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Today, Douglas DeMaio from the openSUSE project announced that the rolling release Tumbleweed distro received five new snapshots during the last week of September, which brought many goodies to users.

Although ROS stands for Robot Operating System, it is really a framework that sits on top of an existing operating system such as GNU/Linux. Packages are provided for Ubuntu Linux to help get your robot up and rolling.

Most of the time when I start a project, or spin up a virtual server, it's done in my own basement "server farm". Not too many years ago, if I wanted those services to be public, I'd simply port-forward from my static IP into my personal machines. Or, perhaps I'd set up a name-based virtual host as a reverse proxy if I needed to expose a Web app.

NetBeans is now available in 8.2 version with better improvements and better support.According to the release details page,the new NetBeans 8.2 comes with code analysers and editors to work with latest JAVA 8 technologies.Others aren't left behind,Other languages have also new improvements and enhancements with new and some old but improved tool-sets.[.....]

DressCode, a family of Android malware that has the capability of stealing sensitive files from corporate networks, has been found circulating in at least 3,000 Trojanized apps, security firm Trend Micro said on Friday.

The developers of Cossacks 3 have now put up an official forum post on Steam about the Linux version. They say it will be officially available in the second half of October.

The Git distributed revision control system is splendid in a multitude of ways but one -- keeping a good history of patches and commits. Pish tosh, you say, for Git remembers everything! Yes, it does, until you rebase. To solve this problem, Josh Triplett, built a new tool called git-series, which he described in his talk at ContainerCon North America.

Localization is one of the less glamorous aspects of computing. Despite the fact that less than 6% of the world speaks English, a majority of projects don't feel inclined to accommodate the rest of the population. One of the primary reasons for sticking to English is the steep learning curve and the lack of standardization in various aspects of the localization process. The FUEL Project organized the GILT conference in New Delhi, India September 24-25 to highlight and address these issues.

Nextcloud is developed in a transparent way with help of the open source community & keeps your files safe, secure and private.

In an actual production environment, our customers often have a complicated application running environment that includes a hybrid architecture, a hybrid distributed system, and so on. Also, our customers prefer a unified container cloud platform and always use Kubernetes as a framework of Mesos. This article can help you to set up Kubernetes on a Mesos cluster on a hybrid architecture.

Back in July 2015, Apricity OS had their first beta released. Today Apricity OS is as stable as it can be and it now receives rolling updates just like arch. Apricity OS is beautiful without a doubt. It uses gnome and cinnamon as their default desktop environment.Apricity offers lot of customization in both of their editions. There are icons, themes, applets and many more. You can even access online collection for themes, icons, applets and else.[.....]

There are a number of different models and versions of the Raspberry Pi computer. But which one is best for your project? Here's a summary of the main models available: read more

Another month, another installation medium of the popular and acclaimed Arch Linux operating system has been released. Arch Linux 2016.10.01 arrives on the first day of October with many goodies.

Also included: Debian developer Kristoffer H. Rose passes, two new distro releases, Apricity OS adds 32-bit, Canonical gets Kubernetes, Snapcraft gets a new release and getting ready for All Things Open.

Today, October 2, 2016, Linus Torvalds announced the release of the Linux 4.8 kernel branch, which is now the latest stable and most advanced one.

Yet another straw on the overloaded camel's back that is systemd.

Beniamino Galvani announced a new stable release of the NetworkManager network configuration tool suite for GNU/Linux operating system, the second for the latest 1.4 series.

Dubbed Linux.Mirai by researchers; the trojan works with the SPARC, ARM, MIPS, SH-4, M68K architectures and Intel x86 computers.

One of the interesting projects where the Raspberry Pi can be applied is in cars not equipped with onboard diagnostics version 2 (or OBD-II).

In today’s article we will install MyBB on a Ubuntu 16.04 VPS.

MyBB is a very popular open source, intuitive and extensible forum software developed using PHP and MySQL.