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Developer push begins in earnest Facebook has announced that its Parse project has been expanded with new SDKs for silicon vendors like Broadcom, Intel, Texas Instruments, and Atmel.…

After announcing that the Cinnamon 2.8 desktop environment will have a new visual workspace switcher applet, Clement Lefebvre, leader of the Linux Mint project, published details about some of the new features to be implemented in the next major release of the MATE desktop environment.

Kids don't want to code. They want to solve problems us oldies can't perceive. “Grandpa is getting pretty old. Out there all alone on that farm, he has no one to look in on him, just to see if he’s ok. He’ll use the landline, but he’s beyond of the range of mobile, and he’s never been really great with computers. No Skype or emails. Grandpa does have internet. So I built this for him.”

Startup MJ Technology LLC announced recently that they are developing what it would appear to be a beefy tablet powered by the almighty Ubuntu Linux operating system, the desktop version of it.

Wine is an Open Source, command line and most popular software that allows users to install and run Microsoft Windows applications and games on Linux. Wine Team recently released Wine 1.7.51 development version with many bug fixes and improvements. Let's see what's new in this release.

The Sunchip CX-S500 is a very tiny Android powered mediaplayer, about the size of a small smartphone charger.

The FCC or the Federal Communications Commission has received a proposal that aims to curtail the user's ability to install custom firmware on certain devices, including routers. It's a broad proposal, and it's difficult to understand just how far it reaches, but for now it's just that, a proposal.

HandyLinux 2.2 is available. HandyLinux is a French distribution designed for novice Linux users. It is based on the latest stable version of Debian GNU/Linux and it uses the Xfce desktop environment. The main feature of the distribution is a custom start menu with applications and Internet bookmarks grouped in tabs. HandyLinux integrates the latest versions of the Chromium web browser, LibreOffice office suite, Skype conferencing and messaging client, VLC video player and other popular applications with the stable Debian base.

This is the first in a series of brief articles looking at one of my favourite applications, Vim (a contraction of VI IMproved). Just in case you don’t know, Vim is an advanced, cross-platform, free and open source text editor designed for use both from a command-line interface and as a standalone application in a graphical user interface.

Today we have the great pleasure of introducing you to a brand-new GNU/Linux distribution, called Apricity OS, which aims to be a modern and intuitive Linux kernel-based, cloud-oriented desktop operating system.

The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the September 2015 issue.

Virtualmin is very flexible and powerful web hosting control panel for Linux and UNIX systems. It is based on the Open Source web-based system system configuration tool Webmin.

The Wine development release 1.7.51 is now available.

Why and what the FCC wants to do Analysis America's broadband watchdog is suffering a backlash over plans to control software updates to Wi-Fi routers, smartphones, and even laptops.…

In this tutorial, we will explain how to install Hackpad on a Centos 7 VPS with nginx as a reverse proxy. Hackpad is a web-based real-time wiki, based on the open source EtherPad collaborative editor.

Soon-to-be-redundant chap in pink slip slip on Facebook Oracle appears to be making redundancies in the ranks of its Java evangelists team.…

A Microsoft-commissioned report suggests one organisation could realise huge savings by moving from OpenOffice to Office 365. But how likely are others to see those benefits?

Hello, open gaming fans! In this week's edition, we take a look at Amazon's new open source SDK for game developers, GameCredits' new open source digital currency for games, and more. Open gaming roundup for August 30 - September 5, 2015 read more

Intel’s launch of its 6th Gen Core (“Skylake”) processors this week precipitated a flurry of COM Express module announcements by embedded board vendors. Intel’s 48 new 6th Gen Core processors span an extremely wide range of power consumption and performance. At the low end are the mobile-oriented “Y-series” system-on-chips, starting with the dual-core, 2.2GHz-clocked Core […]

To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 8 excellent web based project management software. Hopefully, there will be something of interest for anyone who wishes to organise their projects.