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The evolution of technology and new advances in the field of entertainment have brought us small and low priced computer systems with low power consumption like the Raspberry Pi that are perfectly suited for a home media center. In this tutorial, I will install the OSMC Media Center software on a card Raspberry Pi 2.

Adobe has patched a critical zero-day security flaw in Flash, which the company said was being used to launch "limited, targeted attacks." The emergency patch, which also fixed two other vulnerabilities, landed on Friday, sooner than the company's forecast of some time this week.

Aaeon launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a Raspberry Pi form-factor “Up” SBC, that runs Linux and Android on a quad-core, 1.84GHz, Intel Atom x5 SoC.

PHP is one of the most widely used programming languages for building web applications. Sometimes, when building complex web applications, the developers may found it difficult to manage all the application dependencies as well as the required libraries for the same application. However, PHP will not be such widely used if there is not an appropriate solution for this problem.

Imagination Technologies is announcing that a new MIPS-based development board for IoT is in the works.

The UK Government is looking to shed its dependency on proprietary software and entered into a new commercial deal with an open source software company Collabora Productivity that adapts LibreOffice for the use in enterprise environments.

In the latest stable KDE release, you go about this task a number of ways, but the best way is to right click on the desktop and click on “default desktop settings.” From there you are offered an extremely slick GUI to choose a desktop picture of your liking. But wait, there are more options available here, let’s take a look.

The time has come to learn some information about the next major release, GNOME 3.20.

LXer Feature Update: 20-Oct-2015

The original article was dedicated, with thanks, to Gus3. Without his suggestion it never would have been written. Like the original article, I stress the following update text involves Linux only obliquely......but I hope all my friends here on LXer will find it interesting, and perhaps, useful.

Ubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf," the latest open source Linux OS from Canonical, features updates to the Linux kernel, Unity interface, LibreOffice and more.

In today's open source roundup: Valve removes the SteamOS icon from some Linux games. Plus: How to make the Steam Controller work in Linux. And is the Alienware Steam Machine worth buying?

KDE Plasma has received some harsh criticism last week, and a good part of the community has chimed in although, from the looks of it, not all of the criticism was well deserved. A prominent KDE developer wrote a lengthy article explaining why KDE Plasma is considered stable and why the community has some problems with it.

Pedro Dias Vicente is a senior XDA member, and he works really hard these days to bring Ubuntu for phones to that huge 6.4" mobile device a.k.a. phablet, which many of you apparently own and want Ubuntu on it.

The speed of your internet connection is something that is affected by a lot of different elements, most of which are out of your reach and/or jurisdiction. That said, there isn't a way to transform a slow internet connection into a lighting-speed one if your provider is just not giving you enough bandwidth, no matter what you do.

Like most things these days, modern atmospheric science is all about big data.

My recent post about how quickly newly commissioned Linux systems can be attacked and possibly compromised led to a bunch of e-mail queries about resources which explain how to lock down a variety of Linux distributions.

Apache HTTP Server, the open source web server with leading market share, now supports HTTP/2. The support brings encryption enhancements and speed improvements to web users.

The Nintendo Entertainment System or NES is one of the most famous video game console ever made, and it just turned 30. Why are we celebrating NES 30 years later? The answer is simple; because it's still relevant.

CompuLab announced a module based on TI’s new Cortex-A15 based Sitara AM57x SoC, with options for onboard wireless, 32GB flash, and -40 to 85°C operation.

Ahead of Oracle's OpenWorld conference in 2013, the company first began to talk about a major new release of its open-source MySQL database. Now two years later, development on MySQL 5.7 is compete and general availability is set for October 26.