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November was an extra busy month on Opensource.com. We published 91 articles and had 756,947 page views, which beat our previous record of 692,826 set back in June. We completed our LISA15 interview series, and we ran an Open Food & Beverages series. We had 15 new authors, and 64% of our content was contributed by members of the open source community.

The OpenSSL Software Foundation patched four vulnerabilities in the cryptographic software library on Thursday, likely marking the last time that two older versions of the library will receive updates. The group announced back in December 2014 that it would cease support for two of OpenSSL branches, 1.0.0 and 0.9.8 at the end of the 2015.

Digital photo management application for KDE and Linux digiKam has been upgraded to version 5.0 Beta 2 and is now ready for testing and download.

In this article, you’ll find a few screenshots from a test installation of Linux Mint 17.3 MATE. Screenshots from a test installation of Linux Mint 17.3 Cinnamon are available here.

Keeping in-step with the clones. Visual Studio Code is a new, lightweight, cross-platform and open source code editor that you can download for free at http://visualstudio.com.

An “AON” Kickstarter project is pitching a $4,500 and up, Pi-based industrial 3D printer with dual FDM extrusion heads and a 18 x 18 x 25-inch chamber.

Why IT leaders who are still resistant to open source may lose credibility.

The project to recreate Edsac was undertaken to help fill gaps in knowledge about the way that this early British computer was built and worked. Once complete it will become a living exhibit at The National Museum of Computing where it will be used to help teach schoolchildren about programming.

The early months of the reconstruction scheme were taken up studying photographs of the finished computer to try to work out how its 3,000 valves were laid out and how they formed the logic that lent the machine its computational power.

It looks like Steam for Linux managed to move past another milestone, 1,700 games for the open source platform.

Preventing security breaches starts with employee diligence.

Mozilla is already facing an uncertain financial future, and Friday’s announcement doesn’t make it any brighter. Late last year, the organization lost its profitable long standing deal with Google, which had annually added hundreds of millions of dollars to the coffers. It doesn’t appear that the new deal with Yahoo will come anywhere near matching that, as the web portal’s once dominant search engine isn’t very popular and it’s likely that many users will change their search preference in the browser’s settings.

In today's open source roundup: Give the gift of Linux for Christmas. Plus: Apple's Swift programming language comes to Linux. And PINE64 is a $15 gaming machine that runs Linux.

This tutorial shows the steps to install Legrand communication software to monitor a directly connected UPS, for example with a USB cable. This software allows you to manage the server and possibly others with the RS.

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FM Radio seems to have been forgotten as a feature on modern smartphones, but it was all the rage a decade ago. Now, developers are looking at enabling that function of Ubuntu phones that support it.

Linux Mint has officially released and announced Linux Mint 17.3 Cinnamon edition and Linux Mint 17.3 MATE edition. The both based on the long-term supported Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)

French police have made their Christmas wish-list, and it includes banning Tor and public Wi-Fi... Police want emergency powers to ban open or shared Wi-Fi connections and to make operating a public Wi-Fi hotspot a criminal offense during a state of emergency because of the difficulty of identifying those connected, according to Interior Ministry and police documents...

While digging through the Internet, we've recently found a new and powerful 64-bit expandable SBC (Single-board computer) called PINE64 that costs only $15 (approximately €14).

When my journey into the world of open source began in the mid-90s, the easiest way to get installation media was to buy CD sets from online stores and have them shipped to you. Being interested in experimenting with different operating systems, I always bought the giant bundle that included all the distributions. Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, SUSE, and several now defunct distributions were include for me to play with, but the bundles also came with installation discs for the various BSD distributions (FreeBSD, NetBSD, and later, OpenBSD). read more

In my last article on WordPress setup I explained How To Host Your Own Blog Or Website With WordPress on your own server. In this article I’ll show you something which is very important in order to successfully run your blog and attract more visitors.