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The Sonar GNU/Linux team was proud to announce the release and immediate availability for download of the first release of the open-source operating system in 2016.

The WINE developers and community have typically been hard at work to fix issues, particularly with big AAA games. Usually with a bit of a wait before we see enough supported libraries for the title to function properly. Now it appears a Linux user has already managed to get the latest Doom Alpha running on WINE.

I've been looking forward to trying out Balrum since seeing it on a crowdfunding site some time ago, and now it has had a day-1 release on Linux I got a chance to play with it.

In this tutorial we will cover the steps needed for installing Sentora on a CentOS 7 VPS. Sentora is a web hosting control panel that is free for download.

There's a little over a month until we will finally be able to upgrade our Ubuntu-powered computers to the feature-rich, long-term supported Xenial Xerus (Ubuntu 16.04) operating system.

After nearly a year of protests from the information security industry, security researchers, and others, US officials have announced that they plan to re-negotiate regulations on the trade of tools related to "intrusion software."

Redmond responds: Our OS is so great! The founder of Epic Games says that Microsoft is trying to lock Windows developers into using its app store for all their products.

Snowden says we can't trust government with our secrets, and we don't have to. You might as well pass a law telling glaciers not to melt. We all want our privacy and security. West Coast Law says the only way you get it is if everyone does.

Ethereum and Rootstock are two different open source blockchain based protocols that can be used for creating smart contracts. Which one of them will see widespread adoption?

Amazon has U-turned on its decision to remove filesystem encryption from Fire OS, which powers its Fire and Kindle slabs.

With Big Data much in the news, some notable conferences are taking shape, and they include opportunities to hear from some of the most advanced users of tools such as Hadoop and Apache Spark. The Linux Foundation, has announced the keynote speakers and program for Apache: Big Data, taking place May 9-12, in Vancouver, British Columbia.

The number of users subscribing to Internet-of-Things (IoT) services grew at a faster pace than those subscribing to smartphones in Korea on-month in January, data showed Sunday, on the back of the rising sales of wearable smart devices.

Before purchasing a new Smart TV, make sure that its operating system suits your everyday needs. To help you choose wisely, here’s our handy guide to what each one looks like, and what features it packs.

Learn to run multiple guest operating systems on top of your main Linux distro

Researchers at Binghamton University recently became the first to create an open source graphics processor unit (GPU). The GPU they created, called Nyami, is appropriate for general purposes as well as graphics-specific work.

Schools in Estonia’s capital Tallinn are piloting a new program, gradually moving to PC workstations running on free and open source software. Students, teachers, school administration and kindergartens’ staff members are using LibreOffice, Ubuntu-Linux and other open source tools, saving millions of dollars on software fees.

Hello, open gaming fans! In this week's edition, we take a look at 1900+ games available for Linux on Steam, extension of popular Europa Universalis IV announced, and new games out for Linux. Open gaming roundup for February 27 - March 4, 2016.

Calls for encryption backdoors that date back to the 1990s are coming back to haunt the industry 20 years later with DROWN, security experts say. The flaw that researchers found with DROWN center around the fact that during the so called Crypto Wars of the 1990s President Bill Clinton's administration insisted that US government have a way to break the encryption that was exported outside of the United States.

In this article we will install and configure Jenkins with Nginx as a reverse proxy on a CentOS 7 VPS. Jenkins is a leading open source automation server built with Java that monitors executions of repeated jobs, such as building a software project or jobs run by cron.

In my earlier posts, I explained what WordPress is and how you can use it to create your own website or blog. But in this post I will walk you through the steps of creating your own website or blog right from the beginning.