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CentOS Linux 6.7 is derived from source code released by Red Hat, Inc. for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7. All upstream variants have been placed into one combined repository to make it easier for end users. Workstation, server, and minimal installs can all be done from our combined repository.

Steven Shiau anounced the latest stable build of GParted Live; version 0.23.0-1. GParted Live now runs on Linux Kernel 4.1.3 and GParted 0.23.0 and is based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 06-08-2015). This release adds many interesting features like the ability to display a disk's serial number (device information dialog).

LibreOffice 5.0 was made available by The Document Foundation a couple of days ago, and it's a glorious release. It full of all sorts of new features, and many users have already upgraded to this latest version, but the application will also have an impact on another new platform, Ubuntu Touch.

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

The Internet is barreling down the same road of regulation and not-so-subtle censorship that has turned every other means of mass communication into a centralized and vanilla fountain of useless information. Kinda like television.

The game Homefront: The Revolution will be ported to Linux. Homefront: The Revolution is a FPS game from Crytek built on the CryENGINE game engine. This is the second game in the series, and it was initially published by THQ, but that company is gone Crytek encounterd some problems. Deep Silver will now publish the game and take care of the Linux port.

Chromebooks are cheap, fast, secure, and work well. Really, what more do you need for your classroom computer?

This week's Top 5: Two exclusive interviews, India's comprehensive open source policy, an introduction to MeowCAD, and on teaching students about open source.

We had a late-breaking problem with the cloud image and some drama with desktop wallpaper and with booting KDE on ARM, but the various groups involved in release logistics wrangled solutions and workarounds, so at today’s “Go/No-Go” meeting, we approved the Tuesday release. If you’re curious, see the meeting minutes for the process that Fedora goes through to make sure the release is ready.

One of the big problems for the Ubuntu phones was that they weren't available for the US market. That problem has been partially fixed now with the release of the Bq Aquaris Ubuntu phones for everyone.

The editorial staff here at Linux Journal wants to see your skills! Almost every time I'm in the #linuxjournal IRC channel, chit chatting on Google+, or tweeting back and forth on Twitter, I hear about really exciting projects our readers are involved with.

HHVM (Hip Hop Virtual Machine) is a just-in-time compiler developed by Facebook to run applications that are written in PHP and Hack language. HHVM is faster than the traditional PHP engine from ZEND and is used by Facebook to serve billions of web requests per day. This tutorial describes the installation of Nginx, MariaDB, HHVM and Wordpress on Debian 8 (Jessie).

In world where everything is connected and everything can be hacked, it shouldn't be a surprise that a rifle can be hacked to have a shooter change targets. That's precisely what independent security researcher Runa Sandvik and her husband Michael Augur detailed at the Black Hat USA conference here.

Adam Conrad has announced the release of an updated version of the Ubuntu distribution and Ubuntu's many community spins. We have expanded our hardware enablement offering since 12.04, and with 14.04.3, this point release contains an updated kernel and X stack for new installations to support new hardware across all our supported architectures, not just x86. As usual, this point release includes many updates, and updated installation media has been provided so that fewer updates will need to be downloaded after installation. These include security updates and corrections for other high-impact bugs, with a focus on maintaining stability and compatibility with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.

The National Democratic Institute is has announced the launch of the Open Election Data Initiative. The goal of the initiative is to ensure that citizen groups have access to election data that can give a true picture of an election process, including how candidates are certified, how and which voters are registered, what happens on election day, whether results are accurate, and how complaints are resolved. read more

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

Plasma Mobile is a new project from the KDE developers that is based on Ubuntu Touch, among other technologies. It took everyone by surprise, including the Ubuntu developers who were working on the initial project. Now we have a few new mockups for Plasma Mobile, and they look absolutely stunning.

Feel the download, just don't mind the bandwidth Windows 7 PCs are being force fed a diet of Windows 10, breaking a promise made by Microsoft.…

A design flaw in the x86 processor architecture dating back almost two decades could allow attackers to install a rootkit in the low-level firmware of computers, a security researcher said Thursday. Such malware could be undetectable by security products.

In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at the release of LibreOffice 5, a personal food computer, Creative Common's open letter the President Obama, and more. Open source news roundup for August 1 - 7, 2015 read more