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Mozilla Firefox users are this week being urged to update to the latest version after an exploit was found being used in the wild which allowed the scooping up of files from users' computers via an ad without leaving a trace behind of the hack.

The KDE team is preparing to release the new Plasma 5.4 desktop and it's going to bring some pretty interesting improvements, including an enhanced Breeze icon set.

While the finished tablet isn’t quite ready to ship yet, Jolla has announced it is sending out a handful of pre-production tablets to members of its Developer Device Loan Program... Sailfish is a Linux-based operating system with an emphasis on gesture-based navigation...

HDMI is implemented on just about every piece of sufficiently advanced consumer electronics. You can find it in low-end cellphones, and a single board Linux computer without HDMI is considered crippled. There’s some interesting stuff lurking around in the HDMI spec, and at DEF CON, [Joshua Smith] laid the Consumer Electronics Control (CEC) part of HDMI out on the line, and exposed a few vulnerabilities in this protocol that’s in everything with an HDMI port.

The data scrambling systems used by millions of web servers could be much weaker than they ought to be, say researchers... the entropy of the data streams on Linux servers was often very low because the machines were not generating enough raw information for them.

The GParted team is happy to announce a new stable release of GParted Live (0.23.0-1). This release includes GParted 0.23.0 which permits naming a GPT partition on creation, displaying the serial number in device information panel, and preventing a user interface hang when resizing FAT16/32, HFS and HFS+ file systems. Items of note include: Based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2015/Aug/06); Linux kernel updated to 4.1.3-1. This release of GParted Live has been successfully tested on VirtualBox, VMware, BIOS, UEFI, and physical computers with AMD/ATI, NVidia, and Intel graphics.

The Document Foundation released LibreOffice 5.0, which offers better compatibility with documents from Microsoft Office and Apple iWork, among other improvements.

Lua is a lightweight, compact, and fast programming language designed as an embeddable scripting language. It is cross-platform, and has a simple syntax with powerful data description constructs. Lua aims for simplicity, small size, performance and portability. Lua has automatic memory management and incremental garbage collection, making it ideal for configuration, scripting, and rapid prototyping.

The future of the Ubuntu Software Center is uncertain, even if some of the Ubuntu developers are thinking about an upgrade for the application or a replacement. The core problem seems to be related to the fact that Ubuntu uses DEB files and it's not longer considered a viable method of providing updates through the Ubuntu Software Center.

After a long wait, Ubuntu phones became a reality this year. But now Linux fans outside of Europe and China will be able to try out the newcomer OS for the very first time. Spanish smartphone maker BQ has announced that it is now shipping its Aquarius E5 Ubuntu smartphone across the world.

Depending on the specific programs that will be utilized in the school year, a used computer with a version of Linux installed may be just what a student needs to help with the budgetary concerns. There is almost no reason not to embrace and promote the use of open-source operating systems and software,,,

The world’s top three mobile operating systems may dominate the market by shear numbers but that doesn’t mean there aren’t other alternatives being developed and researched. That’s where Plasma Mobile comes in, a mobile KDE Linux project that’s absolutely free.

The CentOS Project, through Karanbir Singh, had the great pleasure of announcing the release and immediate availability for download of the seventh maintenance version of the long-term supported CentOS 6 Linux operating system.

Olio founder Steve Jacobs announced Olio's latest product; the Model One. This is a smartwatch that runs on a homegrown, Linux-based OS.

VirtualBox is the virtualization software used at desktop level in linux like operating system .It allows us to install and run multiple Virtual Machines ( VM) at the same time.

The developers behind the popular Fedora Linux distribution announced that the Alpha build of Fedora 23 will be available for download and testing through the official channels on August 11, according to the release schedule.

Hello, open gaming fans! In this week's edition, we take a look at Alienware's YouTube playlist showing gameplay on the new Steam Machine, AMD working on a Linux graphics driver, new games for Linux, the pick of the week, and more. Open gaming roundup for August 2 - 8, 2015 read more

A new Snappy Ubuntu Core 15.04 has been announced for Raspberry Pi 2, and users have been advised to re-flash their systems as soon as possible.

Zorin OS 10 Lite is the latest and greatest version of our operating system designed specifically for Linux newcomers using old or low-powered hardware. This release is based on Lubuntu 15.04 and uses the LXDE desktop environment to provide one of the fastest and most feature-packed interfaces for low-spec machines. This new release includes newly updated software and refined visuals as well as new software inclusions for the best lightweight desktop experience.

New court filing says they ALL must go – yes, even the tellies Oracle's lawsuit against Google over Java copyrights probably won't be back in a courtroom again until next year, but in the meantime, Oracle has asked the court to let it expand the scope of its complaint to include events that have occurred since it was first filed in 2010.…