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With the new Ubuntu tablet out the door, Canonical also had to upgrade the website to reflect the changes accordingly, so now ubuntu.com has a really nice section dedicated to the BQ Aquaris M10.

The OOM killer is a tough nut to crack. How can a system recover when it's violently thrashing and out of RAM? Once upon a time, you'd just have to reboot. And today, that still might be necessary, but less so, because the OOM killer attempts to identify and stop the process that seems to be causing the hangup. The problem is, it may not choose the right process every time.

Canonical announced yesterday the first tablet that runs Ubuntu, which also happens to be a convergence device. The company is now starting to blur the lines between PCs and mobile devices, and Ubuntu is a key part of this process.

Learn how to use four packages developed in the Julia programming language to generate plots

I've loved computing since my school days. I started learning on BBC Micro computers in the mid-'90s, but I didn't have the luxury of owning a computer until I was 22. Today, Linux and open source software are my primary passions. read more

Long before the end of the twentieth century, the antivirus guys were fighting whack-a-mole battle — and that was in the days before the bad guys had the sophistication to write malware that could hide, constantly rewrite itself to avoid matching a definition, or to return seemingly by magic after being deleted. There is just too much malware being created for even a hard drive loaded with definitions to handle. For a while it seemed as if heuristics were the answer, until it became obvious that much of what we do on our computers looks like bad behavior to a halfway effective heuristics program.

miniBB or Mini Bulletin Board is a PHP based standalone, open source program for building your own Internet forums. In this tutorial we will install miniBB on a CentOS 7 VPS with Apache, PHP and MariaDB.

An open source network utility (socat) used by administrators and security professionals contains a cryptographic weakness so severe that it may have been intentionally created to give attackers a surreptitious way to eavesdrop on protected communications, its developer warned...

Open source software thrives in government and is in some ways a technical expression of democracy: engineers building common ground and forging a more open and free future for all.

This guide shows how to use the grep command to filter data. There are 9 examples including basic searches, using wildcards and repeating patterns.

If you’ve been waiting for a tablet offering the full GNU/Linux experience, your wait is almost over. Ubuntu announced today that a tablet offering the full “convergence” experience will be available to the public in March. The 10 inch device, dubbed the Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Edition, will be built by the Spanish company BQ, which currently manufactures two Ubuntu phones, and will be sold through BQ’s online store. So far, no information on pricing seems to be available.

Canonical has lifted the veil on its long-promised “convergence” version of Ubuntu, which enables a PC-like experience on a mobile device. Three years after Canonical unveiled its Ubuntu for Tablets platform, shortly after announcing the related Ubuntu Touch stack for phones, the company announced the first tablet to ship with Ubuntu Linux. The Ubuntu version […]

Learn how to write a simple polyphonic synthesiser (and the theory behind it) using Python and Cython

Ubuntu launches the first in a series of converged devices alongside European partner, BQ

Post below addresses several questions been posted at ask.openstack.org In particular, code below doesn't require volume UUID to be hard coded to start server attached to boot able cinder's LVM, created via glance image, which is supposed to be passed to script via command line. In the same way name of cinder volume and instance name may be passed to script via CLI.

Version 2.6, expected in May, will be the last release. Mozilla's Head of Core Contributors, George Roter, has announced the end of development of Firefox OS for smartphones.

Canonical and BQ had the great pleasure to inform Softpedia today about the upcoming availability of the world's first Ubuntu converged device, the BQ Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Edition tablet.

Linux Lite is a lightweight Linux distribution based on Ubuntu LTS (Long Term Support releases. It focuses on being a user friendly Linux distribution so that more and more people use Linux for their daily use. The team recently released Linux Lite 2.8 with some new features. In this article I will walk you through a series of Linux Lite 2.8 screenshots from installation to surfing Internet and more.

After more than a year of development, the container runtime gets a stable, production-ready 1.0 release.

This article is the third part of a four-part series that examines some of the changes in 3D printing that have occurred in the past three years since my first articles on the subject. Because this is Linux Journal, instead of discussing the entire 3D printing world, I'm focusing on the sections of the topic most relevant to open source and open hardware.