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Sometimes you have to quit cleaning your code long enough to clean your room. The people at the FreeBSD Foundation have already been doing some spring cleaning. They've even called the decorator.

GNOME Project has just announced that the highly anticipated GNOME 3.20 desktop environment is now officially in Release Candidate (RC) stage of development.

When you are writing a shell script, there are cases where you need to compare two version numbers, and proceed differently depending on whether one version number is higher/lower than the other. For example, you want to check for the minimum version requirement (i.e., $version ? 1.3.0). Or you want to write a conditional statement where the condition is defined by a specific range of version numbers (e.g., 1.0.0 ? $version ? 2.3.1).

The developers of Substance Painter 2 have announced they will be releasing a Linux beta of their 3D painting software.

Here's how to nuke this persistent menace Microsoft uses techniques similar to aggressive malware to promote its “Get Windows 10” offer.…

One of the most important resources that an open source project can provide to potential contributors is contributor guidelines. When eager new contributors rush over to your project to make their first open source contribution, they rely on your contributor guidelines to be their guiding hand. That means that contributor guidelines should be easy to read, thorough, and friendly. You'll find a template for contributor guidelines for a particular git workflow below. In case you are interested in developing your own, here are some tips and tricks: read more

Researchers are tracking a massive spam campaign pelting inboxes with Locky ransomware downloaders in the form of JavaScript attachments. The huge spike, reported by security firm Trustwave, represents an extraordinary uptick in the attempted distribution of the Locky ransomware.

For small businesses and consumers without enterprise deployment tools, a clean install of the aging Windows 7 can take a full day. And the problem's getting worse.

This tutorial shows how to install and configure a TYPO3 (version 7) web site on a Debian 8 (Jessie) server that has Nginx installed as web server and MariaDB as the database server. Typo3 is an enterprise class CMS system written in PHP which has a large user and developer community.

While I was putting together slides for my lightning talk at Great Wide Open (happening March 16-17), Not that Weird: Open Source Tools for Creatives, I remembered that in the last half of 2015 we had a bit of a loss from our open source creative toolbox. read more

Richard Clarke tells NPR that the FBI just wants precedent and could have data already.

So here are some FOSS alternatives Open-source software is not possible without collaboration and collaboration is not possible without communication. Collaborative communication in open source projects typically means some form of distributed chat.…

The Debian community is preparing yet another awesome event for the of spring 2016, where you can meet new people, share knowledge, relax, plan cool features for the Debian OS.

Last year, around Pi Day, I authored an article here on Opensource.com on how to set up a music light show with your Raspberry Pi. Before creating the light show, I encouraged the reader to learn about breadboards and the CanaKit as a way to do some prototyping controls with the Raspberry Pi and LEDs. read more

If there was ever an open source conference that doesn’t need any help from the press, it’s this year’s Great Wide Open in Atlanta. In spite of getting very little media attention, IT-oLogy, the nonprofit behind the event, was able to announce nearly two weeks ago that tickets to the second day of the two day conference were already sold out, with less than 200 remaining tickets for day one. Day one was Wednesday, and as logic would dictate, day two is today.

Although Linux systems are supposed to be way more safer and liable than other competitor's, but still there is nothing wrong in adding an extra layer of security that can protect user's information from getting leaked to any unauthorized vendor. One way to do so is to encrypt your data. Another was is with help of various Linux Password Managers available online. Here we will talk about some of the best Linux password managers that can be used to secure your data in Linux machines.

You may have heard the news recently that the MAME project has been licensed under the GPL version 2. read more

RaspAnd Build 160315 is here to update some of the components, bringing support for the recently announced Raspberry Pi 3 Model B single-board computer.

Command chaining is a concept to execute two or more commands in one execution to increase.

My Linux story started in 1998 and continues today. Back then, I worked for The Gap managing thousands of desktops running OS/2 (and a few years later, Warp 3.0). As an OS/2 guy, I was really happy then. The desktops hummed along and it was quite easy to support thousands of users with the tools the GAP had built. Changes were coming, though. read more