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I have been using various Linux distros for many years now. One of the benefits is that I’ve seen many things improve and have been there to celebrate each success as it happened. Unfortunately, like any modern operating system, even the most modern Linux distributions are not without their challenges.

I will start this post with a disclaimer: I do not claim to be an expert on Linux desktops in any way, or by any stretch of the imagination. I am an ordinary Linux user, no more.

It comes as no surprise that Linux is the operating system of choice for supercomputers. What is surprising is that China is now the world's fastest growing supercomputer power while the US has fallen to its lowest level ever.

eCryptfs is a POSIX-compliant enterprise-class stacked cryptographic filesystem for Linux. You can use it to encrypt partitions and also directories that don't use a partition of their own, no matter the underlying filesystem, partition type, etc. This tutorial shows how to use eCryptfs to encrypt a directory on Debian Jessie.

The Ubuntu Touch OS has officially landed in Russia with the launch of the BQ Aquaris E5 Ubuntu Edition, further increasing the reach of this operating system.

The Linux distro that doesn't stop Review OK, it was a slight delay – one week – but the latest Fedora, number 23, represents a significant update that was worth waiting for.…

The last chapter of The Open Organization talks about how a leader in an open community has to be a catalyst, "an agent that provokes or speeds significant change in action." When I read this definition, say it out loud, and reflect on my connotations of this word, I sense a degree of urgency. I don't think of a catalyst as necessary calculated, so I would like to explore the idea of a "calm catalyst." read more

DeeAnn is a nice lady. Recently widowed, she found herself unable to keep her house, so she sold it, put the money away, and found a place here with the rest of us. She invited me in and ushered me into her “office,” where her computer was set up amid a lot of half-emptied moving boxes and the sundry stuff that clutters our lives upon a change of residence. I wanted to do the “well, here’s yer problem right here” routine, but my sense of humor doesn’t always translate as, uh…funny.

We reported earlier about the immediate availability for download of the Beta build of the forthcoming Linux Mint 17.3 (Rosa) computer operating system, which is distributed as Cinnamon and MATE flavors.

Continuous delivery across AWS, Google Cloud and CloudFoundry. Netflix has released Spinnaker, an open-source tool for testing and rolling out software updates in the cloud.…

HP announced a new release of its open source and freely distributed HPLIP (HP Linux Imaging and Printing) driver for GNU/Linux operating systems.

The diary of Anne Frank is just six weeks away from entering the public domain in most of Europe—but it might not happen. The Basel-based Anne Frank Fonds, which owns the copyright, has a plan to retain ownership until 2050...

...Most European copyrights end 70 years after the author's death, meaning that on Jan. 1, 2016, the diary becomes public domain in much of the continent. But the Anne Frank foundation has a new legal strategy to keep its most valuable copyright: declare that Otto Frank is actually a "co-author" of the diaries, not merely an editor. Since Otto Frank died in 1980, anything he authored will stay under copyright until 2050...

Valve's Steam Machines, open source gaming consoles that run Debian-based SteamOS, have gone on sale, fulfilling a promise Valve made two years ago to make gaming more open source-friendly.

Sergio Schneider, the creator of a few GNU/Linux distributions, informs Softpedia about the immediate availability for download of new builds of his UUMATE and Manjaro Mate GNU/Linux computer operating systems.

This step by step tutorial will show you how to install Dolibarr ERP CRM on a CentOS 7 VPS with Apache, PHP and PostgreSQL installed on it.

Interested in keeping track of what's happening in the open source cloud? Opensource.com is your source for news in OpenStack, the open source cloud infrastructure project.

Docker containers have gained security features through hardware signatures and vulnerability scanning, which help to make open source containers for Linux more secure.

Styled like the classic BBC Micro and packing a robotic arm kit, the FUZE Special Edition is an excellent platform for learning programming and electronics

Falcon Northwest is one of the companies that wanted to release Steam Machines, but it looks like that's not happening anymore.

Sometimes, we need to completely and irreversibly wipe all data contained in a disk to keep them from falling into the wrong hands. This may not be something we are doing on a day to day basis, but if you want to do it, you should do it right and ensure that the data cannot be recovered by experts.