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CoreOS kicked off its first international CoreOS Fest today in Berlin, Germany with many significant announcements. Here are 6 of the things you need to know from day 1 of the event.

Feds finally wake up to sorry state of firmware fixes. Mobile carriers and gadget makers will be investigated over how slow they push important software security patches to people.

Axiomtek’s 3.5-inch “CAPA880” SBC is built around Intel’s 4th Gen Core and Celeron CPUs, and offers mini-PCIe, SATA, and a “ZIO” I/O expansion connector.

Understanding how DNS works is crucial so that is why in this article we will cover the DNS basics and we’ll explain what exactly happens when you type a domain, for example rosehosting.com in your web browser.

Cacti is a widely used network graphing tool that is used by many service providers. For those of you who have been using Cacti to graph various elements of your network, it is sometimes necessary to migrate Cacti and all its graph datasets from one server to another.

This document describes how to install and configure Wordpress 4.5 on Ubuntu 16.04. WordPress started in 2003 with a single bit of code to enhance the typography of everyday writing and with fewer users than you can count on your fingers and toes. Since then it has grown to be the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world, used on millions of sites and seen by tens of millions of people every day. This tutorial explains the process of installing Wordpress 4.5 on Ubuntu 16.04 in the form of a simple-to-follow guide.

This seems to fly in the face of reason. Windows is already the only consumer operating system that comes with a price tag. Linux based operating systems, of course, have always been free, and Apple quit charging for OS X back in 2013 with the release of version 10.9.

Also in today's open source roundup: DistroWatch reviews Ubuntu MATE 16.04 LTS, and you can now download the new Google Keyboard app for Android.

It's been over 4 years since ProxLinux 2.2 was announced, released and then faded into the past. ProxLinux is a Lubuntu-based distribution which features the Openbox window manager as its default user interface.

Education is an important field for open source software to target. Today’s generation will define the future to come, and the lessons of open source software are important to teach to professors and students, including children, teens, and young adults. There... Continue Reading →

This is the age of big data. That's no secret. But have you ever wondered where all of today's data actually comes from? Here's a look at the sources of the data deluge, which has made data analytics a more important part of the channel than ever before.

The open source program office is an essential part of any modern company with a reasonably ambitious plan to influence various sectors of software ecosystems. If a company wants to increase its influence, clarify its open source messaging, maximize the clout of its projects, or increase the efficiency of its product development, a multifaceted approach to open source programs is essential. Having viewed the operations of many such teams, I have summarized six common characteristics of successful open source programs: read more

Today we would like to introduce you guys to a brand-new GNU/Linux distribution, which unlike few others it aims to offer you a one hundred percent free desktop-oriented computer operating system.

Play a word association game and the word "open" will almost surely be followed by "source." And open source is certainly an important force for preserving user freedoms and access to computing. However, code isn't the only form of openness that's important. read more

Install Apache2 with PHP 7 support in Ubuntu 16.04 server

Rebellin 3.0 is available. Rebellin Linux is a beginner-friendly desktop Linux distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux. The project offers two separate editions - "Synergy" which is based on Debian's latest stable version and "Adrenalin" which is derived from Debian's unstable branch. Both editions provide a highly customised GNOME 3 desktop user interface. Starting with version 2.5, a MATE desktop environment option has also become available.

Xubuntu 16 04 LTS, the latest release of Ubuntu 16.04 Official flavors featuring Xfce 4.12 desktop environment has been released and announced by Xubuntu Team. This release powered by long-term support Linux kernel series 4.4 and support GNOME 3.18 packages. also include new community wallpapers, and the replacement of the Ubuntu Software Centre app with the GNOME Software graphical package manager.

We live in a society where large corporations essentially own two of the major ways we communicate: telephone (mobile and landlines) and the Internet (email, chat, etc). While paying for services to correspond with others over long distances might make sense, modern technology gives us better and more affordable options for communicating with those close to us. If you have wireless networking equipment in your home that is capable of communicating with your neighbor's equipment, why not just communicate directly with them? read more

Users to choose own codecs The Linux Mint project has decided version 18, scheduled for June 2016, will end out-of-the-box installation of multimedia codecs.…

Debian Development team announced that they are going to drop the i386 architecture support on Debian 9 (stretch) release cycle.