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Benefits, checklist to assess network monitoring tools and the best 16 monitoring applications for 2017

The release comes at a time when browser makers such as Google, Mozilla and Microsoft are slowing phasing out support for plugins and thus also Flash. The companies have or will set Flash to click to play to block Flash content from loading automatically. The next step would be to remove support for Flash altogether, but this will probably not happening in the next two or so years considering that there are still plenty of sites out there that require Flash to work properly.

Yes, after being pushed back from release after release, Fedora 25 finally defaults to using the Wayland graphics stack (assuming you have a supported graphics card). This is perhaps the biggest change to come in the Linux world since the move to systemd. However, unlike that systemd transition, the switch to Wayland was so seamless I had to logout and double check that I was in fact using Wayland.

Desktop search is a software application which searches the contents of computer files, rather than searching the internet. The purpose of this software is to enable the user to locate information on their computer that they just cannot seem to find. Typically, this data includes emails, chat logs, documents, contact lists, graphics files, as well as multimedia files including video and audio.

All Things Open presents OpenSource 101, a one day conference scheduled for February that might be a good way for tech students at N.C. State to network and talk with recruiters.

Yes! It is confirmed that Lenovo is going to bring a Yoga Book 2-in-1 PC on Google Chrome OS in 2017. In a recent interview, Vice President of Lenovo Jeff Meredith confirmed that Lenovo Yoga Book would release in 2017. The primary user interface is Linux and the Chrome browser.

If you run a mainstream distribution of Linux on a desktop computer, there's a good chance security researcher Chris Evans can hijack it when you do nothing more than open or even browse a specially crafted music file. And in the event you're running Chrome on the just-released Fedora 25, his code-execution attack works as a classic drive-by.

No 400-pound hacker here: Lightbulb and 'do-gooder' worms, machines replacing humans to hack other machines, and high-speed car hacking were among the most innovative white-hat hacks this year.

Why is this going to be an interesting talk and why should you care? asks Mike Goelzer of Docker in his LinuxCon North America presentation. The answer is that simple, robust, integrated container orchestration is key to successful containers management, and Goelzer believes that the native Docker orchestration, called Swarm, is the best orchestration. Goelzer gives a high-level overview of Swarm, and his colleague Victor Vieux goes into detail on the internals.

This week in open source and Linux news, The Linux Foundation's Open Source Summit is dubbed a must-attend by Jono Bacon, Linux 4.9 is a "mammoth" release, and more!

If software is pervasive, shouldn't the people building it be from everywhere and represent different voices? The broadly accepted answer is yes, that we need a diverse set of developers and technologists to build the new digital world. Further, when you look at communities that thrive, they are those that evolve and grow and bring in new voices and perspectives. Because much of the software innovation happening today involves open source software, the open source community can be an entry point for new people in technology roles. read more

LibreOffice is working on a pretty significant overhaul of its interface that would have the productivity suite adopt a new toolbar design similar to the Microsoft Office Ribbon UI.

Other than Firefox and Chrome, there are tons of browsers out there that you can use. Here are 5 other Linux browsers you might not have heard of.

In this post, we will explain the key differences between Windows and Linux VPS hosting packages. However we will point out in advance, since we are a Linux-based company, the accent will be put on the Linux hosting services. Although both Linux and Windows each have their own advantages and disadvantages, as a start it is worth pointing out that today Linux is the most widely used operating system in the world found almost everywhere, from websites to android devices, to WiFi routers and even in household appliances.

In this open gaming roundup, we take a look at Godot's current development on a new 3D renderer, 1,000 Linux games on Steam, new releases, and more. Open gaming roundup for December 4-17, 2016 read more

And that is the subject of this article – How to use Docker Machine to provision Dockerized hosts on a supported Cloud hosting provider. For this article, we’ll be provisioning the servers on the DigitalOcean platform, which offers cheap servers with SSD storage.

Eclipse is a powerful and feature-rich IDE for Java developers, but the versions packaged with Debian and Ubuntu lag far behind the latest releases. In fact, the version shipping with Ubuntu 16.04 was released in 2012 and was discontinued quite some time ago. Despite the fact that both Ubuntu and Debian don't package and ship new versions of it anymore, Eclipse is still easily available to users of both distributions. You just have to go about getting it a different way, and the Eclipse developers have a great solution for this.

Well, with increasing users on Linux, the hardware companies and developers are showing more interest in providing support for their devices, not to lose the competition in this fastly crowding race. So NVIDIA has released new point update, NVIDIA 375.25 to their 375 series.

We've just been informed this morning by Joshua Strobl from the Solus Project about the general availability of the Budgie 10.2.9 desktop environment for Solus and other supported GNU/Linux distributions.

Axiomtek has upgraded its “CEM500” COM Express Basic Type 6 module with Skylake Core and Xeon E3 CPUs with up to 32GB DDR4 and -40 to 85°C support. Axiomtek is upgrading its CEM500 COM Express Basic Type 6 module with 6th Generation Intel Skylake processors.