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The open source Firefox OS will be used to power new Panasonic DX900 UHD TVs, Mozilla and Panasonic have announced.

I’m ringing in the new year with a Mejiro update. The current version of Mejiro has a few improvements and tweaks in store.

As a computer science professor, I'm often asked by parents how they can prepare their children for jobs that haven't been invented yet. I call them cyborg jobs, inspired by the 2010 Wired article Clive Thompson on the Cyborg Advantage. Cyborg jobs combine tech-savvy humans with technology in all its forms to do more work, better, smarter, and faster than either humans or computers alone can. read more

The GNOME Maps developers continued to provide really interesting updates for the application, and now they are working on a new feature that will allow users to add POIs on OpenStreetMap.

The 2nd Annual Pi Wars occurred in Cambridge this past December and just like the year before, it was a complete success. If you haven’t heard of Pi Wars, then get used to seeing the name because this event will only keep getting bigger. Pi Wars is a robot competition that centers around each robot having a Raspberry Pi at its core. There are a series of challenges in which entries must compete, and at the end of the day winners are declared.

After playing with it for a while and making an attempt to bring it with me on a short trip, I reached the conclusion that this device is meant for two purposes: gaming and desktop replacement.

ElectroSmash just released an open hardware guitar amplifier called the 1Wamp. Designed as a small and portable 1 watt amplifier loaded with all the features of big amps, the project was fully developed using only open source tools—like KiCAD, a design suite to create schematics and layouts in any platform. read more

In this article we will show you how to install GLPI with Apache, PHP and MySQL on a Debian 7 VPS. GLPI is an IT software management package developed in PHP.

Erle Robotics unveiled a Dronecode-ready “PXFmini” drone autopilot for the Raspberry Pi, and Emlid updated its Pi autopilot to a HAT-ready “Navio2.” In 2014, Emlid launched a Navio drone autopilot shield for the Raspberry Pi. Last month, the company unveiled a Navio2 update with HAT compatibility, and now Spanish drone firm Erle Robotics has launched […]

The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the January 2016 issue.

Panasonic announced that Firefox OS will power the new Panasonic DX900 UHD TVs, the first LED LCD TVs in the world with Ultra HD Premium specification, unveiled today at CES 2016. Panasonic TVs powered by Firefox OS are already available … Continue reading

Google has fixed a new batch of vulnerabilities in Android that could allow hackers to take over devices remotely or through malicious applications.

Our first major project for the 2016 year is establishing a program that insures every student who resides within the Taylor Texas Housing Authority has both a computer and an Internet connection. I have been working one-on-one with Mr. Bob VanTil to iron out the logistics of this effort. Bob makes sure that this subsidized housing project doesn’t look or feel like government subsidized housing.

On January 5, Canonical's Jorge O. Castro was proud to announce that the Ubuntu Linux Vagrant images have passed the 10 million download mark at the beginning of 2016.

“Don’t date the nerd…” Wait, you really said that to our nation’s female students? ...

Nvidia announced at CES 2016 some really interesting new hardware that’s aimed at autonomous cars, along with NVIDIA DriveWorks, and it looks like they used Ubuntu for the demo.

WP-CLI is a tool to provide a command line interface to install and manage a WordPress site. This tutorial explains the installation of Wordpress on a LEMP (Linux + Nginx + MySQL + PHP) server with WP-CLI and shows how to install plugins and themes with WP-CLI on the command line.

WorkMail, the cloud-based email and calendar platform that constitutes Amazon's answer to Microsoft Exchange and Google Apps, has entered general availability, with new features to boot. Amazon first announced WorkMail in January 2015. It pitched the offering as an easy way to set up email and calendaring services, with a focus on security.

LinuxQuestions.org is proud to announce that voting for the 2015 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards is now open. The Members Choice Awards allow the Linux community to select their favorite products in 35 categories. Voting closes February 10th.

Django is a web framework for python. It provides you with the basic components that are required to build your website like HTML templates, User Authentication, Web Server etc. In this tutorial I will describe how you can install Django 1.7 on Linux with the latest version of Python and PostgreSQl.