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GNU/Linux developer Arne Exton released a new custom kernel based on the latest Linux 4.14.2 upstream kernel release for Slackware and Slackware-based GNU/Linux distributions.

We might have come across a situation where we might want to rename user in Linux system, for whatever reasons. We can easily rename user in Linux & also we can rename the home...

The second development image of the SparkyLinux for ARMhf operating system has been released today for Raspberry Pi single-board computers.

Fedora Classroom sessions continue this week with an Ansible session. The general schedule for sessions appears on the wiki. You can also find resources and recordings from previous sessions there. Here are details about this week’s session on Thursday, 30th November at 1600 UTC.... Continue Reading →

CompuLab’s IOT-GATE-RPi mini-PC/gateway builds on the RPi CM3 with 2x GbE, RPi HAT expansion, and optional WiFi, BT, 3G, LTE, and -40 to 80°C support. CompuLab has added another Linux-friendly member of its IOT-GATE family of ultra-compact mini-PCs, following the IOT-GATE-iMX7, which is built around its NXP i.MX7 based CL-SOM-iMX7 computer-on-module. For the new IOT-GATE-RPi, […]

The upgrade path from the Linux Mint 18.2 "Sonya" operating system is now officially open and users can upgrade their installations to the latest Linux Mint 18.3 "Sylvia" release.

At some point in 1997 or 1998—history does not record exactly when—I made the leap from Windows to the Linux desktop. I went through quite a few distributions, from Red Hat to SUSE to Slackware, then Debian, Debian Experimental, and (for a long time thereafter) Ubuntu. When I accepted a role at Red Hat, I moved to Fedora, and migrated both my kids (then 9 and 11) to Fedora as well. read more

Google released the final preview of its upcoming Android 8.1 Oreo software update, teasing users with a December release for supported Pixel and Nexus devices.

System reports, snapshots, improved app store, backups Linux Mint 18.3 – aka "Sylvia" – is here to remind users that, hey, sometimes Linux can work a little bit more like Apple, Google and Microsoft software. (Just kidding, don't kill us.)…

tmate is a terminal multiplexer with instant terminal sharing.

SSL secured webstites or HTTPS has now become a must to have on website, especially those handling sensitive client information. Having a HTTPS enabled website means that a intruder can’t intrude to communication between...

Last month, Scott Nesbitt wrote about Mozilla awarding $500K to support open source projects. Phaser, a HTML/JavaScript game platform, was awarded $50,000. I’ve been teaching Phaser to my pre-teen daughter for a year, and it's one of the best and easiest HTML game development platforms to learn. read more

Long-term support Linux version 4.4 will get six years of life, but that doesn't mean other LTS editions will last so long.

Most people deeply interested in the topic of machine learning think it is synonymous with neural networks. In their current incarnation, neural networks seem to be versatile tools. By selecting the right type of neural network, the same tool, with small variations, might be able to solve most problems. This does not mean, though, that neural networks are the best (or even the right) tool to use for a given problem. read more

The Wine 2.22 development release arrived at the end of last week with some more improvements and bug fixes for various Windows games and apps, as well as better support for latest GCC compiler.

Docker Machine is a tool that let us install Docker Engine on virtual hosts on various platforms, on local environment as well on cloud. With Docker Machine, we can easily install docker hosts a Windows machine, a MAC machine or on cloud platform like AWS, AZURE etc.

On the 4th and the 5th of November, the FOSSCOMM 2017 conference took place at Harokopio University of Athens, Greece. The KDE Community had a presence at the conference. Our Greek troops gave a talk on Sunday about the past, present and future of KDE, focusing on the vision of the community.

Long-term support Linux version 4.4 will get six years of life, but that doesn't mean other LTS editions will last so long.

Cure period now available in other license flavors. Facebook, Google, IBM, and Red Hat on Monday will give free-software license violators two months to mend their ways before going nuclear.

In this tutorial, we will discuss step-by-step installation and configuration of Apache CouchDB on a CentOS 7 server. Apache CouchDB is an open source NoSQL database software that's focused on scalable architecture. CouchDB was released in 2005, and become an Apache Software Foundation project in 2008.