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Ticked off by the news that Nano opted out of GNU, a programmer called Salvatore Sanfilippo has written his own text editor. The GNU maintainers, by the way, maintain that what's happened to Nano is a fork, rather than a stake through the heart. (the editor suggests that you also read the related discussions on the nano mailing list: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.editors.nano.devel to get the full picture of what really happened)

Linux Lite falls into that ubiquitous category of Linux distributions perfectly suited for low-end hardware. However, this particular take on the lightweight operating system achieves something few in this category can manage.

Great news! It’s totally working. The very concept behind the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) -- a group of disparate yet dedicated people building software for the public good -- has proven successful and fruitful for the 21st year in a row. The indomitable community spirit dedicated to openness and innovation shows absolutely no sign of slowing down.

It looks like the "This Week in Solus" weekly newsletter are a thing again, and this is the second week in a row Solus developer Joshua Strobl announces a new installation to keep the community updated with the latest innovations.

Manjaro is based on Arch Linux with a beautiful user interface. Manjaro is a stable and reliable Linux Distribution. As many people know or think, Arch is absolutely a no joke distribution.Many newbies find it hard to install as Arch Linux doesn't have graphical installer.So Manjaro is the option for them.Unlike Arch Linux, Manjaro have a graphical installer which is easy to use.Latest version of Manjaro ships with Linux kernel 4.6.2.Manjaro is not only stable, but also it is bleeding edge.

Great news! It’s totally working. The very concept behind the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) -- a group of disparate yet dedicated people building software for the public good -- has proven successful and fruitful for the 21st year in a row. The indomitable community spirit dedicated to openness and innovation shows absolutely no sign of slowing down.

U-turns on proprietary API project, will show all at JavaOne Oracle has told The Register it is "committed" to Java amid growing fears the IT giant had all but given up on Java EE – aka Java Platform, Enterprise Edition.…

Now that some of us are already enjoying the newest KDE Plasma 5.7 desktop environment on our GNU/Linux operating systems, it's time to take a look at upcoming features of the next major version.

One of the greatest aspects of Linux is its flexibility—it can be whatever you need it to be. It can be a massive server for big data, a desktop for rendering video or editing audio. A graphic designer’s studio. An every-day, get things done machine.

Now that we have understood the question – WHY do I require to move my data to AWS? Still some things are not clear as the first post is all about cloud and what Amazon AWS can do for you. In this post we will see

Learn how to set up a docker private registry with TLS and HTTP authentication on an OpenPower server running Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.1 LE.

Microsoft and Canonical's "Bash on Ubuntu on Windows" integration story continues, and it looks like a developer on GitHub has managed to run the Unity desktop environment on top of a Windows 10 installation.

In this week's edition, we take a look at the open source re-release of Habitat, The Other 99's Linux announcement, and more. Open gaming roundup for July 3-9, 2016 read more

We can find our shared or public IP address using below five methods, most of the Linux server Admin use “ifconfig” command to check the server shared or public IP address. But if we use ifconfig command to any hardware firewall or NAT set-up server, we can find only local(LAN) IP instead of public IP.

Wow, Mesa 12 has officially been released and it's a huge release for them! Intel now supports Vulkan, their OpenGL is up to 4.3 and more.

We are proud to announce the new release of Poppins 0.2 beta. This release is a big improvement including new features and bug fixing. Poppins is a command line backup utility for Linux, written in PHP! It is based on the awsome rsync and handles backup rotation with either hardlinks or BTRFS/ZFS snapshots.

Softpedia was informed today by Dylan Callahan from the Chromium OS for SBCs (Single-Board Computers) project that they are looking for new team members to continue full-scale work.

File comparison compares the contents of computer files, finding their common contents and their differences. The result of the comparison is often known as a diff.

“If you’re a bit tired, this is a presentation on cache maintenance, so there will be plenty of opportunity to sleep.” Despite this warning from ARM Ltd. kernel developer Mark Rutland at his recent Embedded Linux Conference presentation, Stale Data, or How We (Mis-)manage Modern Caches, it was actually kind of an eye opener -- at least as far as cache management presentations go.

Santali, an aboriginal South Asian language, has a brand new freely licensed font and set of cross-platform open source input tools on the way. read more