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Linus Torvalds announced the stable release of Linux Kernel 4.3, the kernel includes some unique things including 20.6 million lines of code. It's amazing development. The million lines of code was contributed by several companies including, Red Hat and Intel. Linux Kernel 4.3 has some impressive changes and improvements and to be seen in coming distros releases.

Business problems today are too big for any one person to solve. Agile teams are much more effective at solving problems than are lone geniuses. So why do we still reward the smartest people in the room more so than those who excel at working with others? You know who I'm talking about: the people who brazenly take over meetings by showing off how much they know or how witty they can be at the expense of any other voice in the room—and who often end up getting all of the boss's attention. read more

Microsoft names the day when OEMs must stop selling Windows 7 PCs Microsoft has named the day on which it will force PC-makers to stop shipping PCs with Windows 7 pre-installed.…

the EU parliament voted by a narrow margin of 285-281 to protect Snowden from extradition if he were to reside in Europe...

It's (approximately) Halloween, so you know what that means -- new Fedora! The Fedora 23 release is here, and it's better than ever before. We're pleased to bring you the latest incarnations of the three main Fedora editions ??? Fedora Workstation, Fedora Cloud, and Fedora Server, each built with love by the Fedora community to custom-fit your needs in different areas. Fedora 23 is also available in alternate desktop Spins, curated software Labs, and special images for the ARM processor architecture.

Sometimes while working on Linux servers we need to take backup of config files, traditional way of taking backup is to copy the same file with different name or insert some characters at end that file.

This article provides an overview of free and open source software (FOSS) that may be of use to students and researchers in academia, based on my own experience in psychology studies. I use Ubuntu Linux, which is a FOSS operating system, but the software discussed in this article is multi-platform; in other words, it will also run on Apple Mac OSX or Microsoft Windows. There is so much FOSS available that this article only scratches the surface, but hopefully it will give some initial pointers to readers with a psychology background but no previous experience of FOSS. read more

The Linux Mint developers have finally released the stable version of the Cinnamon 2.8 desktop environment. It's a huge release, and all users of this desktop environment are in for a treat.

Compatibility tool 'hampers EMET anti-malware protections' Two chaps claim to have discovered how to trivially circumvent Microsoft's Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) using Redmond's own compatibility tools.…

There are different ways to tell what shell you are currently in. The easiest way to find that out is by using special shell parameters. For one, a special parameter named "$$" denotes the PID of the current instance of the shell you are running. This parameter is read-only and cannot be modified.

As of today, the Fedora Project is proud to announce the new Fedora Developer Portal. The Developer Portal supports developers working on software projects with Fedora as their primary operating system or inside a virtual machine. It helps them install... Continue Reading →

In new guidelines published today, the Librarian of Congress said that gamers deserve the right to continued access to "local play" on games that they paid for, even if the centralized authentication servers required for that play have been taken down. So if Blizzard, for instance, decides to take down the authentication servers required to verify a new copy of StarCraft II online, players will now be legally allowed to craft a workaround that allows the game to work on their PCs...

Twitch crowd-controlled installation hijacked by Gentoo botnet, wrecked by fiber cut Vid Hundreds of people are trying to install Arch Linux on a machine at the same time in the same terminal, using a voting system to decide the next keypress.…

Windows 10 has been out for a while now and as I have a track record for writing dual boot guides I thought it was about time I created a Windows 10 and Ubuntu dual boot guide.

This guide focuses on computers with a Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) over a standard Basic Input Output System (BIOS). Another guide will be coming out shortly to cover the BIOS version.

Valve has published the new Steam Hardware & Software Survey for October, and it looks like the Linux platform is continuing its rise, although it's still not above 1.0%.

Where do the developers in my FOSS community live? For large open source communities where personal contact with developers is impossible, answering this simple question may be difficult.

On Thursday, the Tor Project released its first public beta of Tor Messenger, an easy-to-use, unified chat app that has security and cryptography baked in. If you care about digital security, you should ditch whatever chat program you're using and switch to it right now.

Reuven M. Lerner starts off this issue continuing his pseudo-series on Web performance enhancements. The past few months he has described how to deal with bottlenecks on your systems. Here, he looks at some ways to help suss out those hard-to-find problems before they become showstoppers.

DJI’s $499 “Manifold” development computer for its high-end Matrice 100 drone runs Ubuntu on a quad-core Tegra K1, and is supported with an open SDK.

At the latest OpenStack Summit, held in Tokyo from Oct. 27 to 30, the open-source cloud community gathered to learn about the current OpenStack Liberty release and to plan for OpenStack's next release, code-named Mitaka. No single theme dominated the event, where discussions touched on a wide array of topics, with an emphasis on deployments in Asia, particularly Japan.