent to migrate to an alternative platform at the earliest possible convenience.

On this episode of This Week in Linux, we got some big distro releases from openSUSE, Linux Lite, CRUX and Knoppix as well as some beta releases for Linux Mint and Bodhi Linux........ and much more!

Like all modern operating systems, Linux has a set of specifications for sound themes. Sound themes are sets of similar sounds coordinated into themes that sound good together. They signal events such as switching to a different workspace, opening a new application, plugging and unplugging hardware, and alerting you when your battery is low or fully charged.

Many open source developers will be downcast to learn that Microsoft is acquiring GitHub, a hugely popular software development platform.

One of the most exiting new things about openSUSE Leap 15 is the updated KDE Plasma desktop environment. We are moving from Plasma 5.8 LTE to Plasma 5.12 LTE. Which means that there are a lot of new features to look forward to.

The MySQL Document Store enables storing data without having to create an underlying schema, normalize data, or do other tasks normally required to use a database.

Linux Lite 4.0 has come up with a lot of new features including a fresh new theme, a new system to manage menu entries, manage sound and also to manage icons etc.

The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the June 2018 issue.

Linus Torvalds has announced the release of Linux Kernel 4.17. Take a look at main new features in the latest kernel release.

Most Linux file systems are mounted at boot and remain mounted while the system is running. This is also true of any remote file systems that have been configured in the fstab file. However, there may be times when you prefer to have a remote file system mount only on demand—for example, to boost performance by reducing network bandwidth usage, or to hide or obfuscate certain directories for security reasons. The package autofs provides this feature.

Sequent Microsystems’ “Raspberry Pi 8-Relay Card” provides 8x relays and can be stacked to enable 64 relays per Raspberry Pi for home automation applications such as smart sprinklers. Sequent Microsystems has gone to Kickstarter to launch a “Raspberry Pi 8-Relay Card,” a more-focused version of last fall’s successfully Kickstarted Raspberry Pi Mega-IO Expansion Card.

Linux kernel maintainer Ben Hutchings announced over the weekend the release of what it would appear to be the last maintenance update for the long-term supported Linux 3.2 kernel series.

Using hosted services that you don't manage yourself comes with a downside. Systems fail, services go down and disks crash. Content hosted on remote services can simply vanish. Wouldn't it be nice if you could have an easy way to back up your git repositories periodically into a place you control?