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SAINT PAUL, Minn (December 8, 2015) CodeWeavers, Inc., developer of CrossOver the easiest, fastest way to run Windows software on Mac and Linux announced today the release of CrossOver 15. With CrossOver 15, you can run thousands of Windows software titles, without the need for a Windows OS license.

When the Python interpreter executes a program which imports a module, it examines all directory paths listed in sys.path until it finds the module. By default, sys.path is constructed as a concatenation of (1) the current working directory, (2) content of PYTHONPATH environment variable, and (3) a set of default paths supplied by the installed Python interpreter.

Chapeau 23 “Armstrong,” a Linux distribution based on the Fedora 23 Workstation has been released and is now available for download.

CiviCRM is a web-based, open source, customer relationship management software that is specifically designed for the needs of non-profit, non-governmental, and advocacy groups. It is designed to manage information about an organization’s donors, members, event registrants, subscribers, grant application seekers and funders, and case contacts.

The developers of the elementary GNU/Linux operating system, an Ubuntu derivative loved by the community for its gorgeous look and feel, have announced the migration of the distro's icons to GitHub.

Today we are launching Focus by Firefox, a free content blocker for Safari users on iOS 9. The app allows users to control their data flow by blocking categories of trackers such as those used for ads, analytics and social media and allows increased performance on mobile devices by blocking Web fonts.

Samsung has always been at the forefront of technology, making advances which are well out of reach of most companies. Their latest is 128GB DDR4 Ram.

But there is something to Apple's ill-thought out claim.

Habari is a free and open source publishing platform and application framework with a modular, object-oriented Core. In this guide we will install Habari on a CentOS 7 VPS with Apache, MariaDB and PHP. Its installation is pretty easy and straightforward.

Ubuntu developers are planning to implement a default VPN solution into Ubuntu Touch that will be later made available in the regular Ubuntu desktop.

Data encryption is one very solid security measure/precaution that everyone who owns data with significant personal or objective value should perform. What data encryption does is securing your data when they fall into the wrong hands. There are many tutorials on howtoforge.com that show one way or another to decrypt your data. This one will show the most easy-to-use tools that can do the job for us. For this purpose, I will showcase the decryption of a removable media drive.

New features in Chapeau 23: We have a new Hardware Helper Tool (hht). Inspect your hardware and manage your Nvidia drivers with ease, even with Nvidia Optimus!. The Korora repository has been removed. The default display server remains to be X in Chapeau 23, unlike Fedora 23 Workstation Wayland is disabled by default.

The Linux Foundation collaborative project formalizes its governance structure for standardizing containers, though it doesn't answer all questions about container interoperability.

A child’s education should start with free and open source software. When we help them build their futures on the rock-solid base of FOSS, we are exposing them not only to the ones and zeros behind our software, but more importantly, to the ideas and the philosophy on which FOSS culture sits. We are teaching them that collaboration and cooperation can outproduce the dog-eat-dog world that rules us now.

We have been working hard over the last four months to smooth off the rough edges, add useful new workflows, make Plasma even more beautiful and build the foundations for the future.

Experts agree that security is paramount when it comes to containers. Yet how to properly secure containers is still a matter of some debate.

OpenDKIM is method to digitally sign & verify emails on the mail servers using public & private keys.

This article details the circumstances behind my switch away from proprietary operating systems and my switch to Linux. Like many, I switched out of frustration with other operating systems and not directly because of Linux's open source model. I developed my passion for that after the switch was made. read more

In today's open source roundup: The NSA might be watching you if search for Tor or use it to browse the Web. Plus: GalliumOS is designed for Chromebooks and Chromeboxes. And Linux Mint 17.3 has been released.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and its community fork, CentOS, offer 10-year life cycle, meaning that each version of RHEL/CentOS is updated with security updates for up to 10 years. While such long life cycle guarantees much needed system compatibility and reliability for enterprise users, a downside is that core applications and run-time environments grow […]Continue reading...