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I'm sitting in my living room listening to Thievery Corporation's Babylon Rewound on the home stereo. A lot of this glorious music is coming from the general vicinity of the speakers, but there is a significant part coming from hard to my left, about two meters to the left of the leftmost speaker. read more

It is hard to remember that IBM was not exactly sitting on the sidelines when Linux swept over the datacenter in the early 2000s in the wake of the dot-com bust. Big Blue saw the rise of Linux early on, among its supercomputer customers, and it was unsure how to preserve its revenue streams from AIX and OS/400 systems while at the same time embracing Linux. Here we are 15 years later, and it looks like IBM finally has its Linux act together on Power.

The new Kodi 16.0 Alpha 4 has been released today by its developers and it looks like things are progressing nicely on all fronts.

When a Java program is built, the build environment sets a "target" which is the oldest JRE version the program can support. If you run the Java program on a Linux system which does not meet the lowest JRE version requirement, you will encounter the following error while starting the program.

Linux is -- once again -- here to save the day. Whether you choose to build a computer, or buy a compatible device like the low-cost Raspberry Pi, the mature OpenELEC Linux distribution will give you an amazing media experience.

All quiet on the LKML With fewer ugly incidents than might have been expected, and after an expletive-laden rant directed not at a coder but at code, Linux Torvalds has announced that Linux 4.3 has gone general availability.…

The Solus developers had a very busy week, and they've pushed quite a few updates out the door, not to mention the first Release Candidate for the project.

It isn’t just Windows and Apple Mac PCs that get new versions of their operating systems, Linux does too. Yesterday Ubuntu 15.10 was released, which saw me immediately downloading the update and installing it.

Web proxy software forwards HTTP requests without modifying traffic in any way. They can be configured as a transparent proxy with no client-side configuration required. They can also be used as a reverse proxy front-end to websites; here the cache serves an unlimited number of clients for one or some web servers.

This step by step tutorial will show you how to install PHP-Fusion 9 on a Debian 8 VPS with Apache, PHP and MySQL installed on it. PHP-Fusion is fast and light-weight open-source content management system (CMS) written in PHP. PHP-Fusion 9 includes common features found in other content management systems.

This release of Mejiro is all about fixing minor problems and annoyances.

Mentor Automotive has launched a Linux-based, GENIVI compliant “Connected OS” that improves upon its ATP automotive stack with ADAS, eAVB, and CE support. The Mentor Automotive division of Mentor Graphics announced the availability of a Mentor Automotive Connected OS stack that appears to replace its Mentor Embedded Automotive Technology Platform (ATP), moving beyond in-vehicle infotainment […]

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. […]Continue reading... The post What is a good IDE for R on Linux appeared first on Xmodulo.

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Canonical's David Planella sent in his bi-monthly report to inform us all about the last things that happened in the Ubuntu world, which includes information about the work done by the Ubuntu Community Team during the last two weeks.

Chromixium 1.5 is the current stable version of Chromixium OS and is a Long Term Support release, supported until 2019:

Based on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Stable and secure - updates are applied seamlessly in the background to keep your system secure

The Red Hat developers have finally greenlit the launch of Fedora 23 and it looks like the new version will finally arrive on November 3, the date that was previously tracked.

In this week's edition of the open source news roundup, we take a look at the European Commission funding a supercomputer, Google aiding refugees, Carnegie Mellon University printing arteries and hearts, and more. Open source news roundup for October 24 - 30, 2015 read more

Ancient code jocks needed to keep probe alive With its last generation of space-race engineers hanging up their slide-rules, NASA is looking for someone fluent in Fortran and other Cold War-era languages.…

Hello, open gaming fans! In this week's edition, we take a look at a few Halloween favorites, the smallest C64 emulator ever made, 12 new games out for Linux, and more. Open gaming roundup for October 24 - 30, 2015 read more

Do you want virus outbreaks? Because that's how you get 'em Comment Microsoft's decision to push out Windows 10 upgrades as automatic Windows Update downloads is one of those ideas that sounded great in a Redmond meeting room, but will cause more problems than it solves.…