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All 500 machines on the TOP500 supercomputer list run Linux. Here’s how the little OS that could, did.

I haven't taken a biology class in years, but the TV show Grey's Anatomy keeps me acquainted with some aspects of the scientific world. I never expected that an episode of the medical drama series would inspire me to explore open source principles in scientific research. read more

Learn some Squid proxy tips & tricks or rather some advanced options that can be configured with squid proxy server to make it more useful.

As is often the case, I’m late to the party. But after years of dealing with VPS and home-grown backup solutions, I finally took the plunge and invested in a dedicated Network Attached Storage (NAS) appliance.

Different Linux distributions use different package managers to handle installing software. Take a look at the install commands on these popular distros.

Learn to install and configure check_by_ssh plugin in Nagios to configure monitoring with ssh.

In our earlier tutorials, we have discussed how to install Nagios server & add Linux client for monitoring using NRPE plugin & also to add Windows clients for monitoring using NSClient++. But those are...

Leading open-source developer Torvalds does more than swear at poor security development. He spells out what he expects from security programmers.

VIDEO: Useful command-line tools and productivity apps. Canonical's outreach for the future of Mir and Ubuntu Unity for 18.04 news. Munich finally made a decision plus some Linux Gaming and Security news

How to install Mozilla FireFox on Linux machines; Mozilla released Firefox 57 aka Firefox Quantum on 14th November, 2017, though it was in Beta for quite some time but a official release was provided. Firefox quantum is said to be the fastest version to date.

Here is what you need to do to disable the transparency of the Terminal window on Linux Mint:

Learn to configure Master Slave Database replication for MariaDB..

In our earlier tutorials,we have already learned to install & configure MariaDB & also learned some basic administration commands for managing MariaDB. We are now going to learn to setup a MASTER SLAVE replication...

Have a look at ProtonMail, a secure, privacy-focused email provider that you can use as an alternative to Gmail.

Bowman shows us one of the first microscopes he printed: “This,” he says, “will turn a Raspberry Pi camera into a microscope.”

The total cost of changing to Windows 10 and converting Libre Office and Macros templates will amount to €100 million.

AWS made its open source Python package, ONNX-MxNet, available as a deep learning framework that offers application programming interfaces across multiple languages including Python, Scala and open source statistics software R.

As of November 24, 2017, the final Cinnamon and MATE live ISO images of the Linux Mint 18.3 "Sylvia" operating system have been uploaded to the official mirror for both 64-bit and 32-bit hardware.

In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we cover the release of Linux kernel 4.14 LTS, Linux powering all 500 of the world's supercomputers, why banks favor open source software, how the Pentagon is going open source, and how the latest release of Firefox saves your processor. Open source news roundup for November 12-25, 2017 read more

As Ubuntu 17.10 had made its way among the users, so had its various flavors. Kubuntu is one of them. Recently launched Kubuntu 17.10 supported for 9 months is available to download in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions. Most users will actually skip out 17.x series as it's not LTS and moreover, stability is the main concern. Check out the official release notes and what I experienced on using Kubuntu 17.10 on my PC below.

iWave’s “iW-RainboW-G23S” SBC runs Linux on a Renesas RZ/G1C, and offers -20 to 85°C support and expansion headers including a RPi-compatible 40-pin link. iWave’s iW-RainboW-G23S is the first board we’ve seen to tap the Renesas RZ/G1C SoC, which debuted earlier this year. It’s also the first Renesas based SBC we’ve seen that features the increasingly […]

Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War is a new 4X turn-based strategy game from developer Proxy Studios and publisher Slitherine, seems it's coming to Linux too!