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Fresh Memory Lite is an educational application for studying foreign languages using flashcards and the Spaced Repetition method, built for KDE and having a simple to use interface.

A handful of app distributors are putting hundreds of millions of Android users at risk by bundling powerful root exploits with their wares, computer scientists have found. The researchers presented a paper on Thursday that shows how the exploits—which legitimate developers openly use to give Android phones added functionality—can be easily reverse-engineered and surreptitiously incorporated into malicious apps that bypass crucial Android security measures.

If you play games, no matter the operating system used, you know what Steam is and you've most probably heard about that awesome Steam Controller every player wants to have in their nest.

Open source software (OSS) are accessible under a software authorization that enables individuals to access the source code and customize it according to their needs so providing the capability to tailor the software for different jobs.

Wine 1.7.53 was released a few hours ago, and, as with each new version, it comes with several improvements, including support for XAudio, Direct3D code cleanups, improved OLE object embedding, further implementation of Web Services DLL, and a bunch of bug fixes.

Even though it was a long time ago, I remember using the K Desktop Environment... KDE 1, KDE 2, and KDE 3. The design of the desktop was always instantly familiar and equally clean, and it fell perfectly in line with what was popular at the time. In other words, it was very desktop-centric, and it did a great job at towing that particular line.

Unlike the normal Bodhi Linux releases which come with a minimal amount of software pre-installed, AppPack releases will include a variety of software pre-installed for folks who want minimal setup work after installing their operating system.

How many times have you been on the go and discovered that you needed to pull off some Linux-fu, but the only piece of tech you had was an Android device? Imagine if you were able to fire up a Linux command prompt on that device and make use of apt-get to install whatever command line tool you needed.

Apple lost a patent case on Monday, when a federal jury in Wisconsin found that the smartphone giant infringed a patent that originated at the University of Wisconsin, and is now held by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF).

The Ubuntu developers are working on fixing a problem with authentication failure notifications for online accounts that's been affecting the mobile platform.

Doctorow kicks off the Friday edition of SCALE 14X at 9 a.m. on Jan. 22 with the topic, “No Matter Who’s Winning the War on General Purpose Computing, You’re Losing.” The keynote will be given at the new SCALE venue, which is the Pasadena Convention Center.

The era of HTTP/2 is now here, with both browsers and web servers supporting the next generation of the HTTP protocol that powers the modern web.

This week Jen Wike Huger is reporting from the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, so I've rounded up our weekly Top 5 for October 12-16, 2015.

Although Red Hat is picking up Ansible to complement its existing IT management tools, it isn't dropping its use of Puppet.

Ka-Ro’s “TX6UL” is an SODIMM-style COM that runs Linux on an i.MX6 UltraLite, supports industrial temperatures, and offers 4GB eMMC and secure boot options. Considering all the announcements of i.MX6 UltraLite based computer-on-modules over the summer, one might think that Ka-Ro’s TX6UL is behind the times.

Config Server Firewall / CSF is firewall application suite for Linux servers. CSF is also a Login/Intrusion Detection for applications like SSH, SMTP, IMAP, Pop3, the "su" command and many more. This tutorial will show the installation of CSF on CentOS 7 and guide you trough the first steps to use this powerful application suite.

In this second video in the foundation's 'World Without Linux' series we see just how hard it can be to get from point A to point B.

OpenStack Liberty, the open source cloud operating system's newest release, adds networking features, Big Tent governance and more to the platform.

Modular Android smartwatches and smartphones are around the corner, as evidenced by new devices coming soon from Blocks and Fairphone.

The GNOME developers are still working hard these days to prepare the first point release of the GNOME 3.18 desktop environment, so many package maintainers are releasing updates as we speak.