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On Indieogogo, a $119 “dumb” battery-powered “NexDock” laptop offers a 14.1-inch display and a BT keyboard to extend a phone, mini-PC, or Raspberry Pi SBC. The NexDock laptop offers a big-screen, mouse and keyboard environment for Android, iOS, and Windows 10 mobile devices, stick computers, and mini-PCs.

In recent years, it has become common for the terms "open source" and "FOSS" to be used interchangeably. While it's true that all FOSS is also open source, it's also true that being open source doesn't necessarily mean it's FOSS.

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Agora Project on an Ubuntu 14.04 VPS with Apache, PHP and MySQL installed on it. Agora Project is an open source and user friendly groupware based on PHP and MySQL which allow users to create their own private space and share it with the other team members.

The Web has revolutionized and enriched out lives. And yet our current model for sharing on the internet is deeply flawed. We are giving up far more than we realise and becoming increasingly ensnared by mega-content providers. We need to start by recognising this and remember that there is an alternative.

Recently it was found that the fix for this issue incorrectly kept buffer offset/length in sync on a failed atomic read. This could result in a pipe buffer state corruption – and a local, unprivileged user could use this to crash the system / leak kernel memory to the user space.

You couldn't ask for a better segue than this, from Smith's book about the pitfalls of automotive security to our community's solution to them—that is, The Linux Foundation's Automotive Grade Linux (AGL) n

Chris Borkenhagen, vice president of IT for Concur, discusses the importance of open mindedness in IT.

There are many stories about teaching open source in schools and universities. The teachers representing free and open source software come up with creative ways of teaching the lessons of open source to students. The Rochester Institute of Technology is... Continue Reading →

LEC-6030 is a compact fanless industrial cyber security platform with Intel® "Bay Trail" Atom™ E3845 CPU. This platform features wide temerature support and surge protected isolated COM ports. It also boosts for its flexible design with versatile mounting options (wall mount or DIN-Rail) and rich Ethernet LAN support. Including 5 or 6 x GbE LAN with 1 or 2 pair LAN bypass, 6030C with 2 x GbE SFP Fiber and 6030E with 4 x GbE PoE (Power over Ethernet) ports.

Allan McRae made a brief announcement at the end of last week to inform users of the acclaimed GNU/Linux operating system about some important changes in the default package manager.

At some point you will find it very handy to be able to run the same command on multiple servers. Sure, you could just put a list of IPs in a file and run something against it using a for loop, but gsh is going to make your life much easier.

Also in today's open source roundup: DistroWatch reviews PCLinuxOS 2016.03 MATE, and your best bets for desktop Linux distros.

Recently I wrote about 5 free alternatives to Google drive on Linux and I mentioned 5 interesting cloud storage services. When I was searching the web for some more interesting services, I got to know that Copy, one of the popular cloud services, has been planned to be discontinued in May this year. Because Copy has great number of Linux users so it's a big point to notify all you Linux users who use Copy to backup your data as soon as possible.

The Raspberry Pi is an inexpensive computer that has become the most popular device for smaller computing projects and learning. Sales have surpassed 8 million units making it the best selling UK personal computer.

As we reported last week, the final Beta of the upcoming Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) operating system was announced, which also included the Beta 2 builds for several official flavors.

Do you know the American TV show Mr. Robot? It aired in June 2015, and at SxSW Interactive this year, a panel convened to talk about "Coding of Camera: Mr. Robot and Authenticity on TV." The panel consisted of Sam Esmail, Rami Malek, and Christian Slater. read more

Meld, the open-source diff and merge tool, which has been updated to version 3.15.2, a release that introduces better support for the GTK+ 3.20 GUI (Graphical User Interface) toolkit.

So you've gotten, via inter-library loan, the pdf's you requested to aid you in researching the article you're writing. For purposes of putting them on your e-reading device, the form they're in is probably perfectly suitable. But what if you'd like to do other things with one or more of them, such as printing them out? There is quite a range of pdf manipulation tools that can help you put them in a form more congenial to such aims.

The time has come for us to take the first test release of the upcoming Parsix GNU/Linux 8.10 distro for a test drive, as its developers have just announce it earlier today.

Many people know about cat command which is useful in displaying entire file content. But in some cases we have to print part of file. In today’s post we will be talking about head and tail commands, which are very useful when you want to view a certain part at the beginning or at the end of a file, specially when you are sure you want to ignore the rest of the file content.