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Softpedia has been informed today, June 3, 2016, by an anonymous reader that there's a new build of the PCLinuxOS 64 MATE Edition operating system available for download, version 2016.06.

In this week's Top 5, we highlight an open source 3D printed violin; a poll asking which of these two prominent boards, Raspberry Pi or Arduino, is best for beginners; one grandpa's Raspberry Pi project day with his grandkids; 6 open source architecture projects to check out; and a poll in honor of GIMP's 18 years since the release of version 1.0.

Network switches are common these days. You can even find quite a few designed for home use. But you can also build a virtual switch using a network bridge in Fedora. Maybe you have a complex home network requirement. You might want to firewall some systems.

How to create a desktop launcher in GNU/Linux

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Apache Solr is an enterprise-class open source search platform written in Java which enables you to create custom search engines that index databases, files, and websites. This tutorial will show you how to install the latest Solr version on Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus). The steps will most likely work with later Ubuntu versions as well.

This page of SBC descriptions and spec summaries accompanies our 2016 Hacker SBC Survey, which polls the popularity of 81 Linux friendly, open-spec SBCs. Summaries of each of the 81 single board computers in our 2016 Hacker SBC Survey appear below, in alphabetical order. In addition, a convenient table comparing summary specs of all 81 […]

What do you do if you have an open source idea you think might get some traction from a Kickstarter campaign but you’re not sure it’s ready?

Humanitarian and development aid is about helping people suffering from both short-term and long-term problems. These problems can be natural (e.g., droughts, floods, and earthquakes) as well as man-made (e.g., poverty, war, and oppression). A recent example of a humanitarian crisis is the refugee situation in Europe, and the disorder in Syria and its surrounding region. read more

This doesn't mean the nagware is working: selling PCs running anything is now a slog Microsoft's sometimes hard-ball tactics to get people running Windows 10 look like they're working.…

A cross-platform reader to tempt you away from SaaS

A fundamental design feature of Unix-like Operating Systems is that many of a system’s resources are accessible via the filesystem, as a file. For example the “procfs” pseudo-filesystem offers us access to all kinds of valuable treasures.

The company blames co-founder Frank Karlitschek starting a new competing company, Nextcloud, for the move. OwnCloud's parent German division remains open.

The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the June 2016 issue.

Debian Project's Markus Koschany has announced that Debian is adding support for two new ARM architectures to the Debian GNU/Linux 7 "Wheezy" operating system.

With Xfce, Xubuntu 16.04 LTS is a lightweight and stable desktop environment that is also configurable according to your specifications.

Arc is a flat theme with transparent elements for GTK 3, GTK 2 and Gnome-Shell which supports GTK 3 and GTK 2 based desktop environments like Gnome, Unity, Budgie, Pantheon, XFCE, Mate, etc

First, My Health’s stupid patent. The patent is generally directed to “a method and system for monitoring and treating a patient who has one or more diagnosed conditions and is located at a remote location from a treatment processing system.” If that sounds mundane, that’s because it is.

Today we would like to introduce our readers to an upcoming single-board computer (SBC), which promises to be as tiny as the famous Raspberry Pi Zero board.

Epic Games has had the enormous pleasure of announcing the release of Unreal Engine 4.12, a massive update it the 4.x stable series of the cross-platform and highly acclaimed game engine.