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Linux Lite, a Ubuntu LTS based and lightweight Linux distribution is focused on Windows users who want to turn to Linux easily. The distribution has always been trying to make it so easy that any Windows user has no trouble performing regular tasks on Linux Lite. Linux Lite was improved a lot in 2 series and now there is starting of series 3 with many improvements.

Most Linux users know that KDE is a feature rich desktop environment with a whole suite of applications for nearly every task imaginable. What many Linux users don’t know is how far the KDE team has stepped up the level of completeness in the latest releases in Plasma 5. As of the latest release of KDE Plasma 5(5.6 at the time of this article), the KDE team has been packing Plasma with a ton of interesting and convenient features that show just how modern and convenient the Linux desktop experience can be.

For those who have been immersed in a capitalist society, open source thinking can seem counterintuitive. For the last three decades wealth has been determined through ownership and property rights. Businesses have been valued and financed based on the patents they own and the applications of their intellectual property. But open source, a term originating from software code being open for other developers to use, has started to change the prevailing capitalist mentality. read more

Before my recent trip to Tokyo, I spent some time writing, debugging, and optimizing my Little Backup Box script that transforms a Raspberry Pi into a mobile backup device.

As a “networking guy," Cisco CTO of Engineering and Chief Architect Dave Ward finds it frustrating that today, although somebody can fire up an application and ask for CPU, RAM and storage, but they can't even ask for bandwidth. They have very simple networking primitives all the way up to the PaaS (Platform as a Service) layer.

The move to open source is inevitable as open source communities of developers continue to work on 1000's of applications & as more software development companies invest in open source models to allow for greater flexibility & lower end user prices than existing proprietary competitors. Europe has more than a decade head start on North American cities. The quality of available open source software has improved so much in that decade that the transition can be far easier for cities starting now.

Microsoft reminds us that it is still engaging in patent extortion by signing yet another patent settlement deal which requires surrendering to Microsoft

Device drivers are parts of the operating system that facilitate usage of hardware devices via certain programming interface so that software applications can control and operate the devices. As each driver is specific to a particular operating system, you need separate Linux, Windows, or Unix device drivers to enable the use of your device on...

Spike Linux 1.0.2b Xfce Spike is an Open Source pentesting distribution based on Sabayon Linux. Actually, there is a repository that contains over 300 packages dedicated to pentesting. The Aim is to build an innovative and quick pentesting distribution based on the great work of Sabayon, why keep using debian for your quick&dirty pentestings session? Spike is a modern and easy to use Linux distribution based on Sabayon, hence on Gentoo, following an extreme, yet reliable, rolling release model.

The following quick tutorial will provide you with the information on how to configure LAMP ( Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP ) server on the Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus Linux. This guide consists of the three simple to follow steps: installation, database setup and testing.

In this article I will briefly explore the powerful “dig” utility. For anyone that hasn't used in the command in the past hopefully this insight into dig will give a useful overview of what its features can be used for. And, for those that have utilised dig in the past hopefully this article will be a reminder of its versatility and extensive functionality.

The BBC Micro:bit SBC, which has already been given out free to a million U.K. school kids, is now available for pre-order from several online resellers. BBC.com reported this morning that the tiny Micro:bit microcontroller board, which “is already being delivered, free, to one million Year 7 children in schools across the UK,” is now “going on sale to the general public.”

The open-source ownCloud storage project has had a tumultuous 2016 so far, with the public exit of founder Frank Karlitschek from ownCloud Inc on April 27. Today in what really does feel like a 'knee-jerk' reaction, ownCloud Inc announced the formation of an ownCloudownCloud Foundation.

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The BBC micro:bit (or Micro Bit) is an ARM-based embedded system designed by the BBC for use in computer education in the UK. It will be given to every 11 year old student in UK.

ARM announced a 10nm Cortex-A73 architecture with 30 percent better sustained performance and efficiency than the Cortex-A72, plus a 32-shader Mali-G71 GPU. ARM unveiled a follow-on to the high-end Cortex-A72 mobile architecture, which was announced in Feb. 2015, and also unveiled a high-end Mali-G71 GPU to work with it (see farther below). The Cortex-A73 supports […]

while(1) { read_stackexchange_page(); } Computer science (CS) students in the US aren't being taught properly, and their classes are too limited in their scope, says one IT think-tank.…

In an illustration of the value of diversity, four out of five of the recipients presented with O'Reilly Open Source Awards at this year's OSCON were women.

LEMP or Linux, Engine-x, MySQL, and PHP is a collection of software installed on the Linux operating system to get your PHP based web applications up and running on the fast Nginx web server. In this tutorial, I will show you how to install Nginx, MariaDB, and PHP-FPM on openSUSE leap 42.1. Then I will configure the OpenSUSE firewall with SuSEfirewall2 to allow access to the Nginx web server and show you how you can add a new virtual host configuration on the Nginx web server.

So you want to get started with hobbyist electronics? The world is rich with options, two of the most prominent being the Raspberry Pi and the Arduino. But which one makes sense for you? read more