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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.

Accoding to Canonical'a latest Ubuntu Security Notice, it would appear that there's a zero-day security vulnerability in the GRUB2 (GNU GRand Unified Bootloader) packages, affecting all GNU/Linux distributions running 2.02 Beta.

Tails 1.8 is out. This release fixes numerous security issues. All users must upgrade as soon as possible. New features: Icedove, a re-branded variant of Mozilla Thunderbird is now the official email client in Tails, replacing Claws Mail. Claws Mail will be removed from Tails in version 2.0 (2016-01-26). If you have been using Claws Mail and activated its persistence feature, follow our instructions to migrate your data to Icedove. Upgrades and changes: Electrum Bitcoin wallet from 1.9.8 to 2.5.4, now Electrum should work again in Tails; Tor Browser to 5.0.5; Tor to 0.2.7.6; I2P to 0.9.23; Icedove from 31.8 to 38.4; Enigmail from 1.7.2 to 1.8.2.

You upgrading now or tonight? Hey, let's do it now Fire up any computer running Windows 7 or 8 and you'll be used to a message or three inviting you to upgrade to Windows 10. But the latest pop-up screen doesn't even give you a choice.…

Intrinsyc has launched three Android 6.0 dev kits — phone, tablet, and board — for Qualcomm’s 14nm Snapdragon 820, with four Cortex-A72-like cores. Qualcomm announced its Snapdragon 820 system-on-chip in November with a promise that more than 60 phones and tablets will ship with it in 2016. This quad-core, Cortex-A72 like design with cutting edge […]

Almost everyday, someone within the open source community is talking about how folks should be using open source software. I completely agree with this point of view. To further dive into the issue, I'll share my opinion as to why using open source software offers significant advantages over proprietary alternatives.

There are several distributions in the Linux world that many users have heard of, but are scared to try. Examples? Slackware, Arch, Gentoo, maybe even Debian. They all have a geeky aura. They have a reputation of being less user-friendly. Too many people prefer to stick to Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora or Mageia.

ONLYOFFICE Enterprise Edition is a commercial version of an open source corporate office suite developed to organize the teamwork online. If you have a team up to 5 users, you can install and use it free of charge. This guide will describe how to install ONLYOFFICE Enterprise Edition on Ubuntu 14.04 using the provided Docker script.

In today's open source roundup: A review of the Fossil Q Founder Android watch. Plus: Sign up for the official Reddit app for Android beta. And the decline and fall of HTC as an Android vendor.

Rapid7, which recently acquired Logentries, brings a Docker Insights Dashboard to market to help solve the challenge of container visibility.

Just a few moments ago, the development team behind the Tails amnesic incognito live Linux kernel-based operating system, which was used by the famous Edward Snowden to stay hidden online, announced the release of Tails 1.8.

AMD is making a very important decision for its future, and it looks like the company is orienting itself towards open source, by pushing for an open source AMDGPU Linux Driver and GPUOpen, a set of open source tools aimed at developers.

The open-source project behind the widely used Joomla content management system has issued a patch for a vulnerability that is now being widely used by hackers.

Today, we are giving you more control over how your data is shared in Firefox by letting you block additional trackers in Private Browsing with Tracking Protection.

Axiomtek’s compact PICO843 SBC runs Linux on Celeron SoCs and offers four USB ports, two COM ports, dual mini-PCIe sockets, and wide temperature operation.

We reported the other day that Mozilla started seeding the final build of its latest stable Firefox 43.0 web browser for all supported operating system, including GNU/Linux, Microsoft Windows, and Mac OS X.

Previously in this space, I have covered software packages like Maxima that can be used to solve symbolic mathematics problems. Several packages are available that can do those types of calculations. In this article, I discuss Xcas/Giac. Xcas is the GUI interface to the system.

Google Cloud SQL second generation brings more scalability, higher performance and a new, more flexible pricing model to Google's MySQL as a service offering.

Every year we look back at 10 of the hot open source projects from the past 12 months. (Last year's list made a splash!) And, we expect more great things from these projects in 2016.

A new Release Candidate for the LibreOffice 5.0.4 branch has been revealed by The Document Foundation, and it looks like the final version is just around the corner.