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Twenty-five years after its inception, Linux remains the poster child for open source. And yet, ironically, Linux was never really intended to be open source, according to a recent TED interview with its creator, Linus Torvalds.

"As patches are being delivered by Linux vendors and community distributions, there’s one glaring issue at play: Who’s fixing containers?" wrote Red Hat's Gunnar Hellekson, director of product management, and Josh Bressers, security strategist, in a blog post Friday.

Antergos 2016.02.21 has been released. Notable changes include: Packages updated for the live and minimal install environments. Work-around Syslinux bootloader issue by downgrading package to the previous version.

This is a small post on how to crate multiple files/folders, sequence generation with flower brackets in-order to save valuable time

Hello, open gaming fans! In this week's edition we take a look at support for the new open standard API, Vulkan, as well as, new games and expansions out this week for Linux. Open gaming roundup for February 14 - 20, 2016 Vulkan Support for Vulkan is growing, starting with Steam who recently added Vulkan support to their latest Beta of SteamOS. Canonical is also planning on Vulkan support for their Mir By Ubuntu 16.04. So, what is Vulkan and what does it mean for gaming on Linux? read more

It looks like Linus Torvalds has made an early release of the next RC (Release Candidate) build of the upcoming Linux 4.5 kernel series, as announced on Saturday, February 20, 2016.

In this article we will install Elasticsearch on an Ubuntu 14.04 VPS. Elasticsearch is a distributed, scalable, real-time search and analytics engine based on Lucene. It enables you to search, analyze, and explore your data with an HTTP web interface and schema-free JSON documents.

Up until now, Mejiro sort of worked on mobile devices. But sort of is, of course, not good enough. So after some hacking and tweaking, I’ve managed to rework Mejiro into a fully-responsive application

Linux Mint project leader Clem Lefebvre revealed in a blog post today that the popular Linux distribution’s servers were hacked on Saturday. During the “brief” intrusion, the hackers modified the ISO for the Cinnamon edition of Linux Mint 17.3 (Rosa) and also gained access to the distro’s forum database. Only this particular ISO is affected; other editions or releases are considered safe. Only ISO’s downloaded Saturday are potentially vulnerable.

The Linux Mint bad news keeps on coming. After a website hack that tricked users into downloading a fake Linux Mint ISO with a backdoor, now the developers are also warning users to change their passwords for the forums.

Munin is a networked resource monitoring tool that can help analyze resource trends and usage of servers and services. It offers monitoring and alerting services for servers, switches, applications, services and is designed to be very plug and play. Munin has a master/slave architecture in which the master connects to all the slaves at regular intervals and asks them for data which then is stored in RRD files.

VeraCrypt is a free, open source and cross platform data encryption tool. It's an alternative to TrueCrypt(project discontinued), the popular encryption tool for all Operating systems. VeraCrypt is an easy to use tool. In this article I will walk you through the complete process of installing & using VeraCrypt in any Linux distributions such as Debian, Arch, Ubuntu, Linux Mint etc. So let's get started.

virt-manager is a GUI-based virtual machine manager which allows you to create and manage (local or remote) virtual machines and containers via libvirt APIs. It supports multiple hypervisors such as KVM, QEMU, Xen, as well as LXC containers. While virt-manager is available in most distros' base repositories, the pre-built virt-manager package always falls behind the latest releases available from the official website.

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Here is a bad news coming from Linux Mint. Today Clem, member of Linux Mint community posted that ISOs of Linux Mint 17.3 were hacked on 20th of February, 2016. Yes! You heard that right. It's something that teaches lesson to all those who don't check MD5 hash to confirm that the image they downloaded are original and not hacked one. Well if you downloaded Linux Mint 17.3 then you should immediately do the following things to be safe.

Inpired by Amiibos, Tony DiCola makes NFC-enabled papercraft blocks that can be used to build inside Minecraft

It is a long time since we've shown you guys how to dual boot a GNU/Linux distribution and the latest Microsoft Windows operating system on your personal computer.

The Talos Principle is a very popular puzzle game from Croteam, and they already have a Windows build out that uses Vulkan. We Linux gamers will need to wait a few days, but it will be fun to see.

Now it just has to convince the other IoT foundations A new non-profit foundation dedicated to creating open standards for the Internet of Things (IoT) has launched.…

In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at IBM's Quarks IoT development tool, the rise of open source textbooks, open source release of Google's TensorFlow Serving, and more. Open source news roundup for February 13 - 19, 2016 read more