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The developers behind the NetworkManager open-source network connection manager used in numerous GNU/Linux operating systems, were proud to announce today the availability of NetworkManager 1.0.10.

Mint's LTS strategy was a risky move, as it bucked several trends by opting to pass on whatever butterflies Ubuntu was chasing. Sticking with a stable base and steadfastly refusing to inflate its version numbers may well have left some users at a loss. Jests aside, turning its back on the latest and greatest GTK and kernel updates that come from tracking Ubuntu's every move is not without some costs, but overall the strategy seems to have been a huge success.

Solus is launching in just a few days, and everyone is looking forward to playing with a new operating system. The more interesting perspective is the fact that it's going to be powered by the new Budgie desktop, and that's just as cool.

In today's open source roundup: Are ISPs helping or hurting customers by filtering the Internet? Plus: Microsoft disables "Hey Cortana" feature in its Android app. And how to set up a new Android phone or tablet.

Dustin Kirkland, one of the top leaders of the Ubuntu project, explained in a rather lengthy and comprehensive open letter to the community that Ubuntu is probably used by more than a billion people.

Codeweavers has released a new major version of Crossover, the popular Microsoft Windows compatibility layer which is now based on Wine 1.8. The software is commercial and it costs around $40, but there is also a two-week trial version which is fully functional and can be downloaded for free. For this quick guide, I will be using the latter to show how you can install, set up, and run Windows executables with Crossover 15.

The development team behind the Tails amnesic incognito live system announced the immediate availability for download of the first Beta build of the upcoming Tails 2.0 Live CD.

The Missing Maps project, which launched in 2014, aims to literally and figuratively put more than 20-million at-risk people on the map using OpenStreetMap (OSM) as a platform. We need to fill in "missing maps" before the next disaster strikes, ensuring the maps have detail sufficient for emergency responders to hit the ground running. read more

Juniper Networks, a tech giant that produces networking equipment used by an array of corporate and government systems, announced on Thursday that it had discovered two unauthorized backdoors in its firewalls, including one that allows the attackers to decrypt protected traffic passing through Juniper’s devices. The researchers’ findings suggest that the NSA may be responsible for that backdoor, at least indirectly.

Test bellow is targeting two potential problems :- 1. Creating HAProxyKeepalived 3 Node Controller in RDO Mitaka with router supporting VRRP && DVR at a time per https://github.com/beekhof/osp-ha-deploy/blob/master/HA-keep... in regards of using DVR on Compute nodes. 2.Creating DVR system working with two flat external networks.

How about a big medallion at the top of the page saying “we recommend Linux” and just include Windows 10 as a secondary option? Heck, if I were Michael Dell, I’d customize Ubuntu, get rid of any major bugs, drop Unity in favor of something more readily understandable to the average Joe or Jane, like maybe Xfce, and proudly proclaim, “we recommend DellOS 11 Premium Edition” or some such nonsense. We already know from experiences at public libraries that have replaced Windows with Linux boxes, that the learning curve doesn’t exist anymore — and probably hasn’t for the last decade or so.

I recently installed the Fedora Cinnamon Spin after using Manjaro for some months. I have used Fedora for many years, and Cinnamon is one of my favorite desktop environments. However, until Fedora 23, if I wanted to use Cinnamon in... Continue Reading →

Canonical is getting closer to its convergence goal, and it looks like it started to tease the users about some upcoming big news.

With the mounting online security risks, simple one-step security no longer suffices, and people resort to multiple layers of security to thwart increasingly sophisticated attacks on their digital assets and online privacy. An advanced form of security defense often employed in financial sectors and other corporate environments is hardware-based protection, where a tamper-proof physical security […]Continue reading...

Jigish Gohil had the great pleasure of announcing the release and immediate availability for download of the openSUSE Edu Li-f-e 42.1 operating system targeted at schools and educational institutions.

This video shows you the way to remove old obsolete kernels from your Ubuntu installation.

Compulab launched its fastest Fitlet mini-PC yet with a quad-core, 2.4GHz AMD G-Series “Fitlet-T,” plus two Intense PC mini-PCs using Intel’s 5th Gen Cores. Compulab added to two of its Linux-ready mini-PC families with a Fitlet-T starting at $386, and two new Intense PC (IPC) models starting at $638.

One of the great aspects of open source is that there’s always something new to learn. Many of us like to jump right in with new software or technology and learn by trial and error. Sometimes, however, we can use a guiding hand. That hand comes in the form of a good how-to or manual.

Canonical's Kevin DuBois announced the release of the Mir 0.18 display server for the Ubuntu Linux operating system.

From next year, websites with new SHA-1 certificates will not be supported by Google Chrome in the interest of security.