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Raspberry Pi devices can now run all versions of Ubuntu Linux thanks to porting tools developed originally for Ubuntu MATE. The catch: GNOME, KDE and Unity won't run on Raspberry Pi, but LXDE and Xfce do.

What is globalization? In software, globalization means two ways to make software useful globally:  internationalization and localization. Because technical folks don't enjoy typing long words, these are often abbreviated.

Different ‘Ubuntus’ come with different desktop environments that have different sets of applications pre-packaged. But there are certain things that all Ubuntu users should do to get most out of the distro.

Ashes of the Singularity is a new RTS game from a studio named Oxide Games with Stardock as its publisher. As it stands right now, this is the first game to be developed to take advantage of DirectX 12, but the makers of the game are also involved with the Vulkan API.

Ubuntu 15.10 was released recently with many missing dependencies due to which several applications are unable to install, including VirtualBox and Bracket text editor. We wrote about how to install VirtualBox in Ubuntu 15.10, let's see how to install Adobe Bracket text editor in Ubuntu 15.10.

Codenamed "Wily Werewolf", 15.10 continues Ubuntu's proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution. The team has been hard at work through this cycle, introducing new features and fixing bugs.

There's more to Ubuntu than, well, Ubuntu. Here are the 9 official flavors that make up the Ubuntu family.

We've been listening news of adopting Open-source by several countries, organisations and companies. This time it's UK. The UK Government announced the deal with an open source company Collabora Office provides LibreOffice based Office suit "GovOffice".

This tutorial shows the installation of a Ubuntu 15.10 minimal server in detail with many screenshots. The purpose of the guide is to show the basic installation of Ubuntu 15.10 that can be used as basis for our other Ubuntu 15.10 tutorials here at howtoforge like our perfect server guides.

Acrosser’s latest rugged vehicle-PC runs Linux on a 5th Gen Core Broadwell processor, offering sufficient power to run multiple, simultaneous vehicle apps. The Acrosser “AVI-QM97V1FL” vehicle-PC is aimed at systems integration projects like telematics, data recording and fleet and logistics management. A pair of DDR3-1333/1600 SO-DIMM sockets hold up to 16GB of non-ECC RAM. Supported […]

Sample bellow (sic) demonstrates uninterrupted access, providing via HA Neutron router, to cloud VMs running on Compute node, when two installed Network Nodes node are swapping MASTER and BACKUP roles (as members of keepalived pair).

Jim Whitehurst, CEO of Red Hat, was sporting his awesome red shoes as he spoke to a crowded room at All Things Open last week. During his keynote on Day 1, he talked about how open source is a key part of the open organization, but what we're all looking to achieve has implications far beyond software. read more

Drupal architect Ravindra Singh has spent the past two years providing solutions at India's largest Drupal company, Srijan Technologies. But work represents only part of his involvement with this open source, company-building platform. Ravindra stands out for leading the Drupal community in Delhi, in addition to other meetups, training sessions, and code sprints. And, he speaks within the organization and throughout the region on topics like Checklist for Drupal Site and How to Contribute Back to Drupal. read more

Ubuntu has released its latest version Ubuntu 15.10 code name as “Wily Werewolf” on 22nd Oct 2015. As this version is not LTS, so support will be provided only for 9 months

Automotive software issues, such as the Jeep hack and Volkswagen cheating on emissions tests, have made headlines this year, which means the public is thinking about software in cars like never before. Some experts have argued that mandating that such software be open source is a solution to the problem. Although there are definite benefits to public scrutiny of the software, code visibility alone is no guarantee. As Sam Liles explained to me in a recent email, open source code didn’t prevent ShellShock.

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I work in an office which utilities many different devices and operating system, yet I only know of two places we use linux, and that's not including embedded.

When I started my current role as a PHP Developer, I was given a laptop and the general accessories, but was given the choice of what OS I wanted to use. From a linux background I wanted linux, but as the other developers used windows I went with windows.

The immensely popular Raspberry Pi will soon be offered in customized versions, through an exclusive arrangement between Raspberry Pi Trading and Element14. Raspberry Pi Trading Ltd., the commercial subsidiary of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, and Element14 have signed a global exclusive agreement whereby Element14 will provide “design and manufacturing services to OEM customers to create […]

VIDEO: Ubuntu Linux founder Mark Shuttleworth announced new cloud application store capabilities at the OpenStack Tokyo Summit

The Fellowship of the Things video series was conceived out of our passion for the burgeoning world of Internet of Things and connected projects, and our desire to showcase some of the SparkFun tools and products that fit particularly well into them. We somehow got permission to build an Internet of Things-dedicated apartment inside SparkFun HQ to use as a demo area for the projects, and so far it's been a huge success! read more

David was giving his kid brother, Anthony, one more motorcycle ride before the 1968 Triumph Bonneville was put up for the winter. David bought the motorcycle in a government auction with the major components packed in cosmoline for long-term storage. It was the love of David’s life. After the ride, the oil would be removed from the crank case, the gasoline drained and cleared from the fuel lines and then the center kickstand deployed to insure no tire contact with the cement floor for the next four months.