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Also in today's open source roundup: DistroWatch reviews Zorin OS 11 Core, and does Windows piracy lower the adoption rate of Linux on the desktop?

The use of big data ushers in a whole new era of automation in data security, allowing organizations to scale data security operations with fewer human resources.

The developers of the antiX GNU/Linux operating system have announced this past weekend two new releases of the distribution, the first point release of antiX 15 and the first Alpha build of the upcoming antiX 16.

When it comes to developing a new open source software project, most developers don't spend a lot of time thinking about brand strategy. After all, a great idea, solid code, and a passionate community are what really matter when you're getting a project underway. read more

A connection has been found between the software piracy and the adoption of Linux systems, according to a study published at the University of Oslo.

Here are nine commands that do some very unusual things on Linux systems. Some could actually prove useful.

What licenses do the "big" projects use? What are the community implications? These questions came to mind after I saw Martin Fink, Hewlett Packard Enterprise CTO, give a great keynote at Linuxcon Europe in Dublin last year. After discussing license evolution in the free and open source license community, he began his wrap-up with the following: read more

Everybody understands that none of a stage magician’s tricks are real. The one thing that is real, and which a successful illusionist must practice to perfection, is the art of misdirection — which evidently turned out the be the trick under the sleeves of the cracker/hackers who were responsible for compromising ISO downloads of Linux Mint 17.3 Cinnamon on Saturday.

Today, the Internet we love and treasure is facing serious threats. Issues like mass surveillance and walled gardens, along with calls to weaken online security, increasingly endanger the Internet’s openness. Most recently, we saw the FBI ask Apple to circumvent … Continue reading

Android phones have reached the point where they have similar specifications in terms of CPU and Ram than most budget laptops, but are held back for phone centric tasks. The truth is, your phone is ready to replace your laptop or desktop if you give it a chance.

I have always been fascinated with Docker Swarm and how it can cluster multiple computers together to run containers. I mainly used Swarm via docker-machine with the Virtual Box provider for testing. I felt that now it is time to try and run this in production.

The Meizu PRO 5 Ubuntu Edition will be showcased for the very first time at Mobile World Congress 2016 in Barcelona... As VP at Meizu, Li Nan, puts it “We have some interesting plans and so we’re looking forward to further deepening our partnership with Canonical in the future.” We look forward to an exciting future together.

Twenty-five years after its inception, Linux remains the poster child for open source. And yet, ironically, Linux was never really intended to be open source, according to a recent TED interview with its creator, Linus Torvalds.

"As patches are being delivered by Linux vendors and community distributions, there’s one glaring issue at play: Who’s fixing containers?" wrote Red Hat's Gunnar Hellekson, director of product management, and Josh Bressers, security strategist, in a blog post Friday.

Antergos 2016.02.21 has been released. Notable changes include: Packages updated for the live and minimal install environments. Work-around Syslinux bootloader issue by downgrading package to the previous version.

This is a small post on how to crate multiple files/folders, sequence generation with flower brackets in-order to save valuable time

Hello, open gaming fans! In this week's edition we take a look at support for the new open standard API, Vulkan, as well as, new games and expansions out this week for Linux. Open gaming roundup for February 14 - 20, 2016 Vulkan Support for Vulkan is growing, starting with Steam who recently added Vulkan support to their latest Beta of SteamOS. Canonical is also planning on Vulkan support for their Mir By Ubuntu 16.04. So, what is Vulkan and what does it mean for gaming on Linux? read more

It looks like Linus Torvalds has made an early release of the next RC (Release Candidate) build of the upcoming Linux 4.5 kernel series, as announced on Saturday, February 20, 2016.

In this article we will install Elasticsearch on an Ubuntu 14.04 VPS. Elasticsearch is a distributed, scalable, real-time search and analytics engine based on Lucene. It enables you to search, analyze, and explore your data with an HTTP web interface and schema-free JSON documents.

Up until now, Mejiro sort of worked on mobile devices. But sort of is, of course, not good enough. So after some hacking and tweaking, I’ve managed to rework Mejiro into a fully-responsive application