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I'm a big openSUSE user. No ifs, ands or buts about it. I love it so much that I even sit on the openSUSE board. But that doesn't mean that I can't appreciate the other, truly remarkable, Linux distributions. And one of my absolute favorites is elementary OS. What this group of people has accomplished over the last few years is nothing short of phenomenal.

Hostname is defined as label or name of a computer and network device.hostnamectl, nmtui and nmcli commands are used to configure hostname on CentOS 7 and RHEL 7.

It appears as if SCO’s case against IBM, which began as a blustering tornado back in 2003, finally died with a whimper last week. The death notice came in the form of what is essentially a one page agreement between SCO and IBM which calls “for certification of the entry of final judgment on the Court’s orders concerning all of SCO’s claims….”

"Words mean things" is one of my favorite expressions. I often use it in jest, but it's an important consideration when writing documentation. I'm normally one to sling words around with great artistic flair, but when it comes to writing technical documentation, I've become more deliberate in my wording. I don't know when this habit started, but I've noticed over the years that I have grown increasingly careful in how I use words. This article introduces three considerations and accompanying resources that you can keep in mind as you write. read more

Toradex’s SODIMM-style “Apalis TK1” module runs Linux on a 2.2GHz quad-core Tegra K1 SoC, and offers extensive I/O including SATA, A/V, USB 3.0, and PCIe. The SODIMM-style, 82 x 45mm Apalis TK1 computer-on-module is pin-compatible with Toradex’s earlier Nvidia Tegra 3 based Apalis T30 and i.MX6-based Apalis iMX6 modules. The Apalis TK1 moves up to […]

The platform battles are back. MWC16 +Analysis Two parallel trends bubbled away at MWC this year – but without getting much attention. When Android and Microsoft converge, it’s going to be the next big platform battle, and one Microsoft can’t afford to lose.

The vast majority of organisations plan to store confidential or sensitive data in the cloud by 2018, but despite that being just two years away, only a third have already set out an encryption plan which can be described as consistently applied across the entirety of the enterprise.

Some Raspberry Pi 3 hardware specifications have been leaked, showing that the embedded device will feature IoT-ready Blueooth and wireless support.

Starting today, February 29, 2016, the Chromium OS for Raspberry Pi 2 project has a new home, which you can find at http://www.chromiumosforsbc.org.

In 2014 when The Washington Post Editorial Board wrote "with all their wizardry, perhaps Apple and Google could invent a kind of secure golden key they would retain and use only when a court has approved a search warrant," the Internet ridiculed them.

The original Raspberry Pi went on sale four years ago, and more than 8,000,000 units have shipped since then. Raspberry Pi computers are used in schools and universities, in factories and other industrial applications, in home automation and hobby projects, and much more.

The LibreOffice developers are making some changes, and they are introducing GTK3 native menus for the office suite. It's safe to say that LibreOffice is the most used office suite on the Linux platform, and that means that it should be full GTK3 compatible, but that's not the case. Developers are only now making some changes that would make office suite much better looking in most Linux operating systems.

Something about history. An IT lecturer from the Australian state of Queensland wants to revive the very first Unix – the version written by Ken Thompson on a Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-7.

The GNOME Project was happy to announce that this year's GUADEC (GNOME Users And Developers European Conference) event will take place on August 12–14 in Karlsruhe, Germany.

Also in today's open source roundup: DistroWatch reviews the BeOS-based Haiku 2016, and Sabayon Linux 16.03 has been released.

Raspberry Pi Trading launched a $35 Raspberry Pi 3 SBC with a quad-core, 1.2GHz Cortex-A53 Broadcom SoC plus WiFi and Bluetooth. In the course of a year, the Raspberry Pi has moved from one of the more retro community-backed SBCs on the market to one of the most cutting edge. A few days after the […]

The biggest problem I have with gaming is that it takes far too long to get "into" games. I'm generally very busy, and my gaming time usually lasts as long as it takes for the dentist to call me in from the waiting room (or possibly how long it takes me to use the bathroom, but eiw, let's not go there).

And the winner is IBM. And the lawyers milking the case for 13 long years The long-running SCO vs. IBM case looks like it might just be over.…

Linux users of Microsoft's Skype app are unhappy that the company shows little interest in supporting Skype on open source operating systems.

Raspberry Pi 3 is now available for purchase, and this new single board mini-PC aims to take the world by storm with some amazing hardware specs at the same $35 (€32) price.