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A decade ago, Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst predicted that open source tools and platforms would become pervasive in IT. Fast-forward to today, and that prediction has come true, with profound implications for the employment market.

NoSQL databases are subject to certain drawbacks and limitations in areas like security and data consistency.

Version 1.9 of the Rust programming language has been released. Rust is a new language with a small but enthusiastic community of developers.

Microsoft and Samsung celebrate Windows 10 year of driver FAIL Samsung is advising customers against succumbing to Microsoft’s nagging and installing Windows 10.…

In this post, we are going to show you how to use the basic system monitoring tools on a Linux VPS running CentOS 7 as operating system.

The world of architecture doesn't change as quickly as software, but architects are still finding new ways to share innovative designs and ideas. read more

Learning how to use Linux on the desktop is made much simpler when the person doing the learning realizes that all habits and tools for using Windows are to be left at the door. Even after telling our Reglue kids this, more often than not I come back to do a check-up with them there is some_dodgy_file.exe on the desktop or in the download folder.

Open source .NET will add legacy APIs to make porting easier Microsoft's open source fork of the .NET platform, called .NET Core, will be modified for better compatibility with existing applications, says Program Manager Immo Landwerth in a recent post.…

The development team behind Calamares, the next-generation, distribution-independent graphical installer framework announced the release of Calamares 2.2.3.

Etcher – Easy way to Create a bootable USB drive & SD card from an ISO image

Make your Raspberry Pi the centrepiece of your home entertainment system

The Krita Foundation has announced the final release of the powerful, open-source, free, and cross-platform Krita 3.0 digital painting software.

Open is at the core of ProudCity, a web platform that "lets municipalities easily launch and manage government digital services all in one place."

We recently interviewed Pravin Satpute on how he uses Fedora. This is part of a series on the Fedora Magazine where we profile Fedora users and how they use Fedora to get things done.

In my Open-Source Classroom column a few months ago, I talked about backups and got some really fascinating feedback. Here are a few of the ideas from readers worth checking into:

ExTiX developer Arne Exton informs Softpedia today, May 30, 2016, about the immediate availability for download of the ExTiX 16.3 LXQt Edition computer operating system.

The PC’s DIY hardware ethos is both a blessing and a curse on computing. On one hand, the open ecosystem fuels innovation and serves as a major selling point for enthusiasts. On the other, the basic design of PCs hasn’t really changed in decades.

ChaletOS 16.04 is the latest release of ChaletOS Linux Distribution based on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) featuring Xfce Desktop environment 4.12. and powered by Long-term support of Linux Kernel Series 4.4. This release introduce new tool called Start Point, an application that has been designed from the ground up to help newcomers to this OS, especially Windows refugees, learn how to use ChaletOS, or Linux for that matter.

The Manjaro Linux community is proud to announce the availability for download of the final release of the Manjaro Linux Bspwm 16.05 Edition computer operating system.

LAMP stack is a collection of free and open source softwares like Linux, Web Server (Apache), Database server (MySQL / MariaDB) and PHP (Scripting Language).