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Yes, there's yet another Steam Beta Client available for those who live on the bleeding-edge and have switched to the Beta channel of Valve's acclaimed gaming distribution platform.

AMD launched 3rd Gen, dual-core, G-Series SoCs with 6-15W TDPs, DDR4 and 4Kx2K support, and R-Series pin compatibility, plus an entry-level G-Series LX SoC. The lines between AMD’s Embedded G-Series and its higher end R-Series system-on-chips continue to blur with a new line of 3rd Generation G-Series SoCs that offers pin compatibility with the “Merlin Falcon” R-Series SoC announced last October.

Redmond updates official guide If you don't know how to control the information Windows 10 sends back about you to Microsoft, the Redmond giant has updated its guide on how to do so.…

This is the last article in a four-part series on the current state of 3D printing. In the first part, I gave an overall introduction to differences in 3D printing since I wrote my original articles on 3D printing three years ago. The second piece focused on advances in 3D printing hardware, and the third column covered 3D printing software.

One of the major issues with the Zika virus is that so little is known about it. That means that a lot of research has to be done very quickly. The Zika virus is at the heart of a global health emergency. It became a global health emergency after outbreaks began in 2015, and has possible links to birth defects. When the virus was first discovered in the late forties, human infections had been observed as early as 1952 according to Wikipedia. read more

Pacemaker is a High Availability cluster Software for Linux like Operating System.Pacemaker is known as ‘Cluster Resource Manager‘

Fedora Workstation comes with the GNOME desktop by default. GNOME brings their users a rich experience with a complete set of applications. This includes applications for music and video players, text editors, PDF viewers, and even a Weather and Maps... Continue Reading →

Use Debian Live System tools to learn how to spin a new Debian system customised for you

Samsung’s Tizen-based “Connect Auto” hooks into your car’s telematics system to offer driving analysis, alerts, and an LTE hotspot for in-car WiFi. At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Samsung announced an automotive accessory that runs Tizen Linux, and offers real-time alerts, driving analytics, hotspot services, and more. Samsung Connect Auto connects to the OBD II […]

An AtScale benchmark study shows the strengths and weaknesses of Impala, Spark and Hive, the leading SQL-on-Hadoop big data analytics platforms.

Also in today's open source roundup: The Linux Mint forum database had been compromised well before the site was hacked, and the f.lux beta is now available for Android

Docker isn't just for hobbyist developers and early adopters anymore. Docker Inc. takes the wraps off a new commercial platform that enables containers as a service (CaaS).

She was speaking in support of two bills: the Free and Open Source Software Act, which “would minimize city contracts for proprietary software in favor of free and open source software that can be shared between government agencies and bodies,” and the Civic Commons Act, which “would encourage the collaborative software purchasing of free and open source software among agencies, cities and states to pool resources, avoid duplicated effort, create portable expertise, grow jobs, and reduce costs.” Both bills are sponsored by New York City councilman Ben Kallos, and both were originally introduced on May 29, 2014.

With the nature of open source, if you don't like how something walks or talks, then you can change it up to how you like it. One of the up sides to linux, is the fact that if you don't like your Desktop Environment, then you are free to modify it or even just swap it out entirely.

The Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2016 event takes place these days in Barcelona, Spain, and Canonical has a strong presence there with a huge stand to show off its latest products.

Spam is an annoyance and there's a multitude of ways to counteract it. However spammers also get smarter and try to bypass filters and stuff. In addition, ICANN has lately approved a great mean gTLDs (generic Top Level Domains), like .biz, .info etc. Some of those gTLDs are, in my opinion, exclusive used by spammers. Lately, I have gotten a lot of spam from the .xyz gTLD. So the question was, how to block email coming from such domains using that gTLD.

Docker, the most popular container technology, gets ready for enterprise deployment.

Trying to track a complex project without drowning in too much information is still a challenge for many of us. To solve this, we developed OpenProject, a web-based open source project management tool that supports teams throughout the entire project life cycle. It is licensed under GNU GPLv3 and written in Ruby on Rails and AngularJS.

ARM unveiled a tiny Cortex-A32 processor design based on a 32-bit-only ARMv8 architecture, and offering higher performance per mW than the Cortex-A7. ARM bills its new Cortex-A32 processor design as the “smallest, lowest power and most efficient ARMv8-A” to date. If that sounds familiar, it’s because it’s essentially the same claim made for the closely […]

The development team of the best free, open-source and cross-platform distributed version control system, Git, which is being used by numerous developers worldwide, have announced the release of Git 2.7.2.