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The development team behind the Tails amnesic incognito live system announced the immediate availability for download of the first Beta build of the upcoming Tails 2.0 Live CD.

The Missing Maps project, which launched in 2014, aims to literally and figuratively put more than 20-million at-risk people on the map using OpenStreetMap (OSM) as a platform. We need to fill in "missing maps" before the next disaster strikes, ensuring the maps have detail sufficient for emergency responders to hit the ground running. read more

Juniper Networks, a tech giant that produces networking equipment used by an array of corporate and government systems, announced on Thursday that it had discovered two unauthorized backdoors in its firewalls, including one that allows the attackers to decrypt protected traffic passing through Juniper’s devices. The researchers’ findings suggest that the NSA may be responsible for that backdoor, at least indirectly.

Test bellow is targeting two potential problems :- 1. Creating HAProxyKeepalived 3 Node Controller in RDO Mitaka with router supporting VRRP && DVR at a time per https://github.com/beekhof/osp-ha-deploy/blob/master/HA-keep... in regards of using DVR on Compute nodes. 2.Creating DVR system working with two flat external networks.

How about a big medallion at the top of the page saying “we recommend Linux” and just include Windows 10 as a secondary option? Heck, if I were Michael Dell, I’d customize Ubuntu, get rid of any major bugs, drop Unity in favor of something more readily understandable to the average Joe or Jane, like maybe Xfce, and proudly proclaim, “we recommend DellOS 11 Premium Edition” or some such nonsense. We already know from experiences at public libraries that have replaced Windows with Linux boxes, that the learning curve doesn’t exist anymore — and probably hasn’t for the last decade or so.

I recently installed the Fedora Cinnamon Spin after using Manjaro for some months. I have used Fedora for many years, and Cinnamon is one of my favorite desktop environments. However, until Fedora 23, if I wanted to use Cinnamon in... Continue Reading →

Canonical is getting closer to its convergence goal, and it looks like it started to tease the users about some upcoming big news.

With the mounting online security risks, simple one-step security no longer suffices, and people resort to multiple layers of security to thwart increasingly sophisticated attacks on their digital assets and online privacy. An advanced form of security defense often employed in financial sectors and other corporate environments is hardware-based protection, where a tamper-proof physical security […]Continue reading...

Jigish Gohil had the great pleasure of announcing the release and immediate availability for download of the openSUSE Edu Li-f-e 42.1 operating system targeted at schools and educational institutions.

This video shows you the way to remove old obsolete kernels from your Ubuntu installation.

Compulab launched its fastest Fitlet mini-PC yet with a quad-core, 2.4GHz AMD G-Series “Fitlet-T,” plus two Intense PC mini-PCs using Intel’s 5th Gen Cores. Compulab added to two of its Linux-ready mini-PC families with a Fitlet-T starting at $386, and two new Intense PC (IPC) models starting at $638.

One of the great aspects of open source is that there’s always something new to learn. Many of us like to jump right in with new software or technology and learn by trial and error. Sometimes, however, we can use a guiding hand. That hand comes in the form of a good how-to or manual.

Canonical's Kevin DuBois announced the release of the Mir 0.18 display server for the Ubuntu Linux operating system.

From next year, websites with new SHA-1 certificates will not be supported by Google Chrome in the interest of security.

Linux vendor SUSE is out today with the first service pack update for SUSE Linux Enterprise 12. The big new addition is full support for Docker container though a number of different technologies.

The Steam Controller was launched a while back, and the world didn't stop spinning. The problem is that it should have. If players give it enough time, they will be impressed and soon realize that Microsoft, Sony, and all the others have been lying to them for a long time.

2015 was an extremely good year for open source. Enterprise customers embraced open source at an unprecedented rate. Arch rivals came together to work on shared technologies. Even Microsoft and Apple released their software as open source.

GNOME Keyring is a daemon program which caches user's secret keys, login credentials and certificates, and makes them available to other applications requesting them according to the GnuPG protocol. Essentially GNOME Keyring plays the same role as gpg-agent, but is active only within GUI desktop sessions. GNOME Keyring also implements SSH agent protocol for SSH authentication to replace ssh-agent.

In today's open source roundup: Maximalist distro Ultimate Edition 4.2.3 LTS has been released for Christmas. Plus: Are you an Android or iPhone person? And the fight for Free Software continues.

LibreOffice is one of the most important pieces of free software, allowing many of us to work, study, and share information. Although the software features many tools and capabilities, the spectrum of possible uses for each and everyone out there is so wide, that it is simply impossible to cover every special need with hotkeys and shortcuts. However, LibreOffice can be set to support user-created commands that can essentially help us increase our productivity.