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The Solus operating system has just received another boost of improvements and developers have pushed another stable version out the door. The new daily build should be very interesting, especially with the new system layout.

Almost a third of the world's encrypted Web connections can be cracked using an exploit that's growing increasingly practical, computer scientists warned Wednesday. They said the attack technique on a cryptographic cipher known as RC4 can also be used to break into wireless networks protected by the Wi-Fi Protected Access Temporal Key Integrity Protocol.

This week, our Top 5 includes two interviews with speakers at upcoming OSCON 2015, a video editing how-to, plus what you need to know about Docker and LibreOffice.

In the world of FOSS, a small change to a license can be a big deal. For users of proprietary software, changes in the EULA are hardly even registered. Those users click "Ok" and forget about it in the blink of an eye. They have accepted that they are severely limited as far as their rights to alter or redistribute the software is concerned.

Acadine, founded by former Mozilla execs, has received a $100 million investment from China’s Tsinghua Unigroup, to launch a Firefox OS fork called “H5OS.”

In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at Linux on supercomputers, Google's Eddystone, and more!

Grant Ingersoll is CTO at Lucidworks, provider of Fusion, but his claim to the open source community are his contributions to Apache Lucene, Solr, and Mahout. (He co-founded Apache Mahout in 2008 with the goal to build an environment for quickly creating scalable machine learning applications.) This year, Grant will be speaking at OSCON 2015 about building a next generation QA system with open source tools and about how to use Apache Solr for data science. If you're interested in how Watson beat all of the Jeopardy contestants against him, read more in this interview about question answering (QA) technologies. read more

FSF, Canonical Makes Progress on Licensing: The $140,000-plus in donations is still missing, but that’s not the biggest news coming from Canonical this week. After two years of wrangling between the Free Software Foundation and Canonical — with a little help from the Software Freedom Conservancy — the FSF announced that they have made some progress on updated licensing terms for, as the FSF calls it, “Ubuntu GNU/Linux.”

The second round of Ubuntu Phones drastically needs to improve on the initial offering of the BQ Aquaris 4.5. Does the MX4 have what it takes?

"Do it on the Internet" patents aren't cool anymore, for trolls, or for Rovi. A long-running patent battle between Netflix and Rovi has concluded, with Netflix beating back the entertainment guide company.

The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 17.2 “Rafaela” KDE RC.

When users want to have a secure connection to their MySQL server, they often rely on VPN or SSH tunnels. Yet another option for securing MySQL connections is to enable SSL wrapper on an MySQL server. Each of these approaches has its own pros and cons. For example, in highly dynamic environments where a lot […]Continue reading... The post How to enable SSL for MySQL server and client appeared first on Xmodulo. Related FAQs: How to backup a MySQL server database How to run MySQL query in a shell script How to allow remote access to MySQL server How to install and configure Cacti on Linux How to find and kill misbehaving MySQL queries

Mapping communities in the open source space are growing as more and more people use maps for business and social change. Leaders like Aure Moser are providing spaces for people to learn and be inspired. Prior to her OSCON session and in the middle of a busy travel schedule, she shared some insights into the communities and her experiences. read more

Pandora FMS (Pandora Flexible Monitoring System) is a flexible and highly scalable monitoring software for networks, servers, applications and virtual environments. In this tutorial I will show you how to install Pandora FMS Server on Centos 7 and how to add a monitoring agent on Ubuntu 15.04.

The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 17.2 “Rafaela” Xfce RC.

You probably won't believe this, but Linus Torvalds, father of the Linux kernel, has just posted three astonishing photos bragging about doing fighter jet flights to relax in between Linux kernel pulls.

Two weeks after online retailer Newegg filed a petition complaining about "excessive and unreasonable" delays in getting a final judgment in its patent case, the judge in that case has handed Newegg a big win.

In an order published yesterday afternoon, US District Judge Rodney Gilstrap ruled (PDF) that Newegg doesn't infringe a patent belonging to TQP Development, notwithstanding a 2013 jury verdict that granted $2.3 million to TQP, a "patent troll" with no business other than patent licensing.

Martyn Russell, the developer of the open-source semantic data storage engine for desktop and mobile devices that is heavily used in the GNOME desktop environment, announced the immediate availability of Tracker 1.5.0.

Ubuntu device maker System76 recently said in a blog that it will no longer pre-install Adobe Flash on all laptops and desktops. Why? Because the company deems the software a security risk. System76 is even urging its customers to get rid of Flash altogether.

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware on an Ubuntu 14.04 VPS with Apache, PHP and MySQL installed on it. Tiki Wiki is an open-source Wiki-based content management system and online office suite written in PHP. Tiki Wiki has many collaboration features and it is using the Bootstrap CSS framework which provides modernization to its look and feel.