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What's your flava? Ooo, tell me what's your flava... of Ubuntu

  • The Register; By Scott Gilbertson (Posted by bob on Sep 6, 2017 7:14 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: GNOME, Ubuntu
The Canonical project is gearing up for one of its biggest releases yet. Ubuntu 17.10, due to arrive October 19, will be the company's first release since it abandoned its Unity desktop, Mir display server and the dream of "convergence". Instead Ubuntu users will get the GNOME desktop with a few tweaks that promise to make it a little bit more Unity-like.

Netutils-Linux : A Set Of Tools To Simplify Linux Network Troubleshooting And Performance Tuning

Say hello to netutils-linux is a collection Of utilities to perform network troubleshooting and performance tuning in varies aspect.

How To Transform GIMP Into Photoshop

  • LinuxAndUbuntu.com; By Mohd Sohail (Posted by MohdSohail on Sep 6, 2017 2:24 AM CST)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Linux
GIMP is a pretty awesome free and open source imaging tool that does a lot right in providing a very remarkable alternative to the hugely popular premium Photoshop. GIMP does a lot right for those who make the switch but then there is always a learning curve in getting used to the interface, the shortcuts, and others. What if we could make some few tweaks and changes to make your GIMP set up the look and work more like Photoshop. This post looks at 6 simple ways of making GIMP look and work a bit like Photoshop. Most of these tweaks are pretty easy to achieve so let's get started.

How to Set Up Two-Factor Authentication in Ubuntu

  • Make Tech Easier; By Nick Congleton (Posted by damien on Sep 6, 2017 12:41 AM CST)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Linux, Ubuntu
Two-factor authentication adds an extra layer of security to your accounts. Learn how you can easily set up two-factor authentication on Ubuntu.

Debian GNU/Linux 10 "Buster" Installer Enters Alpha with Linux 4.12 Support

  • Softpedia; By Marius Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Sep 5, 2017 9:00 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Debian
Work on the next major version of the Debian GNU/Linux operating system is ongoing since early July, a couple of weeks after the Debian GNU/Linux 9 "Stretch" series arrived, and it now looks like it's already in Alpha stages of development.

Configure WordPress with W3 Total Cache and CloudFlare CDN in LAMP

This guide will show you how to increase WordPress website load speed with W3 Total Cache Plugin and a CloudFlare CDN free account. In this tutorial, Wordpress CMS system is installed on top of a LAMP stack (Linux + Apache HTTP server + MariaDB RDBMS and PHP) on a Debian 9 server.

Magic Wormhole – A Simple And Secure Way To Send Files From Linux Command Line

Meet Magic Wormhole is a simple and free utility that help users to send a files from one computer to another computer anywhere in the world.

Future Proof Your SysAdmin Career: Getting Certified

In today’s rapidly changing system administration landscape, skills and credentials count for a lot, but professional certification can also make a difference. With that in mind, let's take a look at five valuable types of certification for sysadmins along with relevant training options.

Ecere SDK: A cross-platform toolkit for GUIs and graphics

Take a look at the 20-year history of the Ecere software development kit, now powering the GNOSIS GIS mapping software.

Linux 4.13 Kernel Released with New Accelerated Security Feature

  • eWEEK; By Sean Michael Kerner (Posted by red5 on Sep 5, 2017 12:26 PM CST)
  • Groups: Linux
The fourth new Linux kernel milestone of 2017 is now available, providing improved performance and security features including Kernel Transport Layer Security.

What is edge computing?

  • Opensource.com (Posted by bob on Sep 5, 2017 9:16 AM CST)
  • Groups: Cloud; Story Type: News Story
Cloud computing has dominated IT discussions for the last two decades, particularly since Amazon popularized the term in 2006 with the release of its Elastic Compute Cloud. In its simplest form, cloud computing is the centralization of computing services to take advantage of a shared data center infrastructure and the economy of scale to reduce costs. read more

VPS vs. Cloud Hosting

  • RoseHosting.com; By RoseHosting.com (Posted by RoseHosting on Sep 5, 2017 7:33 AM CST)
  • Groups: Linux
To learn the difference between VPS and Cloud Hosting will be helpful in your decision making when choosing a web hosting plan for your needs. Here we’ll try to simply explain what is VPS hosting and what is Cloud Hosting by pointing out the pros and cons respectively.

3 lessons in effective open partnership

In the first part of this series, I presented three challenges open organizations face when seeking strategic, external partners. To quickly recap, these challenges are: Competition with ongoing business for scarce resources in both companies, Divided time, energy, and attention of shared staff, and, Disharmony in partnership and building a new community I also noted that company-to-company alliances typically form through three stages, namely: read more

Desktop Linux Now Has its Highest Market Share Ever

  • It's FOSS; By Derick Sullivan M. Lobga (Posted by abhishekpc on Sep 5, 2017 4:07 AM CST)
  • Groups: Linux
Linux market share has witnessed a steady increase, especially in the last two summer months. There has been an upsurge in the desktop Linux market share which has seen a rise to 3.37% in the latest statistics on Net Market Share for operating systems.

Install Riot Matrix Chat Client On Debian and Ubuntu

Matrix is an up-and-coming chat protocol that provides a real alternative to proprietary solutions like Slack. Unlike Slack, Matrix is free, open source, and completely decentralized. With Matrix, you own your chat.

openSUSE Leap 42.3 Cloud Images Debut for Google Compute Engine, Microsoft Azure

If you want to use the latest openSUSE Leap 42.3 open-source computer operating system on the cloud, you should know that the openSUSE Project released a set of cloud images for various of the most popular cloud services on the market.

Linux factor command tutorial for beginners (with examples)

  • Howtoforge Linux Howtos und Tutorials (Posted by bob on Sep 4, 2017 8:14 PM CST)
  • Groups: Ubuntu, Linux; Story Type: News Story
If you are a Linux command line user, and your work revolves around prime numbers, there's a command line utility that might be of your help. The tool in question is factor, and in this tutorial, we will quickly discuss things like why it exists, how it works, and how you can use it. Please note that all examples and instructions mentioned here have been tested on Ubuntu 16.04LTS.

Here's What Ubuntu 17.10's Default GNOME Shell Theme and Login Screen Look Like

  • Softpedia; By Marius Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Sep 4, 2017 6:31 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Ubuntu
Soon after it entered Feature Freeze development stage on August 24, 2017, the upcoming Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark) operating system is yet to receive a polished and final default desktop session which resembles that of previous releases running Unity.

SUSE Pulls ‘Game of Thrones’ Parody From YouTube to Foil FOSS Force

Those of you who’ve seen the video, however, definitely didn’t see it from the link here on FOSS Force. Lo! and behold, by the time the article and link went live, SUSE had pulled the promotional piece, so a click on it only resulted a screen full of snow (I’m linking to the word “snow” for those of you unfamiliar with the wonders and lingo of analog TV) with the words “this video is unavailable” displayed in that exact order.

KDE Plasma 5.10 Desktop Reaches End of Life as Plasma 5.11 Debuts Early October

  • Softpedia; By Marius Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Sep 4, 2017 3:05 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: KDE
Being a short-lived branch, the KDE Plasma 5.10 desktop environment has reached end of life at the end of August 2017 with the release of the fifth and last maintenance update, versioned 5.10.5.

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