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The faster and more powerful Raspberry Pi 2 makes it possible to run more and different operating systems than with earlier versions. Here is my first-hand experience loading and running Ubuntu MATE on the Pi.

The web browser market is dominated by a few mature heavyweights: Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Safari. But they are not for everyone. And there are a myriad of other web browsers that are worth investigating. With a smorgasbord of web browsers out there, there should be one to cater for your own specific requirements. If you want to experiment with some fresh and innovative web browsers, this article should be helpful.

A 16-year-old boy recently asked the r/Linux community for advice. When his parents discovered that he'd reloaded his laptop with Linux, they were horrified—after all, this "free" software must certainly be riddled with viruses and/or hackers. It didn't help matters any that he'd "ruined" an expensive gift, and was no longer using some of the expensive software that had been purchased with it. He tried to talk to them about it, but it was tough—he was the teenager; they were the adults. read more

An autonomous, Linux powered, indoor-friendly “Fleye” drone is available on Kickstarter for $742, featuring a protective hull, an HD camera, and 15km/h speed. Belgian startup Fleye, newborn from The Faktory tech incubator, is close to its $185,837 Kickstarter goal for the programmable, autonomous Fleye, billed as the world’s safest drone. Videos show people gently shoving […]

The developers of the MPlayer-based MPV open-source and cross-platform video player software announced this past weekend the release and immediate availability for download of MPV 0.14.0.

Who is the mystery man behind bitcoin, and why are so many people desperate to find out?

The main Linux Mint flavors are based on Ubuntu, but the developers are also working on another version based on Debian. It’s not the main focus of the team, but from what they are saying, it’s already catching up with the Ubuntu version.

The Linux Mint team has just announced that the OEM images for Linux Mint 17.3 “Rosa” Cinnamon and MATE have been released and are now available for download.

Sorry for shipping products we knew were rubbish, but you're just going to have to keep waiting for the problems to be fixed.

The market has boomed with small computing boards ever since the Pi was originally introduced, and the PINE looks best suited to be the king of cheap and powerful.

digiKam 5 is going to be a significant release bringing a lot of important improvements and new features. But you don’t have to wait till the new version of the application appears in the official software repositories of your preferred Linux distro.

The developers of the Linux Mint project published their report for the month of November 2015, to inform all users of the popular GNU/Linux distribution about the work done in the last month, as well as about upcoming events.

The Krita developers have announced the release and immediate availability for download and testing of the second Beta build of the upcoming Krita Animation Edition digital painting software.

Here's some cash. Please come and use our beta Google has unveiled the next gen of its Cloud SQL service, a hosted version of the MySQL database.…

GNU/Linux developer Arne Exton released new kernel packages for Ubuntu/Debian-based distributions.

In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, Mozilla announces new content blocker and ends Firefox OS, the Edge browser's JavaScript engine source released, and more. Open source news for your reading pleasure. December 6 - 11, 2015 read more

The Arch Linux developers published a brief announcement on the project's website to inform all users of the lightweight and highly customizable computer operating system about some modifications in the KDE packages.

An analysis of Red Hat as an investment and it's current stock price from September of this year.

Hello, open gaming fans! In this week's edition, we take a look at the new release of Unity 5.3, high performance gaming mahcine PINE64, new games for Linux, and more. Open gaming roundup for December 5 - 11, 2015 read more

Learn how to customize your Linux shell environment and write simple bash functions. You can use the material in this tutorial to study for the LPI 102 exam for Linux system administrator certification, or to learn for fun.