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Ubuntu comes with two default themes namely Ambiance and Rediance. Both of the themes are nice and simple. But isn't it better if you can make Ubuntu more attractive by installing custom themes? Yes you can! Ubuntu and all other Linux distributions allow you to install custom themes. In this tutorial I'll show you how you can transform your Ubuntu to like Windows 10 by installing custom Windows 10 looking theme.

In 2015 there were a variety of legal issues of importance to the FOSS (free and open source) community. Continuing the tradition of looking back over the top ten legal developments in FOSS, my selection of the top ten issues for 2015 is as follows..

ASRock unveiled what it says are the world’s first Mini-STX motherboard and mini-PC, based on 6th Gen Intel Core (“Skylake”) processors, up to 65W TDP. ASRock was among a handful companies to announce Mini-ITX form factor motherboards based on Intel’s 6th Gen Core (Skylake) last August, a month prior to Intel’s formal Skylake processor rollout […]

But this incident wasn’t to be pushed aside. The emails started coming in faster and faster, until I acknowledged that I had a real problem. Security hasn’t been and isn’t my strong suit. My passwords are almost an afterthought. After all, I am running Linux. What could go wrong?

This article should provide you with all the details you'll need to know about the upcoming Linux kernel-based operating system from Red Hat, for now.

Hm, why could that be? Could it be to run things like Docker? IBM has brought the open-source Go programming language to its System z mainframes.…

Lenovo announced an Android phone using Google’s Project Tango technology, and Intel released a Project Tango development phone with its RealSense camera. When Lenovo acquired Motorola from Google in 2014, Motorola’s “Advanced Research and Projects” (ATAP) group and Project Tango computer vision project stayed with Google. Now, however, Lenovo is moving forward with a Project […]

The development team behind the BlackArch OS, a penetration testing distribution based on Arch Linux, have announced the release of BlackArch 2016.01.10.

The following lines will describe a procedure on how to mimic Ubuntu's sudo privilege authorization system on Debian Linux. Sudo allows users to run programs with the authorization privileges of another user by supplying their own password for authentication.

Sure you go to Linux expos such as SCALE to sharpen your coding skills and to learn about how to get your hands dirty going under the hood with you favorite open source applications. You might even go to learn a little bit about the business of open source. But you have to admit that an added attraction is just getting to see presentations from FOSS rock stars, the well known movers and shakers who have taken a big part in shaping the past, present and future of free and open source software. These are people whose presentations you’ll be tempted to attend no matter what the subject because…well, just because. Some of these are legends; some are not. But they’re all rock stars.

Linux Mint 17.3 “Rosa” KDE was released over the weekend, and it brings a ton of updates and various other changes for the operating system. We now take a closer look at the OS in a quick screenshot tour.

The Manjaro Linux community was proud to announce the availability of the first RC (Release Candidate) build of the upcoming Manjaro Linux GNOME 16.01 Community Edition operating system.

Email security is of paramount concern in any organization. A significant percentage of malware is delivered via email, on the premise that an unsuspecting user will open the message, allowing the malware payload onto the user's machine. From there, malware can worm its way into the network and wreak various kinds of havoc, often undetected, sometimes for months or even years. We decided to review four open source products to see if they could deliver enterprise-grade security. The four products were CipherMail, MailScanner Scrollout F1 and hMailServer.

Cyber attacks are getting evil and worst nightmare for companies day-by-day, and the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is one of the favorite weapon for hackers to temporarily suspend services of a host connected to the Internet.

We're past the point of predictions for 2016, so let's talk about the one thing I really want to happen in the Linux world this year: desktop Linux on tablets.

In today's open source roundup: Linux Mint KDE and Xfce have been released. Plus: Details begin to emerge about Linux Mint 18. And DistroWatch reviews Solus 1.0.

I love Kodi. (This is just an evolution of my love for XBMC, since it's the same thing with a new name.) In fact, although I've expressed my love for Plex over and over (and over) the past few years, I still use Kodi as my main interface for the televisions in my house.

Nylas N1 is a new open source email client that boasts great levels of flexibility, configuration and expandability. This San Fransisco-made software was built with a strong focus on security, intuitive interface design, and support for all popular platforms.

It looks like 2016 will be the year of single-board computers, as more and more companies build all sorts of awesome boards inspired in some way by the Raspberry Pi movement.

This article will explain a procedure on how to force fsck to perform a filesystem check on the next system reboot or force filesystem check for any desired number of system reboots whether it is root or non-root mount point.