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

There are at least 35,000 publicly accessible and insecure MongoDB databases on the Internet, and their number appears to be growing. Combined they expose 684.8 terabytes of data to potential theft.

Confluence is a wiki team collaboration software which is written in Java. It is a centralized place where you and your team members can work together on projects.

Valve continues to improve upon the Steam Controller, and the latest Steam Beta update is further proof that you can't beat Valve at their own game.

Securing the cloud is not easy. Now, Mirantis, the pure-play OpenStack business, and Palo Alto Networks, an important network security company, have joined forces to add firewalls via virtual network function (VNF) to Mirantis OpenStack. The partners claim this combination will protect "applications from cyber threats while taking advantage of the agility, cost savings, and innovation of the OpenStack cloud ecosystem."

Chromebooks have been big sellers on Amazon for quite some time now, and their popularity among some users is simply undeniable. But will Chromebooks eventually surpass Macs and Windows computers?

KDE had the great pleasure of announcing the final release and general availability of the KDE Applications 15.12 collection of apps for the KDE Plasma 5.5 desktop environment.

Traditional continuous integration (CI) systems are designed as a pipeline of jobs. You have a peer review, then the build job, then the unit tests job, then the integration tests job, then the performance tests jobs, and so on. read more

Django is a web application framework written in python that follows the MVC (Model-View-Controller) architecture, it is available for free and released under an open source license. In this tutorial, we will install Django 1.9 on a Ubuntu 15.04 server. Django can be installed on a server in many ways, in this tutorial, I will show you to install it with pip, virtualenv and directly from the Django GIT sources. Finally, I will show you the first steps to start a new project with the Django web framework.

The desktop 3D printing industry continues to grow at a rapid pace. Thanks to its deep-seated commitment to free software, libre innovation, and open source hardware, there is a proliferation of projects, products, and companies that also share these values. read more

In today's open source roundup: AMD takes a strong stand for open source. Plus: Online search in Unity 7 disabled in Ubuntu 16.04. And 13 facts about Linux that might surprise you.

64-bit Firefox for Windows is mostly identical to 32-bit Firefox for Windows, except that very few plug-ins will work with 64-bit Firefox. This is by design: Mozilla is in the process of dropping Firefox's support for NPAPI plug-ins. NPAPI support is being dropped due to (ostensible) stability and security concerns. Amusingly (or ironically), though, 64-bit Firefox does still support one plug-in: Flash. Sites that use other NPAPI plug-ins, such as Silverlight or Java, are being told by Mozilla to "accelerate their transition to Web technologies."

Many organizations use at least some open source code within their programs. So it is surprising that recent graduates who work with companies using open source software are usually ill prepared (or not prepared at all) to deal with open source legal issues. However, it is not the attorneys’ fault. read more

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.

Canonical is making good on its promises, and it has started to disable the online search functionality in Unity's dash, for Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus).

Disney omitted an API for The Force Awakens' star droid. The Force of the internet decided that wasn't good enough When I was fourteen, the Personal Computer didn’t exist. Even the famed ‘microcomputer’ only existed in the hands of a few hobbyists who laboriously soldered chips onto boards communicating over an S-100 bus. But a friend’s father ran a data centre and when he went in on Saturdays to run the backups he brought us along. We spent hours playing the interactive ‘Startrek’ game, pecking our commands into DECWriter II line printers. That’s where I fell in love with computers, and knew I’d spent the rest of my life playing with them.…

Canonical's ?ukasz Zemczak sent his daily report for the day of December 15, 2015, to inform all Ubuntu Phone users about the latest work done by the Ubuntu Touch developers in preparation for the upcoming OTA software updates.

The planning of orthopedic surgeries is a difficult process. In a lot of ways, it's like working while wearing a blindfold; a surgeon can't see the bone that needs to be worked on until during the actual surgery, when time is most critical. Even with X-rays and CT scans, the raw data can be difficult to interpret correctly. Fortunately, open source software can (and does!) help reduce the guesswork.  read more

During all the Pi Zero hype and showcasing, most of us probably didn’t realize that the Raspbian OS got a much needed update. While this update isn’t a major release, it still contained some amazing features. If you are running Raspbian Jessie, then take a moment to read over this article so you won’t be left out in the cold. I’ll go over the best parts of the update and also provide install instructions on how to get all this on your current Raspbian install.

Makulu Aero Edition comes with a Windows like theme but the Windows theme isn't the most interesting thing about Makulu. No, It is definitely the choice of pre-installed software including Opera, Popcorn Time and Mega Sync.