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A new, under development ransomware called Popcorn Time has a "refer a friend" option meant to appeal to the victim's worst instincts.

Documentation is one of those areas that never feels quite finished. There are almost always areas that could be updated or improved in some way. In his talk at LinuxCon Europe, Chris Ward provided a crash course on ways to make documentation for your projects better, starting with thinking about how to answer the three W’s:

Election night for the US presidential election as come and gone, but the memory of our hackathon lives on. read more

After months of conversation and debate, Docker is making a dramatic move, by extracting the core container runtime from the Docker Engine and spinning it off into a separate independent project.

In the first article in this series, I introduced the rsyslog tool for logging, and in the second article I provided a detailed look at the main config file. Here, I’ll cover some logfile rules and sample configurations.

One of the most anxiously awaited distributions in the Linux world this autumn was Zorin OS. The anxiety was intense, since the last release of Zorin OS 11 stopped receiving any updates long ago because it was based on the non-LTS version of Ubuntu.

The utilities featured in this article help to simplify the process by scanning your drive and producing interactive maps that shows each file as a coloured rectangle that's proportional to the size of the file. And this software can distinguish between large collections of data which are still in use and ones which have not been accessed for a long time. The latter may be image files or large archives downloaded, unpacked, used once, and never cleaned up.

Because the Linux kernel community celebrated a quarter-century of development in 2016, many people have asked us the secret to the project's longevity and success. I usually laugh and joke that we really have no idea how we got here. The project has faced many disagreements and challenges along the way. But seriously, the reason we've made it this far has a lot to do with the community's capacity for introspection and change. read more

Do you have fresh installation of openSUSE Leap 42.2? follow our article for tweaks.

Each Fedora release is supported for a given time period. Approximately one month after Fedora release X+2, Fedora release X will go end of life (sometimes called EOL). Fedora 25 was recently released, so Fedora 23 will be going end... Continue Reading →

CrowdStrike also found the other group of hackers, Fancy Bear, was sending command and control instructions from a server with an Internet Protocol (IP) address of 176.31.112.10. This was the same IP address that was linked to command and control of an attack against the German parliament in 2015.

A few moments ago, the development team behind the powerful, open-source, free, and cross-platform Krita digital painting software proudly announced the final release of Krita 3.1.

Go, or Golang, is an open source programming language from Google. Released in late-2009, it has since become a very popular programming language. Docker and many of its tools are written in Go.

The latest version of Nextcloud adds business security and scalability improvements to its small business cloud.

One of the things we can expect to see after Trump takes office in January is the demise of Net Neutrality, which some say will signal the end of Internet freedom.

OLPC (One Laptop per Child) OS developer James Cameron announced the availability of a new stable update for the Fedora-based GNU/Linux operating system used by default on those low-cost, connected OLPC laptops.

Google has retooled Brillo into an “Android Things” OS, supported with Android development resources. It’s also updating Weave with new device types. Google’s lightweight, Android-based Brillo OS for IoT has seen growing adoption in its first year, but it has hardly set the world on fire. It competes with a growing selection of open source […]

The latest AMDGPU drivers launched from AMD only a few short days ago bringing changes like FreeSync support and additional support for mobile chipsets as well as the obvious performance improvements. Like the previous versions of the proprietary AMDGPU driver, only "Enterprise Grade" distributions are supported, so you won't find official Ubuntu 16.10 support just yet. Ubuntu 16.04 is continuing to be supported, and that will be the target of this guide.

If you are a user of Fedora and particularly Fedora 23, then you should consider upgrading to newer version before December 20th, 2016. Fedora 23 will be officially discontinued and there won't be an further support after that. According to sources after December 20th, neither there will be any updates in repositories nor any new package will enter the repositories.

According to a new study of the top one million domains, 46 percent are running vulnerable software, are known phishing sites, or have had a security breach in the past twelve months.