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On March 21st, the openssh package was updated to patch two moderate vulnerabilities; CVE-2015-5600 and CVE-2016-3115.

When it comes to the software I use on Linux, I'm very purpose driven in my application choices. In almost every situation, I'll use the best software for the task at hand. And as a result, sometimes this means using proprietary software on my Linux PCs.

It’s been one of the worst-kept secrets for years: the identity of the person the government was investigating in 2013 when it served the secure email firm Lavabit with a court order demanding help spying on a particular customer...

Recent improvements of the Linux kernel make it possible: Enjoying a full 4K/UHD/2160p resolution of 3840x2160 pixels or more even with elder hardware. Many graphics cards which have never been advertised to feature 4K/UHD can be made to display such modes by overclocking your TMDS.

Software-defined everything -- from SDN and NFV to software-defined storage -- has been in use in some forms for decades. It's not as revolutionary as it seems.

ubuntuBSD 15.10 Beta 2 is available. ubuntuBSD combines the installer and utilities of Ubuntu with the kernel and file system support of FreeBSD.

Microsoft continues to open-source its development tools.

Apple has released version 2.2 of its Swift programming language for the Mac OS X and Ubuntu Linux operating systems.

Qt v5.6 is Qt’s first “LTS” release since 2011, offers tighter alignment with Yocto Project, and is said to make “Boot to Qt” stack customization easier. The Qt Company released version 5.6 of its cross-platform application and UI development framework, bringing Qt’s “Boot to Qt” embedded Linux platform into greater alignment with Yocto Project tools.

'UbuntuBSD' promises the best of several possible bootloading worlds Another shot has been fired in the war between *nix true believers and systemd advocates, with a group of diehards welding the Ubuntu body onto the FreeBSD chassis.…

The U.S. government wants more "open source" within federal agencies, but it seems to have a vague sense of what open source actually entails.

Well Nvidia dropped a bit of a big one today didn't they! Nvidia driver version 364.12 is now out and brings in official Vulkan support, Mir support and Wayland support.

There's a lot more to text manipulation than cut and paste, particularly when you aren't using a GUI. In this tutorial, Ian Shields introduces you to text manipulation on Linux using filters from the GNU textutils package. By the end of this tutorial, you will be manipulating text like an expert. Use the material in this tutorial to study for the Linux Professional Institute LPIC-1: Linux Server Professional Certification exam 101, or just to learn for fun.

The war of words aside, for now the issue is left in the hands of Magistrate Sheri Pym in Riverside, California. She already ordered Apple to help unlock the phone last month but did so without giving Apple a chance to challenge it. Tuesday's hearing is about providing Apple that opportunity. Between these two court events, there's been plenty of he-said, she-said arguments from both sides.

In this installment, I'll cover concatenating multiple image files into a multi-page pdf--a very handy trick the imagemagick utility convert makes possible. But first, a bit of grousing on the subject of academia, budget-constrained researching, and academic publishing.

Good news! One of my clients is launching a new marketing campaign, which we expect will make the business even more successful than before. Bad news! This means our Web application, which has existed for some time on a fairly simple infrastructure, and which has handled a steadily growing number of users, now (we hope) will need to deal with a massive spike in users.

NSA stopped giggling at the back, handed over an exploit? The FBI has come to a sudden and surprising all-stop in its legal war with Apple.…

You've probably heard that everything in Linux is a file, so start on the right path with a solid grounding in file and directory management: finding, listing, moving, copying, and archiving. Use the material in this tutorial to study for the Linux Professional Institute LPIC-1: Linux Server Professional Certification exam 101, or just to learn for fun.

After a 13-day trial in 2012, a jury held that Samsung's phones infringed Apple utility and design patents. Apple was originally granted $1.05 billion, but that number was slashed down on appeal. Samsung paid $548 million late last year, but the company didn't give up its right to one last appeal. A Supreme Court win could result in Samsung getting much of that money back.

The move toward a public OpenStack cloud service has been several years in the making at GoDaddy.