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Antoni Roman, the developer of the Ubuntu-based Pinguy OS GNU/Linux operating system wrote a short blog post on the distro's website to inform the community that he wants to pull the plug on the entire project.

Solomon Hykes, founder of Docker, details his firm's open-source experience and releases new tools at the OSCON conference.

The Flock 2016 schedule is now available! You can see all the sessions and speakers here on Sched.org. Each year, the Fedora community holds several premier events in different regions of the world. One of these is Flock, a conference for Fedora... Continue Reading →

If you are looking for an iPad or Android tablet alternative, this Ubuntu tablet is not for you. There aren’t many apps that will help you do anything more than basic Web browsing, emailing, messaging and YouTube viewing.

But you'll need a new phone to do it Google I/O 2016 Google has been outlining plans for kickstarting its virtual reality portfolio this year, including new hardware, software tools, and developer support.…

Well-known open-source developer and leader Brian Behlendorf is now the executive director of Hyperledger, a project for advancing enterprise open-source blockchain technology

Embedded Artists and Rohm have launched a 37 x 27mm COM built around an NXP i.MX7 featuring a low-power Rohm PMIC, 1GB LP-DDR3, and 8GB eMMC. You know the Internet of Things has become “a thing” when the main selling point of a computer-on-module is the properties of its power management IC. In the case […]

This tutorial describes the installation of a clustered web, email, database and DNS server to be used for redundancy, high availability and load balancing on Debian 8 with the ISPConfig 3 control panel. MySQL Master/Master replication will be used to replicate the MySQL client databases between the servers, Unison will be used to Sync the /var/www (websites) and the Mails will be synced with Dovecot.

I want to share with you some findings of the installed version of Xubuntu 16.04 LTS.

We now know a lot more about the next version of Android, except its name. The most exciting new Android N feature is an answer to the age-old problem of pushing Android security updates to users.

It’s no secret that containers are hot right now in the Linux world. They are quickly becoming the backbone of the Cloud and are making DevOps dreams come true. Even so, at first glance, it seems a bit redundant for Canonical to develop a new container system for Ubuntu in a world easily dominated by Docker.

The conflict between Google and Oracle continues to blaze through the courtrooms.

Targets dev-friendly skittles SAP has released a beta version of its Hana Cloud Platform for Cloud Foundry.…

There comes a time in the journey of most any programmer when they are ready to branch out past the basic examples and start to build a graphical interface to their program. In Python, the steps to get started with GUI programming are not terribly complex, but they do require the user to begin making some choices. By its nature as a general purpose programming language with interpreters available across every common operating system, Python has to be fairly agnostic as to the choices it presents for creating graphical user interfaces. read more

By now, hopefully, you've turned on multi-factor authentication on various social media/email accounts, where they either text you an extra code or you have an app like Authy that supplies you with an extra code. But another super handy mutli-factor authentication system is the YubiKey setup, which is a little USB key with a finger sensor. It's basically a bit of hardware that you can keep on you, which blocks anyone else from logging into your accounts if they don't have it.

With better security, improved ARM support, and, oh yes, better gaming hardware support, Linux 4.6 is a major update.

openSUSE developer Douglas DeMaio has informed the community about the new features that are about to land in the software repositories of openSUSE Tumbleweed rolling GNU/Linux operating system.

Orbital-Apps.com was proud to announce the immediate availability of their portable applications, in the ORB format, for the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) operating system.

If you think streams and pipes make a Linux expert sound like a plumber, here's your chance to learn about them and how to redirect and split them. You even learn how to turn a stream into command arguments. You can use the material in this tutorial to study for the LPI 101 exam for Linux system administrator certification, or just to learn for fun.

As the release date for Linux Mint 18 approaches, project announcers have reported that they are no longer shipping live CD images with embedded codecs. Furthermore, they also are dropping support for OEM images with codecs.