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Blockchain technology makes cryptocurrency like bitcoin possible, but it has a lot of potential beyond tracking currency transactions. The Linux Foundation wants to tap into that potential and is spearheading a collaborative effort to develop an enterprise-grade open source distributed ledger called Hyperledger.

Pressing the backspace key 28 times can bypass the Grub2 bootloader's password protection and allow a hacker to install malware on a locked-down Linux system.

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation's open source cloud application and services project has added new members and announced the first steps toward building a software platform.

Netflix announced today that their HTML5 video player now supports Firefox on Windows Vista and later using Adobe’s new Primetime CDM (Content Decryption Module). This means Netflix fans can watch their favorite shows on Firefox without installing NPAPI plugins.

Drupal is a well-known open source content management system based on PHP. It is available free of charge and released under the GNU General Public License. In this tutorial, we will install Drupal 8 with Nginx web server, MariaDB as the database server and PHP-FPM to handle PHP requests.

Remember when I said I didn’t have access to Michael Larabel’s fine set of Phoronix tools to do diagnostic hardware comparisons? Well, while looking around for something else in BSD’s very cool AppCafe, I found them — Phoronix tools available for BSD users. So while I go sit in the corner with a pointy hat, I will apologize for that error.

Just a few minutes ago, December 17, 2015, Matthias Clasen sent us an email to inform everyone about the general availability of the third development milestone towards the GNOME 3.20 desktop environment.

Genealogy, the study of family histories, is a popular pastime for millions of people worldwide. Individuals seeking to learn more about their pedigree or simply discover more about their family's past have built vibrant communities of like-minded (and possibly related) individuals to help each other play historical detective and track down the missing links in their chain of ancestry. read more

The year is almost over and what a year it has been. Once again I must bemoan the fact that the year of the Linux desktop has still eluded us. That's okay...for now. Why? Because Linux managed to dominate in a world that is far more important than the desktop.

Mumble is a popular, free and open source VoIP (Voice over IP) client used by various communities across the world. Mumble is particularly well-known among gaming communities, especially games that take advantage of its positional audio feature. Mumble is useful... Continue Reading →

George Hotz made a name for himself by being the first to hack the iPhone and PlayStation 3. He's now trying to build his own autonomous car system, and he seems to be using Ubuntu to do it.

When I talk to college students who are working on their first open source projects, the message I emphasize over and over and (yes, one more time) over again is the importance of working openly. And yet, as I discovered myself while writing this post, working openly is harder than it sounds. read more

For years, I've wondered why anyone still bothers with proprietary software. Around the turn of the millennium, they might not have found an open source alternative, but today, that situation is rare enough that it comes as a surprise.

RSS Guard is simple and easy-to-use RSS/ATOM feed aggregator developed using Qt framework which supports online feed synchronization. In its latest 3.0.0 release, it one revolutionary feature, support for Tiny Tiny RSS.

Software has been eating the world for far longer than four years. But developers think of software a little differently. Insofar as we're solving real-world problems, we're not thinking mainly of the metal. And as the problems get bigger and the solutions more complex, pragmatic (and not-too-leaky) abstractions become more important than ever. read more

American Megatrends Inc. (AMI) was proud to announce that it has joined SUSE's 64-bit ARM Partner Program.

The OpenStack cloud community is now voting on the names for the two releases set to follow OpenStack Mitaka which should debut in April of 2016. The following two release - the 'N' release in October of 2016 and the 'O' release of April 2017 don't yet have a name.

RegRipper is an open source forensic software used as a Windows Registry data extraction command line or GUI tool. It is written in Perl and this article will describe RegRipper command line tool installation on the Linux systems such as Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Centos or Redhat. For the most part, the installation process of command line tool RegRipper is OS agnostic except the part where we deal with installation pre-requisites.

The developers of the powerful Orca open-source screen reader and magnifier announced the immediate availability for download and testing of the Orca 3.19.3 release.

When it comes to desktop Linux distributions, Linux Mint is often a top option.