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Recently released exploit code makes people running fully patched versions of Fedora and other Linux distributions vulnerable to drive-by attacks that can install keyloggers, backdoors, and other types of malware, a security researcher says.

A new Wine development release arrived, versioned 1.9.24, two weeks after the Wine 1.9.23 snapshot, to improve support for several Windows games, as well as to add various improvements and bug fixes.

From the revelations of Edward Snowden to the potential problems with the Internet of Things and the latest malware, security and privacy are constantly in the news. The trouble is, while everyone is concerned about security and privacy, few know what to what to do about them. Fortunately, Linux has endless tools to address these problems without requiring that everyone become an expert.

Using the command line on a Linux machine could be very uncomfortable, especially for the beginners.

ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors is a free and open source office suite that includes an alternative for 3 major Microsoft Office apps – Word, Excel, and PowerPoint by providing access to the web-based set of tools for real-time co-editing.

In my Open-Source Classroom column in the May 2016 issue, I discussed how to set up Gmail as your SMTP provider for outgoing email. The problem with email is that sometimes the sheer quantity of it makes important messages slip past my radar. So for really important error messages, I like to get SMS messages.

The past few years have seen a huge surge in the number of consumer devices with voice control features that have hit the market. First came the voice assisting smartphone, with Google Assistant and Siri, and now making their way into the rest of your house with always-listening devices like Amazon Echo and starting this week, Google Home.

On Thanksgiving day, BaseALT Ltd, through Michael Shigorin, proudly announced the release and general availability of the ALT Linux 8.1 Workstation distribution aimed for personal and corporate desktop use.

Q4OS is a light weight Linux distribution which looks much like Windows of old. Don't let that put you off however as it is easy to install and easy to use with all the major top applications catered for.

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install two WordPress instances on separate virtual servers with Ubuntu 16.04 OS and Apache, PHP and MySQL installed on them, and how to manage them from a single place using the MainWP WordPress plugin.

Let me set the record straight about what I and other leading election security experts have actually been saying to the campaign and everyone else who’s willing to listen.

PyCharm is an IDE brought to you from the same people that create IntelliJ and Resharper. It is possibly the best Python IDE available for Linux with intellisense, code refactoring and debugging options.

Also included: FBI hacks 8,000 with single warrant, new Cinnamon desktop release, "government-backed attackers" after journalists and FOSS Force adds beef to newsfeed.

In this week's top 5, we highlight Python vs. R, an intro to Eclipse Che, 25 years of Linux in 5 minutes, tips for DIY makers, and using Sphinx to digitize books. I'm on holiday in the US for Thanksgiving, so no video this week, but I'll be back next week! Top 5 articles of the week 5. How to use Sphinx to give an old book new life Learn how to turn a hard copy book into a polished, web-based version of itself. read more

On Thanksgiving day, Russian developer Do My Best Games was proud to announce the availability of the Linux port of their post-apocalyptic train simulator and zombie shooter game, The Final Station.

Jenkins is an automation server forked from the Hudson project. Jenkins is a server based application running in a Java servlet container, it has support for many SCM (Source Control Management) software systems including Git, SVN, and Mercurial. In this tutorial, I will show you how to install the latest Jenkins version on Ubuntu Server 16.04. We will run Jenkins on our own domain name, and we will to install and configure Jenkins to run under the apache web server with the reverse proxy for Jenkins.

It's that time of year again! Our amazing community members shared some of their favorite open-source-related products and gifts with us, and we've pulled together some of the best for our annual holiday gift guide. Kick off the holiday shopping season by checking out these 10 great gifts for open source enthusiasts.

PINEBOOK should support most of the operating systems supported by PINE A64(+) boards including Android 5.1/7.0, Remix OS, Debian, Ubuntu, and others, but the firmware requires some (minor) modifications since the laptop is using LPDDR3 RAM.

On Thanksgiving day, Canonical's Lukasz Zemczak wrote yet another landing e-mail to inform the Ubuntu Phone and Tablet communities about the release date of the long-anticipated Ubuntu Touch OTA-14 software update.

Eyes hurting at night from the glare of your screen? Perhaps it's even affecting your sleep? Then maybe you should give Redshift a try, a program similar to Twilight on Android and inspired by the likes of f.lux.