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“We’ve seen basic researchers learning Linux and cloud computing to keep up with it all,” said Aaron Chang, director of the Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics at UC San Diego. “I’ve had people show up at my door with USB drives filled with data.

The 2015 Indonesia Linux Conference (ILC) that is held in Tegal, Central Java starting from October 10 to 11 is set to exhibits variety of Linux application. One of interesting application is a mobile digital forensic application that have been used by the police to assist investigation by detecting criminals’ phone and sim cards.

Arne Exton, the creator of several free and commercial GNU/Linux and Android-x86 distributions, informed us earlier today, October 11, about a new update for his AndEX Live CD.

The most interesting feature of this drone is the Pixhawk Autopilot System. Based on the technology for the PX4, ST Microelectronics sensors and NuttX real time OS, Pixhawk provides a computerized brain for this drone. The software is similar to Unix/ Linux and offers a large range of autopilot functions.

The main focus of Firejail project is GUI application sandboxing, with web browsers being one of the main targets. I will describe some of the new features available in Firejail, and how to use them to sandbox a web browser such as Mozilla Firefox.

The KDE developers are already considering what they need to do to improve the Plasma desktop after the 5.4.2 launch, and they've shared some of the features that are going to be made available.

Just a few moments ago, Linus Torvalds announced that the fifth Release Candidate (RC) build of the upcoming Linux 4.3 kernel is now available for download and testing.

Youtube-DL is a command line tool, developed in Python to download videos from various popular websites including Youtube, Dailymotion, facebook, photobucket and many others. A list of supported video sites is available here. Youtube-dl downloads videos right from the terminal with simply understandble commands. If you like to work with a terminal then I am sure you'll like youtube-dl.

Some time ago, I covered some of the best IDEs for C/C++ on Linux. Obviously C and C++ are not the only programming languages out there, and it is time to turn to something a bit more specific. If you have ever done some statistics, it is possible that you have encountered the language R.

In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at an open source 3D printed bicycle, the Real-Time Linux collaborative project, Google's Accelerated Mobile Pages project, and more. Open source news roundup for October 3 - 9, 2015 read more

The developers of the free, open-source and cross-platform qBittorrent P2P BitTorrent client announced the immediate availability for download of what it appears to be the last maintenance release in the qBittorrent 3.2 series.

Hello, open gaming fans! In this week's edition, we take a look at emulators with Raspberry Pi, SteamOS 2.0, new games out for Linux, and more. Open gaming roundup for October 3 - 9, 2015.

We announced our Twitter contest two weeks ago to give away four two-day passes to All Things Open, a two-day conference exploring open source, open tech, and the open web in the enterprise, which will be held in Raleigh, North Carolina, October 19-20. And now to announce our winners!

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Subrion CMS on a Debian 8 VPS with Apache, PHP and MySQL installed on it. Subrion is a free content management system written in PHP that allows web developers to build websites for any purpose.

Freshly returned from the LinuxCon Europe Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel project, has just published a short continuation of the interview with Dirk Hohndel, Chief Linux and Open Source Technologist at Intel.

Here is a review of CentOS linux not as a server operating system but as a desktop operating system. How does it fare when compared to other favourites such as openSUSE and Fedora.

The LF’s new “Real-Time Linux Collaborative Project” offers better funding, more developers, and tighter integration into mainline kernel development. The Linux Foundation’s announcement at LinuxCon this week that it was assuming funding control over the Real-Time Linux project gave renewed hope that embedded Linux will complete its 15-year campaign to achieve equivalence with RTOSes in […]

This guide lists 8 Linux distributions designed to look like Windows, Android, ChromeOS and OSX. It includes Chromixium, Q4OS, Zorin and MacPup.

Now that Valve has made SteamOS 2.0 the official branch, the developers have also explained how they plan to upgrade the operating systems and with what frequency.

Amazon’s new “AWS IoT” cloud IoT platform offers Starter Kits built around Linux-ready SBCs like the BeagleBone Green, DragonBoard 410c, and Intel Edison. Amazon made its first big Internet of Things play by launching an IoT managed cloud platform for aggregating and processing IoT endpoint data, built around its Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform. Available […]