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The era of HTTP/2 is now here, with both browsers and web servers supporting the next generation of the HTTP protocol that powers the modern web.

This week Jen Wike Huger is reporting from the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, so I've rounded up our weekly Top 5 for October 12-16, 2015.

Although Red Hat is picking up Ansible to complement its existing IT management tools, it isn't dropping its use of Puppet.

Ka-Ro’s “TX6UL” is an SODIMM-style COM that runs Linux on an i.MX6 UltraLite, supports industrial temperatures, and offers 4GB eMMC and secure boot options. Considering all the announcements of i.MX6 UltraLite based computer-on-modules over the summer, one might think that Ka-Ro’s TX6UL is behind the times.

Config Server Firewall / CSF is firewall application suite for Linux servers. CSF is also a Login/Intrusion Detection for applications like SSH, SMTP, IMAP, Pop3, the "su" command and many more. This tutorial will show the installation of CSF on CentOS 7 and guide you trough the first steps to use this powerful application suite.

In this second video in the foundation's 'World Without Linux' series we see just how hard it can be to get from point A to point B.

OpenStack Liberty, the open source cloud operating system's newest release, adds networking features, Big Tent governance and more to the platform.

Modular Android smartwatches and smartphones are around the corner, as evidenced by new devices coming soon from Blocks and Fairphone.

The GNOME developers are still working hard these days to prepare the first point release of the GNOME 3.18 desktop environment, so many package maintainers are releasing updates as we speak.

Apple has blocked its News app for iOS iPhones and iPads in China, presumably in response to government censorship. It's the latest example of Apple's lack of respect for user privacy or freedom.

A new OTA update for Ubuntu Touch is set to release in just a couple of days, but developers have unveiled it by mistake only for a short while. A few users got the notification and even managed to install it before it was pulled, but it shouldn't be a problem.

Backbox Linux is a free, open-source Linux distribution based on Ubuntu. Backbox is one of the most popular Linux distros designed to perform security assessments and penetrations tests. The team recently released the new version 4.4. The version includes all the latest packages that have been recently released and some of the new features that improve BackBox strength.

Windows has often been the harborer of Malware of all kinds and from all sources, but when your getting it from Microsoft, it becomes a worry.

In last month's article, we learned the finer points of exporting video for a sound mix. If you're at the point of a sound mix in your production, you should have these assets: read more

After taking a two week break, Kovid Goyal comes today with hot news from the Calibre world, as he just published details about the 2.41 version of the open-source, free and cross-platform ebook library management software.

For years, privacy advocates have pushed developers of websites, virtual private network apps, and other cryptographic software to adopt the Diffie-Hellman cryptographic key exchange as a defense against surveillance from the US National Security Agency and other state-sponsored spies. Now, researchers are renewing their warning that a serious flaw in the way the key exchange is implemented is allowing the NSA to break and eavesdrop on trillions of encrypted connections.

Unlike Ubuntu server, installation of Ubuntu desktop is pretty much auto-pilot, not leaving much room for customization, such as custom disk partitioning, manual network settings, package selection, etc. While such simple, one-shot installation is considered user-friendly, it leaves much to be desired for those users looking for "advanced installation mode" to customize their Ubuntu desktop installation.

GLnemo2 is a 3D particle visualization program with various capabilities and support for OpenGL rendered objects.

df (disk filesystem) command is used to display disk usage of the file system. By default df command shows the file system usage in 1K blocks for all the current mounted file system.

Red Hat product manager Burr Sutter, Java Champion, always seems to find himself in a space of cutting edge innovation. It's no surprise that he is one of the mad geniuses behind the show-stopping on-stage demos at Red Hat's annual Summit. At All Things Open this year, Burr will highlight technology that links the physical world to the Internet and showcase how the Internet of Things (IoT) will change the way we think. Hopefully his talk will inspire you to not only figure out where to start, but also to do your own awesome things. read more