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For many it seemed like an April Fools joke that came early, but it's not, even though the very serious matter of intellectual property and patents isn't part of the discussion.

When you are using a proxy, the "proxy exception list" (also known as "ignore-hosts list") is sometimes necessary. The proxy exception list basically tells an application or desktop (which uses a proxy) to not use the proxy for particular destinations or websites. The proxy exceptions are needed when you are trying to access web servers on local LAN or those with private IP addresses which are not reachable from outside.

Aaeon’s rugged “Boxer-6638U” industrial PC runs Linux on a 5th Gen Core i3, and offers four COM ports, 9-24V input, and -20 to 60°C operation. Despite the different branding schemes, the “economical” Boxer-6638U is said to be the follow-on to Aaeon’s similarly stripped down, 4th Generation “Haswell” based AEC-6638 box-PC.

Members of the Red Hat Developer Program can now get a no-cost Red Hat Enterprise Linux license.

We will continue our extensive coverage of SBCs and COMs, but will reduce our coverage of end user products and expand our coverage of OSes beyond Linux. In celebration of LinuxGizmos.com's third birthday, and 16 years after I launched its predecessor, LinuxDevices.com, we have decided to make some exciting changes to the site.

Could it really be? Has somebody really decided to develop a Linux distribution using COBOL?

The Arduino is a truly powerful piece of electronics. Small, low power, flexible, and completely open source. Lots of makers and hackers have already figured out that giving their project an Arduino-brain ensures a simple, yet powerful and reliable core.

Calibre developer Kovid Goyal released a new maintenance version of his widely used ebook library management software for all supported platforms, including GNU/Linux.

The official mascot for upcomming release Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Xenial Xerus has been revealed. it available in scalable vector graphic (svg) and Xcf file format, download it now

The anticipated Hyper Light Drifter role-playing game that was first spotted on Kickstarter two and a half years ago, has been finally released today on Steam.

Google pushed out the latest version of Chrome Thursday afternoon, fixing five issues, four of them critical. The update remedies an out-of-bounds read in Chrome's open source JavaScript engine V8, two use-after-free vulnerabilities - one in Navigation and one in Extensions - and a buffer overflow in the libANGLE library.

Elxis is powerful open source content management system (CMS ) it is free for use under the GNU/GPL license. This CMS is modern, flexible, easy to use and it comes with many useful multi-lingual features

OpenStack is a huge project with lots of moving parts, and it can be hard to keep up with everything that's going on in the project and how it affects you. The good news is that in addition to the official documentation, there are a number of great resources for continuing your education, from third party training and certification to meetups to many community-contributed tutorials.

pulseaudio-dlna is a lightweight streaming server that makes it easy to stream audio from a Linux computer that uses PulseAudio, to a DLNA / UPnP or Chromecast device in the same network.

Even as the White House is calling on federal agencies to make more use of open source projects, there's also a federal effort under way to reduce the number of vulnerabilities in those products via better code review tools and bug bounties.

Building botnets made up of routers, modems, wireless access points and other networking devices doesn't require sophisticated exploits. Remaiten, a new worm that infects embedded systems, spreads by taking advantage of weak Telnet passwords.

The TODO Group, an industry collaboration around open source software for corporations, has become a Linux Foundation project.

Satya Nadella finally decides to do the right thing by attempting to undo the damage caused since the Novell/Microsoft deal

CrossOver developer CodeWeavers has just informed us about the immediate availability of CrossOver 15.1.0 graphical interface for Wine, for both GNU/Linux and Mac.

Perform two node cluster deployment Controller + Network&Compute (ML2&OVS&VXLAN). Another configuration available via packstack Controller+Storage+Compute&Network.