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Approximately one month from today, on April 15, 2016, the Parsix GNU/Linux developers will stop supporting their Parsix GNU/Linux 8.0 (Mumble) operating system, as it will reach its end of life.

In 2006, Oracle began trying to abscond with RHEL's paying user base. On Thursday, Microsoft announced that it's now going to give Oracle a similar treatment. What's that they say about paybacks?

Being small and low-powered, the Raspberry Pi is as popular with electronic hobbyists as it is with educators. As such, it gets associated with the "maker" scene, and sometimes the line between the Arduino (and Arduino-style embedded microcontrollers) and the Pi gets blurred. read more

Before the purists rise their fists and light the flambeau, let's look at some reasons to have a secondary desktop in your Fedora. Just for fun.  Because it's nice to try new things. To have an alternative in case of failure.

Minux 1.0.1 is available. Minux is new a lightweight/minimalist Linux distribution based on Tiny Core Linux Minux is loaded with FLTK and GTK based applications.

Swiss software start-up LzLabs has unveiled the world’s “first” software defined mainframe, designed to move legacy mainframe applications and data to open Linux server and cloud platforms.

Thanks to wccftech (and our IRC for the link) I have learnt today that AMD's new processor design named Zen is shaping up very nicely.

The Manjaro development team announced the general availability of the twelfth update pack for the stable and current release of the Arch Linux-based operating system.

Would Novell, which is now referred to in the past tense by the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, still be around as a company of substance if Chris Stone had not left when he did?

It has been quite some time since I mentioned CorsixTH, and I bet some of you don’t even know it exists! Theme Hospital is a brilliant game from many years ago where you build your own hospital.

Today still being weekend and all that, we've decided to continue our delightful "Watch" series of articles with a new about the Ubuntu MATE Linux operating system.

Newspapers have reported that a “zero-day” vulnerability was used to accomplish the hacking of Bangladesh Bank, which has so far cost the country about $100 million -- a colossal amount.

A team of researchers are battling to trouser the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's US$2m prize to build a system that aims to best human offensive and defensive security personnel at exploitation discovery and patching.

Wondering where the love for Linux is from big box OEMs? Look no further than Dell and its XPS 13 Developer Edition laptops. Also known as Project Sputnik, Dell came up with the idea of offering developers a powerful and thin XPS notebook running Linux and launched its first models over three years ago. Now in its 5th generation, Project Sputnik is still going strong today with the latest models combining Ubuntu 14.04 with Intel's Skylake processors.

RaspArch developer Arne Exton announced a new build of his GNU/Linux distribution for ARM devices based on the Arch Linux ARM project.

Continue with the second part of our home automation project.

Hardware vendor TP-Link says it will make changes to its routers so it would prevent US users from loading custom open source firmware on their devices, all in order to comply with current Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulation.

"It's important to recognize that informal leaders do emerge. And in less structured, less hierarchical organizations, they are a key part of the overall management system." —Jim Whitehurst, The Open Organization

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Some of our old-school Linux users know the fact that the Debian GNU/Linux operating system and several of its derivatives are shipping by default with a web browser called Iceweasel.

Hello, open gaming fans! In this week's edition, we take a look at MAME going open source after 19 years, SteamOS update 2.64 released, Rocket League due on SteamOS and Linux, and new games out for Linux.