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Plank is one of the simplest to use and easiest to install dock-like applications for GNU/Linux operating systems, and it reached the 0.11.0 milestone this past weekend. Dubbed "Eddy," Plank 0.11.0 introduces a bunch of new features and enhancements that make the dock app even better for those who like to manage and launch their applications from a dock instead of the old-school Applications Menu, such as the addition docklets support like Desktop, Trash, Clippy, and Clock.

Internet of Things (IoT) programming company myDevices is seeking solutions that combine its Cayenne platform with Raspberry Pi hardware.

If your organization manages Linux, AIX, HP-UX or Solaris servers in-house, chances are your system administrators at least occasionally need low-level access to those devices. Typically, administrators use some kind of serial console - for example, traditional serial port, Serial-over-LAN or Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI).

In this tutorial, we will explain how to install CachetHQ on a CentOS 7.1 VPS with MariaDB, PHP-FPM 5.6 and Nginx. CachetHQ is an open source status page system build on top of Laravel 5. This guide should work on other Linux VPS systems as well but was tested and written for CentOS 7 VPS.

Firefly’s sandwich-style “Reload” version of its quad-core Firefly-RK3288 hacker SBC adds SATA, more HDMI, camera, and USB ports, and more expansion I/O. The Cortex-A17 has seen fairly high adoption in Android media player such as the Tronsmart Orion R28 via Rockchip’s quad-core, 1.8GHz Rockchip RK3288 SoC.

Canonical published a new Ubuntu Security Notice to inform users of the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) operating system about the availability of a kernel update.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.6 offers performance and security updates

Also in today's open source roundup: Life in the free software dating scene isn't easy for one redditor, and DistroWatch reviews ReactOS 4.0.

In a shocking move, cyber criminals recently hacked the Linux Mint Web server and used it to launch an attack against the popular distro's user base.

Gneural Network out - now let's teach it some tricks... The GNU free software project has launched version 0.0.1 of its Gneural Network package in response to the “outstanding and truly inspiring” results achieved of late in proprietary artificial intelligence.…

Sleep is an essential part of human life, and parents quickly learn that lack of quality sleep (for themselves and their children) can lead to a whole host of other issues (behavioral, emotional, physical, etc.). But what does this have to do with Pi Day, or with open source? read more

The Federal government is embracing open-source programming with a new pro-open-source development policy.

Mumble is a free application primarily intended for use by gamers which allows users to talk to each other while gaming. In this article, I will show you how to install the Voice Over IP application Murmur on CentOS 7.

I listen to a lot of podcasts. A lot. On my phone's podcatcher, I am subscribed to around 60 podcasts... and I think that only eight of those have podfaded (died). Unsurprisingly, a fairly sizeable proportion of those remaining alive-and-well subscriptions are shows with a specific interest or relevance to open source software. As I seek to resurrect my own comatose podcast from the nebulous realm of podfadery, I thought it would be great for us as a community to share what we're listening to. read more

Hang on vendors, it is going to get bumpy until we hit the new bottom Very few if any ever thought Windows 10 would truly reinvigorate the PC industry, and they were right - IDC has pulled down forecasts on traditional device sales for 2016.…

Approximately one month from today, on April 15, 2016, the Parsix GNU/Linux developers will stop supporting their Parsix GNU/Linux 8.0 (Mumble) operating system, as it will reach its end of life.

In 2006, Oracle began trying to abscond with RHEL's paying user base. On Thursday, Microsoft announced that it's now going to give Oracle a similar treatment. What's that they say about paybacks?

Being small and low-powered, the Raspberry Pi is as popular with electronic hobbyists as it is with educators. As such, it gets associated with the "maker" scene, and sometimes the line between the Arduino (and Arduino-style embedded microcontrollers) and the Pi gets blurred. read more

Before the purists rise their fists and light the flambeau, let's look at some reasons to have a secondary desktop in your Fedora. Just for fun.  Because it's nice to try new things. To have an alternative in case of failure.

Minux 1.0.1 is available. Minux is new a lightweight/minimalist Linux distribution based on Tiny Core Linux Minux is loaded with FLTK and GTK based applications.