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Down on the farm, there's a controversy brewing, because farm equipment manufacturer John Deere doesn't want farmers tinkering with the software on the farmers' own tractors. Spark contributor Sean Prpick talks to Saskatchewan farmer Chris Herrnbock, who wants to see a more flexible and farmer-friendly policy rather than a copyright crackdown.

What changed since the Ubuntu MATE 15.10 Beta 2 release? Here's what changed in Ubuntu MATE 15.10 since Beta 2: Fixed update-manager and do-release-upgrade to upgrade from Ubuntu MATE 15.04 to Ubuntu MATE 15.10. Fixed the openSUSE panel layout, GNOME Main Menu no longer crashes. Fixed ubi-timezone error in Ubiquity. Fixed Caja undelete, which was causing Caja to crash or fail to undelete. Updated MATE Tweak to 3.5.2a...

The issue of Digital Rights Management has been around for a while in everything from music files, books, video games, even coffee makers and farm equipment. In a future of 'smart' objects with embedded software, do copyright restrictions mean you won't be able to fix your smart fridge or hack your smart toaster? University of Ottawa law professor Jeremy de Beer weighs in.

Kubuntu 15.10 is available for upgrade or install. Plasma 5, the next generation of KDE's desktop has been rewritten to make it smoother to use while retaining the familiar setup. The fourth set of updates to Plasma 5 (current release, including the fixpack) is the default in this version of Kubuntu.

We first wrote about Nina Paley in 2009, upon hearing about the ridiculous copyright mess she found herself in concerning her wonderful movie Sita Sings the Blues. While she eventually was able to sort out that mess and release the film, she also discovered that the more she shared the film, the more money she made, and she began to question copyright entirely. She originally released the film under a ShareAlike license, promising to go after people who didn't uphold the ShareAlike parts, but then moved to a full public domain dedication and has become quite vocal in recent years about not supporting any kind of copyright and even raising some important concerns about many forms of Creative Commons licenses.

Ubuntu 15.10 released recently with the couple of features and improvements. According to this poll conducted on LinuxAndUbuntu.com says that people 55% Ubuntu users have upgraded to Ubuntu 15.10 within 48 hours. But, there is an error (libvpx1) that users are facing after the upgrade while installing VirtualBox.

R is widely regarded (and quite rightly) as an excellent tool for statistics, data analysis, and machine learning. Many statisticians use R with the command line. However, the command line can be quite daunting to a beginner of R. Fortunately, there are many excellent frontends for R which make R easier to use.

With GNOME 3.16, new logo and new Ubiquity slide show, the Ubuntu GNOME Team is very happy to announce the release of Ubuntu GNOME 15.10 (Wily Werewolf). Wily Ubuntu GNOME is an official flavor of Ubuntu, featuring the GNOME desktop environment. Ubuntu GNOME is a mostly pure GNOME desktop experience built from the Ubuntu repositories. Three years ago, Ubuntu GNOME has started as unofficial flavor to Ubuntu - see the release notes of 12.10 - and 6 months after that, Ubuntu GNOME has become an official flavor.

In this tutorial, we will explain how to install Mautic on an Ubuntu 14.04 VPS with MariaDB, PHP-FPM and Nginx. Mautic is an open source marketing automation software built on top of the Symfony 2 components and open source libraries. This guide should work on other Linux VPS systems as well but was tested and written for an Ubuntu 14.04 VPS.

Very earlier today, October 25, Linus Torvalds announced the release of the seventh and most probably the last RC (Release Candidate) build of the upcoming Linux 4.3 kernel.

Early access to the upcoming Cinnamon 2.8 is available for people interested in beta-testing and helping the team squash bugs before the official release. Cinnamon 2.8 will be officially released and announced at the end of the month. It should not be considered “stable” until then.

Finally after the wait of approximately six months, wolf sharp teeth are ready to catch your computer with its extreme power. Ubuntu 15.10 'Wily Werewolf' has been made available to download with new features, alot improvements and fixes. Let's see what features this wolf has hunted down for us.

The following tutorial will teach anyone how to install the recently released Ubuntu 15.10 operating system on their PC or laptop. Dubbed Wily Werewolf, Ubuntu 15.10 arrived on October 22, 2015.

Tempest is the OpenStack official test suite. Its purpose is to run tests for OpenStack API validation in an OpenStack cluster, in order to know how healthy our cloud is. It is also used as a gate for validating commits into the OpenStack core projects—it will avoid breaking them while merging changes.

In this tutorial we are going to provide you with step-by-step instructions on how to install EspoCRM 3.7.2 with Nginx on an Ubuntu VPS. EspoCRM is an open source Customer Relationship Management web application that allows you to see, enter and evaluate all your company relationships regardless of the type. It is designed to be fast, simple, and customizable.

Hello, open gaming fans! In this week's edition, we take a look at the Linux-based gaming console DragonBox Pyra, a new Pick of the Week, Linux games, and more. Open gaming roundup for October 17 - 23, 2015 read more

On servers and clouds, this new Ubuntu springs forward to take a big bite.

In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at the U.K. moving away from proprietary software, France voting to adopt more open source, a new version of BeagleBoard hitting the market for Christmas, and more news. read more

Yesterday Ubuntu 15.10 was made available to download with some new features, improvements and updated apps. If you've upgraded to Ubuntu 15.10 then this article is going to show you 10 things/tweaks that you need to do to make your Ubuntu more handy and fruitful.

Navstik Labs showed off its Linux-based “Flyt” commercial drone autopilot, while 3DR opened up its Solo quadcopter’s hardware add-on spec to developers. 3DR Solo It’s been a busy week for drones. While the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) community argued over the merits of FCC regulations proposed this week that would require U.S. UAV owners to […]